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I mess with Microsoft's Manos, he messes with me...

"Somebody messes with me, I'm gonna mess with him," says Robert De Niro, playing gangster Al Capone in one of my favorite movies, The Untouchables. That line popped into my head while reading Mike Manos' vigorous, occasionally-mulish rebuttal to my article last week with, admittedly, the rather provocative title, '6 reasons why Microsoft's container-based approach to data centers won't work' (and, yes, the even more goading kicker, 'Are you listening, Microsoft?')

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The biker way

This pilot fish is fresh out of college with a psychology degree, but he gets a job in IT anyway — and his first assignment away from the office is not what he expects.

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openSUSE's Summer of Google

10 openSUSE open source development projects will be included in Google Inc.'s annual summer software development program for college students.

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Crank up Web services performance

Many Web services-based applications have performance issues. Here's one approach to boost their speed.

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HP+EDS: Now what?

Now that Hewlett-Packard and Electronic Data Systems have decided to tie the knot, where does that put them -- and us?

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Technology transfer spurs sci-tech renaissance

More and more companies are depending on their development's research to come from universities.

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Dilithium releases new adapter for mobile video

For good or ill, video for mobile handset users is getting closer and closer for more of us.

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Can't open-source and Microsoft just get along?

We interrupt the regularly-scheduled Microhoo update to bring you the story of an obscure software vendor that seems to be proving that open-source and Windows are not like oil and water after all.

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We have met the enemy, and he is us.

We don't need al-Qaeda to blow us up. We are perfectly capable of lighting the fuse ourselves, courtesy of our inability to share information vertically and bilaterally.

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Java, Ruby and SaaS

A SaaS supplier wants corporate IT to deploy their apps as a service to company users.

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And what he doesn't know won't hurt him

Pilot fish gets a new job where one of her first jobs is to design a database-oriented application. But when it comes to implementing it, there are problems.

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P2 Security for PCI Section 6.6

Another PCI compliance deadline looms. Is your Web app ready for it?

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The Lords of Process

Today, CIO means being more than a competent manager of IT. It should mean Lord of Process, and we should grasp that title and run with it.

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Full text of Ballmer's letter withdrawing Microsoft offer for Yahoo!

Here's the text of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's letter to Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang, sent to me by Microsoft's PR about 5 pm Pacific Time on Saturday. Microsoft raised its original $31/share bid to $33/share, but Yahoo insisted on $37/share, ...

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Sun fails SaaS

Sun Microsystems could do much more for cloud computing.

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