The Blue Screen

Counting the (real) cost

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:56:08 GMT

Energy efficiency - that's the name of the game.Every company I meet these days drops energy efficiency (or power efficiency - the terms seem to be interchangeable, suggesting that rather a large number of people in the IT business skipped...

Microsoft with all to play for

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:57:29 GMT

It's been a day that the industry has waited for for some time: Windows 7 launch day. It seems that it wasn't long ago that commentators were asking whether Vista would be Microsoft's last operating system - we all know how...

Farewell Darl McBride ... gone but not missed

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:36:56 GMT

No-one derives pleasure from seeing someone lose a job but there must have been a few smiles around the software community when it was reported that SCO president and CEO Darl McBride had got the boot from SCO.The news came...

Every little bit helps

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:32:55 GMT

Has the supermarket mentality affected IT or are vendors more concerned about giving value for money for customers?While no-one’s expecting to see Cisco to come out with “buy a router and get one free2 offer” or Microsoft to introduce a...

Search me

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:02:02 GMT

The search engine market used to be cut-and-dried. If you wanted to find something out, you Googled and that was an end to it. There were other search engines of course, Microsoft’s, Yahoo’s, Ask Jeeves and a few more but...

Move along please, nothing to see here

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:34:34 GMT

The furore over the memory leak 'bug' in Windows 7 appears to be dying down. There's little doubt that the fault identified by Infoworld and others needs to be fixed but a closer look has revealed that nothing should delay...

What do you mean there's no beer?

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:00:51 GMT

Today is Sysadmin Apprecation Day - something to be greeted with fanfares up and down the land?Yes, this is the day when hard-pressed administrators are appreciated by their users. No more frantic phone calls saying the Internet's broken or where's...

Oracle licensing: a game too far?

Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:25:57 GMT

Oracle seems to be playing a dangerous game. Its latest price rise shows that it continues to see its customers as a rich resource to be milked - even at a time when mostorganisations are feeling the pinch. And this...

Will Chrome boot Microsoft aside?

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:20:00 GMT

Google's announcement of a netbook operating system has, naturally enough, got the blogosphere a trembling.

Will Chrome boot Microsoft aside?

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:20:00 GMT

Google's announcement of a netbook operating system has, naturally enough, got the blogosphere a trembling. There have been plenty of rumours that Google one day would launch an operating system - a thought that must have give Microsoft managers the...

Internet collapse? Not just yet

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:56:00 GMT

Nemertes' warnings about the collapse of the Internet have become a yearly occurence like the first cuckoo or Mark Viduka's return from injury.

Internet collapse? Not just yet

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:56:00 GMT

Nemertes' warnings about the collapse of the Internet have become a yearly occurence like the first cuckoo or Mark Viduka's return from injury. The latest dire warnings about Internet brownouts and go-slows have garnered plenty of coverage from the mainstream...

Not a Budget for the future

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:13:00 GMT

Budget Day: a time to reflect on the implications for IT.

Not a Budget for the future

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:13:00 GMT

Budget Day: a time to reflect on the implications for IT. But this is not just about the headline stuff - the money made available for laying down a broadband network (although exactly what money's available and when, has been...

Sun is shining brighter

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:47:00 GMT

The speed things happen in the IT industry never ceases to amaze.

Sun is shining brighter

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:47:00 GMT

The speed things happen in the IT industry never ceases to amaze. I spent yesterday at a family funeral, away from the distractions of PCs and mobile phones and only discovered about Oracle buying Sun late last night. In a...

A tweet spot for Google

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:47:00 GMT

There's a rumour doing the rounds that Google is looking to buy Twitter.

A tweet spot for Google

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:47:00 GMT

There's a rumour doing the rounds that Google is looking to buy Twitter. Naturally, the story - first reported in TechCrunch - has got the blogosphere all, well, a-twitter with excitement. First of all, it's been ages since we've had...

How are the mighty fallen

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:53:00 GMT

Back in the late 80s, there weren't that many bigger names in the IT industry than Silicon Graphics.

How are the mighty fallen

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:53:00 GMT

Back in the late 80s, there weren't that many bigger names in the IT industry than Silicon Graphics. Which makes its demise, triggered by its second bankruptcy this decade and its offloading at a firesale price of $25m to be...

The human factor in security

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:38:00 GMT

There was an interesting sideline during yesterday's briefing on security in small businesses.

The human factor in security

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:38:00 GMT

There was an interesting sideline during yesterday's briefing on security in small businesses. Walter Scott, the CEO of GFI, who had sponsored the survey, was speaking about some of the security issues that were facing small businesses and mentioned, in...

Head in the clouds

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:24:00 GMT

The row of the cloud computing manifesto is brewing up nicely. There's a delicious irony about Microsoft complaining about a lack of openness and about a group of vendors ganging up to exclude others - it's rather like Sir Alex...

Head in the clouds

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:24:00 GMT

The row of the cloud computing manifesto is brewing up nicely.

Nice stab Dell.... but it's a tough old game

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:45:00 GMT

I've been too many press events but it's not all that often that something strikes an immediate chord. But I had such a eureka moment at the all-day Dell event where it launched a host of new products including its...