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Forrester expects IT spending trough in third quarter; U.S. tech spending to fall 5 percent in 2009

Forrester Research has revised its 2009 technology spending projections with expectations that U.S. IT spending will fall 5.1 percent in 2009 with global outlays to drop 11 percent. Forrester's revision is a cut from the 3.1 percent decline expected in its March report. Forrester analyst Andrew Bartels...

Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Business Investment, Information Technology, IT-spending, Forrester Research Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Oracle Consulting's 8 Steps to Building a Business Case for Change

Business cases for IT enabled business transformation change must establish business and IT leadership alignment on the potential business value, cost, risk, timeline and, thus, priority, of the change. Business cases built on jointly accepted business performance improvement metrics and targets provide the basis for business investment decisions and provide...

Tags: Business Case, Business Investment, Oracle Consulting

White papers 2008-12-01

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Microsoft cuts BPOS price to squeeze Lotus

Not for Smaller businessesA nice new angle to look at Microsoft's price cut. Microsoft is undoubtedly targeting the enterprise segment with BPOS, since in spite of the price cut, BPOS is complex and needs implementation support, and costs more from a total cost point of view. (Varguy reported a reseller...

Tags: Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., BPOS price

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Enterprise 2.0 - the non-debate

If I'd paid the full whack $2,495 to attend the Enterprise 2.0 conference I'd be demanding at least a partial refund. It seems the 'Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock' debate was less than a damp squib and more like a feeble whimper. Here's the back story: ...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-11-05

Net Neutrality: You own the Internet - make sure it becomes Law

how to get from there to herewhile net neutrality makes a lot of sense to most people, how can we make sure that it becomes law. Our open source government democracy is decidedly NOT neutral, and the same interests that would take away our rights on the internet, are the...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet, government

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

In recession, VoIP makes strong case for cutting your home landline

Tempting, but I will passI've considered VoIP several times over the years, but it usually just takes a few phone calls with a friend or relative who is using VoIP before I change my mind! Not infrequently, the conversation becomes a warbling mess. Then there are times we...

Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, VoIP, phone, recession

Discussion threads 2009-10-30

Five reasons to deliver a virtual service, not a virtual server

What began as an interesting technological experiment has now become an opportunity for IT to shape its future, says Fortisphere's Lilac Berniker Commentary - As virtualization becomes an increasingly commonplace technology in the datacenter, the breadth of stakeholders in the virtual environment is growing. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Workload, Virtual Server, Server, Strategy, Management, virtualization, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet, Lilac Berniker Fortisphere, Special to ZDNet

News items 2009-10-29

Will OpenSolaris survive Oracle?

We can only hope so! It would make a much better back end than what linux has to offer. Solaris has always been a solid performer and is a real UNIX, not some hacked up clone like linux. The best option for Oracle would be to ditch linux...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Sun Solaris, Oracle Corp., OpenSolaris, Open Solaris

Discussion threads 2009-10-27

The chief value of open source

Custom code solutions...It's great you can see the code, but for companies I disagree that is a "value".What SMB has the resources to comb through thousands of lines of code to assure reliability and security? Even if they do manage to find a bug, are they going to fork...

Tags: open source, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

MSFT versus GOOG - there's a big gap

Countering Google[i]At the current rate of Google?s revenue growth, 7 per cent, it would take it more than 3 years to reach Microsoft?s current quarterly revenue.[/i]The above is true if you assume MS will have no growth over the next 3 years. I don't think that will be the case....

Tags: Web browsers, Operational accounting, Strategy, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

The maintenance renewal landscape

Been doing this for years.Work for a non-profit, so unless its mission critical or has a high cost of replacement... its not going to get renewed.I think everyone should live by this rule. If they did, software maintenance would be much cheaper!SAP, Oracle very Different on Dependence on MaintenanceI'll...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, Operational accounting, cloud computing, SAP AG, Oracle Corp., SaaS Model, revenue, software

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future

The co-founders of mySQL have profound disagreements on the future of the open source database following Oracle's takeover. Monty Widenius wants mySQL sold, not given to Oracle, telling reporters his Monty AB encouraged the investigation that has held up the Oracle-Sun deal. Meanwhile Marten...

Tags: Oracle Corp., MySQL, Sun Microsystems Inc., Monty Widenius, Monty, Open Source, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Another strong quarter for Apple; credit strong iPhone, Mac sales

Over-reaction of marketThis Apple news will be diluted once Windows7 ships this week. Plus, with the new Zune HD and Windows Mobile 6.5, Apple's days are definitely numbered. Microsoft is poised to take control of all markets once and for all. I would sell AAPL if I were a shareholder...

Tags: Investment, Digital music, Digital media, Financial accounting, Personal finance, Operating systems, Apple Macintosh, Apple iPhone, sales, Apple stock price, Windows Mobile 6.5, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., market capitalization, stock

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

How did IT fall so far behind the tech curve?

Okay, butThey also go out and buy their own servers with some hidden budget line, then try to foist maintenance off on the CIO. And then we try to integrate the data - and the data isn't theirs, it's critical to the health, even survival, of the enterprise.Yes, we...

Tags: Strategy, Virtualization, cloud computing, Regulatory compliance, Marketing Guy, information technology

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Stinks to be the CIO: The 2010 IT budget may spike to 2006 resource levels

Welcome to 2010 with the same resources you had back in 2006 and 2007 (if you're lucky). Now go out and be useful to the business. That cheery outlook was delivered by Gartner in its 2010 CIO Agenda talk. Some pep talk, guys. Gartner analyst Mark McDonald...

Tags: IT Budget, CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-19

Beware the allure of Fool's Cloud

no securityNo one in their right mind would send theircritical apps off to the cloud.Another pie in the sky to dream up getting ridof expenses only to make more expenses.Still no Security or...Public clouds are not secure. They are just like the regular Internet. Only put on the public cloud...

Tags: Strategy, cloud provider, Clear, public cloud, security

Discussion threads 2009-10-19

Senior IBM exec among those charged in Wall Street insider trading sting

Greed on Wall Street has landed six people - including a long-time, high-level IBM executive - in handcuffs after the FBI charged them with being involved with "the largest hedge fund insider trading case in history." In all, the six netted illegal profits of more than $20...

Tags: Hedge Fund, FBI, Wall Street, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., IBM Corp., Chiesi, MOFFAT, Federal Government, Investment, Financial Services, Government, Finance, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-16

Schmidt: Worst of recession is over; Google is hiring

Google exceeded Wall Street's expectations for the third quarter by reporting net income of $1.88 billion, or $5.89 per share, on revenue of $5.94 billion, up 7 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Excluding traffic acquisition costs, Google's revenue was $4.38 billion. Wall Street analysts had been expecting...

Tags: Hiring, Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Advertisement, Mobile, Recession, Investment, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-15

HP print soultions and Barclays Wealth

Leading investment management advisor Barclays Wealth wanted to replace its disparate, multi-vendor print environment with a more efficient and environmentally sound solution. One of the business benefits, Annual savings from cash efficiencies and lower support costs amount to £1.25 million ($2.0m), a cost reduction of over 50 per cent in...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Barclays Plc., Investment, Finance

White papers 2009-10-14

Oracle OpenWorld: Getting down to business

At Oracle OpenWorld, company co-presidents Charles Phillips and Safra Catz kicked off the day's events with a keynote speech that got right down to business about, well, doing business. In the opening minutes of the keynote, the two took some time to reflect on what the company...

Tags: Car, Oracle Corp., Oracle Open World, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-12