Dot-com craze peaked 10 years ago; "Suicide Machine" not dead yet

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	Time Flies Dept.: Dot-com craze peaked 10 years ago When the NASDAQ stock index hit its all-time high of 5,133 on March 10, 2000 - having more than doubled in a year -- the now legendary dot-com bubble was already looking like a balloon strapped to the back of a porcupine. A week later the NASDAQ had fallen 9 percent. ... A year later it was under 2,000. And the finger-pointing would last deep into the decade. Read More WHITE PAPER: Compuware The Definitive Guide to APM In this Application Performance Management eBook, get hands-on, practical insight into industry best practices for managing your critical applications from an end-to-end perspective. Find out how to manage performance from the distributed front-end of IT operations to the mainframe back-end, while keeping the end-user experience in mind. Read Now. In this Issue Facebook pushing 'Suicide Machine' into an open-source afterlife Wyndham's reply: Trust us, we're working on it WHITE PAPER: Storwize Inside New Data Compression Technology Meet the demanding primary storage requirements for random access, high transaction volumes and high throughput. Examine how real-time compression tackles key requirements for primary storage data, including; performance, simplicity, data reduction, and high availability. Learn more WHITE PAPER: Ipswitch The Value of Network Monitoring Even the most knowledgeable and capable network administrator is only as good as the network information that is visible, and that he or she can manage and act on. Administrators need to know what's happening on their networks at all times, and as this paper explains, that's where network monitoring comes in. Read now. WEBCAST: Actuate Discover BIRT. Understand how BIRT simplifies and speeds to market the development of rich information applications. In this presentation, a technical expert behind BIRT will demonstrate a customer-facing application in action with Flash, Ajax, and JavaScript interactivity. Click Here! Facebook pushing 'Suicide Machine' into an open-source afterlife "Web 2.0 Suicide Machine" is no more - at least as we have come to know it - and at least for now. When last we checked in on the Suicide Machine back in January, it was merrily assisting soon-to-be-former members of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn to automatically, speedily -- and ceremoniously -- eliminate the "friends" they had accumulated using those services. More than 3,000 people had... Read More Wyndham's reply: Trust us, we're working on it On Monday I wrote about the spate of data breaches that has plagued Wyndham Hotels - three in 12 months - and raised the question of whether this might be enough to dissuade customers from trusting the chain. Read More
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