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Jon Udell cites 2004 as the Year of the Enterprise Wiki.
Alan Zeichick thinks “The enterprise software acronym of the year must be SOA (service-oriented architecture).”
Mary Jo Foley points out that Friday Is D-Day for NT 4.0 Server. Now really. NT 4.0 is no longer going to be supported by Microsoft. How will we be able [...]
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Ken “Caesar” Fisher of Ars Technica posts The earthquake in southeast Asia and you. The earthquake and resultant tsunamis in southeast Asia and beyond are devastating, but you can help. By caesar@arstechnica.com.
2004: A year of high-tech changes. “The year 2004 defied predictions: IBM sold its PC arm to a Chinese competitor, Oracle managed to swallow PeopleSoft, and — perhaps the most dramatic of all — Microsoft and Sun Microsystems aligned to make their products interoperate.” Source: InfoWorld: Top News. So begins the end of the year [...]
Why NOT to Upgrade Your Linux System. Nathan Willis writes, over on NewsForge, “I’m not upgrading my Fedora Core 2 machine to Core 3, even though the new version has been out for a couple of months. There’s not anything wrong with FC3 itself, it’s just that system upgrades are both a blessing and a [...]
A Journalism Giant Retires. Dan Gillmor’s eJournal Notes “Bill Moyers has completed his last episode of NOW with Bill Moyers, a PBS program that looked in depth at critical issues… Moyers is a hero in journalism. He’s not always right, but he’s been asking the tough questions… He’s been especially tough on the press, which [...]
Quick Review of OpenOffice 2.0 Preview Release. “The Sun-sponsored OpenOffice.org project based on open sourced StarOffice code has released a preview of the upcoming OpenOffice 2.0 product. This version touts better MS-Office loading and parsing, strict XML compliant output, a new database program that mimics Microsoft’s Access, and much more. The Inquirer took it for [...]
This is one of those stories that could go on for a long time, so I’ve posted the first draft to my essays section.
