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Microsofts Business Solutions unit and its partners are testing new Web-service add-ons to Microsofts enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management applications by making code available under various Microsoft Shared Source licenses. Microsoft quietly has been posting these add-ons to work spaces on its GotDotNet source-code hosting site since fall. Like the MSN business unit, […]

A Resilient Debut In January, Yossi Sheffis “The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage” debuted at No. 1 on Amazon.coms list of best-selling Enterprise IT books. Overall, seven new books made it on this months list, while martin fowlers book—which dominated the list the last three months—slipped to fifth place. The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming […]

Is there an invoice/billing application in Office Live (“Office Live Will Give Small Firms a Web Business Boost”)? Not as far as I can tell as a beta user. Dont you find this incredible? What is more important for a small business than getting paid? Ricardo BarreraEditor, LearnedLawyer.comDenver, Colo.

In his Feb. 13 article, “LISP Deserves a Fresh Look,” Peter Coffee wrote: “Arent your machines getting faster much more quickly than your programmers are getting smarter?” He should note that AMD has released a processor that prevents you from executing stack data as commands—a big advancement the likes of which we have not seen […]

Private, purpose-built, application-specific Internets are already under way (Eric Lundquists Up Front, “Wide-Open Web? Think Again,” Feb. 13). Enterprise peering is taking shape in the same way that ISP peering did in the 90s. It is now about simple, off-the-shelf technologies, such as Ethernet, that mature MIS and IT departments are very familiar with. Inherent […]

I really enjoyed Peter Coffees Feb. 6 article “Exotic Tools Go Mainstream” (Developer Solutions). I was one of those guys at the University of Wisconsin grinding it out in the 80s, trying to get something useful out of PC-based Common LISP. I was trying to model the way people acquire, process, store and access information. […]

Its very much in vogue to tout active systems as inherently better than passive systems. BMWs new TV ads, building on a campaign that actually began last May, tell you that its better to have the agility to avoid an accident than merely the sturdiness to survive it. Personal audio systems use active noise cancellation […]

In preparation for the kickoff of a series of monthly RFP (request for proposal) templates, eWEEK Labs recently spoke with a group of IT managers to discuss best practices for the development of RFPs. Technology Editor Peter Coffee, Executive Editor Deb Donston and Senior Writer Anne Chen spoke with members of eWEEKs Corporate Partner Advisory […]

Would you buy an OrPod? Microsoft has registered a Web site for something called “The Origami Project.” From the rather cryptic video clip there, you cant tell much about what Origami is or what it will do. Guesses about Origamis origins have been all over the map. But what were hearing now is that Origami […]

As an ETrade customer, i figured i would read about ETrades use of open-source technologies, including Linux (Road Map, “Into the great wide open,” Jan. 30). As I read, I sat there shaking my head. Doesnt ETrade know you save more money running Microsoft products? Yes, you pay more for them upfront, they are far […]

In the Jan. 30 editorial, “The Toll-Free Internet,” you use the analogy of the Interstate Highway System when referring to providers charging a toll for using certain applications. If were going to use this analogy, lets look at it in terms of traffic. A 1-mile stretch of road can accommodate X number of cars. The […]

Microsoft is incubating two new business-intelligence-focused projects inside its IW (Information Worker) Greenhouse. The IW Greenhouse, which Microsoft launched in 2003, acts like an internal venture capital arm. The Greenhouse team builds prototypes of potential applications and technologies and then seeks wider, corporate backing and financing for these initiatives. Those that arent seen as viable […]