There's no question that the open source community is a passionate one — and one with significant influence on technology …
If Windows is a dead end, what's next?
The writing is on the wall. Despite a major push to sell the much-maligned Windows Vista, customers aren't buying. Nearly …
2010: The year of the Mac?
It’s almost a pathetic assertion: This year, the Mac will break out of its ghetto and become a mainstream computer …
2010: The year of the Mac?
It's almost a pathetic assertion: This year, the Mac will break out of its ghetto and become a mainstream computer …
Five big questions about cloud computing
In a largely downbeat year, I couldn’t help but delight in Larry Ellison’s over-the-top takedown of cloud computing last September. …
5 must-have IT management technologies for 2010
As more companies expand virtualization deployments and consider cloud computing, the average IT environment will grow ever more complex. For …
Five big questions about cloud computing
In a largely downbeat year, I couldn't help but delight in Larry Ellison's over-the-top takedown of cloud computing last September. …
5 must-have IT management technologies for 2010
As more companies expand virtualization deployments and consider cloud computing, the average IT environment will grow ever more complex. For …
Startups keep on-demand BI faith, but big vendors wait and see
When a tech vendor fails, rivals usually rejoice. Not in the nascent BI (business intelligence)-on-demand space, after well-funded startup LucidEra …
Is Windows 7 the last major chapter in Windows story?
Microsoft Windows 7 may represent the last ever, large in-mass upgrade of the Windows client environment and define the line …
Is Windows 7 the last major chapter in Windows story?
Microsoft Windows 7 may represent the last ever, large in-mass upgrade of the Windows client environment and define the line …
Google turns on real-time search
As it promised in October, Google has now started to add search results in real-time to its engine, giving end-users …
Tibco’s ‘Tibbr’ aims to be enterprise Twitter
Middleware vendor Tibco said it is preparing to release Tibbr, a messaging system with strong echoes of the popular Twitter …
10 IT management technology start-ups to watch
IT operations teams short on staff and budget dollars this past year have turned to myriad management technologies to deliver …
PC market crash averted, says Gartner
Reversing earlier doom-and-gloom forecasts, Gartner Inc. now expects global PC shipments to grow 2.8% this year. Low-priced laptops, such as …
Open-source virtualization: Who's biting?
Virtualization is unarguably one of the biggest trends of the past few years, and open-source software has been on the …
HP Heats Up Cisco Rivalry with 3Com Purchase
The gloves are off now in the fight for the data center. Cisco has operated largely unchallenged in providing routing …
Windows XP smartphone raises functionality questions
A new smartphone that runs Windows XP and blends in PC features is starting to generate buzz, though some analysts …
Analysis: Cisco, EMC, VMware partnership is a long shot
Cisco, EMC and VMware joined forces to sell products as a private cloud offering to enterprises. Called the Virtual Computing …
Google's Chrome browser share growth trumps Firefox's
Google’s Chrome boosted its share of the browser market by a bigger margin than did Mozilla’s Firefox in October, the …