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by steve on May 31, 2005
Last week we had a post titled "Secure the Mobile devices", In which we discussed the theft of a laptop of an MCI employee and the loss of financial information that was on the same. Now we...
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by steve on May 31, 2005
Earlier in this month we had a post highlighting the discussion on H-1b visa, well looks like it was all for nothing, As the expected rush for H-1Bs doesnt seem to have materialised. When the U.S....
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by steve on May 30, 2005
Eben Moglen is convinced the software industry is returning to being about a free exchange of ideas and code. I came across this article at Internet News , below are excerpts from the same. Eben...
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From CRN, A new market battle is brewing in the enterprise applications space. The soon-to-be combatants: SAP and Salesforce.com, both of which aim to convince businesses of all sizes to use their...
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Siebel management appears to be sufficiently concerned and cognizant of the fact that employees get jittery during takeover rumors. The've announced a retention benefit program as reported by...
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by steve on May 27, 2005
CDs containing localised versions of OpenOffice, Firefox and other open source applications will be distributed to millions of people by the Indian government. The government has started distributing...
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Real simple syndication, better known as RSS, is moving from weblogs to the Fortune 500. The technology, designed to let users subscribe to blog newsfeeds, is being co-opted by corporations to keep...
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Sage Software launched SageCRM.com, a rebranded version of the Accpac accounting and sales software Sage bought in late 2003 from Computer Associates International Inc. The new SageCRM.com service...
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by steve on May 26, 2005
With thousands of CMS (Content Management System) options available, it's difficult for a CMS shopper to evaluate those options in a timely way. Now companies looking for an open source CMS have a...
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by steve on May 25, 2005
Kory/Ferry International, one of the well-known executive search firms, has an interesting article in Computerworld entitled, "Is There Really A Glass Ceiling For CIOs?" Probably interesting...
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by steve on May 25, 2005
Mark Taylor believes that OpenLDAP is the catalyst that will finally make open source fully enterprise-ready. And he's willing to stake his business on it. Taylor is founder and CEO of Sirius IT....
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by steve on May 25, 2005
Little more on enterprise security, yesterdays post we spoke about the need to secure the mobile devices, today about the need to secure the enterprises network against disgruntled employees both...
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by steve on May 24, 2005
Before warming up for key webconference meetings, one of my colleagues and I would get a fresh brew of coffee and get the blood rushing by playing an intense game of foosball. The game would be so...
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by steve on May 24, 2005
Readers who have been following this blog and reading the various posts on Open source & software as service might not be very surprised by the title. This post is based on an article at the IT...
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With the increased capacity & capability of mobile devices and their pervasiveness in todays business world. Security both physical and electronic of the information is growing significantly in...
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by steve on May 23, 2005
HDI, the world's largest membership association for the service and support industry, has a self-evaluation program for support center operations within a company. The HDI program is a variation...
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by steve on May 22, 2005
An investment venture has been set up which will try to replicate the model of Gluecode, an open source start-up recently acquired by IBM, with a fund dedicated solely to open source software. Looks...
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by steve on May 20, 2005
IBM worked with OneCleveland to help health care, education, research and government organizations use grid computing technology to better collaborate on projects. The idea is that the sophisticated...
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by steve on May 19, 2005
Earlier we had a post about the adoption of open source on the desktop in the Burmingham Council, In this post lets discuss a presentation at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo titled "Client OS and...
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by steve on May 18, 2005
Thats right Google desktop search for the enterprise was just released as a product, that can find files and e-mail messages on business computers, an effort to have its software installed on...
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First the Australian Govt. than the Burmingham Council, now its cuba's turn, Cuba will gradually switch to the open-source Linux operating system for its state computers, eliminating its exclusive...
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by steve on May 18, 2005
First we have IBM & Linux, Coming together. IBM is offering to do free assessments to Solaris customers who want to do a cost / benefit of moving to LINUX. Excerpts: IBM has decided to lend Red...
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First the Australian govt puts together a Guide for open source as indicated here now another Govt body "Birmingham City Council" is planning to carry out large scale trials to evaluate open...
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by steve on May 16, 2005
Continuing along the theme of CIOs & thier role and how its changed in recent times, Computer world carries the article "Volvo exec: To succeed, CIOs must get the basics right"....
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