Monthly Archives: November 2004
IBM Forms SOA Practice
IBMs Global Services division Thursday announced the formation of a management practice to help customers implement service-oriented architectures.
The IBM SOA Management Practice is targeted...
MS Office 12s Competition: Its Older Versions and Linux Suites
As Microsoft preps another version of its Office productivity suite, a small group of software vendors waits for an opening in the competitive landscape....
Salesforce.com Customers Embrace On-Demand Model
SAN FRANCISCO—With the fervor of recent religious converts, Salesforce.com users say they are convinced that using a hosted application service provides significant potential cost...
For Sale: Cisco Firewall Source Code
A group that earlier this year offered for sale the source code of a popular intrusion detection system now is selling what it says...
Next-Gen Kiosks Could Guide You Through Holiday List
Shoppers this holiday season are going to run into a blizzard of next-generation kiosks, about three times as many of the devices as they...
Salesforce.com Turns Customization Tool Kit into New Brand
SAN FRANCISCO—Salesforce.com continued its effort to expand its product line with the introduction of Customforce.com, an on-demand tool kit that lets companies customize their...
Service Providers Create Ecosystems in New On-Demand Model
Back in the early days of business computing, implementing computing technology meant building a relationship with a single vendor. Everyone had their own proprietary...
MS Office 12s Secrets Begin to Trickle Out
Microsoft still isnt ready to talk publicly about Office 12, its next major release of its information-worker family of products. But the company is...
E-Voting Said to Pass Major Test Despite Glitches
Despite dire predictions of chaos and worse, the influx of electronic voting in precincts across the United States on Election Day was more notable...
Wanted: Wi-Fi Channels
Perhaps the organizers of the Wireless World Summit in London were a bit overambitious but they did, honestly, try to attract the people who...