Previous
Accounting Choice For Software Development Costs And The Cost Of Capital: Evidence From Underpricing Of Initial Public Offerings In The Software Industry
White Papers This paper assesses the value of the information contained in management's choice of the accounting treatment for software development costs (SDC). The results, based on a sample of 258 IPOs in the software industry, are consistent with the...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
The Software Of Choice For Business At IST
White Papers IST was looking for suitable software for teaching the data mining element on this course and decided that SAS offered the best solution. Created in 1911, IST (Instituto Superior Tecnico of the Technical University of Lisbon) is Portugal's largest...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Comments Of The Initiative For Software Choice (ISC) For Consideration By The Ministry Of Information Industry And The Ministry Of Finance
White Papers On November 8th 2004, the Ministry of Finance (MOF), in cooperation with the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) of the Government of the People's Republic of China published a document titled "Implementation Rules of Government Software...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Group Urges Limits On Open Source
News The Initiative for Software Choice, which counts Microsoft, Cisco Systems and Intel among its backers, said in comments filed on Tuesday that the department should "avoid crafting needless and potentially detrimental IT policy to promote the use...
[November 28, 2002, 7:25]
MS-backed Group Lobbies Against Government Open Source
News It is important that government policy recognise that open standards -- which are available to any software developers -- are not synonymous with, and do not require, open source software either for their adoption or utility," Software Choice stated.
[August 13, 2002, 12:43]
Services Will Be Make Or Break For Microsoft
Leader Richness and choice is the mantra: the richness of Microsoft's applications combined with the choice of whether you buy them as software or subscribe to them as services. To hear Bill Gates enthuse about software as a service, you'd think that the...
[September 14, 2005, 14:20]
JavaBeans Migration Assistant For ActiveX
White Papers JavaBeans is quickly becoming the component technology of choice for software developers as they move from a focus on desktop OS specific applications to solutions based on the industry standard network computing environment - Java.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Technology Integrator Eliminates Consulting Costs And Enhances Business Acumen
White Papers Business management software from SAP, QuickBooks Enterprise, and Fishbowl did not meet the company's financial reporting requirements. In fact, producing reports and making other changes to the software required expensive consulting services.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
My Response To Richard Stallman
Talkback I choose to use free software because I enjoy the amount of customization it affords me. I don't know, why does Stallman care so much about the fact that proprietary software exists in the world? I'm not saying that we should ONLY have...
[January 9, 2004, 16:12]
Best Of Breed Vs. End-to-end: Solutions For Application Development
White Papers Find out what issues should be considered and read why MKS developer productivity tools are the "best of breed" choice for SCM, process & workflow management and software comprehension & code analysis.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
AXENT Technologies Collaborates With BMC Solutions To Meet Their Most Critical IT And Business Needs
White Papers That first choice is BMC Software products. By merging AXENT's security management tools with BMC Software's application management solutions, they give their customers one comprehensive solution that meets their most critical IT and business needs.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
New Zealand Justice Ministry Wants Open Source
News The New Zealand Ministry of Justice believes that open-source software is a more stable, supportable and cost-effective choice compared to proprietary solutions. In a Ministry of Justice report, which can be found on the New Zealand Open Source...
[December 13, 2007, 11:05]
Aussie Agencies Accused Of Locking Out Open Source
News Addressing critics of the bill, who contend that the legislation it contains is protectionist and restricts freedom of choice, Greig said that the bill was needed to address a pre-existing favouritism for proprietary software within the federal...
[September 19, 2003, 9:30]
Microsoft To Partners: Change Or Become Obsolete
News While change is hard, Turner said Microsoft's partners need to be ready to offer customers the choice of running software on their own servers or subscribing to hosted services. It doesn't mean locally based software is going away, but customers...
[July 11, 2007, 8:55]
Microsoft Cuts Fees For Schools
News The aim of the deal isn't to change schools' buying habits apparently -- they are still free to purchase the software of their choice, although the reductions might be difficult to resist for cash-strapped institutions -- but the scheme will cut...
[December 5, 2003, 10:50]
Green Party Urges EU To Go Open-source
Talkback Open source software allows users choice. What a rediculous comment from Intellect: "According to the group, increasing use of open source software development by governments could have a negative impact on competition for contracts, the quality of...
[September 17, 2003, 4:40]
Porting CLEO Software To Linux
White Papers Apart from the fine tuning of the existing software, the following issues need to be resolved: choice of Linux distribution, development tools (compiler, debugger, profilers etc.compatibility with third-party software, and deployment strategy.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Government Bodies 'embracing Open Source'
News Lobbying groups such as the Initiative for Software Choice -- funded by Microsoft and others -- argue strongly against policies to require or favour open-source software. Governmental bodies have approved at least 90 initiatives involving open...
[September 3, 2004, 10:55]
Lindows Chief Funds Xbox Hack
News I did it because I thought people should have the choice to run the software they want on the hardware of their choice.I don't think when you buy a car, they should be able to tell you what brand of gas to put in it.
[January 3, 2003, 7:49]
Judge Dreads Software Patents
Talkback Anyway, software patents won't help technical innovation. Outlawed for violating software patents. Because what other choice would you have then? Because you'll always have the choice of keeping your old car with higher rising maintenance costs and...
[March 20, 2006, 22:29]
