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...

Fred Domke points out to me that Sun Microsystems released news late Sunday that it will publish the source code for Java System application server software Platform Edition 9. From Yahoo news: The...

"I have been a member of the HDI Executive Forum now for two years. I have been in the help desk industry for over 15 years and this is one of the best times in my career. We meet......

A recent gartner report highlights some of the main reasons why offshoring projects will fail. The offshoring market is growing in leaps and bounds- "Businesses will spend more than $50 billion...

Biren recently posed a question to me about how to get technology initiatives to stick based on my experience as a management consultant, user, and technology manager. Although I always believe that...

With the announcement of 24H Laundry and the sponsored posts I have been doing on support center stuff with HDI, I was reminded about a company call White Pajama (now Contactual) that provides...

"I have been to industry conferences, I have been to training, I have served on industry Executive Advisory boards, I have been successful in certifications, but I wanted more. I have been a...

Although this post has nothing to do with information technology, CIOs, or the like, this post reflects persistence, integrity, and the essence of blogging. I think these traits are important for...

Tom Goguen, vice president for platform software at Sun confirmed ""We're the second-largest contributor of open-source software to the community [behind the University of California],...

We could probably set up a category called "Data Theft" given the number of cases that have been reported over the past couple of months. First there was the MCI case than the DOJ one and...

According to a post at the O'Reilly Weblog by Kevin Shockey - SpikeSource will host their first TestFest in their Redwood City Headquarters. With free food, free drinks, and free presentations on...

If you don't think IT support is an issue in higher education institutions, you should check out the recent article in University Business entitled, "Are You Protected Against Hackers and...

Earlier in this blog we had an entry announcing the acquisition, now for the details, Jonathan Schwartz's has a detailed post on his blog on the same. Excerpts: I've been hearing ringing...

SG Cowen & Co. notes that for the first time since it began tracking Linux in its annual survey, the number of companies planning to become first-time users of the software has fallen -- by half....

Bruce Perens the Open Source Evangelist joined source lab as Vice President. SourceLab sells support and maintenance subscriptions for tested, certified "stacks" of open source...

TripleTree, an investment banking firm, and the Software & Information Industry Association (SIAA), in a prescient report released last year identify among the key factors of success of Software...

Gartner had an recent article that alerted folks about limitations to Salesforce.com. In the article they wrote: More than 60 percent of large sales organizations deploying the application service...

"According to Arthur Schopenhauer, the 19th century philosopher, all truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being...

Citigroup announced on Monday that it lost customer data which contains/includes customer names, Social Security numbers and payment history information, was stored on computer tapes being sent via...

BetaNews has an announcement - AOL has released to the open source community, two popular visualization plug-ins found in Winamp, AOL's digital media player that is used by over 60 million people...

While the average person may not think of IT in the healthcare industry on a day-to-day basis, healthcare provider IT is fascinating. In 2005, some of the top priority issues include making...

Looks like the Scobles are really quite a bunch of pioneers. By way of ComputerWorld's article, entitled "IT Blogging Is One-Sided," I found Alex Scoble's (brother of Robert Scoble,...

Acquisition 1Sun Microsystems Inc. will acquire Storage Technology Corp. in a transaction valued at about $4.1 billion. Together, the companies have total annual revenue of $13 billion. The aim of...

India's software and services exports totaled $17.2 billion in the fiscal year to March 31 this year, up by 34.5% from the previous year, according to India's National Association of Software...

osCommerce is an online shop e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the-box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain...