Eeeew.
At the same time, organizations still need to maintain a central concentration of computing expertise, Greenfield told InternetNews.com. If IT is smart, he said, “They’ll befriend the über-user, who becomes an extension of the IT department.”
Here’s a good article that explores the question of the extinction of Enterprise IT. Its chock full of common sense goodness for CIOs and IT department heads. One such suggestion is to form a rapid-response “incubator” to provide quick functionality while you slowly perform a risk assessment after the fact.
Anthony Bradley, an analyst at Gartner Inc., foresees “a significant shift in power that IT ignores at its own peril.” With free Internet applications, Web platforms and social software, “the consumer side of the world is driving most technology advancement, not enterprise IT,” he says.
As the bidding continues for ownership of the 700 MHz band, stories surface that remind us that Google has wireless plans such that “failure is not an option”
Google Eyes Free Spectrum - Forbes.com
But along with taking part in the FCC’s auction, Google has also been trying to get into the so-called “white space”–slivers of unlicensed, unused spectrum that lie between television channels. And that makes the telcos nervous.
Report: Sprint, Clearwire in new talks on WiMAX partnership
Talks are back on between Sprint and Clearwire over the future of WiMAX and a possible national network. The two companies are reportedly considering ambitious plans for a joint venture backed with outside funding from deep-pocketed companies like Google and Intel.
Glassfish.
Why are we not using Java EE 5? | Java Zone
Today the application server race is completely different from few years ago.Websphere is the number one for big projects and, as usual, is late and is still not Java EE 5 compatible. On the other hand, just when companies had started to use open source with JBoss, JBoss has left the race and version 5 is still in beta.Weblogic, the very innovative company (you should look at Weblogic Virtual Edition) has been bought by Oracle. God knows what will happen. GlassFish is by far the best open source Java EE 5 app server. But people still don’t know it well. And if some do, they immediately remember the previous reference implementations made by Sun (the ones used to play with the Java Petstore) that were not usable for real life project. GlassFish is.
