New Browser Version Available

The Mozilla Foundation has posted the second alpha edition of its next stand-alone browser, for now code named "Deer Park." The link is available at this address:

http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165702111&tid=5979

On-line Privacy Investigators

Here is a really interesting article, looks like some of the methodologies used by investigators are fairly aggressive and that the FTC will be looking into these practices. For more information on this please visit the following link:

http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165701674

Open Source Migration Article

If you are considering migrating some or all of your IT infrastructure to Linux, this recent article in CIO will probably be of interest to you. It covers many issues and lessons learned for one company which completed such a migration.

The article is available here: http://www.cio.com/archive/070105/cendant.html

Service Level Agreements

If you are developing or deploying applications within your law firm (undoubtedly if you work in Applications Development within IT you must be involved in one of these activities) it is a strong practice to develop service level agreements on your applications with your clients. Having these discussions will help you and your client understand what is important to the business in terms of performance, features and reliability/availability. And, having this document in place will set some expectations with respect to the levels and types of service this application should be providing to the business.

More details on Service Level Agreements can be found in the recent article posted on CIO.com, which is available by clicking here.