Australian Customs' CIO, Murray Harrison, says service level agreements (SLAs) don't work in outsourcing arrangements and when vendors use the term "innovation", their suggestions generally works against the interests of the customer.
In a move intended to strengthen its database-software lineup against rivals Oracle and Microsoft, IBM has agreed to buy the database business of Informix for US$1 billion in cash.
The legal war over Linux escalated as the SCO Group found itself on the receiving end of lawsuits and as SCO outlined its plans to license the operating system--all this against the backdrop of the LinuxWorld conference.
Marketing Windows operating system in the early 1990s, Yusuf Mehdi helped direct Microsoft's successful strategy against IBM's OS/2, now he's thrown down the gauntlet to AOL.
Sun, BEA and other software companies are set to announce an interoperable tools effort called the Java Tools Community--but don't look for Java powerhouse IBM in the mix.
It wasn't too long ago that vendors still made a lot of their money through equipment markups. Telcos were the same, with comfortable profit on ISDN, STD calls, calls to mobiles and other heavily used services padding out financial reports.
Oracle may be celebrating its long-awaited union with PeopleSoft, but customers, employees and competitors have reason to worry.
It's getting hard to keep a place on the list of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Networking groups around the globe are working on ways to allow roaming on any number of wireless networks--just as mobile phone users roam on mobile networks.
The US Justice Department's dramatic defeat in the Oracle anti-trust trial underscores the unique character of software: It's a fast-paced, dynamic industry that makes a lousy target for trustbusters.
After years of hype, MPLS (multiprotocol label switching) may finally be an acronym whose time has come.
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