eWEEK EDITORS

The World Wide Web Consortium has created the position of CEO and named Steven Bratt to the post, effective Jan. 20. Bratt held the position of chief operating officer at W3C. As CEO, he will continue to oversee worldwide operations and outreach, including overall management of member relations, the W3C Process, staff, strategic planning, budget, […]

Microsoft is pushing customers to upgrade to the latest service packs for Office, but not for the usual security and performance reasons. Ten days ago, Microsoft began notifying its volume-license customers that they should upgrade to the latest service packs for Office in order to comply with a patent-ruling against Microsoft. “It was recently decided […]

CA, the company formerly known as Computer Associates, last week shuffled its executive lineup when it moved Mark Barrenechea into the post of CTO, and Yogesh Gupta from that slot into a role as senior vice president of Business Development. Gupta, who will now report to Executive Vice President of Strategy and Business Development Michael […]

To say that E-Trade Financial has embraced open source is putting it mildly. The financial services firms open-source journey began in 2001, when it replaced several of its Sun Microsystems Solaris-based servers with IBM x86 Linux-based systems. E-Trade saved millions of dollars annually in the process, and has extended its open-source interests to middleware and […]

Microsoft unveiled software formerly known as Sparkle. February 3 may be a bad day for worms, specifically Blackworms. And this little tidbit could come in handy: The Treo 700w is trumped by the 650. Why should you care about the Treo? Youll need a backup plan if Research In Motions BlackBerry gets shut down. Heres […]

Customers and partners whove been holding their breath waiting for Beta 2 of Windows Vista before getting serious about testing Microsofts next-generation operating system can exhale. There will be no single, catch-all Beta 2 of Vista, according to Jim Allchin, co-president of Microsofts Platform Products & Services Division in Redmond, Wa. Instead, Microsoft is planning […]

During the past four years, Microsoft maintained secrecy around not only the details of its planned foray into the design-tool space, but also about the team behind that effort. On Jan. 24, however, the software maker went public with the first test bits of its Expression Interactive Designer tool (code-named Sparkle), as well as about […]

The truth is, as long as a job can be outsourced for a fraction of the cost, that is exactly what will happen (Stan Gibsons Outsourcing & Services, “Engineer Gap: Real or Imagined?” Jan. 9). Who wants to bolster the U.S. engineer numbers only to be unemployed? Out here in the real world, as it […]

The management of IT departments can be technical, and the issues that Peter Coffee cited in his Jan. 9 column are technology ones (Epicenters, “Get Your Hands off That Process.”) However, IT managers are, in the final analysis, driven by non-IT management. IT managers have not done, collectively, a very good job of convincing their […]

As the managed services world is still defining itself, Green Beacon Solutions is redefining its corner of it. Green Beacon, 4-year-old CRM (customer relationship management) solution provider, is rolling out an offering—PAMS (Professional Application Management Services)—that is neither a solution delivery nor MSP (managed services provider) contract. Part consultation, part monitoring, part implementation, PAMS, which […]

SAN FRANCISCO—John Wookey, senior vice president of application development at Oracle, is walking a fine line. Hes charged with building out Oracles next iterations of its E-Business, PeopleSoft Enterprise and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne suites, due next year. At the same time, hes leading the development of Oracles next-generation suite, Fusion Applications, which brings together the […]

The Microsoft Office Live beta is expected to go live any day now. Office Live is not a hosted version of Microsoft Office. Instead, it is a set of software services Microsoft is developing as extensions to its shrink-wrapped Office product. Microsoft introduced the Office Live concept in November, at the same time as it […]