WebSpherePower Magazine http://www.webspherepower.com/ WebSpherePower News Headlines http://www.webspherepower.com/ http://images.zatz.com/zatz/resources/pageimages/journallogos/webspherepowerRSSLogo.gif 40 144 Copyright © 2005, ZATZ Publishing, a unit of Component Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. info@ZATZ.com info@ZATZ.com Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:38:58 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ZATZ ZENPRESS 6.0a1 Excitement brewing for JavaOne 2010, with or without Google Due to Oracle's lawsuit against Google, Google has withdrawn from the JavaOne conference which will be the first since Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems. James Gosling is hoping attendees will wear their "Free Java" shirts to the event.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050443.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050443.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Large companies ignore data centre advice While the survey was conducted in the U.K. the results may be similar elsewhere. It seems that large companies spend a lot of money on getting advice from consultants which they then ignore when setting up data centers.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050444.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050444.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Onapsis to Release ERP Vulnerability Testing Suite The first version of the X1 analyzer works with SAP business platforms to perform a variety of security checks. Onapsis plans to add modules for Siebel, Oracle and PeopleSoft ERP applications in the future.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050445.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050445.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Botnet Takedown May Yield Valuable Data The Pushdo botnet network has been crippled. Researchers are now picking through the pieces to see just how the network operated and how future spam-nets can be stopped before they get so large.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050452.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050452.html Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT VMware app dev platform gazes beyond SpringSource Java VMware's Cloud Application Platform is expected to include support for additional programming languages, including Ruby-on-Rails, PHP, and perhaps .NET in the near future.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050431.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050431.html Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT IBM Claims World's Fastest Chip The z196 processor is a four-core chip with 1.4 billion transistors on a 512-square millimeter surface that's been clocked at 5.2GHz. The chips, as part of the zEnterprise System, will begin shipping September 10.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050432.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050432.html Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT 'Free Java': InfoWorld's guide to the protest goodies This slide show directs you to eight items you can purchase to support James Gosling's campaign to free Java from Oracle. Also provided is the story behind the campaign.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050433.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050433.html Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Misconfigured networks main cause of breaches A survey taken at DEFCON 18 indicates most networks are misconfigured and that such networks are easily hacked. Many of those most apt to hack your network are your co-workers.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050434.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050434.html Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT Cisco Patches Bug That Crashed 1 Percent of Internet The Internet runs on Cisco. So, when one percent of the internet crashes because of a bug in Cisco's IOS (Internetwork Operating System) router software, it suddenly becomes a big problem. Cisco has now issued a patch for the problem.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050414.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050414.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT HP Holds Navy Network 'Hostage' for $3.3 Billion Ten years ago the U.S. Navy signed a deal with HP that's been re-newed more than once. The result has meant a lot of money for Hewlett-Packard and a lot of headaches for the Navy.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050415.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050415.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Quest and Virtual Computer Announce Integrated Desktop Virtualization Quest has formed a technology alliance with Virtual Computer to provide open support for distributed desktop virtualization technologies based on Virtual Computer's NxTop client-side hypervisors. This initiative extends the platform-agnostic approach that vWorkspace brings to the choice of server-side hypervisors, access devices and virtualization platforms to client-side hypervisors.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050416.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050416.html Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Is the American tech industry oiling its own guillotine? The U.S. tech industry may go the way of the dodo according to Andy Grove. With all the patent litigation, lack of manufacturing, and more, Grove sees the beginning of the end.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050389.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050389.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Java founder Gosling launches T-shirt campaign for free Java Now you can support "Free Java" by buying a T-shirt or coffee mug or magnet. James Gosling has decided to prod Larry Ellison into freeing Java from Oracle one T-shirt at a time.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050390.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050390.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Rails 3.0: It's ready Rails 3.0 is out and available for download. This article describes some of the new features, providing links to more information.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050391.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050391.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Paul Allen Files Patent Lawsuits Against Entire Web Apparently, Paul Allen feels that everyone doing business on the web, except Microsoft and Amazon, violated patents held by a company he owned. This article includes a copy of the suit filed in Seattle.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050394.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050394.html Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Hackers accidentally give Microsoft their code Some hackers show less restraint than others. It seems that many of those writing malware agree to send Microsoft the error details of any crashes they experience during the process.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050373.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050373.html Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Are tribal monocultures the future of software development? Jimmy Schementi left Microsoft after corporate support for IronPython and IronRuby was withdrawn. Does this mean .NET will become a C# only platform as companies shed cross-platform solutions?

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050374.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050374.html Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Nanoresonators create ultra-high-res displays The pixels that create most digital displays are almost 100 microns across. The iPhone 4 uses pixels a little smaller. Researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a new way of creating pixels that are a mere 10 microns across.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050375.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050375.html Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Mortgage worker got drunk, shot computer server Some days it's entirely too tempting. Joshua Lee Campbell, an employee at a Salt Lake City, Utah, mortgage company, shot a server with a .45-caliber gun.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050355.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050355.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT JavaOne conference may get potential rival Many people are not happy with how Oracle is handling Java, or the JavaOne conference. To ease the pain, or add to the confusion, Software & Support Media (S&S) plans to offer a U.S.-based version of its JAX (Java Apache XML) conference.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050356.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050356.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT EntiCraft Offers MySQL Support EntiCraft's new version of EntiPro 2 source code generator introduces more features and functions, including MySQL support. The EntiPro framework targets ease of use, flexibility, and robustness when generating code.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050357.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050357.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT O'Reilly Strata Conference Will Explore Business of Data The new O'Reilly Strata Conference is dedicated to the business of data and will explore the changes brought to technology and business by data science, pervasive computing, and new interfaces. It is scheduled for February 1-3, 2011, in Santa Clara, CA.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050358.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050358.html Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT County Will Rip and Replace Ailing SAP System Marin County, California is getting ready to rip out their SAP ERP system and replace it with something less costly. Part of their complaint is that Deloitte Consulting used the installation as a training ground for inexperienced employees.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050337.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050337.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Coffee-Powered Supercomputing at SC10 The Student Cluster Competition at SC10 asks teams of students to create a computing cluster, running on just 26 amps, able to run a workload of real-wold applications. The SC10 conference runs from November 13-19,2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050338.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050338.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Makara Delivers Auto-Scaling Solution for Java and PHP Applications in the Cloud Makara has announced availability of the Makara Cloud Application Platform with built-in auto-scaling capabilities. With Makara, developers and system administrators are able to deploy, manage, monitor and scale their Java and PHP applications on both public and private clouds.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050339.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050339.html Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Oracle Open World - Java One - Oracle Develop This year's conferences will be held concurrently during September 19-23, 2010 in San Francisco, California. Register now to get the lowest rates.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050320.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050320.html Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT AdroitLogic Open Sources UltraESB AdroitLogic Private Ltd. is open sourcing the code of its Enterprise Service Bus the UltraESB, under the GNU Affero General Public License. The UltraESB claims support for Zero-copy proxying of requests with Java Non-blocking IO and Memory Mapped files.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050321.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050321.html Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Free WAN optimization software for new Veeam customers NetEx and Veeam Software have announced they will partner to supply free HyperIP software to customers who license Veeam Backup & Replication for VMware. Veeam users will qualify for a free one-year subscription to the 2Mb/s HyperIP (VM edition).

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050322.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050322.html Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT WebSphere Application Server V7: Competitive Migration Guide This is a new Redbooks to help you plan and execute the migration of J2EE applications developed for Oracle WebLogic Server, JBoss, GlassFish, and Apache Tomcat, to WebSphere Application Server V7. You can download the book as a PDF or order a hard copy.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050302.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050302.html Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Don't Count on Oracle to Keep OpenOffice.org Alive A lot of people use OpenOffice and MySQL. But now that Oracle owns them, there seems to be some question as to whether the projects will continue.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050303.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050303.html Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT GoGrid and F5 Networks Team Up for Cloud Load Balancing Webinar A webinar titled "Load Balancing in the GoGrid Cloud - Utilizing F5 BIG IP to Manage Traffic Spikes and Uptime" is scheduled for Wednesday, August 25, 2010. The half-hour webinar is free but registration is required.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050308.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050308.html Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Learn Lotus and WebSphere Portal Products This IBM site provides a number of videos and demonstrations of a number of IBM Lotus and WebSphere Portal products. Some of them, delegating your mail, are a couple of minutes in length while others, creating mashups, are a couple of hours long. All are free.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050275.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050275.html Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Enterprise Java: Oracle's real reason for suing Google? At least some see the reason for this patent suit as a way for Oracle to increase or maintain revenue. If so, the real object isn't Android, it's any enterprise application using Java Micro Edition.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050278.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050278.html Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT WAPT 7.0: Web Site Load, Stress and Performance Testing SoftLogica's WAPT 7.0 for load, stress and performance testing web sites, web servers and applications with web interfaces is designed to give you an ability to create a heavy load from a single workstation.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050279.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050279.html Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Exploiting IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Feature Pack This is a new Redpaper, available for download. It gives an overview of Service Federation Management and how you can share services between two domains.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050258.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050258.html Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Accurate web-app performance tests proposed The Web Performance Working Group has been formed to deliver user agents and APIs to measure performance of web applications against a single standard. Currently different vendors create their own tests.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050259.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050259.html Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT The Tragic Death of Practically Everything Reports of the "death" of the World Wide Web have been circulating. But then, as noted in this article, many things reported as dead are still very much alive.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050260.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050260.html Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Lotus Connections 2.5.0.2 and WebSphere Portal 6.1.5.1 Dave Hay has posted some information on getting Connections and Portal to work together to do business cards. The process seems to have changed slightly since earlier versions.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050240.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050240.html Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT A New Kind of Microchip While it's not the "Infinite Improbability Drive" a new chip from Lyric Semiconductor, called a "probability processor", computes with electrical signals that represent chances, not digital 1s and 0s.

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]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050244.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050244.html Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT Why you shouldn't worry about IPv6 just yet Security specialists have been warning about the end of IPv4 for years. And, yes, there is a shortage of IPv4 addresses. But not every is convinced it's time to panic yet.

Read | Permalink]]> http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050245.html http://www.webspherepower.com/newsitems/00050245.html Wed, 18 Aug 2010 04:00:00 GMT