Microsoft detailed on Tuesday its road map and pricing for Web-based software suites built for big companies and growing businesses.
Microsoft has reemphasised its US$6 billion commitment to delivering software as a service (SaaS) and has outlined bold plans for a partner programme as well as explaining why the hosted model need not be bad news for its traditional channel.
Sage has announced a strategy revamp which it hopes will take the CRM debate beyond hosted-versus-on-demand.
The future lies in the platform in the cloud, according to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
The intense power requirements needed to run and cool datacentres now account for almost a quarter of global carbon dioxide emissions from ICT, according to analyst firm Gartner.
A recent thread of conversation across a couple of 2.0 blogs has been the subject of whether Web 2.0 is suited not only for implementation inside a corporate firewall, but by companies with a view to improving their relations with their customers.
Blogs consisting solely of bullet points seem to be popular these days, if Guy Kawasaki's rather lazy blog is anything to go by. This morning, Microsoft's Don Dodge detailed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins' list of seven rules for software startups, as told by KP partner Ajit Nazre at a recent conference.
For years, CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff appeared in public wearing an "End of Software" button on his lapel -- just to rankle Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, or any other software mugwump making a killing on selling packaged applications.
Established in 1996, alphaWorks is a web community for developers to preview and collaborate on emerging technology from IBM's research labs and turn them into commercial products. The IT giant claims much of alphaWorks's activity is aimed at developing new software types and standards -- particularly around open source principles.
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