Enterprise Software & Services

Middleware implementation is the bane of IT. One online service suggests a simple self-service is in the future.

Young man sits down at the bar, despondent. Bartender offers him a drink. ...

Some general counsels are hiring their own IT staff and becoming decision-makers in the traditional IT balliwick of data archiving.

An online content-approval service to offer video and Flash support.

That's what Microsoft Corp.'s Business Division president Jeffrey Raikes asserted Tuesday when he claimed that Google Inc.'s popularity-based search technology produces less accurate results for businesses than FAST's algorithms.

Microsoft confirmed plans to liberalize the license for Windows Server 2008 users running the upcoming software for Web server applications, in an attempt to keep boosting its market share against the still-dominant LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/PHP/Python) stack.

The man threatening a boardroom brouhaha with Sybase CEO John Chen is a reclusive, workaholic Swede who was once that badminton-mad country's national junior champion.

As an experienced tournament bridge player, it's no surprise that Sybase CEO John Chen is playing his cards close to the vest against Sandell Asset Management, the billion-dollar Wall Street hedge fund breathing down his neck.

Is Chen bluffing, or will he get into a messy proxy fight with a rebel shareholder in order to keep his authority - and Sybase - intact?

Virtual machines can be great, but they open new cans of worms inside the data center. Here are two more. One little. One pretty big.

Bloody Vikings! It's IT Blogwatch: in which alleged spammer Alan Ralsky is indicted by a grand jury. Not to mention the oldest MS-DOS joke in the world...

Yesterday's sober press release from the DOJ reads thuswise:

A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed today in Detroit charging 11 persons, including Alan M. Ralsky ... in a wide-ranging international fraud scheme involving the illegal use of bulk commercial e-mailing, or "spamming"

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The most startling figure in The Radicati Group Inc.'s updated forecast is its prediction that corporate wireless e-mail, aka the BlackBerry and its clones, will be used by 395 million workers in 2011, up from 25 million today. Who says IM/texting have killed e-mail?

Mark Hall had a few excellent adventures as a user of IT last year. Did you?

It's IT Blogwatch: in which SCO gets delisted from NASDAQ. Not to mention how Belgians deal with people who drop trash...

If you've argued that virtual machines save your company money, you might be wrong.

Is the U.S. military fighting back door battles in software with its enemies?