For $300 no more mosquitos...I might be crazy enough to do it if Kim is...

One big and one Giant deal for HP. Looks like the US Army one is for hardware, whereas the DirecTV is service/outsourcing.

Cross-file this one under "Privacy is dead," "your whole life is now on record," and my growing file called "Jesus, what is wrong with people?"

I'm no expert in this area, but it sounds like by making Windows more secure, MSFT is making it harder for 3rd parties to access core functionality to layer on their own security fixes...damned if you do, damned if you don't.

"BEA is taking SOA to its very core," said Paul Patrick, chief architect for BEA AquaLogic. "We're taking SOA into the heart of what we do [on] a day-to-day basis in the way we build products."

Whao, here's a varient on totem I haven't thought about. Via Hugh on the Disco Gang Gillmor gang.

More on Oracle's MDM/enterprise search stuff. I don't think they officially have an MDM, right? That'd be weird, I'll have to check.

Small bit on Oracle, IBM, but mostly SAP MDM.

"Disney expects to reap $50 million in movie sales through the iTunes Store 'at no marketing expense to us at all.'" Boom, margins, baby.

Ack, I forgot to blog about this: SAP is way into CA/Wily/Introscope. The sysmgmt session I went to was all about it, big time. And, it ships with SAP now.

Free mini-conferences from IBM developerWorks

We'll see if the number of hits increases or just softly thuds.

I got an invite to this from the Ready to Commercialize folks. Thanks!