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- Who's afraid of the big bad cloud?
- Not even hybrid apps?Right, got it. You hate everybody who doesn't buy your religion, which doesn't even allow for hybrid applications."I ask why I?d entrust sensitive data to a user with a laptop."You're right, companies can't even trust their own employees. Heck, let's send everybody home and dissolve the whole...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-20
- WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio Community Edition 6.0 (Windows)
- WaveMaker Visual Ajax Studio is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG builder that enables the drag & drop assembly of scalable, web and cloud applications using Ajax widgets, web services and databases. WaveMaker Studio will look and feel especially familiar to client/server developers who are used to working with visual tools. WaveMaker's Studio...
- Software downloads 2009-11-19
- AOL/Facebook in the Enterprise
- In 1994 America Online trailed Compuserve and Prodigy, a third subscription option in how you hooked your modem up to the internet to go cyber surfing. What propelled AOL to global dominance by the end of that decade was their proprietary 'rainman' platform, which enabled partners...
- Blog posts 2009-11-18
- Google's Schmidt: Mimicking Office completely not 'a good use of our time'
- Commonsense! Please get rid of MS Office!Please do NOT copy anything MS Office has leavethis lethargic conglomeration of software vendorsMS purchased and created the 2G office suitethat is full of security holes.I hope they go their own route and NO one needsa office suite that cost $400+$700 for a companyseat...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- Looking beyond Windows 7 and Office; Pondering the alternatives
- No reason to look beyond Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office, its a complete solution out of the box for every business need. Pondering the alternatives will take all of 5 seconds before realizing the alternatives won't live up to what Microsoft has to offer.Preceding message brought to you...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- What makes Microsoft's SharePoint tick?
- Make a post explaining what SharePoint is...As you said, it is a complex product. I remember when Lotus Notes came out, it was difficult to pin it to a traditional category - what IS it? SharePoint may have some of the same issues of perception.What is SharePoint:There are 2 SharePoint?s,...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-16
- The state of US workforce technology adoption
- Did you know that among US information workers that: 35% use laptops and 76% use desktop computers? Only 11% use smartphones? 57% are optimistic about technology, but 43% are pessimistic? We know because we surveyed 2,001 US information workers that use computers...
- Blog posts 2009-10-08
- GroundWork Monitor 6.0 offers new view into virtual data center
- GroundWork is a leading open source systems and network provider and recently enhanced its platform with JBoss and Microsoft System Center support. That's not all. Â GroundWork Monitor 6.0, which shipped on September 2, offers a new "Seurat" view designed to allow administrators to access the status and...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile Uses Web 2.0 to Facilitate Collaboration and Unify 12,000 Staff Members
- Direction Generale de l'Aviation Civile DGAC wanted to streamline access points for each agent's workspace, optimizing access to management system content and services, as part of the overall public services modernization project and facilitate collaboration, resources pooling, knowledge sharing, and electronic administrative processes. The challenge was to create a DGAC...
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- News to know: Verizon's Pre; Tornado; IDF; iPhone MMS; RedHat; Gmail outage
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Report: Verizon says no to Palm Pre Andrew Mager: Tornado: The real-time web server from...
- Blog posts 2009-09-25
- 6 dirty tricks from enterprise vendors
- GET it in WRITING!If it is NOT in the contract then you made your first mistake.Well said.Contracts & Paper Trails are more precious than gold when something goes Tango-Ultra on you.I dont agree with #5Well I do, but to further clarify, *most* vendors will support at least 1-2 major revisions...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-09
- When is a VMware cloud a vCloud? Let the API wars begin
- Attention enterprises â€"Pop Quiz: If your favorite hosting provider launches a cloud service that supports VMware vSphere and is part of the VMware vCloud initative, are they providing you with the rich vCloud functionality VMware is touting at VMworld this week? The answer is no, because vCloud...
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Who is the 90-day Windows 7 Enterprise trial aimed at exactly?
- I don't understand you blog? You don't think there are not many businesses and organizations out there in the SMB market, for example, that fall into a large group that could benefit from trying windows 7 out? Are you saying buying a copy would be better? I don't get...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Building Portals and Managing Content with Microsoft SharePoint 2007
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this course, you will learn how to build portals, manage web content, and streamline your business processes using SharePoint 2007. You will gain an understanding of the standard Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 MOSS collaboration portal features, including collaboration portals, user profiles,...
- Training 2009-09-01
- SPS Commerce Implements Business Intelligence Platform to Streamline Supply Chains for Customers
- SPS Commerce wanted to implement internet-based business intelligence to deliver supply chain and point-of-sale information to its customers and harness high volume of data traveling among trading partners - retailers and suppliers - to provide customers with information that will help them optimize their supply chains. The challenge was to...
- Case studies 2009-09-01
- News to know: Snow Leopard; Salesforce; Sony; Apple ads; Search
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Ryan Naraine: Apple adds malware blocker in Snow Leopard Jason D. O'Grady: Apple removed blood stains from Snow...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Rackspace launches cloud app partner portal
- Rackspace on Tuesday rolled out Cloud Tools, a repository of partner tools, applications and services for cloud computing. The marketplace puts apps and tools into four buckets: Monitoring and reporting; Development tools; Systems management; And client software. Cloud...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Configuring Kerberos Authentication With Role Center Pages
- Microsoft Dynamics AX and the Enterprise Portal framework include customizable home pages called Role Centers. Role Centers provide an overview of information that pertains to a user's job function in the business or organization, including reports generated by SQL Server Reporting Services and SQL Server Analysis Services. This paper describes...
- White papers 2009-08-18
- MindTouch 2009 9.02.4 (Windows)
- MindTouch Inc. is the leader in Enterprise 2.0 Collaborative Networks. The company's open source platform, MindTouch 2009, combines the speed, agility and ease of use of a wiki with the extensibility, scalability, security and integration of an enterprise portal. Customers, such as Mozilla, Microsoft, Intel, Intuit, The Washington Post, EMC,...
- Software downloads 2009-08-17
- Podcast: Why ZDNet AU loves Linux desktops
- Since you ask, noI have long ago left Windows behind when I got tired of running all the spyware/malware/defrag/registry cleaner jobs just to keep it running resonably well. I find that my computer runs better with Linux and i don't have the annoying jobs to run just about every...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-14
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