Tech Rag Tear Outs (TRTO) Podcast #036 [Part 2 of 2 – Baseline, Communications of ACM, Maximum PC, Federal Computer Week, Network Computing, eWeek, and Computer Reseller News]

October 16, 2005

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Show 36 (Part 2 of 2) has been finished and uploaded … HTML show notes (limited in links unfortunately) are below:

Part 2
- Baseline
  - From Sep05: Hands On Workbook – "Calculating Costs, Knowing When To Embrace Open Source" by Sean Nolan
- Maximum PC
  - Want to quite your PC case? Side Panel mats from Dynamat & Akasa’s Paxmate
- Federal Computer Week (FCW)
  - Portable technologies for business travelers:
    - Lenovo ThinkPad X41 Tablet PC
    - Iogear Laser Travel Mouse 1600
    - Brother Industries MPrint
    - Phatware PhatPad for PocketPCs
  - Five star open-source products
    - Apache
    - JBoss
    - MySQL
    - OpenOffice
    - PHP
- eWeek
  - Microsoft, Palm, and Verizon new Treo to take on RIM’s Blackberry
  - Five Across’ Bubbler 1.0 website creation tool
  - Workshare’s Trace v2.0 (free)
- Communications of the ACM
  - Y.Yuan and B. Detlor "Intelligent Mobile Crisis Response Systems: To Help coordinate responder communications and response efforts in order minimize the threat to human life and damage to priority." [Feb05; Vol. 48, No. 2; pp. 95-98]
- Network Computing
  - iSCSI Modular SANs in Real-World Labs: EqualLogic PS200E Storage Array (A-); MPC Comptuers DataFrame 420 (B+); LeftHand Networks NSM 150 (B-); and EMC Clariion CX300i (C+)
  - Microsoft Data Protection Manager 2006
  - Disk To Disk To Tape (D2D2T) software: EMC Dantz Retrospect (B); with Symantec & Yosemite Technologies with B- scores; and C+ scores for BakBone, CA, and UltraBac
- Computer Reseller News
  - Microsoft and JBoss agree to more interoperability

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