With a reported $6.5 billion (£4.5bn) in cash on the table for Sun Microsystems, IBM would be well positioned to snag significant market share
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Richard Stallman: Free software costs the environment less
The GNU founder claims that free software should be more sustainable than proprietary - and argues that the UK and EU are missing the ethical issues in software
Recession Is Driving Open Source Uptake, Says Novell
But some open source experts claim the software is about more than saving money
Apple iPhone 3.0 Extends APIs
The sky is the limit for developers working with the new iPhone
Apple’s iPhone 3.0 Could Gain Enterprise Credibility
We need to see the details before we pass judgement, but Andrew Garcia is encouraged to see some important enterprise-grade features in the promise list at Apple's iPhone 3.0 preview
Google Launches New Chrome Beta
Google has announced the newest beta release of Google Chrome, the company's entry into the Web browser market.
Microsoft’s Cloud Azure Service Suffers Outage
Microsoft Windows Azure went down for a 22-hour period preventing users from utilising the early test release's applications.
Cloud Software Maker Dumps Exchange For Gmail
Serena has completed its migration from Microsoft Exchange to Google's Gmail and it took only three hours of dedicated work
Study: Mobile Working Is Key To Surviving The Recession
Video: Firms with fully ‘mobile' workforces 60 percent more likely to be forecasting growth in 2009, a study says
Stallman: Free software Is Not About Saving Money
Companies turning to open source in the recession should know that free software is about much more, according to the GNU founder
Analysts: Cloud Computing Will Defy Recession
Two new research reports point out the strengths of hosted applications and systems despite the dire economy
Latest Version Of Firefox Being Developed
Mozilla has released its Firefox 3.1 beta 3 Web browser, intended for developers and testers for evaluation and feedback.
BigFix SAM Tool : Track Enterprise Software
How many software packages, licenses, versions and locations are spread across your company? If you can even start to answer, then chances are you're ahead of the game.
Saas Vendor: No More Lock-in
On-demand call center provider LiveOps says the downturn is driving uptake of hosted technology
Recession Isn’t Boosting The Cloud
Despite the promise that cloud computing can cut costs , companies in the UK are hesitating to adopt it, according to a survey by IT consultancy Avanade.
Sun JavaFX: A Move Into the RIA Space
Sun Microsystems rolls out JavaFX to challenge Adobe AIR, Flex and Microsoft Silverlight, in the highly competitive rich Internet application space.
Microsoft Azure Cloud SDK
Azure is Microsoft's entry into the cloud computing world competing against the likes of Amazon.com and Google. eWEEK Labs tries it out.
UK should learn from open source schools project
Avoiding commercial licenses has enabled the National Digital Resource Bank project to succeed, say free software experts
Unison: Free Unified Communications Software
Unison Server and Desktop provide a decent unified communications experience for free, but what's the catch?
SAP Tackles European IT Costs With Virtualisation
The ERP specialist is virtualising 500 internal servers and more than 40 applications
Google Users Experience Another Mail Outage
The search giant's hosted email service suffered another temporary glitch
Open-Source Leaders Call For Calm Over TomTom
Is Microsoft's lawsuit against TomTom a shot across the bow at Linux and open-source software? Open-source experts Bruce Perens and Jim Zemlin weigh in with their views
UK Recession Hits IT Jobs Hardest
Demand for IT staff is falling significantly faster than the overall drop in the UK as a whole
Ten Years of Worms Have Left Email Security In Tattters
In 1999 the Melissa worm announced a new kind of attack. Ten years later, the security industry is still catching up, says Larry Seltzer
Sun: Recession Driving Green IT, Virtualization Uptake
Interest in technologies such as cloud computing, virtualization and green IT is on the rise, according to Sun CTO Greg Papadopoulos
CeBIT: Microsoft Launches Cloud Tools For Mobile Workers
The software giant has repackaged some of its hosted productivity applications for mobile workers
UK Start-up Offers Oracle Carbon Metrics
Zogix helps companies extract green data from existing applications
Microsoft Tests Kumo Search Service
Staff at Microsoft are testing a new, online search tool within the company. But could it beat Google? And will it be called Kumo, or something else?
SAP Makes Green Promises
The software giant has announced a product to manage customers environmental impact, and made a promise to cut its own carbon footprint
Debian 5.0 Lenny: Good For Servers
Named for a Toy Story character, the new Debian is a serious contender for open source server deployments