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XML-empowered documents extend SOA’s connection to people and processes: Read a full transcript. Sponsor: JustSystems North America. Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) should dramatically improve the relationship between people, processes, and IT. Yet the potential for SOA remains clouded due to a gulf between worker knowledge and the new services automation benefits, which remain focused on structured data and existing... more
'Platform as a Service' enables cloud-based software development and deployment lifecycle approach: Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Bungee Labs. On demand applications and cloud computing often mean different things to different people. For developers, software as a service (SaaS) is quickly evolving not only as a means to deliver applications -- but as the means to develop them, too. Taking the notion... more
EIC podcast: SAP, Intel, Dell, XP and Google: In this week's EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk SAP, Intel's Mobile Internet Devices, Dell and Google's employee exodus. Dan and I mull over the SAP's succession plan. SAP named Leo Apotheker co-CEO with Henning Kagermann, who has a contract that runs out in 2009. Apotheker will be expected... more
EIC podcast: Comcast-BitTorrent; Oracle; Facebook and OpenSocial, Adobe: In this week's EIC squared podcast we cover the Comcast-BitTorrent partnership and what it means--and doesn't mean. Dan notes that there are a lot of loose ends to tie up before we declare these two P2P bosom buddies. Meanwhile, I look at Oracle's earnings and what its weaker than expected... more
EIC podcast: Yahoo, Facebook, Intel and Apple patches: In this week's EIC squared podcast, Dan and I talk Yahoo, Facebook, Intel's multiple cores and Apple's patch day. On the Yahoo front, the company made its case that its financial health is just swell. The subtext: It wants Microsoft to raise its bid. For Facebook, Dan talks about how... more
EIC podcast: AOL and Bebo; Yahoo talks; Spitzer and IT; Semantic Web: In this week's EIC squared Dan Farber, editor-in-chief of News.com, and I touch on AOL's plans for Bebo and whether it can the portal can monetize the social network. Meanwhile, Yahoo is holding informal talks with Microsoft. Why is this happening? Oh yeah the clock is ticking on Yahoo... more
EIC Podcast: iPhone and business; Mix '08 wrap; Facebook's new hire: This week we launch a newly constituted podcast called EIC squared, which to most folks will be the same as our Between the Lines podcast with a different acronym. In other words, Dan Farber and I, are reconvening our weekly podcasts with a new moniker to reflect that the two... more
Churchill Club: Gauging trust and influence amid the data barrage: In the latest installment of Churchill Club talks, a panel examined how the next generation of business leaders will have to become adept at using and understanding massive amounts of data from all over. At issue is gaining the trust of so-called "info-entials." The panel, moderated by Katie Hafner, of... more
New Eclipse-based tools from Genuitec offer developers more choices in migrating to IBM WebSphere 6.1: Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Genuitec. The arrival of the IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 presents Eclipse-oriented developers with some big decisions. The newest version of this popular runtime will depend largely on Rational Application Developer (RAD) for tooling. While this recent runtime environment release is designed to ease implementations... more
New ways emerge to head off datacenter problems while improving IT operations: Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Integrien. Complexity in today's IT systems makes previous error prevention approaches for operators inefficient and costly. IT staffs are expensive to retain, and are increasingly hard to find. There is also insufficient information about what’s going on in the context of an entire systems setup.... more
IBM and Kapow on how enterprises exploit application mashups and lightweight data access: Read a full transcript. Sponsor: Kapow Technologies. The choices among enterprise application development and deployment technologies has never been greater. But what's truly different about today's applications is that line of business people can have a greater impact than ever on how technology supports their productive work. By exploiting mashups,... more
A logistics and shipping carol: How online retailers Alibris and QVC ramp up for holiday peak delivery: Read a full transcript. Sponsor: UPS. Santa used to get months to check his list and prepare for peak season, but for online and television retailers such as Alibris and QVC they need to take orders the make deliveries in a matter of days. The volume and complexity of online... more