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Sun’s sweet talk
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February 7, 2003
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Sun's CTO rolls out some old news, but with an urgent spinand some interesting new twists
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Waging war on business
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January 31, 2003
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How do you spell extortion? BSA, RIAA, DMCA
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Company time
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January 24, 2003
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If your infrastructure enforces old-economy work rules, expect to pay for it in productivity
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The missing link
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January 17, 2003
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You'll be able to grab a great phone/PDA/Internet device this year, but it's useless without converged services
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Consolidation fallout
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January 10, 2003
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Take inventory now of the technologies, suppliers, and partners you can't live without
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Brain dumping
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January 3, 2003
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The information locked in your brain today could be invaluable in 10 years -- but will it still exist?
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Tying up loose ends
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December 13, 2002
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Those little things you forget to do before leaving for vacation can end up ruining your time off
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Software goes extinct
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December 6, 2002
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These days, software isn't software, it's revocable, metered computing potential
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Pay when it works
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November 29, 2002
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When outsourcing a major project, sometimes the most important person on your IT staff is your attorney
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So long, Wintel
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November 22, 2002
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If you still believe Windows on 32-bit Intel CPUs is the safest platform choice, take a fresh look at the market
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Interplanetary tango
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November 15, 2002
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In today's astronomy headlines, Jupiter is now moving into orbit around IBM
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Price of performance
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November 8, 2002
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What is lost when server application frameworks focus on run-time speed?
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The SME standard
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November 1, 2002
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In a recession, buy like a small company; in times of plenty, buy like a small company
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Carry your state
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October 25, 2002
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Standard techniques for contingency planning don't map well to service-oriented communications
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Presentation matters
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October 18, 2002
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Apple and Red Hat are redefining GUIs by taking it one small step at a time
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Too rich or too thin
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October 11, 2002
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The rich interfaces that replace browsers and text can't be controlled by vendors
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Privacy and risk
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October 4, 2002
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Think those DRM mandates and rules won't affect you when accessing the Web at work? Think again
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Nothing to lose
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September 27, 2002
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Sun's Jonathan Schwartz lays out a mission and message at InfoWorld's Next-Gen Web Services II Conference
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Sense of community
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September 20, 2002
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Newsgroups, forums, and mailing lists can be workable substitutes for paid support
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Just as good
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September 13, 2002
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Before leaping into unbranded hardware, make sure to consider all the pros, cons, and consequences
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Keep it covered
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September 6, 2002
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Squeeze business continuity planning in among your many other underfunded IT priorities
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Quality in-house
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August 30, 2002
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Software quality isn't a process or department, it's a job requirement for everyone in IT
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Is Sun serious?
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August 23, 2002
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Again, Sun finds the trailing edge of technology and jumps on it with a characteristic lack of common sense
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Let's get small
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August 16, 2002
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If you can't buy it, build it. Embedded technology is more accessible than ever
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Friends and enemies
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August 9, 2002
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As with the school bully, it's best to play nice with MS or else risk getting hurt
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Media moguls
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August 2, 2002
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Patents equal control, and their chilling effects can very well creep up to the enterprise
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Hook 'em, Steve
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July 26, 2002
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Wondering whether or not a software giant can own the market and keep its soul
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No free cycles
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July 19, 2002
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Learn the secret to making money from all those underutilized IT assets: conservation
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License to plunder
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July 12, 2002
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Dear customer, we remotely crippled your servers for suspected license violations. Love, Microsoft
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Believe it or not
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July 5, 2002
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Microsoft's latest strategies are aimed at getting something it never had: the enterprise IT market's respect
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The universal client
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June 21, 2002
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Are universally accessible network data and services an IT myth or an achievable reality?
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Multi, rack, or blade
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June 14, 2002
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The next wave of distributed computing will be guided not by fashion, but by necessity and technology
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And access for all
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June 7, 2002
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Engineering accessibility into products, sites, and organizations is just good business sense
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ONE up on .Net
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May 31, 2002
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Solaris 9 is dressed to kill -- .Net, that is. Sun's generosity is laudable, but watch out for the fine print
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Losing my religion
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May 24, 2002
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When it comes to IT decision-making, an ounce of pragmatism is worth a pound of principles
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Bite spam back
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May 17, 2002
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Companies can fight unsolicited e-mail on the cheap, but should also donate time and assets to the cause
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After the desktop
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May 10, 2002
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Replacing desktops with notebooks will delight many, but be aware of potential problems
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The 64-bit quandary
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May 3, 2002
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AMD's Opteron will change the CPU landscape, but should it change your company's server plans?
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Microsoft's rethink
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April 26, 2002
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The pullback of .Net My Services raises questions about the viability of commercial Web services
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Server, heal thyself
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April 19, 2002
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Dizzyingly complex distributed systems demand new approaches to monitoring and management
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Virtualizing services
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April 12, 2002
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More flexible outsourcing is on the horizon, thanks to Web services and grids
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Avoiding merger fallout
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April 5, 2002
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The HP-Compaq merger's impact on IT planning can be mitigated with a little effort
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Careful, Big Brother
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March 29, 2002
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Using IT assets to monitor and restrict staff activities can bring unwelcome consequences
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Arrogance is out
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March 22, 2002
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The tight economy and wary IT management are finally making pushy vendors face the music
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The message medium
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March 15, 2002
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In the EAI messaging space, Sun's Java Message Service is a winning approach
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The heart of the matter
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March 8, 2002
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BPM's granular control spells relief for process management, but innovation is still missing the beat
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Turn, turn, turn
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March 1, 2002
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Cost-cutting has collaborative supply chains streamlining asset management to maximize working capital
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Going once, going twice
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February 22, 2002
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Broader competence wrought from experience is driving procurement proficiency in private exchanges
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Head in the clouds
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February 15, 2002
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Sun's failure to participate in the WS-I does little to instill confidence in Web services interoperability
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Virtual virtuosity
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February 8, 2002
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Advances in Unix-and Intel-based server virtualization take aim at the overblown costs of server hardware
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