Vendors are facing an uphill battle when competing for government tenders as bureaucratic and political obstacles continue to make the process more cumbersome than necessary, analysts believe.
To remain relevant, IT managers need to wake up and admit they work in business, not IT, Gartner's leading analysts said at the keynote address at the Gartner Symposium in Sydney.
At Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer tried to disabuse the thousands of IT executives attending the conference of two notions: Windows software is hopelessly insecure and Linux offers a better TCO (total cost of ownership) than Windows.
Open source and proprietary software backers are going head-to-head for all the wrong reasons, and their resources and efforts could be better spent concentrating on beefing up applications, says Gartner.
The growth in technology spending is set to slump in 2008 due to an economic downturn in the US -- but Australia and New Zealand may escape because of our close ties with Asia.
At the rate the role of CIOs are changing, non-traditional responsibilities such as sales and marketing could soon come under their purview.
Open source and proprietary software backers are going head-to-head for all the wrong reasons, and their resources and efforts could be better spent concentrating on beefing up applications, says Gartner.
What is it about Microsoft's proposed OOXML standard that has boffins hurling death threats at each other?
Open-source software is the industry's most notable "disruptive innovator", says Gartner. Will Microsoft be forced to advocate the platform?
Microsoft is at the start of "the greatest innovation pipeline we have ever had," CEO says. And no, he doesn't throw chairs.
At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks to Gartner research analysts, Yvonne Genovese and David Mitchell Smith about the company's strategy regarding software as a service, or SaaS, as well as its competition with Google in the office productivity and advertising markets.
Commentary: Everything has a cheap microchip inside, so Intel's CTO figures everything can have a wireless connection, too. Is he an industry visionary? Or a corporate kook? Apparently, even Intel wondered.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is expected to unveil a new product intended to turn Office into a data-collection tool and boost sales of the desktop software.
Microsoft will be shipping the second beta version of Office 11 next month, complete with XML tools.
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