Microsoft yesterday officially launched the online versions of its Exchange and SharePoint software platforms, but only to businesses in the United States for now.
If you like Microsoft's Outlook e-mail client software but hate the expense of licensing and running Exchange Server, there is another alternative: a subscription service that effectively lets people dump Exchange in favour of Google's cloud-computing infrastructure.
Australian IT services firm SMS Management and Technology last week claimed to be fielding decent levels of interest from large Australian organisations interested in dumping their existing email platforms and migrating to Google's Gmail service.
IBM's Lotus division plans to bulk up the Macintosh version of its Notes client software, citing the Mac's growing market share.
While "cloud computing" is some way from being an enterprise reality, IT managers need to start planning now if they want to avoid being ordered by their bosses to implement technology from Google and close down their own datacentres, a Gartner analyst has warned.
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The actual administration of e-mail -- getting it into your company, filtering it, distributing it, providing mobile access to it, archiving it, backing it up, undeleting it -- can be an extremely time-consuming, bothersome process.
One of Outlook's most useful features is the capability of providing you with free/busy information for everyone in your organisation. It appears to the user to be something that "just works.", however it's more complicated than that. Thankfully, Microsoft has improved free/busy handling in Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2007 with the new Availability Service.
Windows chief Kevin Johnson has two huge tasks: Chase Google with Windows Live and get the operating system back on track.
Google has emerged as the poster child for a new wave of applications assembled from the piece-parts of several Web sites. No Windows necessary but Microsoft has its own ideas, of course.
Search giant's expanding roster of Windows-free Web services may be a factor in the shuffle. Software on demand is an issue too.
IBM's iSeries will never be IBM's most exciting range of servers, but it is destined for great things, according to one of its architects.
The BlackBerry Storm looks smart, but its innovative SurePress touch-screen causes us a few concerns. We're also surprised and disappointed by the absence of Wi-Fi.
Although there are some design quirks, the Samsung Omnia promises to be a solid alternative to Apple's iPhone.
While parts of the iPhone 3G are superb, there are still some big features missing from this device. If you add up the extras the iPhone doesn't seem like a phone that everyone can afford.
While parts of the iPhone 3G are superb, there are still some big features missing from this device. If you add up the extras the iPhone doesn't seem like a phone that everyone can afford.
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