Here's an understatement: security has been pretty front and center lately.
When was the last time the "S" word hasn't been somewhere on the cover of at
least one of the weekly IT magazines?
All this focus on security may have left some sys admins feeling a tad like
Greg Fokker in the movie "Meet the Parents." For those who haven't seen it,
here's the plot. Greg is in love with Pam, and he wants to marry her. However
Greg has this little obstacle to overcome - Pam's security-obsessed Dad,
played by Robert DeNiro. Greg and Dad don't exactly hit it off because they
have very different ideas of what Pam should get, of what will make her
happy. Analogy: Pam is your network; you, the sys admin, are Greg, and Dad is
the person whose every project has been funded over the past couple of years
and who seems to yield veto power over all other projects. Dad is your
Informati... (more)
The open source software development model clearly represents a profound and
fundamental change from traditional, proprietary development models.
In the proprietary world, a software company invests massive dollars in
development, sales, and marketing. They recoup their investment in license
fees, which have strict provisions regarding redistribution of the product
(you can't), accessing the source code (are you kidding?), and making changes
to the source code (call your lawyer). Open Source Software (OSS) turns each
of these three provisions on their head: distribute it, look at ... (more)
What if your desktop applications didn't care what operating system was
running on your computer? If IBM's Workplace group delivers on the vision
they laid out for me in a recent demo of their Workplace Managed Client
(WMC), IT departments will have exactly this degree of freedom in their
desktop OS selection.
Built on the Eclipse project standard, IBM's WMC essentially provides a
desktop middleware layer, if you will, acting as a buffer between the
underlying system OS and the application layer. Yet, because of the
characteristics of Eclipse, applications running on top of it p... (more)
Some exciting things are happening in Barcelona, Spain. In order of presumed
interest to LinuxWorld readers, these are:
MareNostrum, the fifth fastest supercomputer in the world, which runs SuSE
Linux on over 2,000 IBM blades, was recently christened in Barcelona.
Barcelona is undertaking a massive (approximately 1 square mile) urban
revitalization program of an all-but-abandoned textile manufacturing district
right in the center of the city, transforming it into a world-class
Technology Park (www.bcn.es/22@bcn).
The Spanish government is moving their equivalent of the Federal
C... (more)
Let's play word association. I say "Web Hosting." I bet "fat margins" didn't
jump into your head. More likely, you thought of some of the "where are they
nows" of the bubble, like Exodus and PSINet. Let's do another round - I say
"New York City," and I'd wager that "cheap rent" wasn't the first thing you
thought of, either. So it may surprise you to learn that one hosting company
that's been around since 1993 and that's actually making money, Logicworks
(www.logicworks.net), just happens to be based in New York City.
What's their secret? Talk to CEO, Carter Burden, and he'll tell ... (more)
Greg Wallace is Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Emu Software, Inc. Greg received his MBA and Masters of International Affairs degrees from Columbia University in New York City. He also spent a year as a Rotary Foundation Scholar at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He can be reached at gwallace@Linux.SYS-CON.com
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