Innovation isn't a line item in the R&D budget. While we've been busily trimming costs to meet reduced revenues, too many of us seem to have cut innovation, too.
Tight economy or not, the mania over Web portals continues to run rampant. Many major infrastructure vendors, including IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and Computer Associates, have announced new generations of enterprise portal products that incorporate more collaborative and business intelligence capabilities.
The good news: Administering stand-alone mainframe security is easy. The bad: Finding people skilled at securing a mainframe in a distributed environment is very hard.
In a truly creepy scene from the 1991 motion picture, "The Silence of the Lambs," newbie FBI Agent Clarice Starling visits Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a convicted serial killer so dangerous that he is incarcerated behind glass walls rather than prison bars in the basement of a hospital for the criminally insane. In the scene, Agent Starling offers Lecter a survey document used to collect information on the psychology of serial killers for the FBI's behavioral science database.
Runs Linux partitions only
Web-enable legacy applications and data more easily
New suite of products released
A response to recent IBM-Neoware alliance
Catastrophic attacks and natural disasters
Web services enterprise security in future
New version better meets storage management
Oracle's Application Server may be more open to competition
Study suggests lack of legwork a primary cause for disappointment
Developers gain access to final version
Watch out for the potholes
Help in addressing economic issues