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ID Specs and Reality Checks for OASIS

IBM and Microsoft Corp., along with a small fleet of partners, will submit in September three new security specifications to OASIS: WS-SecurityPolicy, WS-SecureConversation and...

Innovations Help Beat the Heat

With energy prices climbing to unprecedented heights, power and thermal efficiency should be rising in parallel to the top of the IT management agenda. Advances...

IBMs Zollar: Complexities Rising

The rapid increase in the complexity and speed of change in businesses IT infrastructures, coupled with growing compliance requirements, is fueling a steep rise...

Adobe and Macromedia Stockholders Approve Acquisition

Adobe Systems Inc. and Macromedia Inc. announced that the stockholders of each company voted in favor of Adobes proposed acquisition of Macromedia at their...

Knowledge of Foreign Cultures Can Build Business Relationships

Companies that work with trusted partners do well when venturing into China, experience has shown. Trusted relationships, known in Chinese as "guanxi," are critical, but...

Caution Marks Outsourcing in China

Lured by a skilled work force and rock-bottom wages, IT customers are eyeing Chinas outsourcers longingly, with one major misgiving: the risk of losing...

i2 Launches New Business Planning System

i2 this week launched a solution aimed at catapulting S&OM (sales and operations management) to the "next generation," where software and services will help...

The CIO Who Admitted Too Much

It has been said that CIOs at large companies today have limited direct power and—more than almost any other C-level executive—need to push the...

Gateway Promotes Goldsberry to CFO

Gateway this week found a new chief financial officer from within its own ranks and announced it will open a new U.S. manufacturing facility...

Survey: Apps Availability Drives Choice Between Linux, Windows

Rackspace is a leading Web hosting company which, with about half of its enterprise customers using Linux and the other half using Windows, surveyed...