collaboration software in comment and analysis
Cost-cutting tops CIO priorities
Comment Collaboration software therefore will become more important - both the connectivity and the ability to work as ad hoc teams and special interest groups. One new issue high among CIO priorities this year is green IT and the need to reduce the power... [18 Apr 2008]
The Brampton Factor: Open source 'brotherhood' closed to co-operation
Comment Open source software is such a remarkable phenomenon that it has attracted psychological and sociological researchers - with some of their quite striking findings. One is based on making software freely and openly available because it will enable... [03 Apr 2008]
What is the future for Lotus?
Comment This week's Lotusphere marks a big shift for IBM's Lotus collaboration software arm. But can a move into corporate social networking and web 2.0 really pay off, asks Mark Kobayashi-Hillary.marks the 15th year of Lotusphere, the annual gathering of... [24 Jan 2008]
Losing control in the SaaS lane
Comment Evangelists for software as a service (SaaS) say it is the way of the future. But about six months ago we saw a demonstration of the latest release of the applications underpinning the online service by the original vendor of the software. [16 Jan 2008]
John Chambers
AS Profile The software and hosted service allows for on-demand collaboration between businesses, through the use of internet and VoIP products, without having to load applications on their own networks. Unlike his software counterpart, Bill Gates, Chambers... [12 Oct 2007]
The greening of IT: Cooling costs
Comment Witness the growth of on-demand entertainment services such as IPTV, and businesses moving to a pay-as-you-grow software as a service (SaaS) model. Granted, BT now has 104,000 staff compared with 130,000 in 1996 so its office estate is considerably... [21 Sep 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07
Round-Up The two are also key members of the Initiative for Software Choice, which frequently takes an anti-open-source stance. The CompTIA is a 25-year-old trade body which certifies IT professionals and is funded by major vendors, including the Redmond... [03 Aug 2007]
Brampton Factor: Bringing tech to the developing world
Comment The many schemes pioneered by Western tech powers to spread hardware and software into emerging markets appear to be well-meaning. And the company's willingness to sell its software for $3 raises all kinds of questions. [17 Jul 2007]
Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java'
Comment There is no Java antivirus software because it's not necessary. Are software development costs doomed to spiral out of control? We can make the software as solid as we can but if someone says the root password of the machine is 'nothing', anyone... [19 Mar 2007]
Link up all parts of your business
Comment More recently vendors of software for smaller companies have also woken up to this trend. Jon Gamlen, principal consultant at Software AG, says: "This means you re-engineer the applications so that they can create services. [14 Mar 2007]
Unwired: The office of the future
Comment Stage two is 'metadata', when intelligent office organisation reaches our software. The metadata develops and is built over time, so software can learn how you work and eventually is able to spot patterns and automatically anticipate a worker's... [15 Nov 2006]
Open source: The new front
Comment This goal can be achieved by four means - through the development of software that is 'interoperable by design' (e.g.inclusion of XML technology in software to facilitate the easy exchange of data across different applications); through licensing... [11 Oct 2006]
Ray Ozzie
AS Profile Ozzie, an industry visionary with a loyal following long before his days at Microsoft, was one of the developers of collaboration and email software Lotus Notes, and went on to pioneer peer-to-peer collaboration software for businesses with his... [25 Sep 2006]
Leader: Getting IT right isn't child's play
Leader Or are they chained to their desks, unable to share or create because the hardware or the software isn't flexible enough to let them? Teachers say that kids are better at team working and collaboration - and even more creative as a result of using... [06 Apr 2006]
Analysis: Making web 2.0 pay
Comment Online productivity software company gOffice, for example, funds its free hosted applications with Google ads. Multimedia social software: Includes sites such as the popular Flickr photo sharing service, Podbop (music podcasting), Riya (photo... [14 Mar 2006]
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