A survey of CEOs among IBM's top customers shows a shift from a cost cutting to revenue growth as the primary business objective. That finding isn't much of a surprise, given the global easing of economic pain among corporations.
At its annual Lotusphere conference, IBM showed off an early version of Lotus Mashups, a tool designed to let businesspeople, rather than professional programmers, quickly assemble Web applications.
Cuill, a search upstart founded by ex-Googlers, said Tuesday that it raised US$25 million in a second round funding led by Madrone Capital Partners. The company had previously raised US$8 million from Tugboat Ventures and Greylock Partners.
IBM plans to introduce new development tools, the first of many releases in the coming months as the company targets new business-software customers.
Australian SMEs aren't paying nearly enough attention to Linux considering the top priority for their IT managers is to "reduce costs", but despite the prevailing attitude, it won't take much for open source to have a far greater impact in the near future, according to research released today.
When developing a data warehouse, you effectively face three choices: expensive, ridiculously expensive, or ludicrously expensive.
Many CIOs talk of the "'closeness" of their relationship with their key strategic vendors. Every so often though we get an insight into which IT departments are truly valued by the big boys.
Last week I had the chance to hear HP give their world view on why you should join them and Intel on Itanium for your next generation of servers.
You don't have to wander very far in the blogosphere before you'll find someone slagging off Domino, aka Lotus Notes.
Some of the state governments desperately need to invest in more user-friendly tender sites so that looking for information on government tenders doesn't have to be a game of blind man's bluff.
IBM plans to introduce new development tools, the first of many releases in the coming months as the company targets new business-software customers.
IBM's Grady Booch says developers can no longer just dash off code without thinking about the larger implications.
Big Blue seeks higher, more profitable ground in the market for business computing services.
special report The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer.
Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft have recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.
Businesses should rethink perimeters, shed the firewall and allow people to "skinny dip" on the Internet, according to security and communications researcher, William Cheswick.
In the event of a disaster, would you know how to react?
Gideon Sasson, the CIO of financial services giant Charles Schwab, talks to ZDNet.com editor-in-chief Dan Farber about mistakes the company made during the dot com bust, and says innovation used to start with technology, but now IT is more closely aligned with the business. Below are excerpts from the video interview.
ZDNet.com editor in chief Larry Dignan and senior editor Sam Diaz discuss the Oracle CEO's gamesmanship in buying Sun Microsystems and how he outplayed IBM. They also share their views on the future of Java and what Oracle plans to do with Sun's troubled hardware business.
Businesses seeking a sturdy, secure, portable workhorse should consider the ThinkPad R52.
With ever-expanding amounts of data to back up, it's good to see backup media are keeping pace. We take a look at four tape backup options with more than 200GB capacity per tape.
Both IBM/Lotus and Microsoft have recently released new versions of their groupware suites--Notes/Domino and Exchange--with an emphasis on collaboration. We take them both through their paces.
Vendors are hyping blade servers as the latest and greatest, but do you really need them? We put blade servers from three vendors through their paces and find out what the big deal is.
If you're out on the road a lot, you want a notebook that won't give you a sore shoulder at the end of the day, but you may not want to give up all the features of a full-sized notebook. Can you have both?
Do you Google Wave?
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Thunderbird 3 takes flight
Thunderbird 3 is finally here, after a gestation period measured in
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Google Chrome beta for Mac
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