Skype provides a smooth on-ramp for disruptive application developers
There's a lesson here: InstaColl, a privately held company headquartered in Bangalore, India, is offering users of Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint an innovative, real-time document collaboration facility on the back of Skype.
Vista and Leopard will accelerate 64-bit adoption
With the release of Microsoft's Windows Vista edition to roughly coincide with Apple's Mac OS X Leopard in early 2007, PC users will be treated to improved support for full 64-bit processing.
Pushing performance
For many organizations, performance management has become an important part of the management and control cycle, with the major emphasis being on alignment and visibility.
July
Content exchange versus information exchange
Microsoft has announced that it is to sponsor an open source project to bridge the worlds of Open Document Format (ODF) and Open XML file formats.
Symantec - raising the profile of Instant Messaging protection
When, at the beginning of this year, Symantec acquired IMlogic - a leading player in the Instant Messaging protection and management sector - even the company's main IM rivals appeared to be somewhat enthusiastically welcoming of the deal.
May
The right place for beta software?
A recent Automatic Windows Update was a Microsoft pre-release software license term for beta software.
EDS will make it by investing for the long-term
The perception of EDS has suffered in the past from repeated bad news about its business, but it appears that the worst really is over for the giant American outsourcing company.
April
BI vendors' quest for differentiation
The recent announcements by Oracle of a trio of Business Intelligence solutions, and Microsoft's acquisition of ProClarity, a pure-play BI vendor, continue to send ripples across the BI market.
Singing the same old CMDB tune
BMC, Fujitsu, HP and IBM, four noted vendors of IT systems and service management tools, recently announced that together they had reached a working agreement to develop an early consensus on the interfaces that need to be standardized for a Configuration Management DataBase.
Integration goes model-driven
Model Driven Architecture is interesting because using models can improve the application development process, particularly if good tools are used .
Oracle's BI offerings: Very powerful tools
Oracle's new business intellligence offerings have features that make them a very powerful tool, enabling Oracle to compete more effectively with BI specialist vendors
Oracle unveils trio of Business Intelligence bundles
Oracle has unveiled three new Business Intelligence (BI) offerings. Not to be outdone by its nearest database and applications rivals, Oracle has underscored its own aggressive BI strategy with the new offerings built on existing and newly accrued products.
