Jim Rapoza

As Web sites, portals and intranets have become more common and more vital to corporate infrastructures, it has become important for companies to have a platform that makes it easy for nontechnical users to contribute to these sites—without sacrificing capabilities in workflow, templating and developer features. Click here to read the full review of RedDot […]

With the April release of Opera 8.0, Opera Software shows that its still clearly No. 1 when it comes to Web browser innovation. Many of the standard features found in the current generation of browsers, such as cookie management and tabbed browsing, were introduced in the Opera browser. And one of the most talked-about new […]

Nearly 13 years ago—in one of the most comical, if not enlightening, vice presidential debates of all time—Ross Perots running mate, Admiral James Stockdale, uttered the immortal lines, “Who am I? Why am I here?” In a similar state of confusion, IT staffers trying to manage the use and costs of applications within a company […]

Now that the initial surprise over Adobes acquisition of Macromedia is over, its time to step back and try to figure out just what effect this deal will have on the many products in the two companies portfolios—and also on the businesses that these products serve. Most of the synergies are obvious. By far, the […]

In the Broadway musical “Annie Get Your Gun,” theres an annoying song, “Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better,” that goes back and forth like two spoiled kids bickering. Watching the back-and-forth battle between the purveyors of pop-up advertising and the browsers and plug-ins geared to stop the pop-ups is a little like sitting […]

Service packs from Microsoft have been making a lot of news lately—with praise, anger and confusion over whether people should be forced to deploy a service pack. But Im not here to talk about Windows XP Service Pack 2. OK, OK. Ill give you my 30-second opinion. In general, I think its worth upgrading to […]

For a few years during the height of Internet Explorers dominance and the depth of Netscapes follies, Opera was the clear choice as the alternative Web browser. But given the recent and rapid rise of Firefox, Operas status has greatly diminished. Opera is still a very good Web browser and, with the April release of […]

If you go to the open-source development site sourceforge.net and search on the term “portal,” youll get hundreds of hits. In fact, you could reasonably argue that, when it comes to open-source enterprise applications, portals have been the biggest success story. In addition to being highly effective and capable on their own, open-source portals have […]

Exo Platform 1.0 is the latest entry in the increasingly crowded and increasingly capable field of enterprise-class open-source portals and publishing systems. Released in February by The Exo Platform SARL, Exo Platform 1.0 provides extensive (and relatively low-cost) development and customization features for building corporate portals. Click here to read the full review of Exo […]

So here I am, head of a large corporation, and its time for me to pick a few top people to help run the company. But who should I pick for key positions such as CFO and CIO? My first pick is Marty, a person who cant track or control his spending, who is completely […]