Microsoft finally withdrew itself from the brink of madness yesterday by formally withdrawing its proposal to purchase Yahoo, a conclusion which always seemed the likely one but which puts an end to...

Not all of their pledges, perhaps, it's a bit early yet to see what the ultimate outcome will be from their surprise February announcement committing to better relations with the open source...

If Microsoft's grand announcement last week of their new, broad commitment to openness and interoperability standards was intended as a sop to the European Union Court of First Instance to...

You have to know I've been waiting all week to use that title. It looks like Yahoo has declined the first pass of Microsoft's buy out offer today, or so reports the Wall Street Journal, citing...

It was only a matter of time, but now the geeks over at Slashdot have gotten wind of Nick Carr's The Big Switch, and they're not kindly disposed to it. This is in contrast to some of the...

A couple weeks ago I linked to a Dan Farber article on 3Tera's AppLogic grid processing application-a scalable, on-demand, commercially available processing platform for businesses that want to...

This isn't really the point of his article, but I have to both say that I am jealous, and to point you to Dan Farber's tantalizing glimpse of Nick Carr's upcoming book. Oh, yeah, 3Tera...

March'07 has started with a bang!!!, Excerpts from the press release: "Requirements for Performance Management and Business Intelligence solutions are increasingly converging," said...

Microsoft Corp. today announced that it is previewing the next major release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM - code-named "Titan" - with a broad range of partners through the company's...

Steve Hamm, The Author of "The Bangalore Tiger" has a post providing an overview of his recent discussioins with Infosys & Accenture, In the post Steve specifically covers some tools...

After this post on IBM's recent announcement, i spent sometime looking through what other people were/are commenting on this concept. There was a reasonable amount of conversation that was ongoing...

Sun has competition from Amazon after the announcement of S3 storage in the cloud sometime back, they have come out with a new announcement of computing in the cloud - EC2. Just as Amazon Simple...

SAP AG, a Germany-based business-software giant, announced that it has agreed to acquire Khimetrics Inc., an Arizona-based provider of software for retailers, for an undisclosed sum. Khimetrics makes...

I would be very surprised to find a paper in INDIA, that doesnt talk about this deal on it cover page. The news about this deal has been making rounds for some time now, it was made formal...

Information Week carries a new piece titled "Finding the Customer", in which he highlights the benefits/success of Email Survey and other tech tools that are being leveraged by marketing...

The Economist, has an article which deals with the issue of how multi core processors is going to affect "Enterprise Software Licensing". There has been a lot of talk about it in the...

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...

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...

Via Paul Brown (CEO of FiveSight) in the open source infrastructure side of the business. TheServerSide.com reports that FiveSight Technologies has released a open source version of a Business...

Via James Governor. Wild news. Sun Microsystems to acquire one of the top tier integration/middleware vendors, IMO giving them much more credibility in the space. Sun Microsystems to Strengthen Its...