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Educating IT decision makers

One of the more difficult questions behind some of the discussion here over the last week or so involves the extent to which we should try to educate our users so they can make informed choices. The most basic problem, of course, is that it’s easy to ...

From PAUL MURPHY, ZDNet,  21 Nov 2009

An interesting exchange on politics and IT

OT: squaring your political & technology views… slightly OT, but something that’s been bothering me… Please pull me up if I’m being presumptive here, cos I confess to only dipping in to your blogs and comments occasionally, but I had you down as a ...

From PAUL MURPHY, ZDNet,  14 Nov 2009

The real pros and cons of server virtualization

First, lets be clear: this comment is about server virtualization through ghosting - the business of using one OS to run one or more ghost OSes in lieu of applications each of which in turn is able to run one or more applications - it’s not about ...

From PAUL MURPHY, ZDNet,  7 Nov 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  Microsoft Corporation

Scaring yourself and others

I pay Shaw cable for a static IP address, so it came as something of a surprise when they changed it - and worse, the changes this imposed at my end brought home the sad reality that I don’t know Solaris as well as I thought: it took several rounds of ...

From PAUL MURPHY, ZDNet,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Intel

What Windows7 could mean for Linux

I’ve had people using Windows 7 for about three months now, and everything about it so far seems to confirm my first impression that it’s a lot better than Vista: effectively reprising the consolidation and debugging Windows 98 offered over 95. Once ...

From PAUL MURPHY, ZDNet,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  IBM

Of snow, rocks, a book, and another partisan attack on IBM

I’ll be out of town later this week so I’m writing this on Wednesday - between staring out the window at gently falling snow and contemplating the tragic reality that if the present solar minimum leads to massive crop failures around the world next ...

From PAUL MURPHY, ZDNet,  17 Oct 2009

Related Topics: IBM,  Oracle,  U.S. Department of Justice

Dangers of the Global Village

From a distance, these ethnopolitical conflicts seem to be one frantic, chaotic blur. But is there order to this apparent anarchy? Chirot believes that such conflicts have a logic of their own. He has identified five stages of social organization--from ...

From ANNIE MURPHY PAUL, Psychology Today,  12 Oct 2009

Clouds vs. Appliances

When people talk about cloud computing as the future of corporate IT they’re generally thinking more or less in terms of traditional applications coupled with some processor intensive work in areas like business analytics or numerical analysis. I don’t ...

From PAUL MURPHY, ZDNet,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: IBM

Net Neutrality vs. "do no evil"

The various net neutrality proposals now in process in the U.S. Congress are intended to establish government oversight on all public networks in the United States in the stated interest of ensuring that carriers neither charge extra for, nor ...

From PAUL MURPHY, ZDNet,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: AT&T Inc.,  U.S. Congress,  WIRED Magazine,  Federal Communications Commission,  Skype

Pano, Sun Ray, and the Wintel gestalt

The latest, most wonderous, hula-hoop to hit Wintel is the zero client - and the process by which a 15 year old Unix innovation finally made it to the Wintel community shared consciousness illustrates both how this works and what its consequences ...

From PAUL MURPHY, ZDNet,  12 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Gartner, Inc.

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