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Leading Swedish Financial Services Provider Adopts a Liquid IT Environment
White Paper The company wanted to remove the barriers between core business processes - consumer mortgages, business customers, finance, and administration - allowing information to flow freely in the business. SBAB deployed BEA systems for its solution and... [03 Jul 2008]
Longs Drugs Enhances Productivity, Customer Service with Cisco Wireless Solutions
White Paper Because of its speed and flexibility, a wireless networking system is a natural fit for Longs' core pharmacy business. Longs needed a solution that would allow employees to move freely throughout the store and interact with customers, yet still... [03 Jul 2008]
Open source: UK dragging its heels
News He put the blame not on any religious conviction but on poor business decisions, which had led to vendor lock-in, particularly among public bodies. This is because they have committed to applications which are not supported on other operating... [15 May 2008]
Publisher purges thousands of unlicensed fonts
Case Study The haul could have cost hundreds of thousands if left unaddressed - a recent Business Software Alliance enquiry valued 11,000 unlicensed typefaces at another London publishing house as being worth £80,000. [22 Feb 2008]
Mobile working: Get a strategy, businesses told
News Writing in a report entitled Application Delivery - Creating a Flexible, Service-centric Network Architecture, Mark Blowers, senior research analyst and co-author of the study said: "The effect of changing social patterns on business models cannot... [03 Oct 2007]
Intel 'hacker' conviction quashed
News It probably won't fully sink in until the first time I travel freely into Canada, or fill out a contractor form that asks the question about criminal history, or apply for a Small Business Administration program that was formerly unavailable to me. [05 Mar 2007]
CIO Jury: Has Blair been good for IT?
News But Andy Pepper, director of business information systems at Tetley, said there have been many positives as a result of government policy since 1997. Andy Pepper, director of business information systems, Tetley [23 Mar 2006]
New online tools will slash £290m in red-tape
News More use of electronic filing, registration and search systems at agencies including Companies House and the Patent Office could save businesses £290m over the next five years. Complicated and costly regulations are one of the main barriers to... [30 Nov 2005]
BlackBerry does JPEG patent deal
News After struggling to sell videoconferencing systems, the company began to examine its patents in 2000. Forgent has been in "friendly business negotiations" with several of the companies it has contacted, including Microsoft, Noonan said. [28 Oct 2005]
IBM offers 500 patents to open source
News IBM said the patents it's liberating cover a broad range of technologies, including linking operating system processes dynamically; protocols for exporting files; interoperability between databases and operating systems; language processing; user... [11 Jan 2005]
Red Hat: 'Half of sales to be in Europe, Asia'
News In principle, Linux can be freely distributed and modified by any user because its source code is open, unlike rival proprietary systems such as Microsoft's Windows. US-based Linux software maker Red Hat expects its international business to... [27 Oct 2004]
Microsoft extends open-source code sharing
News Microsoft also employs the founder of Wiki - Ward Cunningham - who works in the Prescriptive Architecture Guidance unit that helps companies design systems based on Microsoft software. While most of the code that Microsoft has made available to the... [28 Sep 2004]
Red Hat boss calls for 'caring, sharing' business world
News The product competes with application servers from JBoss, BEA Systems, IBM, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and others. Sharing is an intrinsic component of the open-source programming philosophy, which requires that software be freely available for... [04 Aug 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 23.07.04
Round-Up Possibly incensed by the staff's blatant 'No iPods for the kids on campus' stance - or in fact driven to prove what they thought was a rather important point - two students from Oxford University landed themselves in a spot of bother this week... [23 Jul 2004]
Sun's big idea for software: 'per-citizen' pricing
News Sun's software competes with packages from BEA Systems, IBM, Microsoft and the open source community, which produces a multitude of freely available packages. In another move to remake its software business, Schwartz said Sun will sell its Java... [03 Mar 2004]
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