June 30, 2004
Dell to buyers: 'Beware the blade myth--at least until November'
Dell's message to corporate buyers: Based on current offerings, blades' promise of density and cost benefit-- when compared with 1U rack mountable servers--isn't all it's cracked up to be. If Dell enters the market with an offering that meets or beats its benchmark, it will send the entire blade market back to the drawing board....

June 29, 2004
RLX's Erwin: 'Why we'll stay a big blade player'
ZDNet Executive Editor David Berlind recently sat down with Doug Erwin, chairman and CEO of RLX. ...

June 27, 2004
Sun execs at lovefest: 'Java's got game'
Faced with losses, layoffs, resignations, and unbelievably intense competition, Sun this year tapped its shrinking war chest, its brightest stars, even its soul to restore the luster that once graced this company. Sun's key theme at JavaOne, which starts today, is momentum. And the company's efforts do indeed appear to be paying off--from Java's progress on the handheld front to détente with superpowers IBM and Microsoft, Sun's back in the game. ...

June 24, 2004
Life in disorder? InfoSelect hits the right note
After years of battling chronic personal information disorganization disorder, David Berlind started to play with the TabletPC operating system--and even began to think that Microsoft's OneNote might be the cure I was so desperately seeking. But then he turned my organizational reins over to Micro Logic's InfoSelect. ...

June 23, 2004
Why click-and-drag IT may elude us
If David Berlind's project to mobilize and webify some data is any example, it looks to be quite a while before non-IT types can click and drag their way to the sort of IT that delivers serious competitive advantage. ...

June 16, 2004
Blade innovation slows but differentiators still exist
The blade server market has matured so quickly that the major vendors--IBM, HP, Dell, RLX--are finding little room for differentiation. In fact, so nuanced are innovations in the blade space that you have to read the fine print to understand where the innovations lie, who's ahead, and who's behind. Be on the lookout for how a little innovation can force a big change to your systems. ...

June 8, 2004
Cingular systems open door to fraudulent credit card transactions
A ZDNet reader alerts David Berlind to a rather astonishing flaw in Cingular's online account management system that allowed anyone supplied with a customer's cell phone number and zip code to look up that customer's basic account information. It gets worse. Until Cingular hurriedly tweaked its Web site, anyone could pay a customer's bill for them--with funds from that customer's own account....

June 8, 2004
Sun, Red Hat gird for traditional OS battle
With the GPL playing a much lesser role in the delivery of enterprise benefits, Red Hat Linux vs. Sun Solaris has all the makings of a fiercely fought battle of the operating systems. And now that criteria like price, performance, features and functionality have been added to the level playing field checklist, each company is claiming more timely response to customer needs....

June 6, 2004
Beehive politics flush out J2EE handicap vs. .Net
Open source contributions can just as easily disrupt the Java community as they can harmonize it, making it difficult for promising technologies to rise above the noise and FUD. With that sort of divisiveness, Microsoft doesn't have to worry about dividing and conquering. The Java community appears to be doing that to itself. ...