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Size matters when considering unified comms

Europe's large enterprises and small-medium enterprises see the dilemmas and challenges of unified communications rather differently.

JAVAONE : Developers' role shifting from apps to platforms

The development of web applications could put traditional software developers out of business - but it won't because they are jsut moving up the food chain, the JavaOne confrencewastold.

Microsoft Finally Clears Throat About Services

Microsoft has been promoting a combination of 'software plus services' as a way to ease itself away from its packaged-software legacy and into the Web 2.0 future. But nobody seems to sit up and take notice.

Oracle vs SAP legal fight gets messier

Legalese aside, Oracle vs SAP is dirty and complicated, with 30 pages of incendiary allegations by both parties, he-said-she-said barbs and frank admissions by SAP and Oracle hinting at just how hard it is for each side to make its case.

Interop: Startups take on network security, management

Interop inspires industry veterans and newcomers alike to put on display their most innovative products, hoping to catch the eye of network managers with IT problems to solve.

Scott Charney: Microsoft's axe man

Meet the man who can order Microsoft's product back to the drawing board even before it is shipped.

Salesforce.com has its head in the cloud

Now that Salesforce.com has proved that SaaS (software-as-a-service) is a successful business model, the company hopes to lead the way in cloud computing.

Vendors' hard drive failure rates: Myth or metric?

Why manufacturers' disk statistics too often give no real guide to performance and reliability in the real world.

IBM becomes Big Green

Project Big Green is IBM's sprawling initiative to increase the energy efficiency of IT.

Juniper Networks saves 1.3 billion watts

Juniper Networks' green IT project was tasked with anmd yielded more than green benefits.

Sun rips up datacentre design and saves a million

Sun has saved 75 percent of its datacentre power costs bny a major overhaul of Santa Clara facility, and it argues, others can do the same.

NetApp delivers green datacentre with 3-month ROI

Cutting edge datacentre design in 2004 didn’t cut it in 2008, but the upgrade delivered a spectacular return on investment.

Boom time for apps security testing tools

Providers of apps security testing software are experiencing boom times as customers look to tighten up their development testing.

MySQL users frustrated as Sun limits new features for paying customers

Open-source darling MySQL is facing a new uprising within its customer base over plans disclosed this week to reserve some key upcoming features, and their source code, for paying users of its database.

Can Google Apps break into large enterprises?

Monday's announcement that Salesforce.com would provide Google Apps for free to its customers sparked off a debate among analysts about whether Google's web-based software can make inroads with large businesses.

Microsoft patched critical Windows bug in XP SP3 early

The appearance and disappearance of a Windows XP installation snafu indicates that Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in XP's still-unfinished Service Pack 3 (SP3) weeks before it fixed any other version of Windows.

Microsoft builds first major container-based datacentre

Microsoft and Sun Microsystems both may claim to have pioneered the "datacentre in a box" concept, but Microsoft appears to be the first company that is rolling out container-based systems in a major way inside one of its datacentres.

Will Microsoft deliver Windows 7 next year?

Microsoft has dropped two strong hints in the past two days that the next version of its Windows operating system will arrive in 2009, shaving up to a year off previous expectations.

Microsoft's ISO win may worsen antitrust woes

Claims of foul play in the OOXML voting process may come back to haunt Microsoft when the European Commission concludes its latest antitrust investigation of Microsoft's business practices.

IBM says desktop computers and phones will disappear

IBM's top 5 predictions for unified communications: Desktop computers and phones will disappear.

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