Traditionally, software vendors have relied heavily on partnerships with vars and consultants as a reliable marketing channel to woo customers to their products. This had the worthy advantages of...

Whatever concerns may have been sparked by the recent undersea communication cable service disruptions do not seem to have affected anyone's plans for investing in heavy growth in India-based IT...

Dell is nudging its way slowly into the IT services business, and took another step today with the announcement of a substantially altered support lineup called ProSupport. ProSupport replaces the...

Nick Malick has an interesting (long) post up today on Inside Architecture describing a conceptual framework for standardizing line-of-business (LOB) applications. Nick's model breaks down into...

Sure, some might call me irresponsible, but the ninja theory is at least as credible as some of the others floating around out there right now attempting to make some sense of the suspicious rash of...

Although the topic seems to hold me and certain other bloggers with a morbid kind of fascination, it has been my experience that raids by the Business Software Alliance receive very little attention...

It's looking so far as if Indian outsourcing companies have dodged the bullet with respect to the potential catastrophe hinted at by the severing of two vital undersea data cables carrying...

I've heard quite a few arguments regarding the ethics of off-shore outsourcing, and quite a few others about the ethics of soaring gas and oil prices in a year of record profits by oil companies....

I feel like I should say something about the whole Microsoft proposing to buy Yahoo today thing, but honestly I'm not sure that it ultimately will matter much to the average CIO. Certainly, as...