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Cheat Sheet: Virtualisation
News This concept has been scaled up and various pieces of software have been developed so - for example - a physical server can hold a number of virtual servers, which may be running different operating systems. [11 Nov 2009]
Windows 7, Snow Leopard, open source and glory for Steve Jobs
News October's highlights on silicon.com were all about software - from fresh rumblings in the perennial Mac vs PC debate, to question marks over open source cost-cutting and the countdown to the launch of Windows 7, which... [09 Nov 2009]
Revealed: Your favourite Windows operating system
News But after all these years of development, which operating system software do silicon.com readers rate as their favourite? A multitude of Microsoft operating systems have been launched into the world since the first... [09 Nov 2009]
eBay's Skype sale gets green light
News The settlement restructures the deal with an investor group led by Silver Lake and puts an end to a dispute with software maker Joltid over the licensing of software that underlies Skype's internet... [06 Nov 2009]
Windows 7: Over 200 per cent more popular than Vista
News If the prediction is correct, it would mean Windows 7 would have been adopted by business more quickly than any other Microsoft OS, according to the software giant. That Windows 7 is more popular than Vista is no... [06 Nov 2009]
Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google
News Subsequently, overall use of Microsoft software at TMG has dropped by two-thirds. TMG has also recently struck a new deal with another cloud computing firm, Salesforce.com, to carry out payment processing for its online... [04 Nov 2009]
Why the UK will never create a Google, Microsoft or Oracle
News The UK will never create a software giant to rival the likes of Microsoft, Google or Oracle. That's the sobering conclusion of the silicon.com CIO Jury which voted 10 to two against, when asked whether the UK could... [03 Nov 2009]
Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure
News While Nokia has favoured Symbian software - now in the process of being unified into a single open source OS platform under the guidance of the Symbian Foundation - for its high end smartphones, such as the N Series, one... [02 Nov 2009]
Microsoft to Office Accounting: Your number's up
News The software giant has called time on accounting software Microsoft announced on Friday it is to kill off its Office Accounting product line. Microsoft's Redmond campus. Photo credit: Microsoft) The... [02 Nov 2009]
Why CIOs are saying yes to open source software
News While some CIOs are enthusiastic about the potential savings that can be made, others still warn of the hidden costs that can lie in wait for the unwary.silicon.com's latest CIO Jury came down strongly against the uptake of open source... [28 Oct 2009]
How will you use Google Wave? Recruiting, decision-making, dealing with complaints
News Lars Rasmussen, Google's software engineering manager and co-creator of Wave, said unlike typical Google services, Wave has stoked early interest among both consumers and enterprises. ERP software maker... [28 Oct 2009]
Olympics tech team gets ready to put London 2012 IT through its paces
News Work on building the tech infrastructure will begin in the New Year - starting with the datacentre and software to power the website where people will be able to volunteer to help at the Games, set to go live in July 2010. [27 Oct 2009]
How Google Apps helped Jaguar Land Rover keep motoring after Ford sale
News Staff will get access to Google Mail within the next four months and in future Vincent is.interested in rolling out further apps within the Google Apps suite, such as the word-processing software Google Docs and possibly... [26 Oct 2009]
UK software industry - alive and kicking
News The UK software industry is alive and kicking - despite many claims to the contrary. But more needs to be done to help young software companies if the UK wants to create its own Google or Microsoft. The... [23 Oct 2009]
Open source? No good for cost cutting, say CIOs
News Despite tough economic conditions, CIOs have not turned to open source software as a way of making their IT budgets go further, according to silicon.com's latest exclusive CIO Jury. Because it lacks the expensive... [23 Oct 2009]
