Archives for 2004

I could go a bit further with my issue to have a Windows 2003 Standard server running. As mentioned here: Windows 2003 crashes after patching - Beginning of another week of hell :-(, I had a hard time to fix this but with some patience and pushing Linux fan colleagues I got it to work for... 10 minutes.

I have tried several tools to read blogs and to publish on mine, I wanted to have one that combines all.

In the last blog I was talking about the end of two weeks of hell (End of two weeks of hell). I thought it was the end but it starts again this week :-(

I tried to install a new Windows 2003 Standard Server. The installation works ok. Then I use Windows Update to apply the 14 needed critical updates. Then the bad things starts. It can install 4 patches but 10 failed. Then it ask me to restart the server. And at reboot I get an error message:

As reported by Didier here. We had the chance last thursday evening to meet Mr Gordon Simpson, deputy CTO of BEA Systems.<br/><br/>

We discussed very intensively different themes, as:

• the mid-term vision and positioning of IBM Web Sphere, BEA Web Logic and the Microsoft .NET solutions
• the current standardization processes (J2EE, Java, etc.) in comparison with other ones, not so successful (CORBA specs)
• the future of SUN (HW, Java)
• the strategy of BEA concerning Linux
• UDDI: hype or market standard?
• offline solution and caching
• SOA on IBM mainframes