Sunday | 20 July, 2008
Stories by: Eric Lai
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Study says reducing piracy enriches Microsoft's partners 10/07/2008 08:36:33
Microsoft may have a massive army of channel partners selling and supporting its software, but not all are equally loyal. Some knowingly install counterfeit software alongside legitimate seats. Others turn a blind eye to customers with lapsed licenses. - +
Microsoft adds tool for evaluating software asset management 08/07/2008 08:08:06
Microsoft is adding a feature to its controversial software asset management (SAM) program that it claims will benefit corporate IT users by giving them a scorecard for evaluating their internal asset management processes. - +
Is Ballmer the right man for Microsoft -- for another 10 years? 26/06/2008 08:23:05
As the dynamic duo steering Microsoft together for the past 28 years, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have been a near-unstoppable team, combining Gates's technical vision and will to power with Ballmer's salesmanship and rousing, if polarizing, personality. - +
Microsoft's Golden Age: Going, going ... gone? 24/06/2008 08:30:07
Oracle and SAP AG may still be bigger in enterprise applications, and Oracle in databases. Both IBM and Hewlett-Packard may reap more IT dollars overall. But in the ways that really count, Microsoft remains the king of the IT industry. - +
The '640K' quote won't go away but did Gates really say it 24/06/2008 11:56:00
Here's the legend: at a computer trade show in 1981, Bill Gates supposedly uttered this statement, in defense of the just-introduced IBM PC's 640KB usable RAM limit: "640K ought to be enough for anybody." - +
IBM says it has 'no plans' to open-source DB2 database 17/06/2008 07:20:04
IBM said Monday that it doesn't plan to open-source its DB2 database, despite a published report quoting a company executive in the U.K. saying that an open-source move might become necessary. - +
Who's winning the app virtualization war? 11/06/2008 08:17:29
The old cliche about 'lies, damned lies and statistics' applies perfectly to the numbers being bandied about by the three main application virtualization vendors: Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. - +
IBM price for Symphony support is music to ears of companies 10/06/2008 09:11:25
IBM didn't become a US$100 billion-a-year business by playing the discount game. - +
EnterpriseDB snags Red Hat sales VP as CEO 05/06/2008 09:51:59
Open-source database vendor EnterpriseDB Wednesday said it has appointed a senior sales executive from Linux vendor Red Hat as its new CEO. - +
Will this tool replace Exchange with Gmail & keep Outlook? 05/06/2008 10:08:14
Microsoft's Exchange Server may be the king of corporate e-mail, but it has plenty of haters, especially among smaller companies that find managing the software and dealing with e-mail backups to be a huge hassle. - +
Short-timer: Gates down to his last month at Microsoft 03/06/2008 09:27:52
The only certainties in life, the saying goes, are death and taxes. But for IT pros and home users alike, there has been a third one for the past three decades: Bill Gates as the leader and public face of Microsoft, the software vendor he co-founded 33 years ago.
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Beyond Virtualisation - The Roadmap to 2012
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Computerworld Live Podcast #96: Security at the Edge 11/06/2008 09:22:22
CW Live speaks with Amol Mitra, HP ProCurve Director of Marketing for Asia Pacific and Japan. Today's topic: how enterprises are starting to shift away from simply controlling security via server logins, firewalls and moving to more adaptive security frameworks. - +
Data Management Edition #10: Multi-Petascale Systems 02/05/2008 09:12:33
This week we look at sustainability and the development of multicore technologies to build multi-petascale systems. - +
IT Security Edition #11: How to poison the Storm botnet 01/05/2008 08:51:55
This week CW Live presents a case study on how to poison the notorious Storm botnet . Plus we take a look at Cisco's plans for Ironport. - +
IT Security Edition #10: Cyber-battles fought and won 24/04/2008 11:09:47
Vendors bow to end user pressure to improve product security, and we take a look at the latest concepts shaping the cyber-battlefield of the future. - +
Data Management Edition #9: Data centre makeover 24/04/2008 07:43:06
This week CW Live looks at the death of the old style data centre which is undergoing its first makeover in more than 30 years.
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