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Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog I'm not sure what the opposite to a cub reporter is — presumably Great Bear — but whatever the term is, Colin Barker is your man. Colin's only reaction would be to ask whether the walrus would be available in 64-bit as well as 32.
[October 28, 2005, 19:30]
You May Not Fit The Profile.....
Talkback Colin Barker, ZDNet UK ….but whatever your age, if you are going to use a word like “distros” you are most certainly young at heart!
[May 9, 2007, 19:31]
SNW Offers The Frights...
Blog Comment I thought I would comment on Colin Barker's piece in ZDnet titled "SNW offers the frights". The article starts out with an oversimplification: The storage industry is enjoying a boom currently thanks to the requirement for IT managers to keep...
[November 5, 2007, 16:30]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Reports are filtering back from Dell's bash yesterday in Monte Carlo where Colin Barker, our man in the Saville Row suit and the gold said a disturbingly enthusiastic Colin afterwards. Wednesday 7/6/2006
[June 9, 2006, 18:40]
Gartner: Linux Continues Drive Into Datacentres
Talkback It's a pity that Colin Barker does not know what does it mean "mainframe" Windows or/and UNIX for zSeries - sheer noncence. Open Edition - as a UNIX-guest in MVS may be considered, but Windows. It's a pity that nobody in ZDNet pay attention to...
[April 6, 2006, 8:17]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Our own silver-haired lothario Colin Barker was covering the story from the courtroom, and once it was all over made his way outside to phone in the report. Before Colin could answer, the doors to the lift closed and the robot within cleared its...
[October 7, 2005, 19:30]
Good Points
Talkback Colin Barker Yes, it is confusing and your points are essentially correct. The BSA is an independent organisation and not a company and you are right that it has no legal right to sue anybody. Instead it works with, and has the co-operation of...
[June 27, 2007, 9:57]
Thanks To All For The Ideas
Talkback Colin Barker When you try to do a top ten you know you will not fit everything in but thanks for all the suggestions. I kick myself for missing out the Denver baggage mess. That is one computer disaster that can still make me smile years later - it...
[November 28, 2007, 10:36]
Not Covered In This List
Talkback Colin Barker I would point out the footnote to this piece that makes it clear we would not included incidents and issues that involved loss of life. This point was in the last paragraph so it is understandable that it was not picked up.
[November 23, 2007, 8:12]
Clarification From The Author
Talkback Colin Barker IBM has asked me to make it clear that the industry standards discussed here are "industry standards, not IBM standards". The way it currently reads, they say, "it appears as if IBM is trying to get everyone to use proprietary IBM...
[July 11, 2007, 21:37]
Who Owns Whom?
Talkback Colin Barker Well done for spotting that I had referred to the "VMware owned EMC" when it is so obviously the other way around. By now the mistake will have been corrected, this sparing my blushes. Still, some may argue that this could only be a...
[September 11, 2007, 15:48]
Brocade: Faster And Greener Than The Competition?
News At Storage Expo 2007, Tom Buiocchi, Brocade's worldwide vice president of marketing, tells ZDNet.co.uk's Colin Barker about how his company's 48000 Director for storage area networks has been upgraded to perform at 8Gbps — allegedly giving twice...
[October 19, 2007, 19:09]
Taking The Green Approach To Storage
News Pillar Data Systems' Bob Maness tells ZDNet.co.uk's Colin Barker about how his company, which is backed by Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison, is taking an energy-efficient approach to storage.
[October 19, 2007, 18:41]
Nexsan's Compact And Green Approach To Storage
News Andy Hill, Nexsan's European sales director, tells ZDNet.co.uk's Colin Barker all about some of the green features of the device, which has the ability to slow spin speeds and reduce energy use by more than 50 percent.
[October 19, 2007, 18:52]
Court Victory In The Fight Against Spam
Talkback This blurring of SPAM to include all email advertising is wrong, and I wish authors like Colin Barker would do there homework and acknowledge the difference. The courts were 100% wrong here because what this man got was not SPAM, it was advertising.
[December 28, 2005, 19:26]
BT Nails Down Contracts For Next-generation Network
News ZDNet UK's Colin Barker contributed to this report. BT has finally completed its negotiations with several major telecoms equipment manufacturers over the technology that will power a forthcoming IP-based network across the UK.
[March 7, 2006, 15:55]
Nasa Hacker To Fight US Extradition On Monday
News ZDNet.co.uk's Colin Barker contributed to this article Gary McKinnon, the Briton who has admitted hacking into Nasa systems, is due to fight his extradition to the US in the House of Lords on Monday. Hearing his appeal will be the Law Lords, a...
[June 13, 2008, 12:01]
TCO Of Windows?
Talkback One of our team Colin Barker, will be attending Novell's BrainShare event in Salt Lake City next month so Novell should have plenty opportunity to discuss this issue and any others you have with our coverage.
[March 16, 2007, 9:20]
BT Responds To 'unethical' Contract Criticism
News ZDNet.co.uk's Colin Barker contributed to this article. BT has given a three-month grace period to customers of its standard business phone lines who do not want to receive an automatic "upgrade" that locks them into a new 12-month contract.
[February 20, 2008, 14:12]
Sun To Snap Up MySQL For $1bn
News ZDNet.co.uk's Colin Barker and David Meyer contributed to this report. Sun is taking the plunge into the database market with the purchase of open-source database developer MySQL for $1bn (£500m). Sun said it will pay about $800m in cash in...
[January 16, 2008, 13:27]
