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- Oil Company Improves Branch Office Infrastructure With Server Virtualization
- Caspian Pipeline Consortium CPC runs an oil pipeline system that extends between Kazakhstan and Russia's Black Sea coast. CPC is expanding rapidly and needs to upgrade its IT infrastructure to support business growth. Branch locations often managed their own servers, but space constraints and limited power supplies in remote areas...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Corp., Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Server Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, Virtualization, Servers, E-mail Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Online Communications, Enterprise Software
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Leading Oil Company Ensures Availability of Critical IT Systems
- The Caspian Pipeline Consortium CPC manages a 1,510-kilometre, U.S.$2.6-billion pipeline that connects oil fields in Kazakhstan with a new sea terminal in Russia. To operate effectively, the company relies on IT systems that monitor 24-hour production processes and support communications between employees at 10 regional offices in Russia and Kazakhstan....
- Tags: Russia, Information Technology, Kazakhstan, Microsoft Corp., Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Strategy, Servers, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management, Hardware
- Case studies 2007-04-01
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- Moonlight, the Silverlight for Linux project, releases first public version
- Miguel de Icaza has announced that that the first public sourcecode release of Moonlight CNET articleis now available. This version of Moonlight is based on Silverlight 1.0 and not the Silverlight 2 beta that is out now from Microsoft. It's also not Moonlight 1.0 as it seemed early on. According...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Linux, UNIX, Web Browsers, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-05-16
- Limo adds Mozilla, Verizon to its bandwagon
- The LiMo Foundation, a consortium that is building an open software platform for handsets based on Linux, has added Mozilla and Verizon to its roster The full roster of partners added today includes: Infineon Technologies; Kvaleberg AS; Mozilla Corporation; Red...
- Tags: LiMo Foundation, Verizon Communications Inc., Mozilla Corp., Limo, UI, Linux, Advertising & Promotion, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- European on-demand accounting vendors breaking the dam?
- Since I am based in Europe and come from a finance background, I have a special interest in what happens in this part of the world. Over the last couple of years, I've been consistently told by 'experts' that saas/on-demand business applications and especially those that are finance related will...
- Tags: On-demand, Vendor, QuickBooks Online, Smb/Sme, Financial Accounting, Finance, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- Who will set price and quality standards?
- Did you know Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt has a blog? It's a pretty good blog, in that it's evident he writes it himself, and in it deals with issues on a personal basis. For instance, he did a series of posts on a recent...
- Tags: Mike Leavitt, Health Care, Standards, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Quality, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- HP's to-do list following EDS acquisition
- We now know that HP is acquiring EDS in what appears to be an agreed bid that values EDS at $13.9 billion. Larry Dignan has the main analysis but it leaves open a series of testing questions for HP CEO Mark Hurd. As Larry points out: Overall, Wall Street...
- Tags: Acquisition, Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Mergers & Acquisitions, Outsourcing, Corporate Law, Asset Management, Construction, It Services, It Operations, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Operational Planning, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7
- Improved collaboration and connectivity between Windows PCs and cell phones is going to get a major shot in the arm with Windows 7, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. During a speech for members of the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo last week, Gates referred...
- Tags: Phone, Microsoft Windows 7, Mobile, PC, Cell Phone, Bill Gates, Gate, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-13
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refuse
- Novell to Sun: Here's an offer you can't refusewell can we trust Novell to anything now sincethey made deal with MS ......Don't think so. Well even if thay you be very nice to have a unix-fication under a mother distro .....im worry that MS goes up with dirty...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Virtualization, OPEN SOURCE, toughie, Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., NOVELL HAS
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob Ashe
- Interview: IBM Cognos chief Rob AsheIBM is completely missing the SaaS BI trendI wasn't surprised by Rob's comment that "BI doesn’t lend itself to SaaS" (though I suspect that the folks from Cognos' Celequest acquisition were caught a bit off guard.) But, I strongly disagree. The notion that...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Software as a Service (SaaS), Sales force management, Tools & Techniques, SaaS BI, sales, software-as-a-service, Cognos Inc., IBM Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- Delaying a PC revolution in cell diagnosis
- What if we could revolutionize medical testing, a platform as basic as a PC? Then what if every application, and every input, had to be separately inspected and approved by the FDA? That's life. Iknoisys of New Haven says it has just such a...
- Tags: FDA, PC, Test, Clearance, Party Solution, Federal Government, Government, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-05-08
- Is Enterprise Software Recession-Proof?
- Amidst the PR blitz and the blizzard of 1:1 meetings that constitute the foreground experience of SAP's Sapphire user conference this week (see Larry's coverage here, and Dennis' coverage here), there's an interesting back story emerging. If you look at SAP's last quarter, and believe the formal and informal guidance...
- Tags: SAP AG, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Which stock to buy today: YHOO, MSFT or GOOG?
- Which stock to buy today: YHOO, MSFT or GOOG?MSFT because they're a big famous successful companyMeanwhile, back in the real world :1) Google because of the ad revenue growth which will accelerate as the economy picks up again following the foreign forays2) Yahoo, because they have a lot of stuff...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Investment, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Yahoo! Inc., stock
- Discussion threads 2008-05-05
- Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite Release 2 (exe)
- Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite is comprised of a multitude of XML tools all in one feature packed XML editor. Build XML-enabled Java applications using Stylus Studio 2007 XML Enterprise Suite's JSP Editor, XML-Java debugger, and other Java XML applications. Stylus Studio's XML Editor also provides in depth XSLT...
- Tags: XSLT, Stylus Studio, Stylus Studio 2008 XML Enterprise Suite, XSLT Editor, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-05-04
- NetSuite turns into battlground among analysts; High hopes for OneWorld
- On the surface NetSuite's first quarter was pretty good. The company beat its earnings targets by a penny a share and revenue was better than expected. However, the on-demand ERP software provider's deferred revenue fell short of what analysts expected. As Credit Suisse analyst Philip Winslow, who...
- Tags: Revenue, Analyst, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, OneWorld, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-02
- Adobe's Open Screen Project: Back at ya' Apple!
- Flash maker Adobe on Thursday announced a consortium of phone and electronics vendors that will rally around Flash and Adobe Air content. But is the real target Apple? According to several Web and video developers, it's Adobe that needs to get on the iPhone bandwagon, not the...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., Safari Team, Corporate Communications, Channel Management, Telecom & Utilities, Marketing, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-05-01
- iPhone 3G: Release the rumors!
- Will the new iPhone be had in July for $199? Despite the buzz, nothing is certain about the next-generation iPhone — except that it will be the biggest mobile game machine of the back-to-school season. The story of the moment is by Scott...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mobile, 3G, Apple Inc., Volume Button, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee addresses WWW2008 in Beijing
- Speaking from the stage in China's Great Hall of the People last Thursday evening, World Wide Web inventor and Director of the World Wide Web Consortium Sir Tim Berners-Lee shared some of his hopes for the Web with his audience of WWW2008 delegates, impeccably polite and ever-helpful conference volunteers and...
- Tags: Web, Tim Berners-Lee, Channel Management, Marketing, Paul Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Microsoft to expand its Office streaming service?
- Computerworld is reporting that Microsoft is likely to announce the week of April 28 a new licensing arrangement for Office via which it would be available as a streamed service. The thinking, according to the report, is that this would give Microsoft, its partners and customers another...
- Tags: Desktop, Softricity SoftGrid, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- AMD can't get to 45nm fast enough. A 12-core package?
- If there was a bright spot in AMD's first quarter, it was the new PC and graphics products that have either recently shipped or are in the pipeline for 2008. Barcelona, the company's quad-core design manufactured using a 65nm process, bombed last year. Meanwhile, Intel is minting millions of 45nm...
- Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
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