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ITerating.com, The First Wiki-Based Guide To Commercial, Open Source And Hosted Software
ITerating.com, the first Wiki-based directory of Open Source, commercial and hosted software, announced today its worldwide availability at ITerating.com. The site is the ultimate reference guide for the IT industry and includes reviews, ratings, articles, and detailed product feature comparisons. ITerating.com uses Semantic Web tools (including RDF) to combine user edits with Web service feeds from other sites.
“The software industry is broad, diverse, and constantly changing,” said Nicolas Vandenberghe, Founder and CEO, ITerating.com. “To offer comprehensive, relevant and up-to-date information, a Wiki-based model is the only choice.”
Designed for use by developers and industry consultants alike, ITerating.com allows users to easily contribute to popular categories such as Software Engineering Tools; Web Site Design & Tools; Web Site Software Tools; Web Site & Communication Applications & Social Networking; or to create their own category if does not exist yet.
ITerating.com encourages contributors to be bold, by editing existing products if it’s apparent that there isn’t enough information in a particular “data sheet.” Nothing can be ‘broken’ because it can be improved or fixed at any time. If a favorite product is not listed, contributors can add by clicking the [Add product] link on the homepage. Contributors can invite other users to rate entries, giving them a chance to be included in the ‘Top Rated Products’ section.
Larry Augustin, founder of VA Software, parent company of Open Source repository site sourceforge.net, and Brian Roberts, former Corporate Vice President of Corporate Development at Microsoft, have joined to support ITerating.com as advisory board members and investors. Coming from opposite sides, these industry leaders recognize that the technology community needs a single repository for commercial, Open Source and hosted software.
“Nothing like ITerating.com exists on the Web today,” said Larry Augustin, venture investor and Open Source evangelist. “It’s one of these ideas that seems so obvious once you see it — an obvious need in the industry.”
“In response to its customers, even Microsoft today has to address the issue of Open Source, best demonstrated by its investment to increase interopererability between Linux and Windows,” added Brian Roberts, Senior Managing Director of Evercore Partners. “ITerating.com supports healthy competition among different companies and solutions by making things more transparent. Ultimately, everyone benefits.”
Tags: iterating, software comparison, rdf, semantic web tool
AMD And ATI To Create Processing Powerhouse
AMD and ATI today announced plans to join forces in a transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion. The combination will create a processing powerhouse by bringing AMD’s technology leadership in microprocessors together with ATI’s strengths in graphics, chipsets and consumer electronics. The result: A new and more formidable company, determined to drive growth, innovation and choice for its customers, particularly in the commercial and mobile computing segments and in the rapidly-growing consumer electronics market. Combining technologies, people, and complementary strengths, AMD plans to deliver in 2007 customer-centric platforms for the benefit of customers who want to collaborate in the development of differentiated solutions. Click to Read the Full Post »
IE 7 Shown Live At Gnomedex 5.0!
IE 7 debuts at Gnomedex? It looks that way. I am sitting here watching how RSS is integrated directly into the new version of Internet Explorer. Yes folks, Internet Explorer version 7 is being shown at Gnomedex for the first time anywhere (publicly). Click to Read the Full Post »
MessageCast Acquired - .NET Alerts Offline For A While
MessageCast, the service that drives .NET alerts for many-a-Weblog (and other services), has announced it’s been acquired.
So, if you subscribe to MSN/.NET alerts through for this or other Weblogs, it’s offline for a bit and will apparently be announcing more shortly.
In an e-mail from the company: Click to Read the Full Post »
Snort (Rules) For Sale
Shawna McAlearney of SearchSecurity.com writes:
Open Source IDS Snort is quietly ushering in changes to its license agreement that allows it to charge for timely, tested rules. Sourcefire, manager of the open source project, said some vendors relying on those rules for their own commercial products aren’t pleased. Click to Read the Full Post »
Dynamic Pari-mutuel Market
When Yahoo! Search director Gary Flake announced Yahoo’s new Tech Buzz Game at ETech this week, he briefly mentioned that it operates as a dynamic pari-mutual auction. According to Yahoo! a dynamic pari-mutuel market is a new (patent pending) auction mechanism, invented at Yahoo! Research Labs. The mechanism has many nice properties. The best way to understand it is in comparison to more familiar types of auctions. These include the pari-mutuel auction (often used in horse race wagering) and the continuous double auction (used in the stock market). Pari-mutuels allow anyone to buy at any time (infinite liquidity), but offer no reward to participants who know information ahead of other people. That is, pari-mutuels are inefficient at propagating information in real time. Double auctions efficiently propagate information, but often require a market maker to assume risk in order to drive liquidity. Click to Read the Full Post »
O’Reilly’s SafariU Launched
Technical giant O’Reilly launched a new custom publishing and online platform for IT professionals who are also educators. SafariU offers the capabilities to create and customize educational materials tailored to specific class needs. The sources can be original and/or drawn from existing material. This service is at no cost to the instructor or trainer and delivers low cost material to students in as little as two weeks. A SafariU textbook costs 16 cents a page with no extra charge for the cover and binding, plus a bookstore markup. The Pearson Technology Group is a partner with O’Reilly’s existing line of Safari Books Online. The combined resources make available an enormous searchable database of material for educators to draw upon and mix to their students’ needs. The students can then subscribe to the online resources for a course for less than $10 a month. The course syllabus can link to the content of up to ten of the books used in the custom SafariU books, plus supplementary audio, video, text, and other outside resources. The instructors can also participate in a peer network to share resources. Click to Read the Full Post »
Dell Chief Weighs-In On File Sharing
Kevin Rollins, Michael Dell’s successor as Dell CEO, spent considerable time during a recent AP interview discussing the unfortunate impacts of the war the music and movie industries are waging against file sharing.
Though he explicitly denounced the trafficking of files illegally, Rollins clearly understands that a zero tolerance policy on file sharing is not a wise long-term solution as it “generally stifles growth.” Click to Read the Full Post »
Intel Flaunts Mac mini Knock-Off
Remember how the Mac mini was designed by Apple to steal PC customers? Now Intel wants to steal them back.
Adopting a shockingly similar lunchbox shape and lightweight design, Intel’s upcoming Mini PC features all the sleekness and portability (physical, that is) of the Mac mini with none of the Mac benefits. Click to Read the Full Post »
Google Hits Usenet With A Broom
Usenet is the source of all things useful and useless. It’s inane and invaluable yet has been shut out in the cold with all the care we show an old battered sweater. We shrieked when viruses ran rampant through the groups, we sighed when the binaries became a bit more questionable, and gradually we left it behind for EZ Boards and Yahoo! Or we would have if it wasn’t for the little brothers at Google. Click to Read the Full Post »
Oracle to deliver security patches on quarterly basis
Starting Jan. 18, Oracle Corp. will provide security patches for all of its products on a quarterly basis, a schedule it believes is most convenient for customers.
The patches will include fixes for significant security vulnerabilities and updates that are needed to prevent patch conflicts, Mary Ann Davidson, Oracle’s chief security officer, said in a conference call with reporters on Thursday.
In the past, Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle generally released patches when they were ready for all supported product releases and platforms. This meant users often times were caught off-guard and had to drop other work to patch their systems.
Oracle had been mulling a regular delivery model for patches for the last year or so, according to Davidson. In August the company appeared to have opted for a monthly release cycle, similar to the one used by Microsoft Corp.
“When we talked to customers, they said they did not want to patch their systems once a month,” Davidson said. “We felt quarterly seemed to be a schedule that customers could live with.”
uCertify to close Limited Period Discount Offer on November 30, 2004
uCertify (November 17, 2004) uCertify, a market leader in IT certification exam preparation aids, announced that the current limited time discount offer on Exam Simulation PrepKits will be closed on November 30, 2004.
uCertify currently offers up to a 70% discount on Exam Simulation PrepKits of all certification exams. Users are advised to purchase the PrepKits before the end date to avail of this heavy discount and save money.
According to Mr. Manish Gupta, Lead Area Architect, Sybase Inc., Dublin, CA:
“I have reviewed uCertify PrepKits and found that they are indispensable for professionals preparing for the certification exams. They provide a comprehensive solution for passing the exam in a single attempt. Detailed study notes, tips and tricks and How Tos… ensure that a student masters the technology. At a price now offered by them, I think they are a must for the aspirants.”
The present offer further strengthens uCertify’s commitment to serving the IT community by providing efficient certification exam preparation solutions at an affordable price. uCertify presents special offers and discounts from time to time for the benefit of professionals who want to validate their skills by getting certified in different technologies.
uCertify has also announced a pre-release discount of US $40 on PrepKit for Microsoft exam 70-292. Users who purchase the PrepKit before the release date will get this fabulous discount.
All uCertify PrepKits come with money back guarantee; the aspirant can get full refund of his money if he/she does not pass the exam in a single attempt.
More information on the limited period discount offer is available at the uCertify Web site.
Dell takes new stab at blade design
Competitors criticize Dell for a lack of engineering expertise, but the company said one significant computer due to launch in November is its own design: its second-generation blade server, the PowerEdge 1855.
The PowerEdge 1855–and a successor, the 1955, due in February–is expected to use a chassis 12.25 inches tall that can accommodate 10 dual-processor blades, according to sources familiar with the design. With Dell’s blades, 60 servers can fit in a single rack, which can accommodate only 42 of today’s conventional dual-processor servers.
Good News: CWShredder Back in the Fight
CWShredder, the only free program known to successfully detect and remove all variants of the Cool Web Search browser hijacker, is back in the fight. After its developer, Dutch college student Merijn Bellekom, called it quits this past June, CWShredder was no longer being updated. Now, Merijn has licensed the CWShredder source code and rights to Intermute, a provider of Internet security and content filtering solutions and developer of SpySubtract PRO.
James Healan of SpywareInfo.com reports: CWShredder is back. Merijn has sold the source code and rights to CWShredder to Intermute. They have published an updated version at cwshredder.net. CWShredder still is a free download and now is being updated once again on a continuing basis to deal with new variants of the CWS hijacker.
Intermute will continute to provide the tool both as a free download and as part of their product: CoolWebSearch is probably one of the most vicious and hardest to eliminate pieces of spyware circulating on the Internet today, said Ed English, CEO of InterMute, Inc. We are proud to offer CWShredder as a free download, and we plan to integrate its powerful functionality into SpySubtract PRO to give our customers the most robust protection available against invasive forms of software.
Bullying an IT workplace problem
“Physical and psychological harassment or bullying is one of the most damaging workplace issues — and according to one expert, the IT industry is not immune to it….
‘Bill’, an Ottawa-based IT worker whose name has been changed for anonymity, told IT World Canada in an e-mail interview that he has experienced bullying in his workplace but isn’t really sure how to deal with it constructively. He recently started working at a small company where teamwork and a collaborative environment are very important. Despite this, the other day he witnessed a female colleague burst into tears because of psychological harassment….
“Rather than explaining to the person what he means, he [the team lead] will start harassing the person psychologically by raising his voice and showing frustration, indicating that he has been over this issue many times with that person and he does not understand why the issue still exists,” he explained, adding that this is usually done in front of several other people. “Most of the time he will bring up the issue that he is the person in charge and will ignore the fact the success or failure of the team is not just in his hands.”
At one meeting, the female in the group, who had undergone many such incidents before, finally broke down in front of the whole team. Bill said he felt “very uncomfortable” at the meeting, and although he wanted to speak up, he didn’t know what to say.
“It is very clear that we need some guidelines in our team environment to follow, and if any person crosses these guidelines, (we need to know) how … to confront them,” he said.”
New IBM server to support dual-core Opteron
“IBM Corp. next week will begin shipping the second generation of its rack-mounted dual processor servers based on Advanced Micro Devices Inc.’s (AMD) Opteron microprocessor. The new server, called the eServer 326, will be IBM’s first product specifically designed to support the upcoming dual-core Opteron processors that AMD is expected to ship next year. Click to Read the Full Post »
Hitachi to unveil high-end storage array
“Hitachi Data Systems Corp. is expected to roll out a high-end storage array that runs long-promised data pooling and replication software that will let users support multi-vendor storage systems from one interface.
Universal Storage Platform, dubbed Lightning 3, is set to be unveiled at an event in New York. The company declined to comment on its plans.
Virtualization, or pooling of data on arrays from different vendors, has been a desire of customers who want to consolidate their storage platforms and manage them together.”
Disaster Recovery Schemes in New York
After the September 11th attacks and events since, New York area firms are taking security risks seriously as the Republican National Convention gets underway today in New York. According to a story published in eWeek, firms have implemented extensive disaster recovery schemes involving redundancy and remote offsite data backups, among others.
Apparently, million-dollar-an-hour downtime isn’t welcome. :)
Oracle users: Monthly patch cycle prudent
“Rob Sherman has never liked Microsoft’s monthly patching cycle. Whether a fix is available or not, he wants to be told about security holes immediately so he knows what to watch for. Click to Read the Full Post »
Court to RIAA: File Trading Mechanisms Legal
It’s interesting to note that the very same court that issued the ruling that ultimately doomed Napster as a file trading service, issued a ruling on August 19th that ultimately condemned the reformation of copyright law, and cemented the legality of file trading software makers such as Grokster and Kazaa.
The judge noted that such services have other uses as well and used history as a standard to show that technology always takes an industry by storm but the industry will ultimately balance itself out.
For all the horrible rulings that have ever come out of the Ninth Circuit, this is one I can agree with.
Source: The Register
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