Like much of the rest of the city, New Orleans' information technology department was nearly crippled by Hurricane Katrina. But as the city continues to put itself back together, the IT department has been able to rebuild -- and even improve some operations. The automation of its business processes has been among the improvements.
- By Joab Jackson
- 03/24/2008
On Tuesday, Yahoo filed a three-year plan with the SEC in an effort to convince investors that the company can offer shareholders value without merging with Microsoft -- or, at the very least, that Microsoft should significantly raise its bid for the company.
Microsoft, famous for its product delays, has taken a different approach with its latest virtualization offering: instead of multiple delays, it's pushing up delivery deadlines.
Microsoft has added another nickel to its open source credibility bank this morning with the announcement of its first collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation.
- By John K. Waters
- 03/19/2008
A report commissioned by Hewlett-Packard Company earlier this year suggests that a major issue for a third of the CIOs surveyed is unwieldy growth of datacenters in the next two to five years, particularly as the number of business services and applications that are deployed through them continues to head skyward.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/18/2008
Microsoft announced the availability of Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. The company has also posted the upgrade to its download site.
For Microsoft and Intel, the computing universe is going parallel.
Red Hat last week announced that it has acquired Amentra, a systems integrator specializing in service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) projects, as well as a provider of enterprise data solutions.
Sun Microsystems and the National Security Agency (NSA) announced last week that they are working together to develop new security tools for the OpenSolaris operating system.
This month, ComponentOne has updated two of its offerings to 2008 versions: Studio Enterprise 2008 and Doc-To-Help 2008.
The United States has voted for approval of a modified version of the Office Open XML (OOXML) standard for business documents.
- By William Jackson
- 03/17/2008
According to numerous reports on the Web, Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows XP SP3 may both be released this week, possibly as soon as Tuesday.
Boston, Mass.-based Atalasoft announced recently that it has updated its .NET imaging toolkit for photos and documents, DotImage, to version 6.0.
IT pros looking at solutions to the Microsoft Excel bug that popped up as part of last week's patch release said Monday that the cell calculation snafu plaguing Excel 2003 isn't so much a security issue as it is a pain in the neck for programmers and Windows application developers.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 03/17/2008
Sybase releases new version of Afaria, an encryption component for
Windows Mobile devices.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
Adobe releases first version of the Adobe Integrated Runtime, and open
sources the complementary Flex framework.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
OpenID gets big-name support from Microsoft, Google, IBM and others.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008
First Internet Explorer 8 and Silverlight 2.0 betas are released at MIX08.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
CodeGear partners with Russia to provide programming education.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 03/15/2008
After MySQL acquisition, Sun plans to pursue other open source vendors.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 03/15/2008