Technology

What Microsoft’s new pricing means for your business

Microsoft has announced an overhaul of its enterprise licensing regime. Will you get value from the changes?

Funambol's open source challenge to Blackberry

Funambol plans to offer ad-funded email to consumers, and free Blackberry-style email to the enterprise. We asked the CEO to explain himself.

Gartner questions iPhone's enterprise security

Apple 's new 3G iPhone 3G should not be given the same kind of broad access to internal applications that PCs typically enjoy, despite the enhanced security it offers, according to Gartner analysts.

Microsoft open policy faces scrutiny

Microsoft faces an uphill battle in trying to convince the market that its efforts at openness are sincere.

SharePoint 2007: a marriage made in heaven for information management and IT?

For companies that choose SharePoint, it makes sense for there to be a joined-up IT, knowledge and information function.

Microsoft's support for ODF highlights problems with OOXML

Microsoft's plan to include ODF support in its Office suite next year reflects continued challenges for the OOXML file format, as the industry moves ahead with adopting ODF and sorts out OOXML's troubles.

Microsoft’s open source patent violation claims - one year on

Microsoft's talks the language of interoperability but its hot and cold attitude to open source after claiming a year ago that Linux violated hundreds of its patents doesn't look to have worked.

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.