Short Takes: October 15, 2009
By SD Times Editorial Board
October 15, 2009 —
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What's next in Microsoft's barrel?
Researchers at Microsoft’s Cambridge, U.K. labs have been working on a multi-kernel operating system called "Barrelfish." This is noteworthy because Barrelfish includes some BSD-licensed open-source libraries, and Microsoft has made a test version available.
After I covered Microsoft's "Midori" project last year, I was told that there were several other projects that deal with parallelism. The difference is that Midori stands apart, because it was moved beyond research and put under the control of a top company executive. It will be interesting to see what Microsoft ultimately does with its commercial software. — David Worthington
Coveros CEO talks security
I recently wrote about a company called Coveros, an application security consulting company. I chatted with Coveros CEO and cofounder Jeffrey Payne, who had been CEO and president of Cigital, another application security provider. In talking about some of the differences between the two companies, Payne said that this time around, the emphasis is more on trying to help companies avoid security issues before they ever happen.
“At Cigital, the business was bug-finding, so we were really good at assessing applications and looking for defects and issues,” he said. “It definitely did and still does some process improvement-type things around trying to make sure you don’t make those issues. Ultimately, though, it’s just a business about finding problems."
Coveros, meanwhile, tries to help people "not have security problems in the future,” he said. — Jeff Feinman
Won't someone please think of the sys admins?
One of my friends, to whom I will refer as the Doctor, has been spending all of his work time recently in Ant hell. Normally, he is a sys admin, but when the company he works for finally got its Java processes in order (by hiring a QA guy and a full-time Java developer or two), the Doctor was saddled with the build process.
I feel exceptionally bad for the Doctor. This is not what he wants to spend his time doing. It takes forever, and he is constantly being yelled at for not getting as much done with the build as he used to get done in the data center when a machine died. Adding insult to injury, he is not allowed to bring in new Java tools like Maven or Ivy, as those are developer tools, and he's a sys admin. How could a lowly sys admin possibly attempt to choose tools for the dev team?
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