Monthly Archives: September 2007
Upfront – 4
Benioff backs offSalesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff isnt spitting fire like he used to.That may not be a bad thing.There was a time when Benioff...
BEA Focuses on Virtualization
BEA Systems has instituted a new pricing model for its virtualization offering and is looking at other opportunities including appliances for service oriented architecture,...
Microsoft to Spackle Holes in Windows, Messenger, Visual Studio
Microsoft is planning to release five security bulletins on Septembers Patch Tuesday.While only one—a vulnerability in Windows—is deemed critical, three of the advisories address...
Netuitive Performance Tool Targets Enterprises
Business service management provider Netuitive on Sept. 10 will take its brand of end-to-end performance management to large enterprises when it launches the latest...
Real-Time Collaboration Is Key for Office 2.0
SAN FRANCISCO—The future of work will include real-time collaboration, said officials from Google, Microsoft, SAP and other vendors participating in the kickoff keynote panel...
Office Open XML Down but Not Out
Microsoft may have lost the battle to have its Office Open XML file formats approved as an ISO standard, but the war is far...
Tandberg to Acquire Conferencing Upstart Codian for $270 Million
Videoconferencing vendor Tandberg on Sept. 6 announced its plans to acquire upstart Codian for $270 million.The Oslo, Norway, company hopes to capture more momentum...
The Defenseless Defender
The Defenseless Defender
Even the militaries of major countries are guilty of lax security and weak patching. Heres the story of one European nation that...
Is That 200GB of Data in Your Pocket?
Carrying a significant fraction of a terabyte around in live, usable form—as opposed to tape—isnt as difficult or expensive as it used to be.Toshibas...
No ISO for Microsoft Means Little
Microsofts ISO standardization ambitions for its Office Open XML file format have hit a rough patch, as OOXML recently failed to garner enough votes...