InfoWorld articles from April 2007

InfoWorld archives from April 2007

Exclusive: Coral8 Engine 4.6 presents a sea of CEP opportunity - Though still immature, this offering speeds CEP deployment with easy SQL-like programming.(complex event processing)(Product/service evaluation)
April 2, 2007... As event-driven architectures continue to proliferate in the business landscape, a company's agility and ability for driving big wins are becoming increasingly burdened by indecipherable data and unrecognized signals. That's were CEP (complex...

Rethinking business intelligence - BI has a reputation for being a resource sink that delivers reports almost no one reads. It doesn't have to be that way. And you can no longer afford to let it be.
April 2, 2007... It can seem like a no-win situation. Business execs want more reports to glean insight on how to manage the company. So IT invests in new BI point solutions -- even as it spends more and more time cleansing data and producing reports -- only to...

IBM ISS goes fishing for phishers - MS3004 appliance's anti-phishing features complement its anti-spam and IPS tools, but accuracy is a concern.(Proventia Network Mail Security System MS3004, version 1.0)(Product/service evaluation)
April 2, 2007... There's just no stopping it: Spam continues to get worse, and more of it is now targeted at obtaining financial or corporate information rather than just selling herbal remedies or porn. Phishing, or trying to get users to go to Web sites that...

Ad dollars drive online move - Research and experience indicate print delivers declining results for advertisers.
April 2, 2007... Why are magazines transitioning from the dual role of print/online entities to publishing exclusively online? The answer is as simple as "follow the money." The magazine business model dictates that publications must follow the advertising...

Five technologies that changed the publishing business - The speed at which information travels is directly related to the technologies delivering it.(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... Believe it or not, there was a time when news traveled slowly, even in technology circles. Print magazines like Computerworld and InfoWorld sprang up in the late 1970s and early 1980s to serve a need for more in-depth coverage of the technology...

InfoWorld folds print after 29 years - News flash, April 2, 2007: InfoWorld ceases printing weekly publication, will focus on events business and online coverage on InfoWorld.com.
April 2, 2007... Tom Shea, writing in these pages 25 years ago, had it almost right. His article "Subscribe to Magazines with your Microcomputer" in January 1983 described Publishers Aide -- a "magazine subscription fulfillment" company that planned to let home...

Magazines vs. the environment - Traditional print publishing takes a heavy toll on our little blue-green planet.(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... Companies today are wrestling with a conundrum: How do they cut costs and reduce environmental impact while maintaining -- or even sharpening -- their competitive edge? For some organizations, technologies such as virtualization are the...

Readers mixed on demise of print - Some readers prefer the portability of print, others welcome the accessibility of online information.(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... Ronald Edge said he's been reading InfoWorld for "as long as I can remember." But the 61-year-old director of information systems for the University of Indiana's athletic department stopped receiving the print version sometime last year. ...

The new metrics of online success - Web 2.0 technologies mean not all page views are created equal.(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... Two metrics determine how much money Web sites make from advertising: page views and unique visitors. The number and character of "uniques" - - that is, how many separate and distinct individuals visit a Web site and how much they are likely to...

Welcome, citizen journalist - Early experiments in "crowdsourcing" shake up old media.(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... Once, there were publications, there were readers, and any exchange between the two occurred on the Letters to the Editor page. Now the line between the two has blurred to the point that readers are becoming auxiliary members of the editorial...

OPEN ENTERPRISE: GPL v3: V for vindication - Recent events underscore the Free Software Foundation's foresight in drafting the new license.(General Public License)(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... Version 3 of the Gnu GPL (General Public License) is nearing completion. The third draft -- expected to be the last before the license is finalized -- was released last Wednesday, fully eight months after the first draft was made available for...

EDITOR'S LETTER: A farewell to ink - The publication of our final printed issue heralds a fresh start online.(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... One door closes; another opens. With this issue, InfoWorld pulls the plug on its print magazine. Starting today, all our news, reviews, columns, analyses, and first-person commentary -- everything you've come to expect from InfoWorld in the...

STORAGE INSIDER: Should you trim your file servers? Moving seldom-used files away from prime storage can save big on management and upgrade costs.(Cisco Systems Inc. acquiring Neopath Networks and WebEx Communications Inc.)(Column)
April 2, 2007... If you like cooking, you may have played the same game that I sometimes play while waiting in line at the grocery store: Checking out what other shoppers have in their baskets and trying to guess what meals they have in mind. Silly?...

ENTERPRISE INSIGHT: Site traffic in the fast lane - Improving page ranks is a black art that holds a giant payoff.
April 2, 2007... If your company doesn't have a Web site, you can stop reading now. But if you do, and you want more customer traffic, let me tell you about a topic that isn't yet on CIOs' agendas, but will be. It's one of the best kept IT secrets - a fast...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Oracle's SAP attack, old media fights back - Ink- stained wretch repents, seeks online sanctuary.(SAP case against Oracle for corporate theft )(Office 2007 flaws)(American households survey for intenrnet acces)
April 2, 2007... As you surely have surmised by now, this is the last Notes From the Field that will ever bleed ink. But that doesn't mean I'll be slinking off into the sunset with a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red under one arm and a redhead on the other....

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Content in lockdown - An unbreakable link between media and its delivery end point is near.(Column)
April 2, 2007... I'm increasingly aghast at the erosion of the traditional freedom we've enjoyed to do whatever we please with our personal computers -- but intrigued by the science behind it. My latest revelation came during a recent visit to AMD for a day...

ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: Microsoft gets into VoIP ... and confuses us - After much investigation, we get to the bottom of Microsoft's Response Point.(voice over internet protocol)
April 2, 2007... Impenetrable questions I've been pondering: The difference between acute dyslexia and the way Linux programmers name their software. How Apple Store sales personnel differ from those at the Clearasil human testing lab. Whether the proliferation...

REALITY CHECK: Unified under law - Unified communications offers worthwhile benefits, but beware its potential legal pitfalls.(Editorial)
April 2, 2007... In the litigious world we live in, deploying a unified communications platform in your enterprise could cause more headaches than you bargained for. The fact is, if you digitize and archive your voice mails, especially on your e-mail...

OFF THE RECORD: Shortcuts to career suicide - No yelling in the middle of a meeting -- even when you're getting the shaft.(Column)
April 2, 2007... By Anonymous In the early days of the latest century, my pal Jesse and I found ourselves working as part of a systems programming team for a large corporation outside Palo Alto, Calif. One day, a brand new hire, let's call him "Frank,"...