General Dynamics ... Admiral Dynamics?
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The General heads back to sea, and taxpayers will take a bath.
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Tycho:  I can really do without a lot of the corporate sniping that happens in this industry.  Plus, as a licensed demagogue, they're horning in on my territory when they say ridiculous things or make baseless verbal assaults!  I mean, I have mouths to feed.  Seriously, I have more than one mouth.
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SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA - The relationship between General Motors Corp. (GM) and the software industry is set for some major changes over the next few years as software becomes a more important component of the automobile, said Anthony Scott, the chief technology officer of GM's Information Systems and Services organization, at a conference of software industry executives Tuesday in Santa Clara, California.
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(InfoWorld) - Connectivity is a key theme running through Microsoft's Dynamics development work as the vendor begins to meld its disparate business applications families into more of a single integrated platform. Microsoft is due to release a flurry of announcements Monday at its Convergence 2007 conference in San Diego. "It will be the biggest news day we've ever had," said James Utzschneider, general manager of Dynamics marketing at Microsoft. At the heart of the Dynamics announcements will be the vendor's attempts to improve different levels of connectivity, for instance, between employees and the business processes in the applications they use or better connecting a company via its software with its external community of customers, partners and suppliers. One way of making it easier for staff to use the Dynamics ERP (enterprise resource planning) applications is to improve the user interface. Microsoft will be showing off its RoleTailored UI which brings the look-and-feel of its Windows Vista operating system and its Office 2007 desktop suite to Dynamics. The intention is that RoleTailored will become the common user interface across all four of Microsoft's Dynamics families -- NAV, AX, GP and SL. Some of the work that went into RoleTailored was previously known by the Fenway code name. The new UI will first appear in Dynamics NAV 5.0 due out later this month, then in Dynamics GP 10.0 and Dynamics SL 7, which are both on track to ship in June. Microsoft began shippingÂ Dynamics AX 4.0Â in June 2006 and expects to release Dynamics AX 5.0 in the first half of 2008. Microsoft is adopting "a fairly conservative approach" to bringing its Dynamics offerings together by taking incremental steps to share code across the application families, Utzschneider said. "What you're seeing Microsoft doing is starting to form a single platform in order to serve business applications' needs," said Yvonne Genovese, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner. The platform will consist of Dynamics NAV at the low end serving the needs of a maximum of 50 users and Dynamics AX at the high end, she added. Microsoft will continue to come out with new versions of Dynamics GP and SL, but those largely U.S.-focused products won't make major contributions to the future Dynamics platform. Microsoft mostly acquired its business software through the purchases of Great Plains Software and Navision completed in April 2001 and in July 2002 respectively. Genovese believes that Microsoft didn't appreciate the complexity of the business applications market at the time of the acquisitions and it's been a hard transition for the company. "They're just now growing up," she said. "They're in their late teenage years as a business applications company" versus older, more established players like SAP and Oracle. Genovese views the midmarket for business applications largely as a vendor invention. What she's hearing from customers of all sizes, including those with annual revenue in excess of $2 billion, is that they're looking for business applications that don't require them to invest in their own IT development and that offer a broad range of functionality and have a predictable cost structure. "Microsoft is a prime candidate to be a leader in that market," she said, provided the company can execute on its strategy. Â
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Looking at the steam coming off the mail in my inbox this week, I definitely need a place to lay low for a while. One reader kindly recommended Geek Cruises, where I could work on my tan and my Perl programming skills at the same time. He also thought it would help my love life but I'm not so sure. The brochures are full of guys with goatees and laptops -- not exactly my idea of The Love Boat.
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Gabe: I sort of have a reputation for being the hot headed one here at the Arcade. I think that"s probably fair to say. I have a habit of saying very mean things to people I don"t agree with. As much as I might try not to be that guy it"s just sort of become my role.
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(Gene Emery is a columnist who covers science and  technology. His Internet address is GEmery(at)Cox.net. Any  opinions in the column are his alone.)
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Sean O&#39;Keefe will soon step down as NASA Administrator. The formal announcement is expected this coming week. Where O&#39;Keefe will be heading and exactly when he will leave remain to be determined however he
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Ed Firmage is a boring academic gasbag. Where did he derive his ability to know the mind and will of God? He undermined at every opportunity the president and all efforts to bring democracy to Iraq.
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against the Falcons of Air Force in Colorado Springs. Navy, which made it to a. over Vanderbilt last weekend in Annapolis. As for the Falcons, they are not.
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Tycho:  It's been a couple weeks discussing reviews and reviewers around here, but somewhere along the way I neglected to mention that their job is essentially impossible.  The 7-9 scale they toil under is largely the result of an uneasy peace between the business and editorial wings of the venue.  No matter what score they give it, high or low, they're reviled equally by the online chorus.  Apparently, even when they do it right they're doing it wrong.
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Bell/Agusta AB139s seem to be headed far and wide at the moment. Deliveries of the new medium twin to the Namibian government and, most recently, to philanthropist the Aga Khan (see sidebar) are recent ...
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I got an interesting teaser in the e-mail this week: âStudy Suggests Nearly Half of All Leaders See a Disconnect Between Strategy and Execution.â I wonât say who sent it because they blew the execution: The so-called study wasnât posted anywhere online, and when I called the number, theyâd already left for the weekend.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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STARDATE: FUN! The Developers over at Perpetual Entertainment, Inc. are feverishly, frantically, and Ferengingly working on Star Trek Online, a massively multiplayer role-playing game where you too can be a shoulder-pinchin' Vulcan, an annoyed Klingon, or one of those blue guys with mini-satellite dishes sticking out of their heads. Many fans of the series are eagerly awaiting Star Trek Online so they can get just a little bit closer to being an actual officer of the Federation. Me, no; I'm too worried that I'll be the very first subscriber permanently exiled from the entire Star Trek universe.
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Tycho:  Gabe keeps coming into the Goddamn office with his Goddamn tales of high adventure, telling me about how there's tokens or some shit in Burning Crusade now, or maybe tiers, and other words I had scoured from my consciousness.  He also says there is hot new five-man content, which initially sounded like pornography.  The comic is correct - I purchased it in a moment of weakness.  As I must often approach you, the cherished reader, to apologize for this or that indiscretion, it may be more appropriate to say that I have moments of strength which are suspended in cowardice and moral decay.
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Blog: The Web application security company is to become part of HP's Technology Solutions Group. SPI Dynamics' tech is already integrated with HP Quality Center software.
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The U.S. Army on Tuesday awarded  General Dynamics Corp. GD.N the lead role in developing a new  warfighter communications system, with Lockheed Martin Corp.  LMT.N. to get an equal share of the work, which GD said was  worth $7 billion through 2018.