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Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive at IBM Software, said open-source software is changing the way folks look at the market, but that startups have to play into the scheme that established vendors have established, not the other way around. IBMs acquisition of Gluecode Software, an open-source software service provider, last May, indicated […]

X1 Customizes Hunts for Info Desktop search tools can be great at helping individuals find relevant content on their increasingly large and data-heavy systems. But in corporate environments, these tools exist mainly as islands that dont fully connect to server-based resources. X1 Technologies June release of X1 Enterprise Edition —which includes X1 Desktop Client, X1 […]

Azul Systems Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., wants to do with processing power what others have done in storage and networking—create an environment where servers can access a ready pool of compute power when needed. The company in April unveiled the first generation of its Compute Appliance products, massive machines with up to 384 processors […]

Stop the presses. Windows Workflow Foundation, the newest of the next-generation Windows infrastructure pillars, is running early. WWF, Microsofts combined human- and machine-level workflow subsystem, was expected to debut as part of Longhorn Server in 2007, at the earliest, Microsoft officials said this past spring. But at the companys Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles […]

Two days after Microsoft disclosed its intent to add a PDF export capability to its Office 12 release, pundits were pondering what the move might mean to the growing Microsoft-Adobe Systems rivalry. Microsoft announced its latest PDF plans over the weekend, on the heels of its Global Most Valuable Professional (MVP) summit. According to Microsoft […]

Habitat for Humanity has a list of skills for potential volunteers to check off: plumbing, electrical wiring, Sheetrocking, roofing, skilled painting, semi-skilled painting, not-so-great painting, etc. Janet Perna never built a house. She did build a database empire at one of the worlds largest software companies. Over the past 31 years, shes been one of […]

Microsoft will build into its forthcoming Office 12 desktop suite a “save to PDF” capability, according to Office program manager Brian Jones. Jones communicated word of Microsofts PDF plan for Office 12 on his blog on Saturday afternoon. He posted that Microsoft will add native support for PDF in Word 12, Excel 12, PowerPoint 12, […]

Fidelity Investments, the Boston-based financial services firm, uses voice-over-IP technology in most of its international offices to save on long-distance charges to other Fidelity locations. To date, its put IP-based phones on the desks of about 10% of its 30,000 employees. Mike Brady, Fidelitys senior vice president of telecommunications, leads a team that runs the […]

Not surprisingly, eBay Inc.s multibillion-dollar deal to acquire Skype suddenly thrust Skype, and VOIP, into the limelight. But what does this mean for a company that started off as a cool way to chat across the Internet? ExtremeVOIPs Mark Hachman sat down with Skypes head of developer relations, Lenn Pryor—virtually, of course, across a Skype […]

Azul Systems Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., wants to do with processing power what others have done in storage and networking—create an environment where servers can access a ready pool of compute power when needed. The company in April unveiled the first generation of its Compute Appliance products, massive machines with up to 384 processors […]

As the dust from Microsoft Corp.s latest reorganization continues to settle, one thing is evident: Microsoft is intent on turning its long-term dream of selling software as a service into reality. Last week, Microsoft made no bones about the fact that it is planning to field a full lineup of consumer and business services across […]

Nearly half of all companies affected by the second round of Sarbanes-Oxley deadlines do not expect to meet the July 2006 target, according to a poll of IT executives facing the deadline. Forty-five percent of U.S. IT executives responding to the survey by instant messaging security vendor Akonix Systems Inc. said their companies were unprepared […]