Monthly Archives: February 2007
Why Vista Matters to Developers
To some, Windows Vista is Microsofts most secure operating system ever. To others, its the most Mac-like. But from a developer standpoint, its the...
Allchin to Developers: Hop on the Vista Wave
Jim Allchin, former co-president of the Platforms & Services Division at Microsoft, had responsibility for the product delivery, engineering and technical architecture of Windows,...
AMD Reveals More Barcelona Secrets
Advanced Micro Devices will pull back the curtain a little more on its first quad-core processor the week of Feb. 12.
At the International Solid...
Intel Enters Tera-scale Era
Ready or not, the age of so-called "tera-scale" computing is about to start.
On Feb. 9, at the ISSCC (Integrated Solid-State Circuits Conference) in San...
RSA Exec Sees Future of Security in Information Management
"The security really needs to follow the data."
That axiom came from Dennis Hoffman, an executive in EMCs RSA security division, as he discussed the...
What Do You Mean “New” Evil Empire?
While cruising through Slashdot this afternoon, I came upon an item in which Rolling Stone blogger Charles Coxe asks whether Apple may become Is...
The Vista WOW is Lost On Me (and my misconfigured system)
After reading my colleage Joe Wilcox's ebullient ode to the new Windows Vista commercial that appeared during Lost, I had to see it for...
Fleury Will Be Back
We havent heard the last of Marc Fleury.
In a move that many in the industry had expected, Marc Fleury, founder of JBoss and often...
HP Rolls Out Eco-Friendly Ink Cartridge Packaging
Hewlett-Packard announced Feb. 8 that it has revamped its print cartridge packaging to help reduce the amount of greenhouse gas emissions being released into...
Marc Fleury Exits Red Hat
Marc Fleury, the fiery, open-source software entrepreneur who launched a thriving business around providing support for open-source technology, has decided to leave JBoss, the...