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Analyst: Sun positioning to battle Red Hat JBoss for emerging SOA market: Much has been made of Sun's purchase of MySQL last week for $1 billion, mainly from the perspective of its apparent strategy to corner much of the open source market. However, Forrester's Jim Kobelius sees another gem in the whole deal -- Sun is acquiring a strong...; Tags: TechTarget, Red Hat Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Positioning, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick; Blog posts 2008-01-23
Establishing Virtualization Management Leadership: When CA, one of the world's largest Information Technology IT management software companies, wanted to establish a North American leadership position for its Enterprise Systems Management ESM solutions in the virtualization market, it turned to TechTarget for an online marketing program positioning it as a visionary for IT professionals facing...; Tags: TechTarget, Leadership, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage; Case studies 2007-11-13
The Case for SQL Server Consolidation: The number of deployed instances of Microsoft SQL Server in the enterprise continues to grow more rapidly than the rollouts for any other Database Management System DBMS. The reasons are clear; Microsoft set out to provide a powerful DBMS that meets multiple goals for IT organizations. SQL Server is designed...; Tags: TechTarget, Microsoft SQL Server, Consolidation, Reason, DBMS, Server, Microsoft Corp., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2006-04-14
10 Reasons Why Your Disaster Recovery Plan May Fail: This paper contains a 10-item list to use as a guide when developing or evaluating a Disaster Recovery DR plan. Each item provides a helpful hint in formulating or fine-tuning a DR Plan. The list of 10 items is somewhat arbitrary, in that it is not prioritized, not necessarily sequential,...; Tags: TechTarget, Disaster Recovery Planning, Disaster Recovery, Data Management; White papers 2006-02-01
What you Need to Know about BlackBerry: Learn about the various BlackBerry offerings including handhelds, software and service and find out why thousands of other companies have already chosen BlackBerry as their wireless platform.; Tags: TechTarget, RIM BlackBerry, Handhelds, Hardware; Webcasts

Deploying Wi-Fi Protected Access: Before you decide on IP telephony, know the facts about what you're getting into. Many organizations have moved IP telephony from a test stage to full implementation - and have pushed beyond basic voice service toward collaborative applications. In this webcast, you will learn from the experts at Gartner Research...; Tags: WPA, TechTarget, Telephony, IP Telephony, IP, Wi-Fi, VOIP, Telecommunications, Network Technology, Telecom & Utilities, Networking; Webcasts

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More than 1 billion PCs now in use worldwide: More than 1 billion PCs now in use worldwideYes. And that means over 950,000,000 of them......are running Windows. Have a nice day. :)...Try closer to 825,500,000... and you would be more accurate. ]:)But with replacements...... over a fairly brief period, the Windows pc's probably total 1.05 billion. Not...; Tags: Operating systems, Desktops, UNIX, fantasy, PC, Microsoft Windows, Linux; Discussion threads 2008-06-23
Shock! Dog bites postman! Mainframer attacks Linux to push AIX: Once upon a time I did a few articles for searchenterpriselinux at techtarget.com, but we parted ways very quickly over their commitment to Red Hat's anti-Sun marketing strategy. Ken Milberg, a guy I think I first ran into in the context of my original 2002...; Tags: Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, Duck, IBM Corp., Attack, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-04-22
Microsoft to rebrand 'CRM Live' as 'CRM Online': Microsoft to rebrand 'CRM Live' as 'CRM Online'bye bye crm livehttp://channelmarker.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/03/27/buh-bye-crm-live/RE: Microsoft to rebrand 'CRM Live' as 'CRM Online'I wonder if they've discussed this move with CRM Real Estate Services:www.crmonline.com; Tags: Customer relationship management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise software, Microsoft Corp., CRM, CRM Online, CRM Live; Discussion threads 2008-03-27
Microsoft-Yahoo: They don't call it a hostile takeover for nothing...: Microsoft-Yahoo: They don't call it a hostile takeover for nothing...Off we goI think the takeover is a bad idea, but what do I know? Time will tell who's right. I'd still hate to see Yahoo go down in flames since, IMHO, they're a good company and I don't...; Tags: Real estate, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2008-02-11
ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML: ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXMLIs the vote the most important issue?A splintering of ODF advocates won't affect IBM's attempt to discomfit a rival nor slow those who believe Microsoft villainous. But it does reduce or make less enthusiastic the number of those campaigning against Office and for ODF...; Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Matusow, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML; Discussion threads 2007-10-29
Microsoft and Sun agree to support each other in virtualized environments: Microsoft and Sun agree to support each other in virtualized environmentsAt last!People have a reason to purchase Sun hardware. One which Sun will not devalue by sacrifice to open source.Quoting:"Sun also announced that is now an official Windows Server OEM with its x64 server line, the companies said on...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, environment, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-09-12
IT Word of the Day (widget): If you work in the tech industry, no matter which niche you fill, this TechTarget widget will help you build your vocabulary, one familiar, obscure or inscrutable word at a time. Improve your IT skillset. Learn one new thing every day. IT Word of the Day widget also allows you...; Tags: Microsoft Word, Information Technology, Strategy, Management; Software downloads 2007-07-30
IT News (widget): Stay ahead of your competitors. Let TechTarget bring the latest technology news right to your desktop. Select from 20 tech topic designed to help you do your job better, including: News and trend analysis for CIOs; Virus alerts; Windows patch bulletins; Open source updates; Storage briefs; IT Word of the...; Tags: Information Technology, News, Microsoft Windows, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Management; Software downloads 2007-07-25
Windows Seven: Think 2010: Windows Seven: Think 2010All I can say is...My $400 for Vista Ultimate had better damned well last me at LEAST three years!They ain't getting any more from me for a while. Especially since the "ultimate" hasn't been so "ultimate".It's been an ultimate ripoffROFLYea took 5 years to release Windows!...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Microsoft Windows Vista, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows; Discussion threads 2007-07-20
Michael Dell talks OLPC, green IT and Vista uptake: Michael Dell talks OLPC, green IT and Vista uptakeRecycled has a place, but it won't work as an entire solutionThe problem with trying to use "retired" PCs as replacements is at least fourfold in the market OLPC, etc want to fill.1) The machines are power hungry monsters. Electricity (source and...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Green IT, Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Windows XP; Discussion threads 2007-07-10
Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the house: Microsoft tweaks the Live side of the houseIf the dog don't hunt, fire the managers ???Maybe they need to look at the dog . . .Live sounds almst like "i" as in MacWould the move away from mobile that you mention indicate a weakness, fear or some other basis for...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales strategy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., sales; Discussion threads 2007-07-07
Microsoft takes a $1 billion hit for Xbox 360 console problems: Microsoft takes a $1 billion hit for Xbox 360 console problemsHow do they stand by 3-5%?1 Billion, even at full retail price, is a lot of XBoxes. That would be replacing 25% of the current marketshare.Thank god for Microsoft!After dealing with a number of small and medium software developers who...; Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox 360, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Xbox, console; Discussion threads 2007-07-05
Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta due imminently: Windows Live OneCare 2.0 beta due imminentlyRegistry CheckI would like to see something similar to TuneUp Utilities 2007 built in that would scan the registry etc for errors.You mean the $50 boxed version will be due out?Most of their 'official' gold software is beta in quality, so why bother with...; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Spyware, Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Windows, OneCare, Microsoft Corp., Live Care, Microsoft Windows Live OneCare; Discussion threads 2007-07-05
Policy-based management may help bridge some pitfalls in SOA's evolution: I had a nice chat with Rich Seeley at TechTarget this week on SOA and management, and he produced this story. The major theme of the article is that SOA forces a new kind of management, one that's by necessity highly inclusive and crosses the borders of the emerging loosely...; Tags: Agile Development, Application Lifecycle Management, datacenters, Developer Tools, Enterprise 2.0, IBM, IT Management, IT Service Management, ITIL, management, SaaS, SOA, SOA architect, SOA Governance, Software Development, Software Infrastructure, Testing Tools, Web Services; Blog posts 2007-06-28

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