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In tight times, Microsoft launches two new servers

It's not a great time for a new product launch. But Microsoft officials soldiered on with the company's planned November 12 virtual launch of its newest small and mid-size business servers: Windows Essential Business Server 2008 and Windows Small Business Server 2008. by Mary Jo Foley

Tags: Server, Microsoft Corp., Small And Medium Business, Smb/Sme, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, EBS, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Servers, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-12

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Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap (or even free)

RE: Seven perfectly legal ways to get Windows 7 cheap or even freeGreat post, Ed! Seeing how you outlined the cheapest way to get Microsoft Windows 7 there should be no reason why anyone would not want to upgrade now. Price is no longer an issue. This would be...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, legal way, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2009-11-06

Oracle's integration strategy: Customer trade-offs

We Already Thought The Stuff From One Vendor Was IntegratedI'm simply blown away that no one is pointing out that many buyers thought that, when they bought EBS, for example, they were already getting a VERY high degree of true integration across all the applications. Same for PeopleSoft customers....

Tags: Oracle Corp., integration

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

First Look: Ubuntu 9.10 beta "Karmic Koala"

wow... seriously?NOTE: This was supposed to be in response to the "good for poor people" comment, but I screwed up:Do you have any basis for your claims? Have you even used Linux, let alone this version of Ubuntu which is still just a Beta? Why does cost/money...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Microsoft Office, Ubuntu

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

JD Edwards certification woes

Andy Klee takes a stern look at JD Edwards certification: I'm here to tell you that the JDE certification program is on life support. It barely exists. JDE employees cannot be certified, and neither can JDE clients. Only business partners are eligible to take certification exams. ...

Tags: Certification, Oracle Corp., J.D. Edwards & Co., Andy Klee, EBS Certification, JDE World, JDE Customer, Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Forrester - Competition Intensifies For the SMB ERP Customer

Oracle has been a quiet but significant player in the SMB space, with more than 19,000 SMB apps customers for Oracle E-Business Suite EBS, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and JD Edwards. As Fusion Middleware represents Oracle's integration strategy, Oracle Accelerate represents the centerpiece of the vendor's go-to-market SMB strategy.

Tags: Oracle Corp., Small And Medium Business, Forrester Research Inc., Smb/Sme

White papers 2009-09-01

EC2Dream 0.92 (Windows)

EC2Dream is a free Graphical System Admin tool aimed at Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus System Administration. It is designed to complement the Amazon AWS Management console. It installs on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X client machines. Features include: support for Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus; multiple environments based on access...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., EC2Dream, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware

Software downloads 2009-08-18

Gartner financial apps MarketScope

Earlier today I saw Oracle crowing about getting a top slot in Gartner's Marketscope for financial applications. They weren't the only ones. SAP took a similar top slot. But then all the others Gartner looked at: Epicor, Lawson, Microsoft, Exact, Infor, Sage and Unit 4 Agresso scored 'positive.' Odd you...

Tags: PeopleSoft Inc., Oracle Corp., Financial, On-demand, Gartner Inc., Sage, KashFlow, Managed Hosting, Smb/Sme, Cloud Computing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-08-17

Enterprise Business Solutions, LLC Accelerates Project Lifecycles With Intuitive Collaboration Tool

The EBS Group wanted to enable employees and customers to collaborate in online workspaces to more effectively manage complex projects and streamline and accelerate document approval processes, while ensuring each document includes all necessary changes. The challenge was to provide customers with a secure project portal to access project status...

Tags: Oracle Corp., IM, Collaboration Tool, Tool, E-mail, Instant Messaging, Collaboration, Groupware, Online Communications, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies 2009-08-01

Migrating Oracle e-Business Suite 11i From Sun Solaris to an HP-UX and Linux Split Configuration

This white paper describes the procedures for migrating an Oracle E-Business Suite EBS 11i application and database tiers from a Sun Microsystems SPARC-based server running Solaris to a split configuration using HP Integrity and HP BladeSystem servers. The target configuration leverages the mission-critical strengths of the HP-UX operating system and...

Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Oracle11i, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle E-Business Suite, Sun Solaris, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Databases, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-06-01

Big Gains, Small Footprint With HP BladeSystem, Microsoft Windows Essential Business Server

Newman Martin and Buchan LLP NMB, insurance and reinsurance brokers based in London, have 150 employees and are no exception. One challenge is that NMB's workforce is highly mobile. Eighty people on the staff of about 150 carry BlackBerry smartphones. But getting remote access to the company's desktops was difficult....

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Window, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Insurance, Instant Messaging, Servers, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Internet, Online Communications, Hardware

Case studies 2009-06-01

Microsoft launches new netbook-like Windows Server option

Microsoft launches new netbook-like Windows Server optionNetbook-like?Does this mean we'll see OEM's building Atom-based business servers? ;)Windows Server Foundation vs. WinWESSSo what is "WinWESS" then? Is it just Windows Server Foundation, but including Hyper-V and having the ability to connect to an SBS domain with CAL interoperability? ...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Servers, Operating systems, WinWESS, Microsoft Windows Small Business Server, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, netbook, server

Discussion threads 2009-04-01

Total Cost of Ownership Comparison Kerio MailServer Vs. Microsoft Exchange

For small to medium businesses wanting to improve email and collaboration efficiency, Kerio MailServer provides a powerful solution to more SMBs, with lower Total Cost of Ownership TCO when Exchange is not an option. This whitepaper identifies three considerations for TCO and compares the TCO of Kerio MailServer to Exchange...

Tags: Microsoft Exchange Server, TCO, Microsoft Corp., Kerio Technologies, Roi/Tco, Smb/Sme, Finance, Managerial Accounting

White papers 2009-03-01

Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud

Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...

Tags: Genome, Amazon.com Inc., Data Set, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Kernel Parameters for HP-UX Systems Running Oracle e-Business Suite Software Applications

This paper contains recommendations for kernel parameters on HP-UX servers running Oracle E-Business Suite EBS software applications. The EBS software deployments are structured around Oracle Fusion Middleware platform; the installation is divided into a database tier and an applications tier, hosting services such as Java, Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports,...

Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., Oracle E-Business Suite, Kernel Parameter, EBS Software Deployment, Tools & Techniques, Operational Accounting, Operating Systems, Servers, Management, Finance, Software, Hardware

White papers 2008-11-01

Transcript: PDC08 Keynote â€" Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava, Bob Muglia and David Thompson

Todd Bishop, TechFlash; Ed Bott, ZDNet;  Kip Kniskern, Liveside; Rafael Rivera, Within Windows; Paul Thurrott, Windows Supersite; and Tom Warren, Neowin; and Long Zheng, Istartedsomething â€" and yours truly--did a group blog of the first PDC keynote. Here's the live blog transcript (speakers: Ray Ozzie, Amitabh Srivastava,...

Tags: Keynote, Ed Bott, Mary Jo Foley, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., Service, App, Liveside, Neowin.net, Tom Riley, Signal God, Paul, MJ, Azure, Z, Red Dog, Download Link, Saruhan, Bluehoo, MOS, SSDS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Blog posts 2008-10-27

Same story for Amazon: Q3 beats, Q4 forecast disappoints

Same story - different company, different day. This time it's Amazon on the hot seat. The company reported third quarter earnings of $118 million, or 27 cents per share, on $4.26 billion in revenue. statement Profits were up 48 percent from the same quarter a year ago...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-22

Oracle, the Innovation Company: Core Innovation, Fusion Applications' Debut, and Why It’s All Up to AIA

If I had to distill a vast and complex product strategy into a single, admittedly simplistic description, Oracle of late would have been known as a company that innovates through acquisition: This has been largely true since Oracle’s acquisition binge started five years ago. And until now innovation through acquisition...

Tags: Innovation, Oracle Corp., SAP AG, E-Business Suite, Oracle Business Intelligence App, Application Integration, Leadership, It Services, Strategy, Middleware, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2008-09-24

Jollat 1.1 (Windows)

A cross-platform Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2) client providing access to all the functionality the services have to offer from an easy-to-use interface. If you need to upload/download objects, change ACPs on S3 or manage instances, EBS volumes, firewall rules on EC2, Jollat is the best tool to use on...

Tags: S3 Inc., Instance, Jollat, Microsoft Windows, Firewalls, Productivity, Desktops, Cloud Computing, Web Services, Network Security, Operating Systems, Software, Networking, Hardware, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2008-09-12

All-in-One Internet Filtering Solution Solves Costly Problems for Easton-Bell Sports

After extensively evaluating a number of different Web filtering solutions, Network Operations Manager Matt Baskett and his team at Easton-Bell Sports EBS selected Bloxx's Web filtering appliance as the most satisfying solution for EBS. It is a dynamic content filtering solution that uses industry-leading Tru-View Technology to analyze, categorize and...

Tags: Internet, Bloxx Inc., All-in-One, Channel Management, Marketing

Case studies 2008-09-04