James Maguire

The Interop trade show in Las Vegas, held last week, hosted hundreds of tech vendors. The technology ran the gamut, from SaaS to virtualization, servers to networking gear, marketing to log management to security. The following 22 videos are from my tour of the convention’s booths. I asked various vendors to briefly describe their products […]

I’m an Apple user. Long time, pure bred, never owned anything else. Oh sure, I’ve used Windows machines, but it’s never crossed my mind to use one daily. I mean, Windows? Like most Apple users, the very idea makes me vaguely anxious. When you’re an Apple user, you’re a snob. You feel – no, you […]

I just arrived at the Interop trade show in Las Vegas and the event is huge. Interop Las Vegas has a clear message: the technology industry is alive and well. Economic downturn? What economic downturn? This trade show is the crown jewel of the nearly one trillion-dollar information technology business. Everybody is here. Every tiny […]

As Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald spoke with a roomful of IT managers about the future of Windows, he asked two key questions. To learn how these tech professionals view Windows, he requested a show of hands: First, he asked how many in the room felt that the current Windows course and speed is sustainable: Is […]

I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that Mediabistro Circus, the two-day conference about digital media, in New York City on May 20-21, will be pure buzz. Just a frothy future-think kind of event where Internet thought leaders envision far out trends. Well, okay, there might some of that. The two-day summit focuses on evolving […]

It’s almost 8 PM on a Tuesday night, and the lecture hall here at Virginia Tech University is filled nearly to capacity. The students – many of them computer science majors – have come to hear Richard Stallman, the grand forefather of GNU/Linux. The crowd is chatty and seems in a good mood. The Web […]

Clearly, Russell Ball is an accomplished and successful .NET developer. Which means he’s all too aware of the not-so-kind things said about .NET culture. Indeed, Ball, 36, who lives and codes in Kansas City, Kansas, is one of the people who says those not-so-kind things. He’s even been known to post them on his blog, […]

Update: See the 2009 IT Salary Guide Also see: IT Salary Survey, January 2009 (gives comparative numbers between ’08 and ’09.) Below, you’ll see salary figures for many IT positions, tracking pay changes for each year from 2003 to 2008. The salary figures cover a wide range of IT jobs. On this page you’ll see […]

“If you think it’s simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.” — Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of the C++ programming language Hellish failure rates. Endless delays, miscommunication, cost overruns. Seriously peeved clients. All of these factors are commonplace in the software development process. A recent Standish Group report indicates that only 35 percent of software projects […]

It’s no surprise that this year’s Datamation Product of the Year Award in the Enterprise Linux category was snagged by Red Hat. The open source pioneer, founded in 1995 (a mere four years after Linus Torvalds released the first Linux kernel) has long been the dominant Linux vendor. But even a quick look at the […]