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Platform: A hardware and/or software architecture that serves as a foundation or base. The term originally dealt with only hardware, and it still refers to a CPU model or computer...; Full Platform Definition >>

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Enomaly's open source virtual platform moves VMs in the cloud: Enomaly is a software developer in Toronto whose open source cloud computing platform is getting a lot of attention these days. The platform, Enomalism, is a virtual infrastructure tool that allows customers create their own cloud capacity and move virtual machines from one's data center or from...; Tags: Cloud Computing, Platform, VMware Inc., Enomaly, Enomalism, Open Source, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-02
Microsoft takes wraps off Live Mesh: At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Amit Mital, general manager of Live Mesh at Microsoft, demos the company's new platform. The initiative is a "software plus services" platform that enables PCs and other devices to "come alive" by making them aware of each other through the Internet, enabling...; Tags: Platform, Microsoft Corp., Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, web 2.0; Videos 2008-04-24
Microsoft looks to make product planning more science than art: Microsoft has been quietly building a platform to help its own product teams -- and ultimately, those from other companies -- turn product planning more of a science and less of a black art. Microsoft calls the test bed the Microsoft Experimentation Platform ExP. Here is how...; Tags: Software, Team, Experiment, Platform, Experimentation, Microsoft Corp., ExP, EXP Team, MJF, Human Intuition, Team Management, Tools & Techniques, Management, Mary Jo Foley; Blog posts 2008-04-16
Comparing Amazon's and Google's platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) Offerings: The announcement this week that Google released a beta version of a robust cloud computing platform called Google App Engine that lets anyone build apps on Google's renowned and highly scalable infrastructure underscored a key trend in the software industry today. Namely that software platforms are moving from their...; Tags: Google Inc., Platform, PaaS, Amazon.com Inc., Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2008-04-11
Customization: curse or blessing?: At the high end of the platform-as-a-service spectrum, there's a cluster of vendors that offer fully templated but still highly customizable business applications, targeting small to mid-size businesses and departmental managers in larger organizations. Interestingly, in a poll of ZDNet readers I ran earlier in the month asking where you'd...; Tags: Application, Curse, Platform, NetSuite Inc., Zach Nelson, Customization, LongJump PaaS, Mike McGinn, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-03-24

Benioff: platform as a service needs a decade to cook: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff reckons that its platform as a service initiatives will take about a decade to truly bake. Benioff made those comments in an interview with News.com's Dan Farber and Charles Cooper. The interview is worth a read given that Benioff and Dan usually have...; Tags: Marc Benioff, Platform, Service, Application Servers, Sales Force Management, Software As A Service (SaaS), Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-03-17
Intel and AMD finalizing new notebook technology: Within the next couple of months, both Intel and AMD will be releasing new notebook platforms. Here's what we know so far. Details of Intel's new platform, called Montevina and due in June, have been slowly leaking out for months. But Daily Tech has filled in a...; Tags: AMD Turion, Dual-core, Platform, Roadmap, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Chip, Montevina, U3300, PM45, Puma, Griffin, Processors, Notebooks, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Notebooks & Tablets, John Morris; Blog posts 2008-03-04
Linux-based Unison server to challenge Microsoft Unified Communications platform: A group of former execs from a Microsoft messaging hosting partner are going to launch a Linux-based unified communications platform that will compete directly against Microsoft. Unison, a two-year-old developer based in New York, plans to release into beta testing the Linux server and Windows client code...; Tags: Platform, Unified Communications, Enterprise Version, Microsoft Corp., Unison, Linux, E-mail, Open Source, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Hardware, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-02-27
Indonesian Bank Champions platform for the Future, Bolsters Branch Office Security: With nearly 800 branches and 5,500 automatic tellers across Indonesia, Bank of Central Asia BCA is a regional leader in financial services for businesses and consumers. Restricted by physical security concerns and the high cost of bandwidth, BCA relied on Novell servers to authenticate users at branch offices. As support...; Tags: Security, Branch Office, Platform, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Windows, Financial Services, Operating Systems, Software; Case studies 2008-02-26
Enterprise SaaS and the cloud: ISVs today have three choices when setting out to build a SaaS application: A. Build the application on your own infrastructure, which you'll have to assemble from scratch using open source and commodity components. B. Build it on a packaged platform from an established application infrastructure...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Software-as-a-service, Platform, ISV, Computing, Force.com, Riskonnect, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales Force Management, Service Management, Emerging Technologies, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Salesforce.com ascends to the cloud: Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff opened his "Tour de Force" presentation in San Francisco touting the prowess of the Force.com platform and his company--1 million subscribers, on track for more than $1 billion in its fiscal year (starting Feb. 1), 24 billion API calls to date, 130 million transactions daily, 210...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff, Platform, Internet, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2008-01-17
Hands-on with the AMD Spider - Phenom 9700, 790 chipset and Radeon 3850 graphics: A few days before Christmas I got my hands on an AMD "Spider" Phenom 9700-based system. Since my head was ringing to the tune of "Jingle Bells" at the time, and because I had troubles downloading a needed BIOS update, all this conspired to mean that I didn't really get...; Tags: Platform, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Graphics, Radeon, Crysis, Chipsets, Performance Management, Games, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Personal Technology, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-01-08
The top Enterprise Web 2.0 stories of 2007: Over the last year, we have witnessed the continuation of the steady movement of the mostly consumer-driven Web 2.0 phenomenon into the workplace that began as a trickle in 2006. Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, social networking, end-user mashups, and even prediction markets saw their largest entry yet into businesses...; Tags: Web, Mobile, Platform, Idea, Business, SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Enterprise, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Marketing, Internet, Dion Hinchcliffe; Blog posts 2007-12-27
Robots to control oil drilling platforms: In 2015, and if everything goes well, oil drilling platforms located offshore Norway will be controlled by robots. Even today, these platforms don't use many people. But the idea behind the new platform concept is to install large modular process sections in unmanned areas to allow access by one or...; Tags: Platform, Robot, SINTEF, Robots, Productivity, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille; Blog posts 2007-12-25
Matching platforms to ecosystems: Who has the bigger SaaS ecosystem? Salesforce.com, or Dell after its acquisition last month of Everdream? I was bemused to see this question examined in a ding-dong trio of posts by Josh Greenbaum and Dan Farber at the tail-end of last week. By coincidence, I took a call with Jamcracker...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Platform, Everdream Corp., Sales Force Management, Sales, Phil Wainewright; Blog posts 2007-12-03
Leapfrogging Dell, Everdream and salesforce.com: Fellow ZDNet blogger Josh Greenbaum is not a fan of salesforce.com. He believes the company is over-hyped, egomanical and expensive for partners. In contrast, Everdream, recently acquired by Dell, is a model SaaS company for partners, he said. In his recent blog post Josh wrote: .....I believe...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Dell Computer Corp., Partnership, Platform, Everdream Corp., Josh Greenbaum, Sales Force Management, Business Structures, Software As A Service (SaaS), Sales, Finance, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber; Blog posts 2007-11-30
MostFun Ice Land (exe): Help Mortimer collect fish scattered everywhere to feed you and your wife. You'll need quick reflexes as you jump from platform to platform gathering precious food. Keep your cool as you outwit opponents blocking you to your ultimate goal. Five different worlds, colorful cartoon graphics, fun, stylish music. This version...; Tags: Platform, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing; Software downloads 2007-11-30
Dell Buys the SaaS platform Salesforce.com Wishes it Had: If you didn't sit up and take notice when Dell bought privately held Everdream two weeks ago, you'll be forgiven for overlooking an interesting but, on surface, less than earth-shattering deal that slipped by everyone's noses in the week before Thanksgiving. But if you're tracking software...; Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Software-as-a-service, Dell Computer Corp., Partnership, Platform, Everdream Corp., Small And Medium Business, Software As A Service (SaaS), Business Structures, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum; Blog posts 2007-11-29
eToro (exe): eToro is an innovative Forex Trading platform, enabling traders to easily practice and trade Forex in a friendly and inviting environment. The platform boasts a state of the art interface with many unique features never seen before in the trading arena, such as the ability to open multiple positions in...; Tags: Platform, eToro; Software downloads 2007-11-19
Tempo Finder (zip): Find the tempo of anything just by tapping a key. This nice small utility comes handy when you want to find the tempo of a song. This is as user friendly as it gets and as simple as it gets. It runs on any platform that supports Java. The ZIP...; Tags: Platform, File, Microsoft Windows, Programming Languages, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development; Software downloads 2007-11-19