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IBM Challenges Microsoft's Office
News IBM on Monday is expected to announce new software intended to take on Microsoft in the market for desktop business applications. While Microsoft's market-leading Office bundle works only on Windows and Apple Computer's Macintosh operating systems...
[May 10, 2004, 8:40]
Microsoft, IBM Propose New Web Standard
News IBM and Microsoft have put their rivalry aside once again to jointly develop new technology for Web services. The new Web standard, which creates a uniform way for companies to find Web services by connecting to each other's Web sites, merges...
[November 1, 2001, 15:00]
AOL, Microsoft And IBM Earnings Ahead
News Leading the earnings barrage next week is IBM, which earlier announced that Y2K concerns and delays would dent its sales and earnings in fiscal 2000. Analysts expect IBM to earn $1.06 a share in its fourth quarter, up from the 90 cents a share it...
[January 17, 2000, 9:25]
IBM And Microsoft Shun W3C Standards Meeting
News Last summer, IBM, Microsoft and BEA Systems merged their respective choreography proposals. Representatives of IBM and Microsoft downplayed concerns over patent issues and said they still have not fully announced their own choreography plans.
[March 14, 2003, 9:59]
Microsoft: IBM Masterminded OOXML Failure
News Microsoft executives have accused IBM of single-handedly leading an effort to block the software giant from having its Office Open XML standard approved by the International Organization for Standardization.
[January 30, 2008, 7:31]
IBM Bypasses Microsoft Web Services Spec
News IBM and several other companies have proposed two specifications for tracking events in Web services applications, bypassing a similar effort introduced by Microsoft two weeks ago. IBM and Microsoft have collaborated on several Web services...
[January 21, 2004, 11:05]
IBM, Microsoft Clash Over .Net And Java
News The rift between IBM and Microsoft over Web services widened further over the weekend when Web services evangelists from each company clashed over the relative merits of .Net and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) for building applications that can...
[March 4, 2002, 16:00]
Oracle Unveils Weapons Against IBM, Microsoft
News IBM, which recently strengthened its database lineup, and Microsoft, known for ease of use and low cost, have surfaced as the software maker's strongest foes. Microsoft and IBM are talking about it, but Oracle is claiming they are doing that faster...
[November 30, 2001, 16:13]
IBM Follows Microsoft With Unified Comms Push
News Following Microsoft's partnership with networking giant Cisco, the unified communications market is hotting up even further with IBM's launch of a new range of collaboration products. The choice of Siemens by IBM has raised many eyebrows because...
[August 24, 2007, 17:38]
IBM And Microsoft Strike Email Archiving Deal
News Microsoft is teaming up with IBM to offer email archiving products to help its customers control their spiralling quantities of data. The Microsoft-IBM bundle will be launched in the first quarter of 2007 with a list price starting at $53,000.
[October 20, 2006, 11:10]
Microsoft And IBM Sign Web Services Pact
News The three new specifications are the latest in a series of Web services specifications that Microsoft, IBM and their industry partners have created to advance the Web services effort. In fact, the Business Process Execution Language merges two...
[August 9, 2002, 15:06]
IBM Tackles Microsoft On All Fronts
News IBM is tackling Microsoft on several fronts, including office productivity, email clients and groupware. This week the company re-launched Lotus Symphony, which was a serious competitor to Microsoft Office, dating back to before IBM's purchase of...
[September 21, 2007, 13:59]
Microsoft Hires IBM's Chief Architect
News Microsoft has poached IBM's chief architect as part of a recruitment drive to bring more web expertise into the company. While at IBM, Donald Ferguson led teams that were involved in developing applications such as WebSphere, Tivoli and the Lotus...
[January 16, 2007, 16:23]
IBM Attacks Microsoft Over SOA
News IBM has criticised Microsoft over its approach to service-oriented architecture, saying the software giant offers a "lightweight messaging infrastructure". Mills provided further contrast between IBM and Microsoft, saying that, in SOA, IBM takes...
[August 8, 2007, 13:37]
Microsoft Targets IBM Midrange Server Customers
News Microsoft plans to link hands with hardware and services companies on Tuesday in a push to win over IBM's midrange server customers, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. The Midrange Alliance Program, or MAP, will see Microsoft join up...
[December 14, 2004, 12:40]
Microsoft Attacks IBM Over ODF
News Microsoft has severely criticised IBM, saying the company is pushing the OpenDocument Format standard to the detriment of Microsoft's own Open XML standard. Although the main contributor to ODF is Sun, Microsoft has attacked IBM for its support of...
[May 10, 2007, 16:23]
Microsoft Rejects IBM Strategy And Open Source 'dorks'
News IBM's on-demand model is "crazy" and Open Source is "really a developer phenomenon" that does not stand comparison with "customer experience of Windows Live", said Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft's general manager of platform strategy, last week.
[November 15, 2005, 10:25]
IBM Woos Microsoft Developers With New Tools
News IBM is hoping to woo software developers away from Microsoft. IBM is also teaming up with partner Mainsoft to help developers migrate their Microsoft Visual Basic.Net applications to Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) open-standards applications.
[November 3, 2006, 14:45]
Database Performance: IBM, Oracle & Microsoft - An Evaluation
White Papers This white paper makes it apparent that Oracle has a distinctly different approach to performance features as contrasted with the attitude adopted by Microsoft and IBM. This white paper discusses compares, contrasts and evaluates the performance...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
IBM Takes On Microsoft With ODF-based Symphony
News IBM has launched a commercially supported version of its Lotus Symphony productivity suite, ready to take on Microsoft Office. IBM will be able to claim Symphony has better support for international standards than Microsoft, as it supports the ODF...
[June 6, 2008, 15:02]
