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UK IT techies unpaid for longer daysUK IT techies are putting in longer working hours without extra pay, according to a survey by online recruitment firm www.theitjobboard.co.uk.
Source : Computer Business Review | 27-Aug-2008 10:55
ObjectSecurity signs partnership deal with ikv++ technologies
ObjectSecurity, a software technology provider for model-driven security management authorisation services, has signed a partnership deal with ikv++ technologies.
Source : Computer Business Review | 09-May-2008 15:13
Video Ezy to use Digisoft's video rental platform
DigiSoft.tv, a Europe-based provider of carrier class services to IPTV operators, has announced that Australian movie rental franchise, Video Ezy had chosen to implement Digisoft's IPTV delivery platform and set top box middleware to facilitate faster and efficient delivery of the Video Ezy Electronic Video Rental service.
Source : Computer Business Review | 16-Apr-2008 10:20
DigiSoft.tv to offer Java-based software stack to IPTV service providers
DigiSoft.tv, an Ireland-based provider of carrier class systems to IPTV operators, has signed a global Binary Value Added Partner agreement with Sun Microsystems for the distribution of a Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME) based software stack for IPTV set-top boxes (STBs).
Source : Computer Business Review | 14-Apr-2008 16:28
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Faces Competition Scrutiny
Microsoft’s audacious $44.6bn bid for Yahoo! could fall foul of European competition law, according to a leading competition consultancy.
Source : Computer Business Review | 01-Feb-2008 11:27
Iona adds to Oracle-BEA FUD
Middleware vendor Iona is adding to the fear, uncertainty, and doubt, or 'FUD,' surrounding rival Oracle's bid to buy BEA Systems.
Source : Computer Business Review | 12-Nov-2007 10:41
Oracle Tackles User Interaction Issues with WebCenter Suite
Oracle has added a new component to its Fusion Middleware suite, WebCenter Suite, and in doing so has launched itself into the enterprise application desktop access fracas where vendors from SAP and Microsoft to Salesforce.com and Google are competing to control the desktop and how users access enterprise applications and other information sources.
Source : Computer Business Review | 12-Sep-2007 11:34
Oracle Buy Adds ELT to Fusion Middleware
Oracle Corp is bolstering its Fusion Middleware suite with the acquisition of French extract, transform and load (ETL) vendor Sunopsis SA on undisclosed terms.
Source : Computer Business Review | 12-Sep-2007 11:34
Tourism in South West of England Gets IT Boost
England's South West Tourism has selected time@work, a project accounting and project management software tool, to eliminate manual time sheets across the organization and to better understand how employees are allocating their time. It's hoped the tool will help the organization more accurately forecast the time needed for investment in project work.
Source : Computer Business Review | 12-Sep-2007 11:34
SAP collaborates over banking software
SAP has announced that it will collaborate with banking and financial software specialist Callatay & Wouters.
Source : Computer Business Review | 12-Sep-2007 11:04
Britain's Sage Unfazed by Increased SMB Competition
Sage will come face-to-face with SAP in just over a week's time when SAP launches its SMB-specific business applications suite, but Sage believes its close relationship with its partners and customers will keep the competitor threat at bay.
Source : Computer Business Review | 11-Sep-2007 12:34
Google recruits Capgemini to open enterprise doors
Google has recruited IT services vendor Capgemini to help it push its Google Apps office software suite into enterprise accounts.
Source : Computer Business Review | 10-Sep-2007 11:34
Lombardi Helps London Hospitals Speed Patient Treatment
A major London hospital trust aims to beat government targets for treating patients with a tracking system from Lombardi.
Source : Computer Business Review | 07-Sep-2007 11:32
UK-based Avocet Gets Smart for Demand Management
Avocet Hardware, a manufacturer of windows, doors, and merchant hardware, is combining Smart Software's SmartForecasts software with its existing Epicor Software implementation in order to sweat its assets and improve its demand-planning and forecasting capability.
Source : Computer Business Review | 06-Sep-2007 11:37
MuleSource forges open source community
Open enterprise service bus (ESB) firm MuleSource has launched MuleForge, a shared community environment, offering a managed hosting site for Mule extensions and applications for the Mule ESB.
Source : Computer Business Review | 06-Sep-2007 11:36
British Boards Underestimate IT Risks
IT professionals' failure to clearly communicate technology risks leaves boards ill-informed to make decisions, according to a new report.
Source : Computer Business Review | 05-Sep-2007 14:58
RightNow Comes Over All Emotional
SaaS CRM provider RightNow Technologies has taken the emerging trend of emotion detection on board with the latest iteration of its service, but has only chosen to apply it to text-based interaction channels, not the more complicated voice channel.
Source : Computer Business Review | 29-Aug-2007 06:23
MuleSource plans revenue from open, closed source
Open source enterprise service bus (ESB) vendor MuleSource says it will make money from support and services around its free-to-download Mule ESB, but will also generate revenue peddling commercial software for ESB monitoring and management.
Source : Computer Business Review | 08-Aug-2007 11:23
Red Hat plays Qpid for message queuing
Red Hat will deliver its implementation of the Qpid messaging project in the fall, according to chief technology officer Brian Stevens. He said the specification on which it is based is expected to reach version 1.0 in early 2008.
Source : Computer Business Review | 30-Jul-2007 11:25
Iona fuses Celtix ESB with LogicBlaze
Iona Technologies is subsuming its Celtix open source enterprise service bus project into a new project called FUSE ESB, also hosted at Apache.
Source : Computer Business Review | 09-Jul-2007 11:30
Iona says Artix is now an SOA suite
Iona Technologies' chief corporate scientist Sean Baker has fleshed out the details of the firm's latest release of its enterprise service bus or ESB, Artix, saying it is now an SOA suite.
Source : Computer Business Review | 12-Jun-2007 11:10
Iona CTO explains ObjectWeb abandonment
Iona Technologies' CTO Sean Baker said in a Computer Business Review interview that the decision to switch its Celtix open source enterprise service bus project from the OW2 Consortium, formerly known as ObjectWeb, to the Apache Software Foundation should not be seen as a criticism of OW2.
Source : Computer Business Review | 06-Jun-2007 11:25
Red Hat acquires MetaMatrix to boost SOA story
Red Hat has announced that it is to acquire the assets of enterprise information integration vendor MetaMatrix as part of its new middleware strategy, which also includes new JBoss community and enterprise offerings.
Source : Computer Business Review | 25-Apr-2007 11:34
Iona buys more open source ESB technology
Bulking up its Celtix enterprise service bus, Iona Technologies has acquired LogicBlaze, a nine-person open source firm that developed some complementary technology, for an undisclosed sum.
Source : Computer Business Review | 11-Apr-2007 11:31
BEA Wins Nasdaq Deadline Extension
Middleware vendor BEA Systems Inc has won an extended deadline of May 4 from Nasdaq to get its SEC filings up to date. The company announced an investigation into past option granting practises in August 2006 and in December it said that its previously issued financial statements should no longer be relied upon and that it would restate its financial statements.
Source : Computer Business Review | 14-Mar-2007 08:16
Business and IT Have Different Priorities in 2007
Getting business managers and IT managers on the same page is always a challenge, whether times are good or times are bad. And if the latest Gartner Executive Programs survey of more than 1,400 chief information officers is any indication, 2007 is not lining up to be an exception. But the things that CIOs will have to do to make upper management and bean counters happy might be a little different this year.
Source : Computer Business Review | 01-Mar-2007 13:23
Devoteam Plans More Buys After Strong 2006
French infrastructure services vendor Devoteam Group is planning international acquisitions as it aims to build itself into a pan-European alternative to powerhouses such as IBM Global Services and HP Services.
Source : Computer Business Review | 15-Feb-2007 11:42
Indian PM Demands Even Faster Growth
Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh has urged the country's IT industry to aim for even greater growth over the next five years.
Source : Computer Business Review | 13-Feb-2007 16:09
VMware, XenSource Launch Virtualization Bundles
The battle over the virtualized server environment on X64 servers continues to heat up, and yesterday industry juggernaut VMware Inc rejiggered its products a bit in an effort to blunt competitive attacks from XenSource Inc, the creator of the open source Xen hypervisor, and Virtual Iron, which created its own hypervisor and management software two years ago and which has subsequently adopted the Xen hypervisor to get more traction for its complete virtualization package.
Source : Computer Business Review | 06-Feb-2007 09:21
IT spending poll suggests positive start to 2007
IT budget growth expectations for 2007 are running at a four-year high, according to a CIO sentiment study carried out for a technology markets financial analyst group at Merrill Lynch investment bank.
Source : Computer Business Review | 24-Jan-2007 10:12
J. Crew takes back some services from EDS
J. Crew Group Inc has taken some of the infrastructure services functions it outsourced to EDS Corp in 2001 back in-house, according to an SEC filing from the apparel retailer.
Source : Computer Business Review | 19-Jan-2007 10:13
Red Hat Expands in Eastern Europe
Linux distributor Red Hat Inc has reportedly signed a letter of intent with the Serbian government to cooperate on the potential supply of Linux and open source software to the newly independent country.
Source : Computer Business Review | 16-Jan-2007 04:22
Retail Show Sets Competitive Tone for the Year
The big guns in the enterprise application market fired off their retail market shots at the National Retail Federation conference in New York yesterday, confirming that this is a coveted market and that they are going all out to grab market share.
Source : Computer Business Review | 16-Jan-2007 04:20