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There were 8 blog postings during November (2006):
Talk To The Avatar - The Rise of Second Life
I was speaking to someone in the publishing industry who said
they recently had to sack one of their staff. The problem was that
the individual concerned (a woman) appeared to have lost contact
with reality. She weighed 350 pounds, had become...
Robin Bloor | 1st November '06
Open Source Needs A Rethink
The two strangely contrasting events of Larry Ellison swatting
Red Hat and Steve Ballmer embracing Novell's SuSe Linux should give
everyone in the Open Source movement pause for thought. Let's take
these one by one.
In one fell swoop, Oracle...
Robin Bloor | 9th November '06
AVID: Time For A White Paper
AntiVirus’ Ineffectiveness Described is this week's
meaning for the AVID acronym. I've written a white paper, funded by
one of the AVID heroes, Bit9, which tells the story of the abject
failure of AntiVirus software. It documents everything...
Robin Bloor | 10th November '06
SOA For Dummies
Finally, because it seems to have taken the longest time since
its merry band of authors (Judith Hurwitz, Carol Baroudi, Marcia
Kaufmann and I) started hitting the keyboard, Service
Oriented Architecture for Dummies is now available
from Amazon....
Robin Bloor | 13th November '06
Why YouTube Is "World Changing"
Television is a tough business. It didn't use to be. There used
to be a controlled market with a limited number of channels. Then
came satellite and cable and the channels grew dramatically. Now
the Internet is making its entry with a whole new...
Robin Bloor | 15th November '06
Has Linux Won The War On The Server?
Microsoft's decision to collaborate with Novell on Linux seems
to have caused confusion everywhere. On one hand, Microsoft looks
to have been taking a mild swipe at Linux by indemnifying Novell's
SuSE Linux against any of Microsoft...
Robin Bloor | 17th November '06
AVID: The Allchin Stumble
In this posting, I suppose AVID should be taken to stand for
AntiVirus In Dismay—in dismay at the pronouncements of
Microsoft's Jim Allchin. First of all, Jim Allchin appeared to
claim that Vista didn't need Antivirus software. He actually...
Robin Bloor | 20th November '06
AVAYA and SOA
For years, decades even, we have been anticipating the
convergence of computing and telecommunications. People talked
about it in the 1970s. Nevertheless, it began in earnest much
later—in about 1994 when the Internet, catching everyone...
Robin Bloor | 22nd November '06