Friday The 13th LinkfestUnlucky: I'm stunned at the news I'll have to go on without my morning commute companion, Don Imus--for awhile, at least. Business Links: Lawrence Walsh says "It's Time to 'Googlize' the Channel: "Any service falling outside Google's core competency--security, application optimization, storage, etc.--is the purview of the channel." Scott Campbell & Joseph F. Kovar note that VARs Catch The Eyes Of Investors: "Investors are flush with cash, an older generation of solution providers is looking for an exit strategy, and VARs recognize the better buying power and efficiencies that come from running a larger operation. It's a scenario VARs say they haven't seen in a long time." Sanjay Kumar: Wow, that's a lot of restitution! I almost feel bad, but not quite. Paul Conley writes about trade journalism, but this post applies to any organization facing a swiftly changing environment: "Good management practices -- listening to customers, investing in high-margin businesses, researching markets before entering them, etc. -- [make] it nearly impossible to respond to disruptive technologies. How to get around that? Skunk works projects. But can you afford them? New York, New York! The Big Apple is the place with the most high-tech job openings. With high demand for Windows, Unix, Java, C, C++, and database experts, pretty much everyone's set. Interestingly, full time job openings are growing faster than contract work--has outsourcing peaked? Technology Links: CRNtech's Marc Spiwak & Mario Morejon found the good and the bad in Microsoft Vista performance: "Upgrading to Vista can lessen a system's performance by as much as 58 percent, depending on what's being processed." But it's not all bad... "The PerformanceTest benchmark ran 24 individual tests, and XP was faster than Vista in only 18 of those tests. In six of the tests, Vista came out on top. More specifically, Vista beat XP at CPU string sorting, 2D graphics shapes, simple 3D graphics, medium 3D graphics, memory writes and random disk seeks." Can you use enterprise resource planning if you're not an enterprise? Sure, say vendors and solution providers building the the small-business ERP market. Project X. How did Oracle come up with that name? Barbara Darrow reports on the the databse giant's latest effort to reconcile their many application offerings. The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. Now that's a name! Designed for organizations who need occasional access to huge bandwidth resources, the cloud provides compute power and bandwidth on tap. Design firm Adaptive Path tried out the cloud in beta, and reported. "There could be some great opportunities here for rapidly scaling up and down in a cost effective manner, the challenge being how to architect an application to be able to take advantage of this." At Network Computing, Jordan Wiens asks, Is Web 2.0 Inherently Insecure?: "If the framework developers can't get it right, what are the odds that an average developer can keep Ajax apps secure?" That's all for now... Have a great weekend! Posted by Joe Caponi at 02:49 PM, April 13, 2007 This is a public forum. United Business Media and its affiliates are not responsible for and do not control what is posted herein. United Business Media makes no warranties or guarantees concerning any advice dispensed by its staff members or readers. Community standards in this comment area do not permit hate language, excessive profanity, or other patently offensive language. Please be aware that all information posted to this comment area becomes the property of United Business Media LLC and may be edited and republished in print or electronic format as outlined in United Business Media's Terms of Service. Important Note: This comment area is NOT intended for commercial messages or solicitations of business. |
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