Lengthy piece throwing cold (or luke-warm?) water on SOA. Nothing new, but showing up in CIO Magazine gets it on to the magazine driven architecture crowd.

Proving that ideas are a dime a dozen...

A great example of open source analysis, but in a much different industry than our own.

Schwart'z favorites...yay, RedMonk!

Comments on d&r; AJAX episodes. Also, thinking about OSS and licensing for AJAX toolkits and frameworks. Good post.

All about Intel at the moment.

Or, as Blueprint of Soul Position says, "this is it, no limits, no gimmicks."

"No throwback jersey hangin to my knees/No doo-rags/No white tees/Just the best producer and the best MC."

Good links to more good enough models.

LogLogic open sources it's Windows logs to syslog component.

The OS X virtualization software I tell everyone about. I hear it works OK enough to use. Sadly, only on Intel Macs though. Special prive of $50, regular price of $80.

More on Parrallels

Rumors and analysis of Dell AMD desktops.

Interesting round-up of challanges facing IdM vendors. Put another way, the problems that customers and end-users want to solve with IdM or ones they encounter trying to implement it.

How to advertise for dong-shaving and look good doing it.

MDM and CMDB compared and constrasted, with a brief discusion of BMC's CMDB.

Good technical points, and interesting OSS'ing of agent discusion.