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Submission + - Is Google's Success an "Enigma"? (strategy-business.com)

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porkrind
porkrind writes: "Nick Carr, of 'Does IT Matter?' fame, has penned an article asking the question whether Google is a model for other companies to emulate or whether it's too much of an anomaly to be useful in a cross-industry sense. He also asks the question of whether Google's approach to management and innovation (much ballyhooed in many circles) is a cause or result of its success. The answer to whether your company should emulate Google is, perhaps unsurprisingly, "it depends." His analysis and logic leading to that conclusion are definitely a thought-provoking read. His ultimate conclusion is that Google's success is much more attributable to its leading-edge IT operations than any of the hype you may read about in glossy journals."
Google

Submission + - The Google Enigma (strategy-business.com)

Submitted by
porkrind
porkrind writes: "Nick Carr, of 'Does IT Matter?' fame, has penned an article asking the question of whether Google is a model for other companies to emulate or whether it's too much of an anomaly to be useful in a cross-industry sense. He also asks the question of whether Google's approach to management and innovation (much ballyhooed in many circles) is a cause or result of its success. The answer to whether your company should emulate Google is, perhaps unsurprisingly, "it depends." His analysis and logic leading to that conclusion are definitely a thought-provoking read. His ultimate conclusion is that Google's success is much more attributable to its leading-edge IT operations than any of the hype you may read about in glossy journals."
Operating Systems

NetBSD 4.0 Has Been Released 121

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-stacks dept.
ci4 writes to tell us that NetBSD 4.0 has been released and has been dedicated to the memory of Jun-Ichiro "itojun" Hagino. "Itojun was a member of the KAME project, which provided IPv6 and IPsec support; he was also a member of the NetBSD core team (the technical management for the project), and one of the Security Officers. Due to Itojun's efforts, NetBSD was the first open source operating system with a production ready IPv6 networking stack, which was included in the base system before many people knew what IPv6 was. We are grateful to have known and worked with Itojun, and we know that he will be missed. This release is therefore dedicated, with thanks, to his memory."
Red Hat Software

Submission + - Red Hat to Create Open Source Sys Mgmt Platform (businesswire.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Red Hat Network (RHN) and the JBoss Operations Network (JON) have been significant players for the Red Hat service model for a long time, but the software that has been behind them has been private and sourced from a different code base. Today, Red Hat announced with open source systems management vendor, Hyperic, that they will be working together "on the development of a common systems management platform. Development will continue under an open source model."

The involvement with Hyperic is rooted in the JON history as it was OEMed to create this service in 2005. This new open source project is meant to create a repository of common services to be used in future versions of all Red Hat products and adopted into Hyperic products as well, clearing up the mystery on the fate of these two networks. "Both companies will work to maintain, govern and extend management capabilities within the new open source systems management platform project. Additionally, Hyperic and Red Hat will work jointly to include this base in both future Hyperic and Red Hat systems management products." The project will be made available under the GPL.
Businesses

Submission + - The Hows vs. the Whys? (hyperic.com)

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porkrind
porkrind writes: "What sorts of personality traits do you look for when you hire employees in IT? Or do you feel that judging a potential new hire on personality is ethically wrong? This blog post suggests a system that looks for 2 archetypes to fill IT roles: the "hows" who only focus on 'making it go' with whatever they've been given and the "whys" who question every methodology and are responsible for building new stuff, which the "hows" will then deploy. TFBP implies that these traits can be detected in an interview process, even though all of them may possess very similar resumes. Is this even possible? Or is "hows" vs "whys" a false dichotomy?"
The Internet

How the U.S. Became Switchboard to the World 256

Posted by CowboyNeal from the big-brother-is-listening dept.
slugo sent in this Wired story which opens, "A lucky coincidence of economics is responsible for routing much of the world's internet and telephone traffic through switching points in the United States, where, under legislation introduced this week, the U.S. National Security Agency will be free to continue tapping it. ...International phone and internet traffic flows through the United States largely because of pricing models established more than 100 years ago... The United States, where the internet was invented, was also home to the first internet backbone. Combine that architectural advantage with the pricing disparity inherited from the phone networks, and the United States quickly became the center of cyberspace as the internet gained international penetration in the 1990s."
Hardware Hacking

Stalling Cars Via OnStar 737

Posted by kdawson from the let-the-hacking-begin dept.
Lauren Weinstein writes to tell us that GM will be installing OnStar systems on almost 1.7 million 2009-model cars that will allow law enforcement (or anyone who cracks the system) to remotely shut down vehicles. Here is the AP's writeup, which like most MSM coverage doesn't mention any privacy implications.
United States

Submission + - Open Letter to California Media: You Suck (bytesfree.org)

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cyrusmack
cyrusmack writes: "During the rise and fall of AB 1668, California's open formats bill, the media misrepresented the struggle in the simplistic form of industry goliaths engaging in market warfare — without giving proper due to the — some would say obvious — moral issues at play. In this open letter, I have taken them to task for their piss-poor efforts and lack of basic critical thinking skills. Some would say we cannot expect better, but I say we have to expect better and yell about it when they don't meet expectations; otherwise nothing will change. Read the full text here"
Java

Submission + - CNET 1997: Java is Dead! (java.net)

Submitted by
porkrind
porkrind writes: "David Herron has a great post on his blog at java.net. David uncovered an old CNET article listing 10 technologies that "don't stand a chance" with Java, of course, being one. It would seem that the death of Java has been foretold multiple times for at least 10 years now. One wonders how long it needs to survive before someone admits, "well, perhaps this Java thing will make it after all.""
Announcements

Submission + - Hyperic HQ 3.1 Named Best Systems Management Tool (hyperic.com)

Submitted by
porkrind
porkrind writes: "Hyperic HQ 3.1, the GPL'd software released early this week, was named the Best Systems Management Tool in the Product Excellence Awards at LinuxWorld Expo, beating out OpenNMS and Splunk 3.0. This marked the first time that Hyperic HQ was entered into the contest, which featured products from exhibitors at LinuxWorld Expo and NGDC in San Francisco."
Software

Submission + - OSS becomes OSS - Too Late? (4front-tech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 4Front Technologies [http://www.opensound.com/] will finally license [http://www.4front-tech.com/hannublog/] their Open Sound System (the commercial version of the Linux kernel's old OSS audio drivers) under the GPL and CDDL. Maybe a little too late as ALSA has taken its place now. Developers may eventually change that again as OSS's API is much nicer to program for. The system setup is easier, too. But it will be a hard fight.

Official announcement tomorrow.

Feed The iPhone requires an iTunes Store account (com.com)

From feed by cnetfeed
Blog: Getting that new iPhone up and running will require an account with the iTunes Store, perhaps to reinforce the notion that Apple's the primary source of legal digital content.

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