Apple yanks 'Baby Shaker' from App Store
April 23, 2009Apple -- on the verge of celebrating its billionth App Store download -- has pulled from its virtual store shelves a controversial application called "Baby Shaker" that generated public outrage.
What does HP Matrix have over Cisco UCS and Juniper Stratus
April 23, 2009Call it what you will: unified computing, private clouds, or dynamic data centers. As of this week, it seems just about every vendor remotely related to the data center has hopped on board.
Are price hikes in store for Sun software support?
April 23, 2009Oracle's pending purchase of Sun Microsystems may not have an immediate effect on what customers currently pay to use Sun software, but changes are likely coming, observers said this week.
VMware warns that revenue may fall for the first time in Q2
April 23, 2009Virtualization market leader VMware said that its software sales are being hit by the economic recession and that it might see its first-ever drop in revenue during the current quarter.
Microsoft adds health care to global e-government platform
April 23, 2009Microsoft extended the e-services framework it is developing for governments around the world, with new modules for helping to build better IT networks for social services.
How to Win CFO Friends and Influence Business People
April 22, 2009Conventional wisdom and decades' worth of IT project failures and less-than-desirable outcomes tell us that every tech-related investment-from a massive SAP ERP rollout to a small Salesforce.com SaaS CRM deployment-comes with some amount of risk.
IBM renews Oracle-migration efforts with DB2 database upgrade
April 22, 2009IBM on Wednesday released Version 9.7 of its flagship DB2 database with several notable new features, including the ability to run applications written for other databases, especially Oracle's.
Virtualization is 'the new mainframe,' VMware says
April 22, 2009VMware launched an upgrade to its core software on Tuesday with the message that virtualization is ready to run any class of enterprise application, no matter how large.
Explaining Salesforce.com to the CEO: Top 5 Payoffs
April 22, 2009Last week, we discussed the top 5 misconceptions regarding Salesforce.com, keeping in mind that most of the lessons learned apply to any modern SaaS SFA or CRM system. This week, let's talk about how to explain the business payoffs in terms that business executives want.
Is Java as we know it doomed?
April 22, 2009With Oracle set to buy Sun Microsystems, some Java backers are questioning whether the software vendor might try to exert more control over the open-source technology than even Sun has.