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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 25, 2009
The exact product pricing announced by Microsoft this morning for the upcoming Windows 7 release in October may not mean much to various enterprise clients with separately negotiated volume licensing ...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on June 23, 2009
Science is now proving what bored e-mail server admins the world over have known for some time, which is that rudimentary mail traffic analysis can indicate ongoing or upcoming disruption within an or...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on June 21, 2009
If you are one of those CIOs who likes to know what other CIOs are up to, then you have probably spent some time scouring the blogosphere and tools like Facebook and Twitter for accounts of other CIOs...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 18, 2009
Isn't it getting a little tiresome that Microsoft has to be taken to the mat over every objectionable, insensible licensing decision they make lately?
ComputerWorld reports that Microsoft has bac...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on June 17, 2009
Following Google's recent claims of increasing Apps adoption among enterprise customers, CIO Magazine has a snapshot of one company's transition to the platform as a frame for an article calle...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on June 15, 2009
On the first read-through of this New York Times' article on IBM's plans to entice the enterprise with cloud computing offerings, you might be pardoned for simply assuming that Big Blue has de...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on June 11, 2009
I posted a couple of weeks ago a reference to a recent Gartner study showing that some 40% of companies engaging in SOA projects do not associate ROI metrics with those projects. I posited at the time...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 9, 2009
I would rate the Apple WWDC splash this year as "about average." In other words, not a lot of the unexpected, nothing really revolutionary, and not much in it for business users. The new iPh...
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General
by Scott Wilson on June 7, 2009
Courtesy of Thomas Wailgum, telling us the difference between "What a CIO Says, and What He's Really Thinking." I don't doubt that a few of these have run through your minds from tim...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on June 5, 2009
In the face of recent assertions that "the Cloud isn't enterprise-ready" or "cloud adoption is more theoretical than real right now" it turns out that the people who actually h...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on June 3, 2009
As I'm sure you've already heard, Windows 7 will become generally available on October 22nd this year, which is a good three months before Microsoft set their public milestone, but a couple mo...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on June 1, 2009
I thought I would pass this along quickly since I doubt many of you spend a lot of time monitoring the hotbed of activity that is the Microsoft MOF and Service Management blog.
The Microsoft Operatio...
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The Vision Thing
by Scott Wilson on June 1, 2009
Google's announcement last week of their new (and I believe revolutionary) Wave communications platform has taken a while to sink in with some commentators, but as it has, it has unleashed a torre...
