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Model-driven development - Embedded v/s Enterprise software
Blog So here’s a list of “MDD tenets or principles” that the embedded software community has evolved and refined to a great extent, that can readily be used for Enterprise software products. So we do understand some of the imperatives of the Embedded...
[May 26, 2009, 15:01]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There is none so glum in the run-up to Christmas than the enterprise software marketing manager. Far more interesting to contemplate what Santa could do to improve the enterprise software market. And since he does his work by magic, his...
[December 17, 2004, 18:05]
System Management Meltdown
Blog Consolidation is the name of the game in the Western European enterprise system management software market, or so I’ve been told by IDC. According to the IDC study (Western European Enterprise System Management Software Competitive Analysis and...
[September 6, 2007, 19:50]
ManageSoft tackles virtual licences
Blog Launched on Wednesday, Enterprise Compliance Manager version 8.0 focuses on three areas, the company said, “reducing new software purchase, squeezing maintenance renewals and compliance [testing] before audit”.
[December 3, 2008, 14:40]
New chief exec makes first Red Hat conference keynote speech
Blog Speaking on the first day of the Linux specialist's annual user conference in Boston, Whitehurst said that the company had done very well so far with a business model of making community developed software enterprise-ready but there is still a...
[June 18, 2008, 14:32]
Outlook must move to cloud, says Qualys CEO
Blog The entire enterprise software [model] is threatened by cloud computing," said Courtot. Courtot said that enterprise software companies needed to evolve, and start putting cloud infrastructure in place.
[December 4, 2008, 12:05]
Tough Enough: Sybase Breakthrough Handheld Security?
Blog For many enterprise users the greatest claim this software boasts is message encryption. In learning about the new Sybase product, I must contend that for typical enterprise message encryption this is likely a great tool.
[March 11, 2008, 1:45]
Red Hat defends UK's open source record
Blog That's really abnormal for enterprise software," said Dr Ian Howells, chief executive of Alfresco. You never see the UK coming sixth in adoption of enterprise software. Is the UK really a laggard in open source?
[May 14, 2008, 15:02]
Australian Collaboration Situation
Blog Claimed to be the world's first Web 2.0 enterprise modelling solution, this Australian-developed software is said to break new ground in terms of allowing organisations to build holistic enterprise models within a collaborative environment and...
[August 17, 2009, 10:02]
UK trailing USA in adoption of open source defence technology
Blog I am due to meet up soon with an open source enterprise content management (ECM) company called Alfresco whose success in the US may have lessons for us in the UK defence sector. Perhaps the increasing adoption of open source in the commercial...
[October 19, 2009, 8:28]
Ballmer memo on where Microsoft is headed
Blog Business and enterprise: Our enterprise and server business has never been stronger--today we are on the verge of becoming the number one enterprise software company. We have to drive our enterprise search capabilities, our unified communications...
[July 25, 2008, 12:41]
Bill Gates' departure means Microsoft holy cows are being slaughtered.
Blog Equally, many who are wary of using open source in anger at the enterprise level and the consequent risk to brand - real or perceived - will be more likely to take Redmond’s route to open. This could be it’s long awaited entrée into the enterprise...
[February 25, 2008, 12:10]
Oracle, BEA and the big virtual Java adventure
Blog Not one to wade through more than my fare share of white papers I was drawn to some interesting content from a chap (sorry, a BEA Technology Evangelist) called Martin Percival who writes that there is up to 90 per cent of unused server capacity in...
[January 16, 2008, 16:21]
Encounters with Microsoft Active Setup
Blog In addition, Active Setup can be used as part of enterprise login procedures or to ensure that certain processes and configuration routines have successfully completed. How does this affect enterprise level conflict management?
[October 9, 2009, 11:54]
Novell aims to support mission-critical cloud stacks
Blog From dot com style start ups to enterprise scale managed hosting, we have been hearing about this technology for some time now. The SUSE Appliance Programme incorporates SUSE Studio Online as its web-based appliance building tool, SUSE Linux...
[July 28, 2009, 13:34]
Have Open Source Management Tools Come of Age?
Blog Continuing this train of thought, Enterprise content management (ECM) is a subject I normally have to work quite hard on to make it interesting. They say, “The company couples the innovation of open source with the stability of a true enterprise...
[July 8, 2009, 8:03]
Mobile enterprise apps proliferate, but how did we get here?
Blog Although Sybase today champions the cause of the mobile enterprise app through its Sybase 365 division, I was surprised that nobody seems to have looked back and ask why and how a database company can push forward this kind of development.
[March 12, 2009, 10:40]
Massive but Agile: next-gen databases prepare for battle
Blog So how do these companies keep the governments and enterprise-scale organisations of this world satiated in terms of the tabular treats that they must roll out to keep them buying? Massive But Agile: Best Practices For Scaling The Next-Generation...
[July 29, 2009, 13:38]
Sun Stays Open: A Closer Look at OpenSolaris 2009.06
Blog As well as a re-architecture of its networking components with technology developed out Sun's 'Project Crossbow', the new OpenSolaris release will reportedly feature enterprise-level support that is said to put it on an equal footing with Solaris 10.
[June 2, 2009, 1:42]
What kills software creativity?
Blog This is not a defence for the enterprise IT vendor who we will know will often push out new versions seemingly ‘for the hell of it’ (under the pretence that little and often is Agile iteration in motion and therefore a good thing)… It is instead a...
[June 16, 2008, 12:47]
