I previously questioned Red Hat’s apparent lack of love for Hyperic. Today, Stacey Schneider, Senior Director of Marketing at Hyperic, tipped me off to a joint Hyperic & Red Hat announcement.

Microsoft abruptly fired Chief Information Officer and corporate VP Stuart Scott, and everyone’s been trying to figure out why he was kicked out.

Stuart Scott received very abrupt walking papers from Microsoft, losing his position as corporate vice-president and chief information officer.

The CeBIT technology fair in Hanover, Germany, started last week and runs until March 21.

CeBIT is the world’s largest trade fair showcasing digital IT and telecommunications solutions for home and work.

Everyone who owns a forum, a blog, a bulletin board or otherwise knows that to accept user content is to monitor what that user content. Does it makes sense for the web site, is the content that the user supplies something that fits in, makes sense, and is appropriate.

We have heard about all the spamming that happens in these systems, but a larger question posed by CIO today is:

I saw this article on CIO magazine  – Five Things CIOs Should Know About Software Requirements. It seems to me that there is one more thing (at least) that they need to know about requirements:

Business rules are NOT requirements

If you want to really understand all sides of the story about Second Life as a business platform – the genuine potential as well as the current drawbacks – a series of in-depth feature articles published last week by CIO Insight magazine is where you definitely should go.

The long-standing joke about the acronym for chief information officers actually standing for “career is over” may have a real punchline now, one that hits those C-level executives right in their employment status.

Interesting article out of CIO magazine about Vista, and that while it is a highly secure operating system, with some neat things it can do, it still is not invulnerable to those programs that require social engineering to get the user to do something.

When I bought my first home, I used a lawyer that a friend referred me to. The lawyer was great, thorough, responded quickly and took the time to explain things in plain English.

Lunch with Dave Davison, retired VC’er. Meeting with editorial crew. Meeting with Paul (Maryam’s boss).

If you sell to government, non-profit or educational accounts, your firm may be accustomed to managing this next challenge.

Your clients might be tempted to outfit their top managers and producers with the latest and greatest PC hardware.

The Massachusetts Information Technology Division has issued a request for information for an “OpenDocument Format Plug-in for Microsoft Office Suite,” a move likely to infuriate Microsoft.

I’m at MR Rangaswami’s big event, Software 2006, where Socialtext is selected as a showcase company.

Our CIOs have a problem. One person has to have capabilities in managing diverse kinds of capital.

If you subscribe to one blog this month, make it JP Rangaswami’s.

The Enterprise Identity Management project is all about automating business processes and synchronizing identity-related information across the enterprise.

You need to understand this new professional: the Chief Information Officer (CIO). The CIO has to be up on all new technology trends, understanding the credibility of emerging technologies for their Information Tecnology (IT) landscape and directly help the companys CEO to grow the company.

Information Technology (IT) took the lead in developing and implementing frameworks for business collaboration – financial and operating models and legal frameworks.

The old and standard business administration concepts included in any current MBA program are very important, but today the companies are very different.

Manpower received the prestigious CIO 100 award from CIO magazine in recognition of the company’s operational and strategic excellence in information technology.