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 During my RichFaces session at JBoss World 2009, I showed three small examples of using Ajax with RichFaces 3.3, JSF 2, and RichFaces 4. I thougth it would be a good idea to show you the difference or more correct the similarities between the three. I will be blogging more about Rich...Sep. 8, 2009 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,755 |
 Often, estimates are initially made with an incomplete understanding of requirements. Estimation is done at the beginning of the lifecycle before the requirements are defined and thus the problem understood. How can you accurately estimate unless you know what the problem we intend to ...Sep. 8, 2009 03:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,137 |
 In competition with VMware this week Red Hat trotted out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, the commercial point upgrade that includes its Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) mojo, which is integrated into the Linux kernel, a factor that should give it operating efficiencies like the 16 virt...Sep. 5, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,511 |
 Red Hat Thursday unveiled Deltacloud, a new open source project aimed at enabling an ecosystem of developers, tools, scripts and applications that can interoperate across the public and private clouds complements of a common REST-based API that developers can write to once and manage a...Sep. 5, 2009 10:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,163 |
 Red Hat has delivered on its JBoss Open Choice strategy and announced availability of JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0. This core middleware product represents next generation Java application platforms and will be integral to Red Hat's cloud foundation. JBoss Enterprise Appli...Sep. 2, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,811 |
 Red Hat has announced the availability of Red Hat Network Satellite 5.3, the latest version of Red Hat's on-premises systems management solution that provides software updates, configuration management, provisioning and monitoring across both physical and virtual Red Hat Enterprise Lin...Sep. 2, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,119 |
 Red Hat has announced the North American launch of the Red Hat Catalyst Program, aimed at leveraging all of Red Hat's routes to market through a collaborative and innovative marketing program that plans to include an interactive web portal to facilitate the formation of a community aro...Sep. 1, 2009 08:34 AM EDT Reads: 861 |
 Cloud computing is becoming a ubiquitous concept. It has mass-market implications for the technology industry, and it is advancing at speeds rarely seen with any major technological evolution.
As a business leader, do you know why cloud computing is important to you? What parts of y...Aug. 28, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,966 |
 The debate has raged for some time now about the exact definition of a 5GL. One might argue that there also is still some debate going on about what exactly is a Platform as a Service PaaS. Throw together two semi-ambiguous industry-specific buzzwords and what do you get? Well, for ...Aug. 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,224 |
 There is a common misconception that CMMI and Agile are polar opposites. One relies on institutionalization and documentation of processes and methodologies, while the other emphasizes interaction among workers and “working software over comprehensive documentation” (Agile Manifesto). ...Aug. 28, 2009 10:30 AM EDT Reads: 1,477 |
 Platform as a service (PaaS) is a big piece of the cloud computing puzzle, the other pieces being Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and Application software as a service (SaaS). PaaS enables the delivery of solution frameworks and components as on-demand, pay-as-you-go services. Some ...Aug. 27, 2009 12:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,912 Replies: 1 |
 The Linux Foundation has updated its April 2008 study on Linux kernel development, the one called “Linux Kernel Development: How Fast is it Going, Who is doing it and Who is Sponsoring it?”. The updated study found that since April 2008 there’s been a 10% increase in the number of deve...Aug. 21, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 925 |
 Red Hat Monday kicked off its redesigned Partner Program, meant to give its resellers more financial, sales, marketing and technical help. It’s added a new Premier Business Partner level above the existing Advanced and Ready classifications and it will also feature specializations in R...Aug. 21, 2009 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,010 |
 The open source Mono Project sponsored by Novell has put out a beta release Moonlight 2, the Linux equivalent of Microsoft’s Silverlight 2, which gives users a platform to view and use Silverlight and Windows Media content on Linux. The beta offers improved functionality compared to Mo...Aug. 21, 2009 05:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,112 |
 Thinking of moving to a different Java application server? Need to better understand the impact of your move? The state of the economy is driving a re-evaluation of all major technology decisions. As a result, more and more organizations are switching to a more flexible and cost-effect...Aug. 20, 2009 03:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,234 |
 The enterprise architect role is in flux, especially as we consider the heightening interest in cloud computing. The down economy has also focused IT spending to seek out faster, better, and cheaper means to acquire and manage IT functions and business processes.Aug. 18, 2009 10:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,881 |
 Enterprises large and small are drawn by the advantages of cloud computing - pay-for-use, self-service, elastic scalability and the elimination of hardware management – resulting in very low barriers to entry and exit and high agility. However, enterprises are also concerned about secu...Aug. 18, 2009 12:15 AM EDT Reads: 10,264 |
 RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica have joined together to deliver a complete business intelligence solution in the cloud. Jaspersoft’s kicking in the compute-intensive BI software, Talend the open source data integration software, and Vertica the analytic database management s...Aug. 17, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,536 |
 Thinking of moving to a different Java application server? Need to better understand the impact of your move? The state of the economy is driving a re-evaluation of all major technology decisions. As a result, more and more organizations are switching to a more flexible and cost-effect...Aug. 11, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,496 |
 Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) presents a challenge to software marketing people like none other in recent history. On the one hand, SOA has been the top enterprise software bandwagon to jump on for the last four years or so, but on the other hand, many vendors have struggled to t...Jul. 23, 2009 07:15 AM EDT Reads: 1,399 |
 ZapThink considers the SOA business case as an essential SOA artifact. Architects must have a clear picture of the business motivations for SOA, not only at the beginning of the initiative, but also as the architecture rolls out. Nevertheless, there is still frequently a disconnect bet...Jul. 22, 2009 12:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,873 |
 The Wall Street Journal recently reported that research and development spending is holding steady in the current economic slump. According to the Journal, companies spent nearly as much on R&D in Q4 2008 as they did a year earlier. Why? Because companies are wary of emerging from the ...Jul. 20, 2009 08:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,120 |
 Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, a k a SingTel, Singapore's largest phone company and a major local player in broadband Internet services, is going into the cloud business, intending to establish Singapore as a regional cloud computing hub.
It's launched Singapore's first integrate...Jul. 19, 2009 12:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,744 |
 Rackspace Hosting has sent its Cloud Servers API to public beta, a step on the way to open sourcing the thing and a big difference between Rackspace and rival Amazon. Cloud Servers is the company’s months-old Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) widgetry and the community-developed, stan...Jul. 19, 2009 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,421 |
 Loose coupling presents architectural challenges that are at the heart of planning and implementing the SOA infrastructure. Building the Service abstraction presents a simplified representation to the business but requires additional efforts under the covers to make that abstraction a ...Jul. 18, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,562 |
 The mantra heard most often in business these days is "Do More With Less." For many businesses, cutting costs while trying to grow—or even sustain their place in the market—is easier said than done. What could help many businesses is gaining access to some of that $787 Billion in Feder...Jul. 16, 2009 03:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,198 |
 Such projections have long since ceased to be news but Oracle, which will take Sun over before another quarter closes unless the regulators make some objection, rushed out a statement saying it's seen the preliminary estimates and still expects the Sun acquisition to be accretive to it...Jul. 14, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,990 |
 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become Red Hat’s very first Premier Cloud Provider Partner. Fair enough. Red Hat was the first supported operating system and JBoss the first supported middleware on AWS. Anyway, Red Hat has thought up this shiny new program to certify “industry leaders in...Jul. 10, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,892 |
 Red Hat’s revenues were up 11.4% to $174.4 million in its first fiscal quarter ended May 31. Subscription revenue was $148.8 million, up 14% year-over-year. It earned $18.5 million, or 10 cents a share, up 7%. Its non-GAAP income for the quarter was $28.7 million, or 15 cents a share, ...Jun. 29, 2009 08:00 AM EDT Reads: 2,590 |
 “We are pleased to report better than expected revenue and EPS results in Q1,” stated Jim Whitehurst, President and Chief Executive Officer of Red Hat. “Red Hat’s growth is driven in part by our ability to help enterprise customers save money in a challenging IT spending environment. O...Jun. 24, 2009 04:04 PM EDT Reads: 1,293 |
 Jitterbit, the open source house that has taken on large-scale enterprise-grade data and application integration – problems like connecting on-premise and cloud applications and data – is pushing on to Jitterbit 3.0, a major release of its solution. The new version, when it gets here –...Jun. 19, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,673 |
 When President Obama appointed his new federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, last week, Kundra announced ambitious plans to "democratize" federal government data by making it accessible in open formats and in data feeds. His plan calls for the creation of a single point of access to all public fe...Jun. 19, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 3,045 |
 Red Hat sent its newfangled Xen-replacing KVM-based virtualization portfolio to beta Tuesday, with an eye to delivering it later this year. It says the beta program is oversubscribed. It includes a new standalone hypervisor (turning the Linux kernel into a bare-metal hypervisor, someth...Jun. 18, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,507 |
 The CIA and its black ops buddies have bought into Lucid Imagination, the start-up commercializing the Apache Lucene and Solr search technologies. Lucid says search is big right now in spy circles, particularly a full-text search engine they can tinker with like Lucene. Nobody’s saying...Jun. 17, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,280 |
 If your business relies on the speedy resolution of an issue from your cloud provider, then test them before you try. Send them that email out-of-hours to see how quickly and how useful the reply actually is. Try and reach someone on the phone. Look around the forums to see how many qu...Jun. 16, 2009 09:45 AM EDT Reads: 5,678 |
 Microsoft and Novell decided to revisit their eyebrow-raising pact the other day, the one that was signed in November of 2006 to the outrage of the FOSS mob, and let it be known – na-na-na-na-na – that it produced upwards of 100 new customers in the past six months, double the rate of ...Jun. 15, 2009 11:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,786 |
 The latest version of Red Hat’s free open source operating system, Fedora 11, is out. It’s supposed to include substantial improvements in virtualization, such as an upgraded interactive console, a redesigned virtual machine guest creation wizard and better security with SELinux suppor...Jun. 12, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 2,006 |
 As open source development expands and deepens its innovative capabilities, JBoss Enterprise Middleware, by Red Hat, continues to deliver enterprise-class alternatives to expensive, cumbersome proprietary solutions at additional levels of the software stack. These go beyond the applica...Jun. 12, 2009 01:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,495 |
 Wednesday morning NetApp raised its offer for Data Domain to $30 a share to match EMC’s bid. However, it can’t match EMC’s deeper pockets. It’s still offering a mix of cash and stock but claims its new bid is really worth $1.9 billion net of Data Domain’s cash. Jun. 4, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,525 |
 After weeks of slow-moving negotiations and due diligence, CA has bought what it describes as “certain data center automation and policy-based optimization expertise and assets from Cassatt,” the failed Bill Coleman start-up that sucked up $100 million in venture money on its way to th...Jun. 2, 2009 10:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,992 |
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