Thursday, September 9, 2004

Cisco to acquire IT management firm. The networking giant will pay $128 million in cash for NetSolve, which manages information technology systems. [CNET News.com] 9:18:31 PM    comment [] Microsoft ready to ship Virtual Server. Product will allow a server to run multiple operating systems, or multiple copies of the same operating system at a single time [CNET News.com] 9:18:00 PM    comment [] Next-generation infoware. The other day, Jeremy Zawodny asked: Is it just me, or is Flickr (currently in beta) one of the best examples of next generation web services? Note that in this context, I mean "web services" in both senses of the term: A web site that provides some useful service that I can interact with using a web browser. An application with an API that has been exposed over HTTP using REST, XML-RPC, or SOAP. [Jeremy Zawodny's blog] Nope, not just you. I've been using Flickr, and writing about it, for the same reasons. Likewise del.icio.us. Among other virtues, both exhibit a really important one I haven't mentioned yet: you own your data. ... [Jon's Radio] 8:52:41 PM    comment [] Across the great divide. I first pointed to this stunning Valdis Krebs infographic back in March 2004, when the New York Times published it. Krebs has long been fascinated with the clusters that emerge from an analysis of Amazon's related-purchase data. I was reminded of his chart the other day when I heard this exchange (Real, 1 min, 40 sec) between Terri Gross and Norman Podhoretz, which includes this quote: I have almost no friends any longer who are liberal, and I suspect this is true of most people on both sides of the divide. Since the sixties, the polarization has become more intense, and there are fewer and fewer friendships that can be sustained across the divide in this country. What religious differences used to be, and aren't any more (in our world, not the Muslim world), political differences have become. They've acquired a kind of religious intensity, and are tinged with a kind of intolerance that used to characterize religious differences. [Norman Podhoretz, inteviewed by Terri Gross on NPR's Fresh Air, Real, 20 min.] Having lived on both sides of the chasm -- he was a radical liberal before he became a founder of neoconservativism -- Podhoretz seems to have a rare appreciation of the great divide. I suspect the majority of us, not having lived on both sides, lack that same gut-level appreciation. ... [Jon's Radio] 8:51:24 PM    comment [] Plan9 Fan? PlanB Is Here. Interesting paper about using Plan 9 for pervasive... [OSNews] 8:50:06 PM    comment [] Bye-bye CVS. I've been Subverted.. I don't know how I lived without CVS. Now, I'm wondering why it took so long for me to switch to Subversion. [O'Reilly Weblogs] 7:28:04 PM    comment [] SugarCRM Inc. Commercial Open Source CRM. I've been looking for a product like ACT or Goldmine, but if you want multiple people using it collaboratively, you're suddenly an "enterprise" customer, which means thousands of dollars. Also, they just got a couple million from DFJ, who's betting on the open source aspect - which has never been applied to CRM. Way cool. [O'Reilly Weblogs] 7:26:46 PM    comment [] Network Security Assessment [Slashdot:] 7:19:40 PM    comment []

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