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- 'WOA: the SOA that works'
- "WOA: the SOA that works." That's how fellow ZDNet blogger and analyst Phil Wainewright described the Web Oriented Architecture phenomenon that has been a topic of hot discussion as of late, at the latest Analyst BriefingsDirect podcast we just wrapped yesterday. The podcast (audio...
- Tags: SOA, WOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Analyst Insights podcast examines WOA-SOA continuum with keen eye on cloud computing
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. There's been welling interest and discussion lately around so-called Web Oriented Architecture (WOA) and established Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), and how the two relate. And then there's the whole cloud computing trend, and well ... how does that relate, too?...
- Tags: Web, Cloud Computing, SOA, Podcasts, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Internet, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Microsoft CRM Online Hunts Salesforce.com
- The official GA release of Microsoft's CRM Online offering is next week, and with it comes a new chapter in the life of Salesforce.com. To date Salesforce.com has lacked a major competitor that could be seen as a worthy opponent in terms of overall size, price, functionality, and marketing chops....
- Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., On-demand, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft CRM, CRM, Microsoft CRM Online, Sales Force Management, Enterprise Software, Sales, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer?
- There are two ways to look at Yahoo's latest move in the Microsoft-Yahoo chess game: Yahoo is either trying to torpedo the deal or trying to force Microsoft to rush into it by upping its offer. Yahoo announced on April 9 "that it will begin a limited...
- Tags: Strategy, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Financial Accounting, Finance, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- Yahoo goes nuclear vs. Microsoft: Inks limited Google ad deal; Microsoft fires back
- Update: Yahoo hit that big red button that could nuke any potential merger with Microsoft (or at least raise the price): An ad deal with Google. As first reported in The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo has launched plans to carry search advertising from Google. The move is...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-09
- xRM: Microsoft's other platform-as-a-service play
- The amorphous term "cloud computing" includes lots of different service-delivery models -- everything from managed services, to utility computing, to software-as-a-service (SaaS), as Infoworld outlined in a useful cloud-computing primer this week. And within these cloud subcategories, definitions are vague, too. Consider platform-as-a-service (PaaS). Some are defining...
- Tags: PaaS, Microsoft Corp., xRM, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-08
- An Introduction to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
- View Microsoft's Webcast to see how you can use Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, and learn about the importance of CRM from Martha Rogers, globally recognized leader in customer strategy and relationship marketing, and founding partner of The Peppers & Rogers Group, part of The Carlson Marketing Group. This Webcast also...
- Tags: Microsoft Dynamics, Webcast, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Corp., CRM, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing
- Webcasts 2008-04-01
- The 3-D Web Goes Thin
- Increasingly, it looks like Weight Watchers has gotten hold of the Semantic Web. Fat is out. Thin is in. And while no one's counting points, it certainly looks like, thin clients will increasingly play a central roles in attracting organizations to the 3-D web. A number of...
- Tags: 3D, Web, 3-D Web, Vivaty, ScreenCaster, Dave Greenfield
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Why we still hate Microsoft
- Call it the Clinton effect. I'm not trying to be political here. But what seems to upset most people about Hillary Clinton, and Bill Clinton for that matter, is this habit of parsing. Barack Obama is not a Muslim as far as I know....
- Tags: Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp., Hillary Clinton, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-28
- News to know: AMD; Google; Oracle worries; Eluma; Nuospace
- Notable headlines: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: AMD releases Quad and Triple core Phenom processors Larry Dignan: Google paid click growth sluggish in February; More worries emerge. Techmeme. Oracle new license revenue raises IT spending worries Dennis Howlett: Nuospace: enterprise collaboration for the rest...
- Tags: Google Inc., Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Data Centers, Open Source, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefully
- Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefullyJust surrender and it won't hurt at allSeriously, unless/until MS discloses which patents have been violated by which packages, their patent claims and their lawyer should be treated with absolute contempt. Furthermore, inasmuch as...
- Tags: IP, Microsoft Corp., Brad Smith, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- Microsoft's Chief Counsel Brad Smith urges open source rivals to compromise on IP issues, co-exist peacefully
- Microsoft General Counsel and IP chief Brad Smith got a round of applause at the Open Source Business Conference Monday for showing respect to the open source community -- but he faced some tough questioning from those in the bazaar. One attendee asked how...
- Tags: Software, Brad Smith, IP, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Can the Microsoft cathedral really do business with the open-source bazaar?
- It sounds like the "show-down" between Senior Vice President and General Counsel Brad Smith and a panel of open-source backers at the Open Source Business Conference (OSBC) on March 25 didn't plow any new ground. Smith extended the same olive branch that Microsoft has been holding aloft,...
- Tags: GPL, Patent, Brad Smith, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Oceans 11 Screensaver (zip)
- Ocean's Eleven is a 2001 remake of the 1960 Rat Pack caper film Ocean's Eleven. The 2001 film was directed by Steven Soderbergh and featured an ensemble cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy Garcia, and Julia Roberts. A superslick free screensaver of this slick movie.
- Tags: Screensaver, Ocean, Wallpaper Screensavers
- Software downloads 2008-03-25
- LiveJournal's new owners stick it to Advisory Board
- No more ad-free, free user accounts. Having pledged to "do no harm", blogging and social networking platform LiveJournal's new Russian owners are no longer offering new users the Basic Level account, "which traded a pared-down feature set for an ad and cost free user profile", reports ReadWriteWeb....
- Tags: Advertisement, Board, LiveJournal, SUP, Corporate Governance, Social Networking, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Google: CAPTCHAs aren't dead yet
- CAPTCHAs, those fuzzy letters that are supposed to ensure you're a human when you register for an account, have been under fire of late, but Google says their demise is greatly exaggerated. That's the takeaway from a post by Brad Stone in the New York Times Bits...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Google Inc., Hacker, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-14
- New tool cracks most enterprise wireless LANs
- If your company or organization runs an enterprise wireless LAN network, I have some troubling news for you. Odds are high that your current "enterprise-class" wireless LAN deployment is vulnerable to authentication leakage which not only exposes your internal network but all of your server access controls. ...
- Tags: Security, Funk Software, WLAN, Server, Tool, Odds, Wireless Client, Certificate Authority, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, LANs, Wireless, Networking, George Ou
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Microsoft caves: 'Super-standards' mode to become IE 8 default
- After much outcry from developers and users, Microsoft is bowing to pressure and making its new, Acid-2-compliant standards mode the default in Internet Explorer 8. Microsoft officials are attributing the change in plans to the company wanting to live up to the interoperability pledges that Microsoft made...
- Tags: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Mode, Web Browsers, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
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