One of the major technical challenges facing both rich and poor countries in this century is the vexatious question of transport with its concommitant issues...
<< Microsoft officials have said little about the company's intentions in the grid-computing space. But that doesn't mean Microsoft is ignoring the evolving...
<<As the year draws to a close, I want to take a moment to point out some database management-related products that have had noteworthy changes this year or...
<<The open-source movement has already rewritten the rules for how software is licensed and used. Now the computer services market is changing to keep up. With...
<<Prediction By 2008, at least 40 percent of PCs will ship with hypervisor technology (0.7 probability). Key Findings * Complexity, inefficiency and cost are...
<<IBM announced on Tuesday that it was making 500 of its software patents freely available to anyone working on open-source projects, like the popular Linux...
More on this: <<But, is there more to IBM's pledge of non-assertion than meets the eye? Could IBM's posession of certain patents actually work to the benefit...
<<"As an entrepreneur many times over, he hopes he's really getting it right this time." So states half of Mitch Kapor's terse biography on the Open Source...
CEP is an emerging TLA: <<Complex Event Processing (CEP) is an emerging technology for building and managing information systems. The goal of CEP is to enable...
This also seems to be related to JAIN SLEE, which is the Java standard for SLEE as defined in a number of JSRs. SLEE is an acronym for Service Logic Execution...
Thanks, Ernie. I have come across an interesting article about how CEP is used to process data from RFIDs in what Accenture dubs Silent Commerce. You can...
<<The reports –- "'Model-Driven'" Matters More Than MDA" and "Pattern-Based Development Appeals" -- are based on surveys conducted with 389 IT organizations...
Another interesting take on this: << It's striking how different IBM's strategy is from Microsoft's. Microsoft, which declined to comment, is building a legal...
<<We are going to see more packaged commercial applications out there for clusters. Today, we see few applications packages software for clusters, and many of...
<<The Midvale, Utah-based Burton Group called these powerful entities "Java superplatforms" in a report issued this week. Superplatforms is a term widely...
<<As previously reported, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based systems vendor is expected to submit the Solaris code base this month under its Common Development and...
Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students Last Call for Papers IEEE EEE05 International Workshop on Business Services...
<<This goal of this paper is to show that you should consider using OSS/FS when you're looking for software, based on quantitative measures. Some sites provide...
Gervas I do believe that software will, as has been said many times, move to be a service in that one will not pay upfront licenses but a small rental charge...
Gervas et al Does anyone have any thoughts about the future of the major new initiatives pursued currently by major telcos such as AT&T and BT and others. in...
<<According to the university, the ability to transmit smells has applications in many fields, including tourism, gaming, marketing, medicine, and others. We...
<< Microsoft's Information Worker unit, which is responsible for Office, contributed roughly 30 percent of Microsoft's revenue last year, so driving new sales...
James et al., Part of the issue with incumbents like BT is what one could politely term "culture". As those of us old enough to remember can recall, carriers...
<<Anyone following the high performance computing industry has probably noticed the growing popularity of Linux cluster systems. The appeal is easy to...
<<MPLS providers tout that the MPLS services are interface agnostic. This is a wonderful concept in theory in that a customer does not have to migrate to...
All understandable but why does Skype work then for voice and why are SMEs as well as individuals using it and will this not provide a major cost advantage...
Some of you may find this interesting ... Subject: Freedom to Connect: SMART Letter #96 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:22:03 -0500 From: David S. Isenberg...
Skype is indeed a disruptive revolutionary service that must be causing many of the voice service providers to shvitz. A few years ago it would not have been...
Gervas I have been working with incumbent telcos since 1995 and have been actively promoting IP-based strategies to them and have seen this reaction many...
What you call "incumbent-speak" is arguably a search for value-add on the part of the incumbent carriers. Delivering time-sensitive (in terms of latency and...
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