These are my links for January 6th through January 7th:
- Phurnace Acquired by BMC – Great News – I am pleased to inform our customers, partners and suppliers that Phurnace Software has been acquired by BMC Software. This is great news for everyone: Especially our customers. We will accelerate our innovation and product expansion and we now have the global reach through BMC for sales, support and services. All of the things that you liked about Phurnace, you will love about BMC. The product will continue to be offered as a standalone solution, as well as part of a larger more robust enterprise suite, as part of the BMC BladeLogic family. The product will continue to integrate into a wide range of third party systems; and that capability will not be lost – it will be enhanced. The pace of new feature additions and new platforms supported will also accelerate. BMC shares the vision that Phurnace was formed on – automation of application deployments and configurations that save time, money and eliminate costly errors.
- HP BSM Briefing Center – IT organizations committed to more closely managing and optimizing their technology resources now have better tools than ever, thanks to the growing discipline of business service management (BSM). HP's Business Service Management Briefing Center offers regularly updated news, technology briefings, and Webinars to show enterprises how to successfully adopt BSM and bring greater efficiencies to their IT and business operations.
- Understanding Internet Explorer Rendering Behaviour Performance, Scalability and Architecture – Rendering is one of the key influencers of the perceived performance in web applications. In order to optimize the rendering behaviour of a web application you have to first understand how rendering works in the browser. Mozilla provides a very good documentation on how rendering works in Firefox. Although we are talking here about Internet Explorer, the basiscs are the same. The rendering task is responsible for transforming the logical representation of a document – the DOM – into a graphical representation. This process consists of two steps:
* Calculating the layout based on DOM elements. This step is referred to as Calculating Layout in dynaTrace AJAX Edition. Mozilla refers to it as Reflow. However they admit that ”…perhaps should have been called layout”.
* Drawing or painting of the HTML page - Compuware offers churn adVantage – Compuware says that the tool, which combines DPI passive probes with the ability to view reports of application performance at the subscriber level, will help operators solve the issue of managing and reacting to problems users may be having with data services and applications.