It must seem like Michael Krigsman is paying me off, considering how often I've been linking to him lately, but I swear, it's really just that he keeps posting stuff that piques my interest....

Microsoft's Silverlight project, a browser-based Flash competitor, is apparently sparking some concern among the states which sued, and won, against the company based on anti-trust violations....

Much of the speculation over the first Linux patent lawsuits filed last week against Red Hat and Novell revolved around whether or not Microsoft-famously vocal about its belief that its patents were...

It's Ballmer Gone Wild at the Gartner Symposium in Orlando this past week, it seems... in addition to the previously described dust-up with analyst Yvonne Genovese, we are getting word now of...

If Mom had been an experienced former IBM consultant and current distinguished Vice President of Research at Gartner, that is. Gartner analyst Yvonne Genovese served up a warm helping of something to...

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer is out on the warpath again, spreading Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt about potential patent infringement issues in Linux. This time, he's targeting Red Hat...

This post is apropos of nothing to do with CIOs or technology in general, but I just couldn't not say anything when I saw this gem on the Microsoft PR wire today: "Microsoft and Bungie...

Well, maybe not exactly. But neither the Evil Empire of yore, according to this recent post from Mary Jo Foley. Writing in response to the upcoming resolution of Microsoft's appeal of the...

So, after some review I have kept a few items from the previous tenant and added a few new ones to my own taste. I imagine it will be a work in progress, though, so please keep getting me......

So I still have most of the previous tenant's links and recommendations over in the sidebar. I don't want to empty it out, and intend no disrespect to those choices and recommendations, but...

Hello, my name is Scott Wilson and I will be writing for the CIO Weblog starting today. Although I am not a CIO, I am the owner and principal consultant at Indigo Moon Systems Consulting, based out of...

Yippy! We have a new blogger for our CIO Weblog. Look out for him to stop by here very soon. Thank you to all the applicants. As usual, we had some talented folks apply and it was not an easy......

Creative Weblogging is looking for a blog editor to take over this blog. Applicants should be prepared to commit to daily posting and adhere to all contract requirements, some of which you can see on...

Excerpts from AMI report on the topic: Both ERP and CRM are increasingly becoming mainstream applications for U.S. medium businesses (MBs), according to AMI-Partners. Over one third of respondent MBs...

India's domestic IT Market including hardware, software and services is expected to grow at 21.5% during 2007 to touch Rs.75,891 crores. This will make India the fastest growing market in theh...

During the Sapphire'06 at Orlando, Hasso Plattner's key note was on design a topic he seems be really interested in, he helped launch and fund at the Institute of Design at California's...

Have been thinking about the SaaS model a lot and also came across this post on the notion of that is enabled by SaaS applications, two thoughts that occurred to me on similar lines are: 1.Ad...

Satyam Computer Services Ltd today announced that it will resell Oracle's JD Edwards applications to mid-market Companies in India. The arrangement is a natural extension of the Company's...

Springboard Research have a Executive Summary up on their predictions for the AsiaPac IT Market for 2007, Below is a list of the same , With some supporting graphs from the summary, to get the full...

Well Newsgator came out with an Enterprise Aggregator , They will be soon releasing NewsGator Enterprise On-Demand (NGEOD). With no installed software, and all the benefits of the enterprise RSS...

Zoho-ians, do you think it will be possible to use your application environement (writer/creator etc etc) as the front end and use Amazon S3 or similar option as the backend (data repository)? Your...

EDS announced that it received a rating of "strong positive" for its Data Center Outsourcing in the July 26, 2006, Gartner MarketScope for Data Center Outsourcing, North America, 2006...

Below are some of the key points from IDG's Interview with Klaus Zimmer, SAP's president and chief executive officer of Northern Asia, who took charge of SAP's Chinese operations in 1997....

Small and medium businesses (SMB) across multiple industries continue to select Oracle after evaluating Microsoft, Oracle today announced. Companies such as Advanced Steel Recovery, Cirro Energy, DTS,...

Paul Murphy , Has an post titled CIO Taxonomy, and goes on to list according to him what the most common seterotypes of CIO's are, excerpts of the same: 1. Bluffer. Bluffing is the easiest and...

EDS announced recently a six-year, $700 million agreement to integrate the communications infrastructure for recently acquired MBNA Corporation into Bank of America's state-of-the-art voice and...

July 03rd was the 44th anniversary of Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS). It was founded by H. Ross Perot. Together, he and the people of EDS created the information technology (IT) outsourcing...

The new sponsor at the CIO-Weblog is Camtasia, you can see a banner ad of thiers to your right, i spent some time to check out their site to better understand what they offer/provide, my understanding...

Accenture has been positioned in the "Leaders" quadrant in Gartner Inc.'s 2006 Customer Relationship Management (CRM) service provider marketplace analyses for Europe and North America....

EDS today announced it has been recognized as the strongest implementer in information technology (IT) sourcing deal transformation management by Forrester Research in a recent independent report....

MindTree Consulting, an international IT and R&D services company, became the first company in India to be assessed for IC Rating, through a process pioneered by Intellectual Capital Sweden AB...

IBM Leader in Application Development Software - Gartner IBM recently announced that analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has ranked IBM as the worldwide market share leader in the application development and...

Siemens Communications Inc. today announced that it is expanding its leadership role in enterprise communications by providing development-friendly, business-focused communication applications across...

Microsoft Corp.'s long- awaited release of the upgrade to its flagship Windows operating system will likely be delayed again by at least three months, research group Gartner Inc. said Tuesday.The...

IBM plans to sell a lower-cost version of its z9 mainframe computer aimed at midsize businesses and emerging markets such as China.The System z9 Business Class mainframe will be priced from about...

Computer systems are becoming more complex and the labor costs to keep them online continue to rise. So it's no surprise that the race is on to create software geared at automating upkeep. Last...

In case you have missed it - we have live footage from today's sessions at DEMO '06, the premier launch pad for emerging companies. - Part I of todays sessions- Parts II of todays sessionsYou...

Good news - Creative Weblogging will cover DEMO 2006 LIVE. What is DEMO?DEMO is a twice yearly held event. DEMO describes itself as the premier launch pad for emerging companies. DEMO stands out...

The IT services sector will need 150,000 employees while the BPO sector will need 350,000 trained personnel.According to the Mckinsey report 2005, "The country will need 2.3 million...

Gap Inc. has signed a 10-year, $1.1 billion IT outsourcing deal with IBM, the San Francisco-based clothing retailer said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. Under the deal, IBM must...

Rumor has it that IBM has approached the satyam's founder and chairman Ramalinga Raju, the newspaper(www.ft.com) reported, citing an unnamed executive close to the Indian IT Services company....

Volkswagen has sold its in-house IT services consultancy, Gedas, to T-Systems for between $473 million and $532 million, reports News.com.The deal, which still must be approved by antitrust...

AMR Research (Bruce Richardson) Based on a survey of 236 IT and line-of-business executives - When asked about their IT spending plans for the next 12 months, 72% planned to increase spending and 25%...

I.B.M. announced yesterday that it would pay $865 million for Micromuse Inc., whose software is used to manage Internet-based computing networks that handle voice, video and data. The acquisition is...

The ink had barely dried on Monday's $56 million purchase of Austria-based NewLogic, when on Thursday it acquired New Jersey-based mPower for an all-cash payout of $28 million. mPower, a company...

Wishing you a very Happy & Merry Christmas - Have a Great Time.......

Here's infoworlds look back at 2005's wild mix of earth-shakers and underreported occurrences: Wal-Mart, DoD Mandates RFID Compliance Jan. 1 Oracle Completes PeopleSoft Buy Jan. 7 Publication...

Continued from here... IT: IT is now increasingly considered an important vehicle to improve Chinese enterprises' competitive edge, the IT market is still enjoying a stable and fast growth. But,...

On the IDC blog , there is transcript available of an interview with Dorthy Yang, the Research Director IDC China. You can get the transcript of the interview here & listen to it hereBelow are...

"The IT and telecom industry convergence, consolidation, and realignment of the past two years will continue in full stride in 2006," said Frank Gens, senior vice president of Research at...

Murgan Pal, The CTO of spike source has an entry in the Oriely Blog on an suggested apporach for Software vendors to migrate to the open source model. Some interesting excerpts from the article: As...

Eclipse is an open source community whose projects are focused on providing an extensible development platform and application frameworks for building software. Eclipse provides extensible tools and...