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Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam: Is Microsoft fighting an unwinnable war with its online business and search obsession? It's a valid question and one that needs to be asked. At some point you have to wonder if Microsoft's Google envy is its Vietnam. As Mary Jo Foley noted Microsoft's answer to its...; Tags: Business, Microsoft Corp., Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-18
Offshore outsourcers turn cautious: The three primary publicly traded offshore outsourcing companies have turned cautious about the future even as their financial results remain strong. Among the worries--a weak dollar that's hurting revenue and margins, economic uncertainty, murky IT budgets and a concentration of financial services and retail customers. Meanwhile, CIOs...; Tags: Revenue, Wipro Technologies, Financial Service, Outsourcing Company, Net Income, Infosys Technologies Ltd., Outsourcing, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Financial Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Finance, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-18
CIOs getting better prices, see flat second half spending: A Citi Investment Research survey of 200 CIOs finds a cautious outlook for technology spending that's roughly flat in the second half compared to a year ago. Under the surface, however, there are some interesting crosscurrents and IT buyers are getting better pricing. The survey released last...; Tags: CIO, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, Operational Planning, Server Consolidation, Pricing, Marketing Research, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Servers, Hardware, Marketing, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-07-14
15% of consumer time is spent online, 9% of ad budgets are currently online: Consumers spend 15% of their time on the Internet, while 9% of advertising budgets are on the Web, ZenithOptimedia said. Rising Internet use will also drive online ad spending, with 19% of the world’s population having Web access in 2008, compared with 17% 2007. Internet ad spending will overtake magazines...; Tags: Advertisement, Internet, AM; Blog posts 2008-07-11
Microsoft Equipt: student productivity rise likely?: Probably not. But it's not a bad thing Microsoft have done, and it really shows that they're committed to this "student malarkey" we have going. Today, they announced that project "Albany", now called Microsoft Equipt, has been released into the wild, for the masses who want an all-round suite of...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., OneCare, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Zack Whittaker; Blog posts 2008-07-02

Rainy Day Budget (zip): Keeping a budget and controlling your spending can have great benefits, including avoiding serious debt problems such as bankruptcy and foreclosure. Rainy Day Budget makes creating, managing, and updating budgets simple. Use our intuitive user interface to easily add income sources, pre-tax and regular expenses, and savings funds. The payday...; Tags: Income, Payday Feature, Operational Accounting, Finance; Software downloads 2008-07-02
Sim Piggy (exe): Sim Piggy is a software equivalent of piggybank budgeting - you allocate money into virtual piggybanks, then you deduct money from piggybanks when you spend. It is designed to make budgeting an interesting experience as a lot of people tend to abandon their budgets after a while. The report printout...; Tags: Budgeting, Money, MikeeC Software, Sim Piggy, Financial Services; Software downloads 2008-07-01
Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadership: Gov't failures: Engineering brain drain and bad leadershipIt's GovernmentWhy should anybody put any effort into any government project. There is no penalty for failure. The pay checks keep on rolling.The oversight Congress are a bunch of self serving fossils, who for the most part are clueless.However, the public...; Tags: Six Sigma, Government, brain drain, bad leadership, CMMI, leadership; Discussion threads 2008-06-27
Time to blow up the software industry: Vinnie Mirchandani's post, Call to Steve Jobs: Please reshape the enterprise software market was bound to get a reaction out of my Irregular chums. 70 reactions to be precise as at the time of writing this post. That's the number of posts to our Google Group on the topic with...; Tags: Software-as-a-service, Financial, Software Company, SAP AG, Vinnie Mirchandani, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Emerging Technologies, Management, Software, Dennis Howlett; Blog posts 2008-06-24
Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos?: The 'shoot out' between Microsoft Sharepoint and Lotus Connections, two juggernauts in the enterprise space, played to a packed audience at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. The two companies went head to head, squaring off with product demos. I chose to instead attend John...; Tags: Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Collaboration, Microsoft Office, Microsoft SharePoint, Server, Enterprise 2.0, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-06-22
From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM Mainframe: From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframeDitch all this Cr@p!They need to simply go with Vista Server and MS Access 2008 Server! Problem solved!http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.comRE: From CFrom Chapter one: Data Processing and the IBM MainframePlease bear in mind that the 360 came out ten years before the ideas...; Tags: Mainframes, Programming languages, Servers, maintenance programming, COBOL, CFrom Chapter, data-processing, pianist, IBM mainframe, IBM Corp., mainframe; Discussion threads 2008-06-20
Interview: HP Software's David Gee on next generation data center trends and opportunities: Enterprise CIOs face mounting challenges that are hard and getting even harder. HP says it has a lifeline for these IT departments and leaders over the next five years by helping them to dramatically cut the size of IT budgets relative to the enterprises' total revenue. This allows a shift...; Tags: Software, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology, Generation Data Center, Data Centers, Podcasts, Strategy, Digital Music, Digital Media, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Internet, Management, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Dana Gardner; Blog posts 2008-06-19
Financial GPS (zip): So many people today cannot answer the following questions: Where does my money go? Will I make it through the month? I want to retire-will I run out of money before I run out of life? Whatever your situation, Financial GPS can help. The simple set up will allow you...; Tags: Financial, Video, Ameriprep Solutions, Corporate Communications, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance; Software downloads 2008-06-18
Mac and PC are at it again: Mac and PC are at it againBuy Macs and...Use VMWare Fusion to run Windows XP not Vista.Set up VMWare in coherence mode so the few Windows apps appear in the Mac OS X environment.Put 4 GB in EVERY computer. Don't even think of less than 4.Ask every user who they...; Tags: Desktops, PC, Apple Macintosh, X.x; Discussion threads 2008-06-17
Selling SOA: Stating the obvious: Successful IT projects, including Service-Oriented Architecture SOA initiatives, begin with a clear rationale designed to help an organization solve specific business or technology problems. Practitioners frequently ignore this obvious point, which causes many failed projects. With this in mind, I had mixed reactions...; Tags: SOA, David, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2008-06-16
Lessons from American university education: Lessons from American university educationCorrectionsYou wrote: Not only are graduates easy pickings for companies who want the best and brightest in the world (or rather, would be, if our own government wasn’t so intent on sending them back to their home countries), but they create opportunities for private money to...; Tags: college system, private college, education, American University; Discussion threads 2008-06-11
Schedule24 Professional Edition (txt): Schedule24 Professional is the leading easy to use staff scheduling and workforce management software for creating and automating staff schedules. Ideal for business managers or team leaders Schedule24 Professional will help you effectively and successfully manage staff scheduling in the high performance workplace. Create, view and edit multiple staff schedules....; Tags: Intellicate, Schedule24 Professional, Staff Schedule, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Management; Software downloads 2008-06-10
Do we need "Management 2.0"?: Sue Bushell, who wrote a very thoughtful in-depth Enterprise 2.0 article for Australian CIO magazine recently, has an interesting question within Linked In to her connections: "Do we need "Management 2.0" and what would it look like if we do?" I'm looking forward to the article she's...; Tags: Web, Collaboration, Information Technology, Web 2.0, Groupware, Strategy, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Management, Oliver Marks; Blog posts 2008-06-08
Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?: Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?Why can't you have a five eprson team iplement UK health recordIf you design UK, Canada, or any centralized health system country's health record system, you will have to insure access to tens of millions of persons worth of records on a 24/7 basis...; Tags: Government, E-health, Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, bureaucracy, open source; Discussion threads 2008-06-05
Can open source help liberate the bureaucracy?: Britain's national plan to bring order and interoperability to the patient records and operations of the national health service was going to cost about Â£1.2bn and be an enormous business and political success by early 1998. Ten years later it's widely expected to be a continuing Â£13bn pound...; Tags: Agency, Health Care, Bureaucracy, StarOffice, Open Source, Advertising & Promotion, Office Suites, Software, Marketing, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-06-05