Management

What Carl Icahn told the Yahoo board

Read the full text of the letter billionaire Yahoo shareholder Carl Icahn sent to the Yahoo board as he launched a fight for control of the company in the aftermath of its failure to reach a deal with Microsoft.

Timeline: Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo

The idea that Microsoft, in order to revamp its Internet business, would buy Yahoo seemed surreal when rumours first surfaced in mid-2006.

Sun exec ponders OpenSolaris, Linux

Sun's open source developer guru Ian Murdock on OpenSolaris and Project Indiana

IT is achieving green?

As more and more organisations assess their impact on the planet and opt to go ‘green’, concerns are being raised as to the actual progress being made, if at all? Elana Varon takes a closer look.

Identity theft isn't just personal, it's corporate

Businesses need to look at their data from a risk perspective and see where they should be prioritising the areas that are of the greatest risk, suggests one expert.

Interop Roundup

All the news, keynotes and highlights from Interop Las Vegas 2008, a key global business technology event that showcases all of the latest technologies in action.

IBM signals maturity of enterprise mash-ups

An assortment of vendors released enterprise mash-up development tools during last week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, but those announcements gained additional resonance from news that broke about two weeks ago, when IBM announced a pair of mash-up -related product releases.

HP and IBM combine datacentre strengths

The two biggest computer companies in the world – IBM and HP – are proving they can save on datacentre space and energy through the power of consolidation

Lego-style datacentres may reshape IT

Modular datacentres are the future. They are a logical progression for the industry and promise to massively increase the speed with which new facilities are developed and the productivity of the staff within them.

Is your outsourcer an IT sweatshop?

The debate about IT outsourcing is growing more strident in the US, so how are CIOs and IT directors there responding to the issues?

Transport for London CIO says travellers are top priority

To write a successful book you need a central theme. A theme runs from beginning to end clearly communicating a set of ideas to the reader. As long as you have one the reader is constantly engaged.

SAP pushes up software maintenance fees

Maintenance fees have long been the cash cow of enterprise software manufacturers and a source of pain to many end users. As the economy slows, SAP appears to be trying to bolster this income stream, but at whose expense?

SOA migration: United keeps its feet on the ground

Terminal 5 has left IT in the airline industry looking decidedly shaky, but there are some really good projects going on, and United Airlines has one of them.

Windows XP vs Vista: What you need to know

With Microsoft due to release Windows XP Service Pack 3 at the end of the month and then effectively kill one of its best liked operating systems in June. It will do so despite the fact that there has been a huge backlash against Windows Vista, one that's led many people to plan to skip the upgrade cycle and wait for Vista's successor before dumping XP.

Five ways to win friends among IT savvy staff

For every 10 people doing IT work as part of their jobs, you've got another eight "shadow IT" staffers doing it on their own. Get them onside or get yourself a growing problem.

Big interview: Douglas Merrill, former Google CIO

Douglas Merrill, formerly the CIO of Google and now president of EMI's digital business division talks about how internet search pioneer Google's IT organisation is configured (not structured), how CIOs need to evolve, and the most exasperating question that people ask him at cocktail parties.

Ten networking security nightmares

There are lots of ways business networks can be compromised, and more are developing all the time. They range from technology exploits to social engineering attacks, and all can compromise corporate data, reputation and the ability to conduct business effectively.

IT managers urged to dip toes into community-based support

For traditional businesses, navigating the world of open source software development is very different from working with a vendor. Just ask Ed Reaves, the platform product line manager for Toronto-based Nortel Networks, which uses Linux to run the switches that handle mobile telephone call routing.

What a week: top stories you may have missed

Major outsourcing deals, a massive row over document standards and some star performances by IT departments have not been able to completely divert attention from the ongoing debacle at Heathrow's Terminal 5.

Business Objects chief juggles independence, integration with SAP

Nearly three months after closing the biggest merger in its history, SAP has set the dual challenge of integrating Business Objects' BI tools more tightly with its enterprise resource planning software, while also maintaining the independence of those tools to appeal to non-SAP customers.

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