Data Driven Design: Other Approaches

All ITtoolbox Blogs - May 18, '07 5:57pm

Typically, in a project using the data-driven approach, the logical data models are designed prior to the process models . The logical data model defines the entities of interest to the application, t...

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The 'Halo 3' Beta Fiasco: What the Heck Happened?

eWEEK Technology News - May 19, '07 9:50pm

How did Microsoft's biggest promotion of 2007 blow up in its face after months of hype?

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Google's New Homepage Breaks Basic Web Design Rule

Wired Top Stories - May 18, '07 12:00am

The search king's new look is nice, but it requires that Javascript be enabled in your browser.

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Google launches ISP version of Apps suite

InfoWorld: Top News by Juan_Carlos_Perez@idg.com (Juan Carlos Perez) - May 18, '07 3:30pm

(InfoWorld) - Google has released a version of Google Apps tailored for ISPs and Web portals, growing this family of hosted collaboration and communication suites for organizations.

Like the other versions, Google Apps Partner Edition will feature Gmail for e-mail, Talk for instant messaging, the Docs & Spreadsheets applications, Page Creator for Web publishing, Calendar for schedules and task management, and the Start Page suite entry point, Google said Friday.

There are also Standard and Education versions of Google Apps, both of which are free. The Premier Edition costs $50 per user per year and offers uptime guarantees and more e-mail storage than the other two.

Google didn't give pricing details about the Partner Edition in its official blog posting announcing its availability. However, in an information page, Google hints that the Partner Edition will not be free, saying it is designed "to meet the specific needs of service providers -- affordably." The company also didn't explain how this version will cater specifically to ISPs and Web portals.

All versions of Google Apps let organizations brand the Google applications with their own logos and provide them using their own Internet domain.

Hosted business applications represent a relatively new area for a company that generates practically all of its revenue from search engine advertising. The move has also placed Google in competition with Microsoft's Office suite of desktop productivity software.

Google executives have repeatedly said that the Apps suite represents the future of software provisioning because it facilitates workgroup collaboration and simplifies software installation and maintenance as opposed to desktop software like Office. However, questions remain about the hosted model, including concerns about storing data in vendors' servers, about the ability to work offline, and about server downtime.

Google didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Why do so many seem to hate Microsoft?

ZDNet Blogs by Marc Wagner - May 18, '07 2:57pm

Chris Dawson's Why do I only get flamed when I support Microsoft? asks a really good question. There are no simple answers to this question, which is truly multi-faceted but one thing is certain: a lot of the animosity directed toward Microsoft has nothing to do with Microsoft or their business practices. I think the lack of civility we see in many reader comments merely reflects the lack of civility in our society as a whole. We see it in Washington, D. C., we see it on the streets of America, in our music, and in our so-called news media (be it 'shock radio' or the 'fair and balanced' alternative). Aside from their unqualified dominance of the personal computer marketplace, Microsoft is no different than any other...

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$16,000 Bounty for Sendmail, Apache Zero-Day Flaws

Slashdot by Zonk - May 18, '07 3:05pm

Famestay writes "Verisign's iDefense is putting up a $16,000 prize for any hacker who can find a remotely exploitable vulnerability in six critical Internet infrastructure applications. The bounty is for a zero-day code execution hole on the following Internet infrastructure technologies: Apache httpd, Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) daemon, Sendmail SMTP daemon, OpenSSH sshd, Microsoft Internet Information (IIS) Server and Microsoft Exchange Server. 'Immunity founder Dave Aitel, who also purchases flaws and exploits for use in the CANVAS pen testing tool, says its doubtful iDefense will get any submissions from hackers. "It's very hard to exploit [those listed applications]," Aitel said. "IIS 6 hasn't had a public remotely exploitable bug in it. Ever." Several other hackers I spoke to had very much the same message, arguing that $16,000 can never equate to the amount of work/expertise required to find and exploit a hole in the six targeted technologies.'"

Yahoo Maps Upgrades -- Too Little, Too Late

Wired Top Stories - May 18, '07 12:00am

Yahoo debuted a new and improved version of its Yahoo Maps product this week, a move the company hopes will win back users who have abandoned the service in favor of similar offerings from Google and Microsoft.

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Experts cast doubt on Microsoft's patent claims

IT Manager's Journal :: Eye on IT - May 18, '07 3:00pm

Microsoft's accusation that the open-source software industry has infringed 235 Microsoft patents has spotlighted a difficult issue: how aggressively should a company police itself for patent violations?

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Google CEO talks new media politics

CNET News.com - May 18, '07 1:58pm

At Personal Democracy Forum, Eric Schmidt warns that always-on nature of camera phone-wielding generation means politicians should be more careful.

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Why people really don't switch to Linux

DesktopLinux.com - May 19, '07 6:23pm

Opinion -- Over in the DesktopLinux forums, people have been talking about why -- if Linux is so darned great -- don't people give up Windows and move to it.

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