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Software Piracy Slows Growth, Says Industry Group
News The organisation estimates that 40 percent of all software programs worldwide are pirated, though the group has come under fire for overestimating the cost of piracy. The Business Software Alliance is hoping to convince international governments...
[April 2, 2003, 12:00]
Largest Software Group Sides With DoJ
News The computer industry's largest trade group will side with the Justice Department in its antitrust case against Microsoft over the software maker's strong objections, members said. The filing by the big software-industry trade group is expected to...
[February 1, 2000, 14:45]
IBM Software Group: E-business Transformation
White Papers IBM Software Group (SWG) focused on a select set of key customers and partners in the large enterprise market. For example, customers and partners can receive just-in-time software, attend virtual tradeshows, and collaborate with IBM technical...
[February 21, 2007, 9:30]
Hotel Group Cuts Back On Software Tools
News IDC business analytics software research director, Dan Vesset, said in a large company there are, on average, 10 different business intelligence tools. Hotels group Carlson is cutting costs by reducing the number of business intelligence tools it...
[April 27, 2006, 16:15]
Free-software Gadfly Takes On Net Group
News That's the logic behind free-software advocate Bruce Perens' idea to pack the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a key Internet standard body, with like-minded members in advance of the group's spring meeting in San Francisco.
[November 25, 2002, 14:52]
BT Group - MPLS-Based IP VPNs Built On Cisco IOS Software Enable Streamlined And "Applications-Aware" Enterprise Network Services
White Papers BT Global Services worked closely with Cisco Systems to become the first international service provider to simplify VPNs over Internet Protocol (IP) networks by using Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), available in Cisco IOS Software.
[February 19, 2005, 23:00]
Microsoft Quits Software Trade Group
News After more than two years of trading barbs, Microsoft has officially withdrawn its membership from the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), one of the most prominent software industry trade groups.
[March 10, 2000, 9:48]
News Burst: Software Group Sues 25 Over Piracy
News The US' Business Software Alliance has filed a lawsuit against 25 individuals it claims participated on the "warez4cable" IRC channel, an Internet forum used allegedly to traffic in pirated software. The BSC said it was the first suit filed against...
[November 12, 1999, 17:30]
Software License Compliance Group Programme Provides Visibility And Governance Strengthening Partnership With Barclays
White Papers Barclays identified with the need to demonstrate compliance, and comfortable with the innovative and constructive approach to be undertaken by IBM, agreed to start the Software License Compliance programme in September 2003.
[March 11, 2005, 23:00]
Yankee Group: Software As A Service Dramatically Improves CRM Success
White Papers This Yankee Group report uncovers the voice of enterprise users so that companies can buck the CRM failure rate with a clear understanding of how new on-demand services and technologies can overcome user reluctance and ensure sales success.
[June 3, 2008, 14:20]
International Hospital Group Improves Financial Applications, Gains Over $56 Million In Benefits With BMC Software's BSM Solution
White Papers An international hospital group headquartered in the United States, in pursuit of operational excellence, was looking to provide IT services that operate in a predictable way. As a result, the hospital group has increased the availability and...
[January 19, 2007, 0:00]
Group Offers Amnesty To US Software Pirates
News The Business Software Alliance, the main software trade group enforcing licence and copyright restrictions, is offering a limited amnesty programme this month to businesses using illegally copied software.
[January 6, 2002, 6:31]
New Program Mimics Napster
News A group of software engineers who work for a unit of America Online (AOL) has released an early version of a program that mimics the operation of Napster, the popular Web software that allows for the free trading of music files, including pirated...
[March 15, 2000, 14:03]
Microsoft On Trial: IBM A Thorn In Microsoft's Side?
News Department of Justice to call as a rebuttal witness a former IBM software group executive isn't so unusual as it first might appear. IBM's Software Group, in particular, has made a concerted effort to make nice with Microsoft.
[May 5, 1999, 9:59]
Calendaring And Group Scheduling With MDaemon Calendar
White Papers This results from the scarcity of practical, serviceable group software available at modest prices. While some critics complain about the problems of integrating email and schedule management software, MDaemon succeeds at this by developing to...
[October 22, 2003, 5:48]
Microsoft's Great Plains Buy Changes Competitive Landscape
News Microsoft announced plans to purchase Great Plains Software for $1.1 bn. Great Plains is a developer of small to midsized business applications, including payroll, human resource, accounting, customer resource management and e-commerce software.
[December 22, 2000, 11:10]
Improve GPO Logging - Tweak The Registry
News Let's say that you've just assigned a new software installation Group Policy Object (GPO) to a select group of machines in your office. You're hoping that you will no longer have to send around weekly e-mails with links to software updates and...
[April 10, 2003, 10:15]
IBM's Rational Eases Java Development
News IBM's software group is getting ready to unveil a Java development tool, the fruit of its acquisition of Rational Software, that promises to make it easier for programmers to build custom business applications.
[May 20, 2003, 7:50]
Xbox Linux Group Seeks Microsoft Seal Of Approval
News The group of programmers working to run Linux on Microsoft's Xbox video game console is seeking the software giant's seal of approval. The Xbox Linux Project letter notes that Microsoft could score some extra cash by signing the group's software.
[February 20, 2003, 11:30]
Eclipse Java Tools Will Swallow Tiger
News The Eclipse software consortium released more details about enhancements that are intended to make programming with the group's tools more efficient. The enhancements the Eclipse group is preparing will culminate in a software development kit...
[May 29, 2003, 12:20]
