HP customers still searching for the adaptive enterprise
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HP: The Adaptive Enterprise that can't
adapt
HP: The Adaptive Enterprise that can't
adapt
08/13/2004 02:42 PMOpinion SAP hardly to blame
HP signs BT as Adaptive Enterprise
unfolds
HP signs BT as Adaptive Enterprise
unfolds
05/05/2004 06:45 AMvnunet.com May 5 2004 10:58AM GMT
HP Views Adaptive Enterprise As 'Uber
OS'
HP Views Adaptive Enterprise As 'Uber
OS'
11/11/2003 05:40 PMThe company ramps up its utility computing offerings with the help of
an SAP partnership and the acquisition of Persist Technologies.
HP invokes Adaptive Enterprise mantra
HP invokes Adaptive Enterprise mantra
08/16/2004 10:31 AMHewlett-Packard will detail enhancements to its virtualization
products, the HP-UX 11i Unix operating system, and its AlphaServers
this week during its HP World 2004 conference in Chicago.
Q&A: HP's Todd DeLaughter on the
adaptive enterprise
Q&A: HP's Todd DeLaughter on the
adaptive enterprise
08/05/2004 05:37 PMTodd DeLaughter, vice president and general manager of the Management
Software Organization at Hewlett-Packard, spelled out the strategy
behind the adaptive enterprise and spoke about the company's direction
in the coming years.
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1
for Panther
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.5.1
for Panther
01/07/2004 06:45 PMSybase today announced that Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE)
12.5.1, the latest release of the company's enterprise-class
relational database management system (RDBMS), is now available for
Mac OS X Panther...
How To Find Out What Keywords Your
Customers Are Searching With
How To Find Out What Keywords Your
Customers Are Searching With
10/01/2002 07:37 PMStickysauce Oct 1 2002 6:38PM ET
Customers Angry Over Enterprise Software
Customers Angry Over Enterprise Software
02/11/2004 09:38 PMIf you've been involved in the buying or selling of enterprise
software, you're likely aware that much of it is something of a scam.
The prices are quite flexible, and the "real" costs show up much
later, when people realize that (a) the product doesn't really work
the way they wanted it to (b) it needs ridiculous amounts of expensive
customization, maintenance and training and (c) the vendor is always
breathing down their neck to pay for an "upgrade" and service
contract. As it stands, the incentives for the vendors are to make
the initial price seem low, but to make sure the actual software
doesn't work very well. It appears that customers are starting to
catch on and
increasingly angry about standard practices in enterprise
software. They're also (finally!) threatening to stop playing
into the system and changing their buying habits. They're training
their own people to support the system, they're renegotiating
maintenance contracts and they're switching to "more accommodating"
vendors. Clearly, there's room for companies to come in with much
more reasonable offerings. In some cases, I imagine this is going to
take the form of ASP or hosted offerings, but those are still limited
depending on what the customer needs. It could make sense for a
company to pull a PR move and start advertising much more transparent
pricing plans to better attract customers who feel more comfortable
knowing what they're really paying for.
webslingerZ Releases smartASK 2.0, Signs
New Enterprise Customers
webslingerZ Releases smartASK 2.0, Signs
New Enterprise Customers
07/26/2004 02:22 AMToday webslingerZ released version 2.0 of its smartASK survey
software. In addition, the company announced the signing of new
enterprise customers including Boeing, Nortel Networks, and the New
Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. [PRWEB Jul 26, 2004]
FedEx to use Kinko's stores to offer
e-services to enterprise customers
FedEx to use Kinko's stores to offer
e-services to enterprise customers
01/02/2004 06:18 PMFedEx views its $2.4 billion acquisition of Kinko's as a way for it to
provide Internet access, videoconferencing and document management
services to enterprise customers.
Enterprise Customers Question Sun's
Open-Solaris Efforts
Enterprise Customers Question Sun's
Open-Solaris Efforts
07/12/2004 02:17 AMThe company is exploring the idea of eschewing the GPL for unique
licenses and customers wonder Sun's commitment to open-source
licensing.
Conviveon Delivers Comprehensive
Solution for OSX that Gives Customers
the Ability to Quickly Deliver
Enterprise Web Application
Conviveon Delivers Comprehensive
Solution for OSX that Gives Customers
the Ability to Quickly Deliver
Enterprise Web Application
03/14/2005 05:28 PMNew Release of Conviveon SiteConnect Server Delivers Tools to Measure
Content Effectiveness and Enhanced Content Management
Capabilities
[[ Visit http://www.macmegasite.com for full article ]]
Top 10 Enterprise IT Vendors ranked on
Customer Loyalty. Two-thirds of
customers will evaluate replacements
over the next three years accoding to a
newly released study by the InterUnity
Group.
Top 10 Enterprise IT Vendors ranked on
Customer Loyalty. Two-thirds of
customers will evaluate replacements
over the next three years accoding to a
newly released study by the InterUnity
Group.
06/23/2004 03:04 AMThe Top 10 Enterprise IT Vendors have three year customer loyalty
rates that range from 53% to 71% according to an extensive and
independent study by the InterUnity Group. On average 2 out of 3
customers will evaluate replacement products in the next three years
from these vendors. The study evaluated the loyalty of 1188 users of
10 leading IT Enterprise vendors including Computer Associates, Dell,
EMC, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Peoplesoft, SAP, and
Sun.While customers may choose to continue to use the existing vendor
after evaluating alternatives, pricing pressure is introduced.
“Vendors who understand the drivers of customer loyalty can reduce
customer defections and lower the cost of sales”, according to Richard
Sneider, a Partner at the InterUnity Group. “ The Customer Loyalty
ICSI is useful to purchasers as an indicator of how well a vendor will
meet its needs over the long term.” [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]
Voipfone Package Builder Puts VoIP
Customers in Full Control of their
Telephone Service and Saves Customers
Money
Voipfone Package Builder Puts VoIP
Customers in Full Control of their
Telephone Service and Saves Customers
Money
06/05/2005 11:16 PMVoipfone (http://www.voipfone.co.uk), the expanding London-based
Internet Telephone provider of Voice over Internet (VoIP) services,
today announces the launch of its Package Builder™ facility which
allows customers to select the precise bundle of features they desire
for their telephony usage.No more Plans. [PRWEB Jun 4, 2005]
Adaptive Poker 2.1
Adaptive Poker 2.1
05/25/2004 01:30 PMA Texas Hold'em poker game, where the computer learns from you.
Update: Adaptive Equalization
Update: Adaptive Equalization
05/27/2004 09:12 AMThe Photoshop plug-in for enhancing local contrast in images adds a
larger preview and an improved blending function.
AWF :: Adaptive Website Framework
(1.04+)
AWF :: Adaptive Website Framework
(1.04+)
02/19/2003 10:51 AM
Submission by Paul Maxwell
I had been using phpNuke (5.5) for a few months and was becoming
frustrated by the time it took me to add content. Additionally
performance was not wonderful (in part due to my ISP at the time) and
was having trouble in backing-up my site's data.
Adaptive Dynamic Hardware
Adaptive Dynamic Hardware
12/19/2004 03:41 PMIST
reports,
"Visionaries more than half a century ago imagined
machines capable of growth, self-repair and self-replication. By
digitally mimicking biological tissue's properties, European
researchers
recently demonstrated a platform for autonomous computer systems."
The new platform is the POEtic
chip developed by the POEtic
Project of the EU IST Program. The chip contains a microprocessor
made of reconfigurable cells, similar to an FPGA except that this chip
reconfigures itself autonomously in real-time. The chip allows
machines
to take advantage of the three forces that shape biological life:
development, learning and evolution (or ontogenesis, epigenesis and
phylogenesis if you're writing a budget proposal). The first shipment
of
80 chips will be delivered and tested in autonomous robotic
applications
this year.
Consciousness and Adaptive Behavior
Consciousness and Adaptive Behavior
03/14/2005 06:03 PMA new paper by
Richard Sieb attempts to explain how subjectivity could arise and how
a
subjective system might be more adaptable by utilizing changing points
of view to respond to change. In the paper, he proposes that voluntary
intentional actions arise from an animal's (or machine's) unique point
of view - and if the physical mechanism responsible for the production
of the action can be found, it may also explain the point of view
(which
he identifies with consciousness).
Adaptive Website Framework (AWF)
Adaptive Website Framework (AWF)
01/15/2003 11:50 AM
Submission by RocketMan
Annother CMS (Easy to setup and use, but strong in features...): php,
mysql
Have a look at Adaptive Website Framework (AWF)
I tried about 15 cms tools and sticked to this at last.
Adaptive Database Installation Toolkit
Adaptive Database Installation Toolkit
06/21/2004 02:07 PMADBIT New Release - 0.9 for Linux
Straight talk on Adaptive Computing
Straight talk on Adaptive Computing
11/18/2003 08:57 PMCNET Nov 18 2003 8:45PM ET
Architectures for Adaptive Mobile
Systems
Architectures for Adaptive Mobile
Systems
07/01/2002 03:39 PM"(...) the application of adaptive architectures to maximize the
user-defined utility of mobile devices within the limits of their
available resources." (
Rick Kazman -
news@sei
interactive)
Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity in Robots
Intelligent Adaptive Curiosity in Robots
04/15/2005 05:41 PMPierre-Yves Oudeyer and Frédéric Kaplan of
the Sony Computer Science Lab have a
released a paper
(PDF format) online which was presented at the 4th International
Workshop on Epigenetic
Robotics. The paper describes a mechanism by which robots can be given
intelligent, adaptive curiosity which guides their focus to novel
situations in which they can learn. Their system is implemented in a
robot simulator using a simple two-wheeled robot which
learns about the behaviour of a nearby toy. For more on this research,
see Sony's Curiosity
Driven Learning webpage.
On adaptive success and theories of
homosexuality...
On adaptive success and theories of
homosexuality...
01/22/2004 02:14 AMThe latest issue of New
Scientist contains an article - "The In Crowd" - that is both
profoundly interesting and yet totally unavailable online. Gradually,
I'm delighted to say, this situation is becoming more rare and more of
a surprise each time it occurs.
Anyway, the article - written by Joan
Roughgarden - contends that: "Same-sex relationships are not a
biological dead end. They are a glue that helps hold many animal
societies together, and a fatal flaw in one of Darwin's central
ideas." Here are a few choice chunks of the article that I think
encompass most of the article:
Author Bruce Bahemihl, in his book Biological
Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and natural diversity, has
catalogued over 200 vertebrate species in which same-sex genital
contact regularly occurs. In some species, homosexuality is not very
common - around 1 to 10 per cent of all mating. In others, such a
bonobos, homosexual mating occurs as often as heterosexual mating. In
some species only males participate, in others only females, in still
others both sexes. Sometimes homosexuality is associated with pair
bonds that last for years, and in others with short-term courtships.
This broad occurrence of homosexuality among vertebrates raises the
possibility that if it has a genetic basis at all, it has some broad
adaptive significance, and is not an aberrant condition just a few
species happen to be stuck with.
In humans, moreover, homosexuality is much too common for it to be
considered a genetic aberration. Real genetic diseases are really
rare, and their frequency inevitably depends on their severity. A
disease that is uniformly lethal must arise anew each generation, so
its frequency is equal to the mutation rate, say one in 1 million. A
disease that causes only a 10 per cent drop in offspring production
(fitness) is 10 times more common than a lethal disease - about one in
100,000. Similarly, a mere 1 per cent drop in fitness leads to a
frequency of one in 10,000. If homosexuality has a frequency of 1 in
10, the fitness loss could be no more than 0.001 per cent, which is
completely undetectable. A "common genetic disease" is a contradiction
in terms, and homosexuality is three to four orders of magnitude more
common than true genetic diseases such as Huntington's
disease.
All this seems eminently reasonable to me so far. I mean, clearly
I'm no expert in evolutionary biology, so my opinion really counts for
less than nothing. But on the other hand, as an engaged reader and a
gay man I've at least got a legitimate interest in the subject and
have found myself relatively compelled by the idea that if homosexual
behaviour has a genetic component, that at least some of the genes
that result in it must have some adaptive utility. The most commonly
cited example is that perhaps a gene might exist that in an
heterosexual adult provided a significant reproductive advantage of
some kind - but which had the side effect of producing a certain
proportion of children who were gay. As long as the cumulative effect
was to mean that - on average - the familial line would produce more
sexually productive offspring than a line which did not have the gene,
then it would be clear that the genes that result in gay people had a
reproductive advantage.
Of course while that theory has a certain compelling logic to it,
it doesn't (perhaps shouldn't) have anything to say about what it
means to be gay in this context. In other words - it makes no
statement that homosexual behaviour is itself somehow useful or
positive with regard to human behaviour, survival or evolution.
Homosexual behaviour then, is not considered adaptively
useful.
Now back to Joan Roughgarden's piece (carrying on directly from
what was written above):
Indeed, I challenge the presumption that homosexuality
leads to any reduction in fitness whatever. Throughout history and
across cultures, homoerotic attraction has not precluded heteroerotic
attraction. And there is little evidence that people who feel
homoerotic attraction have, as a group, any less Darwinian fitness
than those who don't. After all, many exclusively heterosexual people
do not have offspring either. Even if those with homoerotic attraction
did have marginally fewed children, they might make up for it by a
better chance of survival - during wars, for example, when homoerotic
bonds might lead soldiers to protect one another more vigorously.
So what then, is the adaptive significance of homosexuality?
Homosexuality has many uses, much as the ability to speak does.
Homosexual contact is a way to communicate pleasure. And I suggest
that homosexuality is a social inclusionary trait - that is, it
provides animals, including perhaps humans at times, with admission to
social groups. It evolves, I suggest, whenever same-sex cooperation
helps achieve an evolutionary successful life: to survive, find mates
and protect one's young from harm. This plays out in different ways in
different sexes and species. Sometimes, as with bonobos, same-sex
cooperation provides group security and access to food that females
need to successfully rear their young. For others, such as male
Savanna baboons and probably some whales, it provides the allies they
need to survive conflicts so that they may later mate. But the
unifying principle is the same - homosexuality cements relationships
that are crucial for a successful life.
At which point, I'm afraid, I think my scepticism comes to the
fore. It seems to me that any theory of homosexuality that operates in
direct opposition to people's experience of contemporary human
sexuality seems to be at least flawed. While bonobo homosexuality
might be seen to be useful in the creation of social inclusion, often
exactly the opposite occurs in human society. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's
classic book Between Men specifically talks about the continual need to
disavow sexual components to male homosocial relationships (ie.
male-on-male friendship / bonding relationships). We're all familiar
with this kind of experience - that the most common and most potent
sources of anti-gay tirades are tightly-bound social groups of men. At
the very least more is going on in those situations than simple
homoeroticism bringing those men together to express solidarity and
closeness. Even at our most open-minded, surely we have to state that
in those circumstances, the fact that any vestigial or situational
erotics have to be so vigorously denied makes it clear that there's a
distinction to be drawn between homoerotic behaviour, homosexual
behaviour and homosexual identities that is much more complex than
anything that Roughgarden supplies us with.
I will of course give her the benefit of the doubt in this case -
the article is evidently a truncation of a body of work that no doubt
includes a massive set of sample data from which to draw conclusions
as well as the applied expertise of a lifetime of training. If I get
the chance to read any more of her work, I will make sure that I do so
vigorously. But in the meantime, I'm afraid I must remain interested
but unconvinced.
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SMC Expands Enterprise Wireless Solution
Set to Extend Enterprise Networking
SMC Expands Enterprise Wireless Solution
Set to Extend Enterprise Networking
06/05/2005 11:19 PMNew EliteConnect™ 802.11b/g wireless accessories extend network reach
with the security, range, flexibility, interoperability and throughput
that Enterprise wireless applications demand [PRWEB May 25, 2005]
Adaptive Path: User Experience
Consulting
Adaptive Path: User Experience
Consulting
05/11/2004 05:51 PMAdaptive Path: User Experience Consulting .. redesign of the Adaptive
Path .. adaptive_path! .. AdaptivePath .. Guru's .. good .. lien ..
our .. AP
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Bottoms Up: Designing Complex, Adaptive
Systems
Bottoms Up: Designing Complex, Adaptive
Systems
11/15/2002 08:43 AMEver Wonder Why You Can't Get A Magazine
That's Just For You? Adaptive Systems
and Processes Poised To Go Mainstream
Ever Wonder Why You Can't Get A Magazine
That's Just For You? Adaptive Systems
and Processes Poised To Go Mainstream
06/17/2005 03:17 PMThe next generation of software and media will be centered on
adaptation; processes and supporting systems that learn to become more
and more useful over time. ManyWorlds Inc., the leaders in the
development of adaptive systems and processes, announces an important
step toward enabling the “adaptive world”. The results of ManyWorlds'
multi-year research and development and associated patent portfolio
are now broadly available through a suite of IP licensing programs.
[PRWEB Jun 15, 2005]
Adaptive Learning Speeds New
Drug-Screening Software
Adaptive Learning Speeds New
Drug-Screening Software
04/16/2004 11:39 AMSoftware created by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
uses a pattern-recognition process called kernel learning to more
quickly assess molecules' properties.
adaptive path » 90% of all
usability testing is useless
adaptive path » 90% of all
usability testing is useless
06/16/2004 06:16 PMWhen done right, usability testing will improve your Web site and your
development process, but the current culture surrounding Web site
usability testing is such that it rarely benefits the
design
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Adaptive Cruise Control May Solve
Traffic Jams
Adaptive Cruise Control May Solve
Traffic Jams
07/30/2004 03:51 PMMore and more luxury cars these days are coming with adaptive cruise
control -- which is mainly considered a safety feature. The idea is
that if you're getting too close to the car in front of you, your car
automatically begins to slow down, avoiding the possibility of an
accident. However, one of the nice "unintended benefits" of such
systems is they may
create much more efficient traffic
flow. Apparently, if just 20% of the cars on the road had such
systems on a normal highway, most traffic jams would simply go away.
The article goes into details on how this works, but the basic summary
is that most drivers are either idiots or err on the side of caution
by braking too hard when someone in front of them brakes, leading to a
chain reaction that causes the slow down. With a computer braking
more appropriately, the chain reaction has a much smaller impact,
allowing traffic flow to continue smoothly. Yet another situation
where a technology designed for one purpose, actually has a very
useful alternative benefit.
Over 60 Days, Troops Fought Adaptive
Enemy (washingtonpost.com)
Over 60 Days, Troops Fought Adaptive
Enemy (washingtonpost.com)
06/25/2004 11:48 PMwashingtonpost.com - NAJAF, Iraq -- After a year in Iraq, Lt. Jon Silk
and the rest of the Army's 1st Armored Division had tickets home. But
before dawn on April 5, he and his platoon rumbled toward this
southern city of shrines and cemeteries, headed into war.
adaptive path » six design lessons
from the apple store
adaptive path » six design lessons
from the apple store
07/14/2004 04:58 AMSix design lessons from the Apple
Store
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An interview with Jeffrey Veen and Jesse
James Garrett of Adaptive Path
An interview with Jeffrey Veen and Jesse
James Garrett of Adaptive Path
08/14/2002 03:13 AMadaptive path » organization in
the way: how decentralization hobbles
the user experience
adaptive path » organization in
the way: how decentralization hobbles
the user experience
09/06/2004 08:12 PMadaptive path organization in the way: how decentralization hobbles
the user experience .. organisational barriers to good user
experiences
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Kane Computing Sells Adaptive Digital's
Audio Software, Chips, Solutions
Kane Computing Sells Adaptive Digital's
Audio Software, Chips, Solutions
03/23/2005 02:28 AMEmbedded Star Mar 23 2005 6:34AM GMT
Adaptive Network Security Solutions from
Vernier Networks Make the Grade with
More Than 100 Universities and Colleges
Around the Globe
Adaptive Network Security Solutions from
Vernier Networks Make the Grade with
More Than 100 Universities and Colleges
Around the Globe
09/15/2004 02:13 AMVernier Networks’ adaptive network security solutions are protecting
more than 100 higher education networks serving over 2 million
students from worms and viruses likely to be launched as students
return to campus. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]
IDL Systems' Adaptive Blended Learning
Shows Groundbreaking Results for Adult
Retraining in Basic Computer Ski
IDL Systems' Adaptive Blended Learning
Shows Groundbreaking Results for Adult
Retraining in Basic Computer Ski
04/01/2005 09:38 AMdBusinessNews.com Apr 1 2005 1:43PM GMT
Grok Description matches for HP customers still searching for the adaptive enterprise
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HP customers still searching for the adaptive enterprise
