software vendors 90 per cent
IBM floats $360m on cloud data centre
News IBM has announced it will spend $360m on a new cloud data centre facility in North Carolina, US, providing another indication that major vendors see cloud computing as the future for mainstream systems. [04 Aug 2008]
Old browsers at risk from attack
News However, unlike in the food industry, there is no liability for software vendors. And, the authors noted, software vendors are not legally obliged to provide software updates. Overall, the authors found that roughly 40 per cent of users were... [03 Jul 2008]
Open source: UK dragging its heels
News Despite the UK's poor record, however, open-source adoption is continuing to accelerate, Taylor said, quoting a Standish Group report that claimed proprietary vendors are losing £30bn per year to open source. [15 May 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Tighten content security
Comment The vendors' software was installed on email servers themselves - at the heart of the IT department, which was the last place spam with its sometimes viral payloads was welcome. Before spam became a big problem, there were still specialist email... [02 May 2008]
Open source key to SaaS future
News Open source will make up at least 30 per cent of each individual SaaS application provided by vendors by 2010, according to Gartner. Robert DeSisto, analyst at Gartner, said as more SaaS vendors use open source in their product line, software... [16 Apr 2008]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Budgets made simple
Comment There are dozens of vendors which provide software that claims to ease the budgeting and forecasting process. Budgeting thus becomes more detailed and we are encouraged by the power of the software and the messaging from performance management... [06 Oct 2006]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: How small businesses buy IT
Comment They accumulate a portfolio of products from many vendors that they pull together to comprise a functional IT system for their customers - for example, an accounting system based on HP hardware, running Microsoft Small Business Server and Sage's... [03 Jul 2006]
Will's Web Watch: Marc Benioff's 'field of dreams'
Comment For pop stars read independent software vendors and you'll see the analogy only stretches so far. Yoah Bar David, founder of iRows, admits his offering lacks some of the functionality of Excel but claims it certainly does all the things 90 per cent... [31 May 2006]
Can open source crack business intelligence?
News The segment is dominated by larger full-service companies, such as IBM, Oracle, and specialised vendors, such as Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion and SAS. JasperSoft's strategy is to undercut entrenched vendors on price with a simpler product... [24 Apr 2006]
Big names pledge support for Linux standards
News The Free Standards Group said in a statement: "With this complex and costly development and support environment, independent software vendors may choose not to target the Linux desktop, leading to reduced choice for end users and an inability to... [18 Oct 2005]
Red Hat showing strong growth
News Szulik said: "We believe these share gains are coming at the expense of non-Linux operating systems, unsupported Linux and other Linux vendors. The company's revenue increased 42 per cent to $65.7m for its fiscal second quarter of 2006, which ended... [29 Sep 2005]
Good Technology lays off five per cent of staff
News The layoffs primarily impact Good's inside sales force, which sold GoodLink wireless corporate email service and other bundled software contracts to value-added resellers such as CDW and Software House and hardware vendors such as Dell. [14 Sep 2005]
Open source could damage the market, says analyst
News This is further driven by major vendors that are making their software available as open source. Hayward noted that many of the big software vendors are now evaluating all the software products they produce and identifying those that are strategic... [04 Jul 2005]
CRM: A small revolution?
News With CRM's relatively recent debut into the software and services market, big vendors are now having to make up for their previous "lack of attention" to the SME market - and will find addressing the market means more than selling fewer seats. [15 Dec 2004]
What's in the box? IBM's Power5 architecture…
News That could change: "Once the rest of the market catches up and all the ISVs [independent software vendors] are there, then it's viable," he said. The technology gives about a 30 per cent performance boost, IBM said, but requires the new AIX version... [13 Jul 2004]
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