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Is Microsoft considering acquisition of Red Hat?

Is Microsoft considering acquisition of Red Hat?Green envy and spamFirst posted to slashdot in reply to What's the Business Case for Microsoft and Open Sourcehttp://ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=33540&cid=3625906With apologies to Dr "Suse", to the tune of "Green Eggs and Ham". [i]Linux can. Linux can .Use Linux.[/i] That...

Tags: Purchasing & Procurement, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc., acquisition, Linux, sourcing plan, sourcing, biz, X-Box

Discussion threads 2005-05-11

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News to know: Scareware; HP; SAP; Cloud computing

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Dancho Danchev: The ultimate guide to scareware protection Gallery: The ultimate guide to scareware protection 9/11...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Andrew Nusca, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-09-14

SmartPlanet: 3 of 4 executives say outsourcing necessary to maintain bottom line

SmartPlanet: 3 of 4 executives say outsourcing necessary to maintain bottomCompletely disagree. Outsourcing only works for small projects that can't be done in-house, like wiring jobs, installing generators and the such. Outsourcing entire departments doesn't work. I've seen it before, when the employee is on a contract...

Tags: Managed hosting, Outsourcing/Offshoring, outsourcing, outsource

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Live Webcast: Wireless Convergence and SIP Trunking: Plan Early, Save Money Now

If you don't have a clear adoption strategy for SIP Trunking and wireless convergence, you are about to take a wrong turn. Do you know if your carrier and contractual landscape enables the adoption of next generation networks? Research shows that enterprises often engage in new technology...

Tags: SIP, Webcast, ProfitLine Inc., Convergence, Wireless, Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Free Trade, Wi-Fi, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Wireless And Mobility

Webcasts 2009-08-03

Oracle's Fusion middleware master plan starts coming together

Oracle on Wednesday launched its Fusion 11g middleware family and the effort is aimed at linking the technological underpinnings of all of the company's acquired applications, owning the market, creating one fundamental software stack for the enterprise, laying the foundation for a cloud strategy as well as a few other...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Chances, Miko Matsumura, Middleware, Programming Languages, Java, Enterprise Software, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-01

The downside to corporate wireless plans

Guest post: When looking at corporate wireless plans, TechRepublic's Jay Rollins finds that the promise of pooled minutes, volume discounts, and a dedicated account manager may seem like Nirvana, but you’re giving something up. You can find more posts like this on TechRepublic's CIO for Hire blog. ...

Tags: Customer Service, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Telecommunications, Wireless, 3G Card, Wireless Coverage, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-04

SaaS: The supply management market’s economic stimulus?

2008 was a very strong year for supply management vendors, despite the dismal global economy. The market grew 9%, reaching $3.0B in spending for software and services. Most buyers focused on improving processes in sourcing, spend analysis, procurement, contract management, settlement, and supplier performance management. A closer...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, ROI, Software As A Service (SaaS), Managed Hosting, Cloud Computing, Roi/Tco, Emerging Technologies, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Mickey North Rizza

Blog posts 2009-02-26

Extraordinary Collaboration Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Image: E.M. Ward, "The South Sea Bubble" (1846) Tate Gallery UK David Freeman, who has positive views about disordered individual work practices in his book 'A Perfect Mess', wrote an interesting piece I refer back to a lot in Inc magazine September '06 'What's Next:...

Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Government Healthcare Organization Generates Savings With New Identity Solution

When a large government healthcare organization needed to comply with a federal initiative for a new identity solution, management called on Gartner for help. Gartner supported both the business case and deployment plan. The challenge was to create a comprehensive identity solution to support several operational divisions and to comply...

Tags: Gartner Inc., HSPD-12, Identity Solution

Case studies 2009-01-01

Open source and circling the drain

Open source and circling the drainIf they make little from software......the answer is to put the software into stronger hands. There is no option of trying to become a closed-source company.Acorns fall when leaving the tree.Sun's best assets are the talented people the company is laying off and the IP...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Mergers & Acquisitions, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., software

Discussion threads 2008-12-05

Day 2: iPhone Dev Camp 2

Yesterday I learned a few lessons about live blogging. Not many people are refreshing it as much as I was. I should list my posts with most recent at the top instead of the other way around. ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Developer, App, Melodies, Medialets, Games, Personal Technology, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-03

Business Continuity Planning: Old Concept, New Imperative in Financial Services

Business continuity is no longer just a matter of staying in business. Continuous high performance is now a standard expectation of the marketplace regardless of the natural, technical, or human failures that can beset a Financial Services Institution FSI. Meeting this expectation in a Business Continuity plan BC plan requires...

Tags: Financial Service, Business Continuity Planning, Business Continuity, Business Security, It Services, Strategy, Business Operations, Management

White papers 2008-08-01

Open source and the shrinking waterhole

Open source and the shrinking waterhole?????I'm sorry dude, but you lost me. What on Earth are you talking about? I might be dumb, it might be the fact that English is my third language, or some other reason. But I didn't understand the point of your article.This is a tech...

Tags: Development tools, way open source, open source, advertisement, software development, software

Discussion threads 2008-03-27

Brief: 5

This is the fourth excerpt from the first book in the Defen series: The Board Member's IT Brief. From chapter 2 "Evaluating IT Proposals Section 2.2.1 "Mergers and acquisitions" You usually have no real choices...

Tags: Consultant, Merger, Information Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-02-08

The effect of exchange rates on out-sourcing

The effect of exchange rates on out-sourcingToo complex once againThe real thing driving out-sourcing is the appalling low wages paid in other countries. The difference is so great that minor exchange rate changes have minimal effect.But glad to see you are getting outside your comfort zone Rudy.Stampede !Hi,Oil prices...

Tags: Free trade, Oil Prices, out-Sourcing, exchange rate

Discussion threads 2007-11-22

Interview with Mandriva CEO, François Bancilhon

Interview with Mandriva CEO, François BancilhonNothing new here.I thought there would be an answer to why he wrote the letter, all I hear is that they were beaten in the market and everyone not on the open source band wagon is wrong.In other words, "sour grapes".RE: Interview with Mandriva CEO,...

Tags: Linux, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Mandriva, Microsoft Corp., François Bancilhon, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2007-11-06

AIX vs Solaris (5)

AIX vs Solaris (5)Sun at risk.Quoting:"Within Sun the commitment to Solaris/SPARC is pretty absolute - and open sourcing just about everything has reduced the benefit a big competitor might get if someone launched a financial attack on the company."Yes, giving away things of value makes the company less interesting to...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, SCO Group Inc., IBM Corp., IBM AIX, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris

Discussion threads 2007-10-24

Gartner's top 10 technologies for 2008: SOA precursors; fabric computing; Real world Web; WOA

Gartner outlined its top 10 strategic technology areas for 2008 and many roads lead to service oriented architecture.   The top 10 is off to the right and there aren't any huge surprises. Who didn't see green IT and virtualization being listed? But...

Tags: Web, Virtualization, Blade, Green IT, Gartner Inc., SOA, Computing, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-09

The T2 and media reaction

The UltraSPARC T2 announcements back on August 7th consisted of two separate stories. The first of these involved Sun's plan to sell it into the commodity processor market. Unfortunately almost nobody in the press understood either the announcement itself or where Sun's taking this, with the straight up treatment given...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, Paul Murphy, T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, UltraSparc T2

Blog posts 2007-09-04

Report finds Microsoft customers increasingly leery of Software Assurance

Microsoft subscription maintenance program for its volume licensees has never been overly popular. But according to a new report from Forrester Research, Software Assurance is looking like even less of a good deal to Microsoft customers than before.Microsoft introduced Software Assurance SA in 2001, and has tweaked continually the SA...

Tags: Windows server, Windows client, Support, SQL Server, Office, Corporate strategy

Blog posts 2007-07-09