Monthly Archives: October 2005
IM Federation Is Still a Mess
During the past few weeks, I have been working with a few enterprise instant messaging platforms to test their interoperability in the context of...
IBM Drops Patent Counterclaims in SCO Case
In a surprise move, IBM has dropped its patent counterclaims against SCO in a memorandum to the U.S. District Court in Utah filed on...
To Bundle or Not to Bundle: Thats the Microsoft Security Question
Microsoft Corp. has not yet launched a paid anti-virus product, but questions about software bundling and unfair competition are already swirling in Europe.
Rival Symantec...
Cogent-Level 3 Peering Spat Ends—for Now
Network operator Cogent said Friday that rival Level 3 "has taken the necessary actions" to once again carry its customers Internet traffic, a sign...
Conway Adds No Luster to Salesforce.com Board
The appointment of former PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway as a Salesforce.com board of directors member is surprising, and a bit dismaying, considering that he...
VeriSign Tackles the Scandal of Splog
Its not about where influential Weblogs—Robert Scoble, Dave Winer or Doc Searls—will live. Theyll live on the servers theyve called home, and Weblogs.com will...
Improved Thunderbird Still Fails Enterprise Test
As you may know, I have a love/hate relationship with Thunderbird, the Mozilla Foundations open-source stand-alone e-mail client.
On the one hand, while Thunderbird is...
Salesforce.com Appoints Conway to Its Board
Salesforce.com, the current darling of the On Demand world, announced Friday the appointment of former PeopleSoft Inc. CEO Craig Conway to its board of...
Google Feeds Craving for News
Search king Google on Friday unveiled Google Reader, its entrance into the news feed reading business.
Google Reader, like other news feed readers before it,...
JBoss Accused of Monopolistic Practices
Once again JBoss Inc. has come into the limelight for alleged bad behavior and in essence not pursuing the open-source way, according to some.
In...