May 2006 - Posts
It's still early days, but an interesting little horserace is starting to take shape among three companies that are pressing a relatively new class of middleware for the enterprise.
While most IT organizations have yet to really remotely think
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Most of the time when you go to an industry awards event, the people being honored are the usual assortment of dignitaries that are generally well-exposed, if not overexposed.
For that reason, the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) Society
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Given the ever increasing amount of spam on the Internet and the associated costs of storing and forwarding spam, you can’t help but wonder if the time has come to bring some good old-fashioned market principles to fighting spam.
As spammers and the
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For a company that was supposed to be road kill by now thanks to the entrance of Microsoft, Salesforce.com, SAP and Oracle into the SMB (small and midsize business) business software market, Sage Software looks remarkably healthy.
The provider of a multitude
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When it comes to enterprise-level security, Novell may not be the first name that leaps to mind in an already crowded field, but the company's recent acquisition of eSecurity might actually put Novell in a position to take a lead in developing a more
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As you walk around the Interop show this week, you can’t help but be struck by the sheer number of vendors that all seem to be looking for a reprieve.
What stands out most at Interop is the number of vendors that either have stagnant profits as
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For any IT organization, dealing with the complex issues associated with any merger or acquisition is enough to drive even the most mild-mannered of souls around the bend.
For example, the good folks at Bank of America, some two years after a round of
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It takes a lot of courage for a company to sit down and say that something is fundamentally amiss. And it’s even more remarkable when they actually take steps to tackle those issues head on.
That seems to be exactly what is happening at Juniper Networks,
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Given the government’s less than stellar track record when it comes to trying to use the courts to ensure level playing fields, reports that Google is trying to interest the government in an investigation of the search button on a forthcoming version
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