TechWeb - InformationWeek - Microsoft is counting on Equipt's convenience factor to help it fend off threats from Google, IBM, and others that are offering free desktop productivity suites. -- read full article
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - Microsoft, SAS and SPSS lead marketshare gains in 2007. Analyst sees media and academia driving mainstream demand. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Gartner revised figures for the first quarter, lowering server revenue growth from 4.3% to 2.5% and putting IBM back in first place ahead of HP. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Using speech analytics, the technology identifies and masks credit card numbers and other sensitive information in audio recordings. -- read full article
PC World - The perception of Lenovo as a laptop innovator has paid dividends in the enterprise space, but the reputation may not... -- read full article
InfoWorld - Krugle plans to ship next week an upgrade to its search appliance for enterprise software development projects, which makes it easier for teams of developers to maintain code. -- read full article
Reuters - The deteriorating U.S. economy and
slumping stock prices will frame discussions among top media
and technology executives at the 26th annual Allen & Co confab
in Sun Valley, Idaho, next week.
TechWeb - Intelligent Enterprise - BEA's WebLogic will become Oracle's strategic application server and will undergo very little re-engineering, Oracle President Charles Phillips said. -- read full article
NewsFactor - Researchers from Google, IBM and the Communications Systems Group in Switzerland released a study Monday that shows only 60 percent of Web users are surfing with patched, updated browsers. -- read full article
PC World - A Red Hat official revealed on a blog that the first release candidate for JBoss Application Server 5.0 will be out soon. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Platform Solutions Inc. was bought out by IBM for an undisclosed sum. IBM said it will integrate PSI's mainframe technology into its own offerings. -- read full article
AFP - IBM announced on Wednesday that it has bought Platform Solutions Inc., acquiring its California rival's technology and ending lawsuits which the firms had filed against each other.