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Salesforce.com makes more friends in the cloud
News The tie-ups were announced at Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco this week, where BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp and CA CEO John Swainson both joined Salesforce.com... [20 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Speaking at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco, CEO Marc Benioff said Chatter was the company's "fourth cloud" - joining its Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and Custom Cloud. Salesforce.com has... [19 Nov 2009]
Exclusive: Former MySQL boss Marten Mickos talks open source
Comment The Commission has yet to give its official approval to the acquisition - a delay that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said is costing Sun $100m every month it waits for a decision on the deal. In an exclusive interview, former... [19 Nov 2009]
How CIOs can achieve post-recession success
Comment We're not saying in every case the CIO must report to the CEO but in aggregate what's interesting is [our research] might suggest that in many [European] companies the IT function is considered more of a back-office... [18 Nov 2009]
Photos: Dell unveils its very first smartphone
Photo Dell CEO Michael Dell is pictured above, right, showing off the Android-powered smartphone with Joćo Cox, president of Claro. Dell may be better known as a PC vendor but it also has designs on smartphones. [16 Nov 2009]
Google's Eric Schmidt on search, Android and all things Wave
News Last week saw silicon.com sister site CNET News.com sit down with Google CEO Eric Schmidt to talk Google Wave, Android and all things search. We're certainly not done [with search] We're using a lot more about you;... [16 Nov 2009]
Risk, Responsibility & Opportunity: The CEO's Guide to Climate Action
White Paper Thanks to science it now has an increasingly clear and ominous picture of how climate is changing. As their knowledge continues to evolve, scientists have issued stronger and more compelling warnings about the impacts of climate change... [13 Nov 2009]
HP goes after networking with $2.7bn 3Com buy
News HP CEO Mark Hurd HP has announced plans to acquire networking products maker 3Com for $2.7bn. With the purchase, HP hopes to boost its networking business, particularly in the Chinese market where 3Com is strong, in... [12 Nov 2009]
The Case for Thermoelectrics in the Data Center: A New Approach and Use of an Old Science
White Paper Plus, with a dubious global economic climate, the CEO/CIO are challenged more than ever in finding ways to reduce every dollar of operational cost for the enterprise and remain competitive. Over the past several years'... [11 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News October also saw the ninth annual silicon.com Agenda Setters list of the most influential individuals in tech go live - with Apple CEO Steve Jobs being voted number one. Twitter CEO and co-founder, Evan... [09 Nov 2009]
Why are Indian outsourcing companies such bashful suitors?
Comment MindTree's acquisition efforts have been driven by strategic options rather than as a means to gain scale, CEO Krishnakumar Natarajan said. Indian outsourcers certainly have the cash - so why aren't they buying up their... [06 Nov 2009]
Quest Connect Archive: white papers, demos and more!
White Paper For starters, get unique insight into market trends and technology in the keynote address by Quest executives Doug Garn, CEO and President and Carol Fawcett, VP of Information Services. Did you miss our virtual event? [04 Nov 2009]
Leading a Company to Embrace and Capitalize on Innovation
White Paper Because the success of an innovation is often dependent on the quality of the CEO's leadership, this ExecBlueprint examines the innovative process from the CEO's perspective. Most importantly, however,... [29 Oct 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should I add my boss as a Facebook friend?
Comment Action: Ignore every friend request from a work colleague, whether it's from the post boy or the CEO What do you do when the 'One new friend request' on Facebook is from a work colleague? silicon.com's Natasha Lomas... [28 Oct 2009]
Drive Business Processes: Achieving the "Last Mile" of Business Productivity
White Paper This white paper is the result of research into the working "personas" of the various roles within an organization and the day-to-day realities these workers faceĀfrom the CEO to the shipping clerk, from the warehouse... [28 Oct 2009]