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Licensing Gets with the Open-Source Program

Among the most unloved quirks of the enterprise IT market is that software is licensed, not sold. Its a business model that dates back...

Oracle Cracks the Whip with Enterprise Manager 10g R2

Oracle on Monday plans to release an update to Enterprise Manager that slaps at two pain points in grid computing: getting IT services available...

PowerCenter Update Zeus Delivers Control

Informatica Corp. this week will introduce its PowerCenter 8 upgrade, code-named Zeus, designed to help IT managers increase productivity through optimization and better federation. PowerCenter...

SOAs Gather Steam with Proposed Specs

With the adoption of SOAs moving beyond pilot stages, underlying Web services standards are also maturing. The e-business standards consortium Organization for the Advancement of...

Blogging Is Indeed Here to Stay

It was nearly a year and a half ago in this very space that my colleague Scot Petersen declared blogs "simultaneously mainstream and subversive"...

Experts Fear Weak National Data Theft Law

Federal lawmakers are eager to take action against the growing problem of data theft, but some security and privacy experts fear that the zeal...

Microsoft Takes Up Scorecarding

Unwilling to cede any portion of the the enterprise software market to its competitors, Microsoft Corp. is pushing into the business intelligence space with...

Out-Of-Band Access Gets Smarter

Startup Uplogix Inc. last week launched itself and its Envoy appliance, which is designed to improve out-of-band management. Founders of the Austin, Texas, company set...

Xerox at Your Service

Services will be a key to Xerox Corp.s future as it grows beyond its roots as a printer and copier company, according to its...

XOsoft Eases Exchange Upgrades

XOsoft Inc. this week is rolling out software tailored to help enterprise customers reduce complexity and the possibility of downtime surrounding migrations and maintenance...