Julie is also author of Building an Extranet (Wiley, 1997).
Google on Thursday launched a new search engine service specifically designed for large e-commerce sites. The product, dubbed Google Commerce Search, will bring some of Google¿s best search innovations to sites like Birkenstock USA.
A lot of open source advocates like to rage against the machine at Microsoft, but when a former Microsoft Research employee says that Windows 7 won't stop Linux from market domination, that's an opinion to note. Keith Curtis, author of the book After the Software Wars, says just that. But he goes further. He thinks Microsoft and its customers would be better off if the company ditched Windows and instead built its own version of the Linux operating system.
The first public white spaces network officially launched on Wednesday in Claudville, Virginia. It is uses sensing technology from Spectrum Bridge with software and Web cams supplied by Microsoft and PCs supplied by Dell. The project was funded the TDF Foundation.
On Monday, Microsoft announced that the beta version of SharePoint 2010 would be available in November and the final code would ship in the first half of 2010. In true Microsoft form, this means Redmond will have a whole bunch of confusing editions. Eight have so far been revealed which is more than the list of editions on Microsoft's public SharePoint 2010 website. Microsoft on Monday revealed two new cloud versions.
Microsoft Subnet welcomes Global Knowledge Training as a contributor to Microsoft Subnet. In honor of this partnership, Global Knowledge is offering a free Microsoft training course worth up to $2,995 from to be given away to one lucky Microsoft Subnet reader.
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A year after introducing the Nexus 1000 virtual switch, Cisco is using that switch and its unified computing system servers as a proving point at VMworld in San Francisco. However, the setup performed so poorly in its first two days that many users were left unable to access the labs, they said. A Cisco-based implementation that taps into both EMC and NetApp SANs is powering the show's lab sessions.
Cisco and VMware announced a method for using VMware's VMotion across data centers that are located as far apart as 125 miles.
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Microsoft invents a lot of great stuff but finds itself stuck when it comes to implementation for six hard-to-fix reasons. Those reasons range from me-too thinking to being trapped by its own success.