I was speaking to someone in the publishing industry who said they recently had to sack one of their staff. The problem was that the individual concerned (a woman) appeared to have lost contact with reality. She weighed 350 pounds, had become...

The two strangely contrasting events of Larry Ellison swatting Red Hat and Steve Ballmer embracing Novell's SuSe Linux should give everyone in the Open Source movement pause for thought. Let's take these one by one. In one fell swoop, Oracle...

AntiVirus’ Ineffectiveness Described is this week's meaning for the AVID acronym. I've written a white paper, funded by one of the AVID heroes, Bit9, which tells the story of the abject failure of AntiVirus software. It documents everything...

Finally, because it seems to have taken the longest time since its merry band of authors (Judith Hurwitz, Carol Baroudi, Marcia Kaufmann and I) started hitting the keyboard, Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies is now available from Amazon....

Television is a tough business. It didn't use to be. There used to be a controlled market with a limited number of channels. Then came satellite and cable and the channels grew dramatically. Now the Internet is making its entry with a whole new...

Microsoft's decision to collaborate with Novell on Linux seems to have caused confusion everywhere. On one hand, Microsoft looks to have been taking a mild swipe at Linux by indemnifying Novell's SuSE Linux against any of Microsoft...

In this posting, I suppose AVID should be taken to stand for AntiVirus In Dismay—in dismay at the pronouncements of Microsoft's Jim Allchin. First of all, Jim Allchin appeared to claim that Vista didn't need Antivirus software. He actually...

For years, decades even, we have been anticipating the convergence of computing and telecommunications. People talked about it in the 1970s. Nevertheless, it began in earnest much later—in about 1994 when the Internet, catching everyone...