Cheap labor and increased efficiencies continue to drive major U.S. companies to open and expand offshore operations throughout India, Southeast Asia and Europe. India's National Association of...

There has been a lot of talk about Oracle being interested in acquiring a stake in the Indian Banking software company "IFLEX". The U.S. software maker is in discussions with Citigroup...

David Linthicum, CTO at Grand Central and former CTO of both Mercator and SAGA Software, has a good post on piloting projects for SOA. Go to David's post to find out what he has to say about what...

If you haven't been to EDS' Next Big Thing Blog, you should check it out. I discovered it by accident through a customer's blog, and I'm not sure how I missed this one. One post that...

The enterprise software world loses one to a new venture in the education space (yet to be announced). Graham Glass, former CTO of webMethods, has resigned to pursue new endeavors close to his heart....

Perhaps I'm a little out of touch with the world these days. Jenny Jet is a new action adventure for your cell phone. People can blog about, hmmm ... well SMS Media Group is launching it, and...

As I have mentioned before, healthcare providers have it tough from an IT perspective. At an organizational level, most of these organizations are running in the red, and servicing a constituent base...

In my professional career in and about software companies, I've primarily run into offshoring of things like call center & customer care, documentation, quality assurance and testing, and...

Today I while catching up on my blog reading and I came across a slew of interesting posts on SAAS at Amy Wohl blog, here are few key exceprts from the multiple posts, this is going to be a long......

Interesting news on the open source infrastructure front. For me, I tend to think of the grid game being played by the larger vendors like Oracle, Sun, etc. When I think of open source application...

CollabNet Team Edition lets companies with fewer than 50 programmers create collaborative work environments to let programmers access code and share documentation Open source isn't just...

At the end of last year, Forrester Research released a paper entitled, "Integration Landscape 2005". The 26-page some report (subscriber only) concludes with the following: NO INTEGRATION...

Sun Microsystems plans to open-source its Web site authentication and single sign-on technology. It plans to make the open-source code available in the fourth quarter. Eric Leach, director of product...

A recent article in University Business entitled, "The Changing Face of IT Executives" has a unique snapshot of perspectives from some CIOs, directors, and other senior managers in higher...

Bringing commercial content management software development experience to the open source arena. Information Week has an article titled Open-Source Exuberance, In this article they discuss the new...

Healthcare providers have it tough from an IT perspective. At an organizational level, most of these organizations are running in the red, and servicing a constituent base that consists of doctors...

Do you believe in the old saying there is no smoke, when there is no fire? On a possible offering of hosted CRM solution by SAP there has been a lot of smoke, Recently NEWS.com is carrying a piece...

The events that occurred in London today are simply horrific. Thoughts and prayers to those who have been affected. In my life, I've had light involvement with only one government project, and it...

James Governor has a number of interesting posts over at his blog (I like his recent one about UDDI). One post that makes me reflect on how IT projects and efforts really get run in the trenches is...

Although I'm very much a person that believes in things that one can touch, feel, smell, measure, etc., there's a soft side to me that believes in things that have good "Karma"....

HDI is conducting Government Forums, quarterly events focused on important topics related to government agency support center issues. The topics covered in the Government Forums are chosen by the...

Previously we had couple of goverments & govt organisations showing thier support for Open source, Now we have Norway joining the foray. Norwegian Minister for Modernization Morton Andreas Meyer...

There has been a lot of talk about Software as a Service and one of the poster children in this space has been SalesForce.com, But in a recent note published on June 22, analysts from JMP Securities...