Just back from Orlando, here are some takeaways from this year's TechEd 2008 for IT-pros: Interoperability with SOAP based web services is progressing: I was part of a panel on interoperability, moderated by Chris Haddad. It was a fairly diverse panel, with speakers from Microsoft, WSO2, Tibco, and Sun. While there was general agreement on the usefulness of the more basic WS-* specifications like WS-Security, opinions differed on where the future lies and how it can be achieved. In my opinion, the

Linux shop adds Solaris for performance boost Wow - "[...] it turned out that Solaris 10 had a throughput that was 50 times better." (tags: fedora linux solaris solaris10 sun t1000 t2000 ubuntu ) Open Source at Sun Microsystems, 2008 Gartner Analysis. Synopsis: Open source at Sun Microsystems is strong, and Gartner expects an increasing role for open source within its business strategies in coming years. (tags: analysis gartner opensource sun ) BigAdmin Feature Article: Using Kerberos to Authenticate

Across the wires this morning comes news from Kim and Stefan that Microsoft has acquired Credentica 's U-Prove technology and the services of Stefan and his Credentica colleagues. I'm curious as to why the news isn't simply 'Microsoft acquires Credentica', but business is sometimes like that, I guess. Anyway, congratulations to Stefan and co! I've been following their technology for a few years now (I even worked my way through Stefan's book - well, most of it - some of the formal proofs were a little

I've always felt that one of the most important tasks for a parent is to teach their kids to not be gullible. I routinely work on such training with my kids. In fact the other day, I was way into the story about how Los Angeles schools, while not getting many snow days, do get closed for bad hair days. Unfortunately, while my daughter was well into the "realy?" stage, my wife piped up with "They do not!" cutting me off at the knees. Nothing is a better example of the importance of such training than