Rootkit revisited: Technology Review
Technology Review: Inside the Spyware Scandal. The MIT journal attempts to reconstruct everything that happened with the Sony BMG rootkit brouhaha (for details, see the Boycott Sony blog).
A reasonable recap of everything that happened, with a few revelations: First 4 Internet was originally hired to protect studio recordings from prerelease leaking, and the broadly disseminated [...]
ITXpo: And on the other side of the street…
…across the street in the other part of the Moscone Center, to be more precise, Sun’s new CEO Jonathan Schwarz announced at the JavaOne conference that Sun will release the Java source code, and is asking developers for feedback on how to do that in the least disruptive way.
Wow. Cool. Guess I was at the [...]
ITXpo: Microsoft Vista and app dev
Spent some time this afternoon looking at Vista and talking to the Microsoft team here (which includes some folks I know from my past life at Microsoft.com and my internship—hi Arvind! hi Peg!) about what’s coming down the pipe that our company needs to know about from an application development perspective. The guidance I got [...]
ITXpo: “Consumerization”
If you know me, you already know one of my points about a few of the sessions that in a well-intentioned and generally thorough way address the question of “consumer” technologies in the enterprise. That’s the C-word itself. Our employees are not gullets that crap cash, and talking about technology expectations set by “consumer-grade” services [...]
ITXpo: Business service management
One of the pitfalls (or blessings, depending on your perspective) of being a small software company is that you get laser-like focus on your core business problem out of necessity. For me as a vendor, one of the real value points about the Gartner show is getting exposed to other market segments that touch ours [...]
Gartner ITXpo 2006
I’m back at Gartner’s ITXpo after liveblogging parts of it last year. I’ve decided this year to pseudo-live-blog—to take notes during the session and post them later. Pulling out a laptop during one of the keynotes last year just felt too weird. Blogger culture hasn’t totally permeated the IT universe, and I drew too [...]
