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Why Steve Ballmer Will Make Microsoft Good for SOA

Microsoft is poised to be an important player in SOA. Nicholas Petreley sums up the reason in two words: Steve Ballmer.

Aug 28, 2008 5 mins
Open Source Software Development
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Why Your Project Management Practices Are Failing

Traditional project management practices work well for stable business environments, but they're too rigid and bureaucratic for today's rapidly changing business world. Here's how to make your IT project management practices more flexi

Aug 28, 2008 4 mins
Agile Development Project Management Tools
opinion

Key Legal Win for Open Source

Federal Appeals Court ruling helps dispel uncertainty for business users of open source software licenses.

Aug 15, 2008 3 mins
Developer Open Source Risk Management
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Cargo Cult Methodology: How Agile Can Go Terribly, Terribly Wrong

Agile methodologies seemed like a good idea to this software development team. But when the company doesn't sincerely accept the change in work style, the result is just a buzzword for "project hell."

Aug 7, 2008 6 mins
Agile Development Developer Project Management Tools
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The Benefits of the All-SaaS Shop: Money, Application Integration, and Did We Mention Money?

While many companies have dabbled with adopting software as a service, one CIO at an open-source database vendor has taken the plunge. "On premise" software applications have become a thing of the past.

Aug 6, 2008 4 mins
Enterprise Applications Internet Web Development
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Ubuntu Goes Enterprise

Canonical announced plans to offer a software stack that includes several enterprise-ready open-source applications.

Aug 6, 2008 4 mins
Linux Open Source Servers
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Five Things Linus Torvalds Has Learned About Managing Software Projects

Linus Torvalds explains how he keeps the people and software on-track, with the software quality Linux demands.

Aug 4, 2008 4 mins
Developer Open Source Project Management Tools
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A Penguin with an Egg: Growing the Open-Source Community

Esther Schindler came home from OSCON with thoughts on growing the size of the pool in open-source development communities. And it's all upbeat news.

Aug 4, 2008 11 mins
Collaboration Software Innovation Small and Medium Business
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Goodwin Procter Makes Strong Case for Knowledge Management

Integrates data using Microsoft's Sharepoint

Aug 1, 2008 5 mins
IT Leadership Software Development
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Testing Service-Oriented Architectures: A Primer for the Real World

Along with the benefits of an interconnected system come spiraling costs if the system runs out of control. When undertaking SOA, testing is a necessary form of risk-management u2014 and Matt Heusser describes how to do it well.

Jul 31, 2008 8 mins
Risk Management Web Development