Software

Microsoft Virtualization Goes Cross-Platform with VMware Support

With System Centre Virtual Machine Manager 2008, Microsoft adds support for VMware ESX Infrastructure virtualization technology. With Hyper-V virtualization technology,…

16 years ago

Microsoft’s Exchange Isn’t the Only Way to Get the Message Out

Updated offerings from Gordano and IBM Lotus prove compelling alternatives to Microsoft Exchange Server.

16 years ago

VMware Workstation 6.5 Is a Top Virtualization Tool

VMware Workstation 6.5, the latest version of VMware's PC or laptop virtualization tool, continues the company's trend of offering top-notch…

16 years ago

OpenOffice.org Grows Up

Nine years after Sun Microsystems bought StarOffice, the resulting OpenOffice.org project is ready to roll out its 3.0 release. Enhanced…

16 years ago

Ubuntu Remains Best Linux Distribution for Desktops

Ubuntu 8.10 still outshines the Linux desktop offerings from Red Hat and Novell, and is the best open-source alternative to…

16 years ago

Fedora 10 a Solid Linux Choice for Workstations, Development Servers

The latest version of Fedora, the Linux-based operating system, gives users a peek at what they can expect to see…

16 years ago

Google Chrome Web Browser Shines

No longer a beta, Google's Chrome Web browser is an able challenger to Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Chrome…

16 years ago

Office 2008 Leaves Mac Users Wanting

While Microsoft's productivity suite for OS X is faster and more usable, the puzzling absence of full Exchange support detracts…

16 years ago

Apple Services Keep Apps Fresh

Software Update Server and client-side update tools form the core of the patching model.

16 years ago

Scaling Apps on the Google App Engine

It's been almost a year since Google introduced the beta of its Google App Engine, and eWEEK Labs wants to…

16 years ago

Microsoft’s Ray Ozzie Talks Open Source, Azure and More

Microsoft's chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, on open source and interoperability, software modeling and the Windows Azure cloud operating system.

16 years ago

SOA: Wanted Dead or Alive

Burton Group analyst Anne Thomas Manes set off a storm of IT industry chatter around the viability of SOA when…

16 years ago

Inside Mobile: Why eBooks and eBook Readers Will Eventually Succeed

Reading eBooks from eBook readers similar to the Amazon Kindle and Sony Reader will eventually be the preferred reading method…

16 years ago

Six Tips to Build Your Brand

Social networking tools such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and others offer SMBs new ways to build communities and your brand.…

16 years ago

Will SMBs Spend on Virtualization in 2009?

While some reports suggest small businesses won't be slashing through IT budgets in 2009, is the average midmarket company willing…

16 years ago

VKernel Capacity Analyzer a Strong Tool in VMware Environments

VKernel's Capacity Analyzer 2.0 can use VMware VirtualCentre statistics to offer clarity in virtualization deployments. However, the virtualization tool is…

16 years ago

Five Tech Trends to Watch in 2009

Small businesses face tightening IT budgets this year, but here are five technology trends all midmarket companies should be keeping…

16 years ago

Should Your Corporate Head Be in the E-Mail Cloud?

Big and small providers alike offer hosted or cloud-based collaboration and e-mail systems geared for businesses, with some obvious benefits.

16 years ago

Google Versus Microsoft: The Fight for the Future of Cloud Computing

While Google and Microsoft have each developed very different business models and attitudes toward consumers and the enterprise, both companies…

16 years ago

Vendors Tie Database Monitoring, Security Event Management

Security vendors such as Imperva and Guardium are increasingly tying security information management to database activity monitoring. The latest example…

16 years ago

Salesforce.com Rationalises InStranet Assets to Create Service Cloud

Salesforce.com's latest foray into cloud computing comes in the form of the Service Cloud. This is an effort to combine…

16 years ago

Sun Speaks Out on the Future of the Java Platform

Danny Coward, chief architect of the Client Software Group at Sun Microsystems, on Java Standard Edition 6 Update 10 and…

16 years ago

Ruby on Rails and Merb to Merge to Create Rails 3

Ruby on Rails and rival Merb teams have finally decide to get along. Built on the same foundation, Rails and…

16 years ago

Dell Confirms ‘Adamo’ Luxury Laptop at Las Vegas Expo

Dell confirms that it has developed an ultrathin, luxury laptop code-named Adamo, in an effort to counter what Apple achieved…

16 years ago

Microsoft’s Kodu Brings Video Game Development to Beginners

Microsoft delivers Kodu, a new programming environment that enables users to design video games with no programming skills required. The…

16 years ago

Microsoft: Tag It!

Finally, Microsoft does something right in mobile. But success will take lots of marketing and customer engagement - and that…

16 years ago

Will Google Help Contextual Web Blossom With Chrome?

Yahoo, Mozilla and several startups have created browser plugins or widgets to help define the contextual Web, where users can…

16 years ago