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by Michael Cote.
Original Post: Links for 2006-01-14 [del.icio.us]
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BMC, XOSoft Bundle for Backup
"BMC Software Inc. and XOSoft have struck a deal to integrate XOSoft's WANSync replication and continuous data protection technology into BMC's SQL-Backtrack backup product suite."
Enterprise Software and the Wisdom of Crowds
Comparing "error states" across firewalls/enterprise to diagnose what might be wrong with an error state at hand: Oracle is in this weird state on my servers, and when it was in this weird state on other shop's servers, they did such-and-such to fix it.
Nice and sleazy
Story on American Apparel. You know, the underclothes company whose ads look like out-takes from that "Criminal" video or early 90's Calvin Klein ads with wood-paneling. Their goal is to have 500 stores open world-wide someday.
The tolerance continuum
"Tolerance, in this context, means broadly accessible services, open-ended data formats, and diverse communication protocols. The continuum ranges from our transactional mainframes, which can’t and shouldn’t allow much of this kind of tolerance, to ou