Microsoft cuts a third off hosted-software prices
News The company says it is reducing the monthly subscription fee for hosted versions of Exchange, SharePoint and Office Communications Server [03 Nov 2009]
At what point should Microsoft get scared?
Blog A programmer was talking in a tech support forum about some GMail problem he had that was linked to YouTube. "I haven't tried it in Chrome", he said. "That's a little too much Google for me." ... [29 Oct 2009]
IBM aims to connect corporate mashups and BI
News A new service can expose content from IBM's Cognos 8 business intelligence suite as a web service, so the data can then be used in other applications and mashups [28 Oct 2009]
Firefox gains 30m users in eight weeks
News The open-source web browser has rapidly gained new users over the past two months, according to Mozilla [27 Oct 2009]
IBM pitches flexible package at mid-size firms
News The new line-up is aimed at helping smaller companies build a more flexible IT infrastructure that can respond to load increases and decreases [27 Oct 2009]
UK software industry thriving
Blog The UK's software industry is flourishing according to research firm TechMarketView. Last year, the top 50 UK software companies reported revenue growth of around 20 percent, together with... [26 Oct 2009]
Can cloud savings just evaporate?
Blog We've been at the SharePoint conference this week and I was thinking about Google in the session about using the FAST search engine in SharePoint, in terms of the tweaks administrators can do to... [25 Oct 2009]
Offline SharePoint tool promised for Mac users
News While Microsoft is not planning to produce a version of Groove for the Mac, the new tool will make SharePoint access much easier for Mac users, company executives say [23 Oct 2009]
Free, you say?
Blog I'm confused aobut a trend in the Free Software world: subscription fees as a way of raising money for software. Specifically I've seen this with the Joomla Content Editor and JXtended Joomla!... [16 Oct 2009]
Dell offering Salesforce integration services
News Dell and Salesforce.com are selling a joint offering to businesses in the US, combining Salesforce CRM with Dell's integration services [12 Oct 2009]
Oracle OpenWorld: Ellison takes aim at IBM
News Oracle chief Larry Ellison has taken several potshots at IBM, denigrating the power efficiency of its hardware and opening fire on its 'Smarter Planet' campaign [12 Oct 2009]
VMware hits back at Microsoft cost criticism
News The company has responded to comments by Steve Ballmer, saying while cost comparisons of virtualisation products are complicated, Microsoft may be more expensive [06 Oct 2009]
Steve Ballmer and licensing: the video
Blog ZDNet UK was at Microsoft's London HQ yesterday, listening to Steve Ballmer talk about Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 and matters appertaining. We weren't allowed to ask questions, although customers in... [06 Oct 2009]
Ballmer describes the 'new normal'
Blog Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer on Monday sent one of his periodic public emails, outlining the business realities of what he called "the new normal", Ina Fried of CNET News.com reports. ... [29 Sep 2009]
Free Software is dead!
Blog Long live free software! Last week I gave a workshop on Markdown, the lightweight markup language used for writing for the web (the S5 presentation is available for download). The Open... [25 Sep 2009]
Microsoft Windows Cafe to open in Paris
News The software giant plans to allow the general public to discover Windows 7 while enjoying a cup of coffee [24 Sep 2009]
Sage CRM joins Microsoft, Salesforce in the cloud
News The business-software maker is trialling a cloud version of its CRM software, following other providers such as Microsoft and Salesforce [17 Sep 2009]
MapOSMatic - city maps from OpenStreetMap
Blog A group of French developers and contributors to OpenStreetMap have created MapOSMatic which creates maps with grids and street indexes for a given area. It's a fantastic example of what can be... [10 Sep 2009]
Salesforce taps into Facebook and Twitter
News The web services company has added social-networking features to its Cloud Service platform [09 Sep 2009]
Red Hat hypervisor tools to run on Windows only
News The open-source company's desktop and server hypervisor management tools will initially be available only for Microsoft Windows-based systems [07 Sep 2009]
Linux buoys up Novell earnings
News Novell's third-quarter financial results show its Linux business up, while its enterprise applications are sinking [28 Aug 2009]
Salesforce sees strong second quarter
News The SaaS specialist delivered better-than-expected revenue in its second quarter and has set higher earnings targets for its next financial year [21 Aug 2009]
Virtualisation - is there an alternative?
Blog Another thought about virtualisation - following my last blog, I started to think about mainframes. Should the mainframe be an option when considering virtualisation projects? I'd argue that the... [18 Aug 2009]
Moonlight 2.0 moves into beta
News The new test version of the Silverlight-on-Linux software incorporates Silverlight 2.0 as well as a few features from Silverlight 3.0 [18 Aug 2009]
IBM announces integrated mainframe packages
News The new line-up features integrated mainframe, software and services packages designed for tasks such as datawarehousing, SOA and transactions [17 Aug 2009]
Cloud-based BI stack launched
News RightScale, Jaspersoft, Talend and Vertica have unveiled an integrated stack designed to take the pain out of putting together a cloud-based BI system [13 Aug 2009]
Microsoft releases preview for next SQL Server
News A preview of the next version of Microsoft's database product, SQL Server 2008 R2, has been delivered to developers and will soon be made generally available [12 Aug 2009]
Adobe drops starter Photoshop
News The company suggests users of its low-end image-editing software head online to Photoshop.com, now that Photoshop Album Starter Edition has been discontinued [07 Aug 2009]
SAP boosts SaaS offerings
News The business-software giant has updated its software-as-a-service technology, Business ByDesign, with the release of Feature Pack 2.0 [31 Jul 2009]
The risk that Social CRM will exclude small businesses
Blog The CRM 2.0 train is gaining steam, but most of its first uses are of little relevance to small businesses. Might they get looked over by one of the most exciting business web iniatives ever? ... [14 Jul 2009]
