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Can Oracle OpenOffice put a dent in Microsoft Office?
24 January 2011, 5:00 am

It's been a bad couple of weeks for Microsoft. Whether Steve Ballmer knows it or not, the big shoes left by 23-year-veteran Bob Muglia, who oversaw major successes by the company's Server and Tools division, will be devilishly hard to fill. And just last week, Microsoft lost Windows consumer marketing boss Brad Brooks to Juniper; worldwide government general manager Matt Miszewski to Salesforce; and Johnny Chung Lee, one of the key researchers behind the Kinect motion control technology, to Google.

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Xsigo vs. Cisco: A scandalous disclosure
24 January 2011, 5:00 am

Last week, I touched on the challenges in getting the straight story from storage resellers. In the post, I talked about the internal competitive analysis papers that storage vendors use to teach their sales teams to position their products against the competition. These competitive analysis papers are usually distributed within the company, but as a potential customer, you would generally never see one.

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NetBeans 7.0 IDE due this spring
24 January 2011, 6:00 am

Version 7. 0 of the NetBeans open source IDE is due in April, featuring capabilities for Java SE 7, as well as faster deployment to the WebLogic Server application server, according to the NetBeans Oracle-sponsored website.

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IBM rolls out virtual desktop package
24 January 2011, 6:42 am

With an eye on the small and medium-sized business market, IBM is working through resellers to roll out a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) package that costs $150 per user annually.

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Tibco aims at Salesforce, Socialtext with launch of Tibbr platform
24 January 2011, 9:19 am

Socialtext, Yammer, Salesforce.com's Chatter, and other social collaboration platforms have a new rival in the form of Tibbr, a product that creator Tibco hopes will be the standard for large enterprises.

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Do you know who's tracking you on the Web?
24 January 2011, 6:34 pm

Imagine a creepy guy wearing a ski mask and a trenchcoat, following you around and scribbling down every place you visit, every item you peruse, and every action you take. Now and again, he races in front of you, opens the trenchcoat, and flashes an ad based on something you just checked out.

That's behaviorally targeted advertising, a multi-billion-dollar industry that shows no signs of stopping. Today both Mozilla and Google offered ways to tell that creepy guy to buzz off.

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Google Android tablets gain traction with developers
25 January 2011, 2:01 am

Although Apple's iPad remains number one in the hearts of tablet application developers, Google Android tablets are increasingly piquing programmers' interest, according to a survey conducted earlier this month.

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Microsoft WebMatrix is a mixed bag
25 January 2011, 5:00 am

Microsoft WebMatrix is intended to serve the website creation, customization, and publication needs of designers and amateurs, and not as a substitute for Visual Studio or other professional development tools. As a professional developer, I can see why it might appeal to its target audience, but I can't stand to use it myself for more than 15 minutes at a time.

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Stuxnet marks the start of the next security arms race
25 January 2011, 5:00 am

More information about Stuxnet continues to dribble out, and each new fact and rumor never fails to astound me. As covered by InfoWorld's Robert Lemos, the New York Times reported that a U.S.-Israeli team accessed inside information in creating Stuxnet to wreak havoc on Iran.

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The two faces of the RIM PlayBook
25 January 2011, 5:00 am

Is it flexibility or multiple-personality disorder? That's the question around the forthcoming PlayBook tablet from BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM). Announced last fall and due in stores by April 1, the PlayBook is not a mere clone of an iPad, as most forthcoming Android tablets seem to be.

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Elastic Beanstalk solves the real issue of cloud platforms: Resource scaling
25 January 2011, 5:00 am

You had to know that Amazon.com would get into the platform cloud service business at some point, and last week marked that very occasion. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Beanstalk promises to simplify the creation, deployment, and operations of Web applications as they scale, with Amazon.com provisioning and configuring the necessary AWS resources, such as EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancer, and Auto Scaling Group.

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Microsoft takes a swing at the iPad and misses by a mile
25 January 2011, 8:57 am

Yesterday ZDNet posted a handful of PowerPoint slides aimed at Microsoft resellers who are trying to sell

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How 'more with less' puts your data at risk
8 November 2010, 6:06 am

If I picked up the phone, called any IT administrator I know, and asked what technical part of their job they like the least, the answer would almost invariably be backups.

Nobody likes backups. In the complex world of mixed physical and virtual environments, it sometimes seems nearly impossible to build a backup regimen that just works every time. Instead, it's much more common to see a few resources fail to back up or to get some kind of ambiguous error that takes hours to properly diagnose and resolve.

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Could Amazon's bulk-email service spawn spam and malware?
25 January 2011, 2:36 pm

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been a boon for developers and organizations that need large-scale code-crunching power but can't or won't shell out for the server racks.

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IBM makes appealing virtual desktop play for the midmarket
25 January 2011, 4:42 pm

IBM today announced a VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) offering aimed at small and medium-sized businesses, a play that could lure holdouts to

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