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Archive for July, 2004

BMC News

Saturday, July 31st, 2004

I read through my pile of eWeeks and came across these:

BMC and Voyence
Review of Patrol Visualis 1.4
While not directly BMC related, this short article on Solaris 10’s DTrace is interesting. Also, here’s an older article from The Register.

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IBM to make Java database open source

Friday, July 30th, 2004

CNET reports that IBM is going to open source Cloudscape, a
Java, embedded DB. I have a certain loathing for databases, but over the years I’ve realized that it’s not so much the DB part that I don’t like, but that they’re usually separate systems.
Thus, embedded DB’s that are pure Java — like Cloudscape, McKoi, and […]

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Finished In Search of Strupidity

Friday, July 30th, 2004

I finished reading In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters today during lunch. All in all, it was an excellent book, and I’d recommend it to anyone in the software bid’ness. It’s got: (1.) good history of the software world, and, (2.) a good catalog of stupid mistakes software firms have […]

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PATROL Express News: Dell PATROL Express Server

Friday, July 30th, 2004

The new Dell Patrol Express Server is preloaded with Patrol Express, an agentless monitoring and performance-tuning tool. The server is bundled with configuration support and administrative training.
“Vendors Step Up Enterprise Management”

Here’s
our (BMC’s) info on it.
(I found this via my
Feedster search for “BMC Software”: it’s pretty neat, I just get an RSS filled with […]

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Open Source Lock in, Cyanea, Apple & Hacking, RedHat App Server

Thursday, July 29th, 2004

“Open source about vendor choice?” - if open source is all about being able to switch, why does RedHat have such a hold? Companies would rather pay a vendor than research and test out all the options? Is it the “one neck to squeeze” thing?

IBM buys Cyanea - “James Chong, Cyanea’s president and CEO, will […]

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