If you were thinking, like maybe 5 years ago, that a Sidekick was a solution to mobile computing in the enterprise, here’s where you’d be.
Danger for Microsoft - The INQUIRER
With all these managers above them, the pair have to work out how to beat Apple’s Iphone, RIM’s BlackBerry Pearl, and whatever former Danger co-founder and former CEO Andy Rubin is doing with Android at the comparatively flat organisation, Google. µ
This is a pretty even-handed assessment of the situation.
Sun may shut off high-end MySQL features | Reg Developer
It’s emerged Sun may release extra data back-up features in the Enterprise Edition of the next version of MySQL, due in Q4, to paying enterprise subscribers only.
So its all true. This is how it works. So if this site ever takes off, everyone will be better off and the world will be a better place. Its even possible that Vista SP2 will arrive on time.
stackoverflow.com - Joel on Software
Programmers seem to have stopped reading books. The market for books on programming topics is miniscule compared to the number of working programmers.Instead, they happily program away, using trial-and-error. When they can’t figure something out, they type a question into Google.
And sometimes, the first result looks like it’s going to have the answer to their exact question, and they are excited, until they click on the link, and discover that it’s a pay site, and the answer is cloaked or hidden or behind a pay-wall, and you have to buy a membership.
So just how threatened is your traditional IT department by Google’s onslaught? That depends on what they value. Gartner’s Rich Hunter is quoted as saying:
“Google has the potential to be the first-choice provider of many services that are now handled by internal IT organizations, starting with non-competitively-differentiating services such as email (which Google already provides to a number of enterprises), and ultimately including high-value-added functions and services such as business intelligence, mobile sales support, and others. Some IT organizations might consider it a boon to pass these functions on to Google so that the IT department can concentrate on very enterprise-specific competitively differentiating applications. IT organizations that measure their worth in terms of how much of the company’s IT needs they supply themselves will be less happy to see Google move in on their turf-and I do mean specifically that in many cases it will be an argument about turf, not enterprise value.
It didn’t take long for someone to use App Engine to start providing OpenIDs for Google accounts.
See here
You can use your Google Account to log into any site that supports OpenID! First, log in to your Google account.
Yeah, its everywhere. But you have to give Microsoft credit. Its excellent viral marketing. Everybody knows about Service Pack 1 now (people will expect it via their automatic updates). Personally, I plan to stick just a little closer to Leopard as a result.
Microsoft: Still No Vista SP1 Auto Update - Software - IT Channel News by CRN and VARBusiness
“I’m glad they’ve delayed it. If you need it, you can manually update the system. If a VAR needs it, they can get it or build a new system with it. But it’s a several part service pack that shouldn’t be rushed,” Bradley said.
Google continues to mine its database of cheap commodity hard drive statistics. But, sadly, the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Massive Google hard drive survey turns up very interesting things - Engadget
drives often needed replacement for issues that SMART drive status polling didn’t or couldn’t determine, and 56% of failed drives did not raise any significant SMART flags
