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UK IT Infrastructure Benchmarking Survey

Tue, 13 May 2008 09:30:01 GMT

Take CIO UK's Company IT Infrastructure Benchmarking Survey to find out where your company draws the line.

Participate before May 26th and receive a complimentary copy of the IT Infrastructure Benchmarking Report, so you can evaluate how your organisation compares plus discover in what areas your peers are investing.

Apple targets Blackberry with enterprise iPhone plans

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:13:00 GMT

Microsoft Exchange support added later this year

Apple has finally indicated that it is ready to turn the iPhone into a business tool by announcing that it has licensed protocols from Microsoft that would allow the device to support Exchange. In addition, Apple has said that it had made a software developer kit (SDK) available for third party developers.

Sun Acquires MySQL: Impact on the CIO?

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:30:00 GMT

Sun Microsystems announced this week that it will acquire MySQL in a £509 million ($1 billion) deal.

Sun Microsystems announced this week that it will acquire MySQL in a £509 million ($1 billion) deal. Ending speculation that MySQL would be a candidate for an IPO this year, the MySQL team has instead accepted $800 million in cash and $200 million in options. MySQL CEO Marten Mikos will join Sun's executive team and the company he heads will be folded into Sun's operations when the transaction concludes later this year. This is a fairly big deal-not because of the dollars involved, but because of the pairing of the two companies.

SaaS gets own version of open source licence

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 06:14:00 GMT

GPL for web services

The Free Software Foundation has published a new open-source software licence designed for software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

Citigroup signs 30,000 seat deal with Salesforce.com

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:41:00 GMT

FInancial services giant jumps into online CRM

Citigroup has signed a deal with Salesforce.com that will make it the on-demand customer relationship management vendor's biggest user.

Gartner ITxpo: SaaS purchasing decisions 'are bypassing IT'

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:06:00 GMT

Get involved in the decision, warns Gartner

Three-quarters of all software as a service (SaaS) has been bought by business unit managers rather than IT managers, Gartner research vice-president Ben Pring has warned.

CIOs say SaaS enables quick change; but security concerns remain

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 04:39:00 GMT

Strong opinions voiced at major CIO event

Chief information officers and IT managers have said software as a service has helped their businesses speed the take up of new technology.

WebEx hosts on-demand Siebel

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:32:00 GMT

Mash-ups in the works.

Cisco's WebEx web conferencing business has said it will use its WebEx Connect desktop technology to host Oracle's Siebel CRM On Demand.

Microsoft drops price to partners for hosted CRM

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:12:00 GMT

'Titan' software available as SaaS or local installation

Microsoft plans to reduce the price its partners will pay for its newest customer relationship management software, codenamed Titan, the company's latest foray into software-as-a-service (SaaS) CRM.

Desktop application software is not dead, says Microsoft exec

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 02:33:00 GMT

Hosted technologies don't have all the answers

A top Microsoft executive has defended desktop application software, the source of the company's revenue for three decades, and argued that even services-based companies such as Google still need it.

Gartner's top 10 business technologies for 2008

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:00:00 GMT

Green computing, mashups and the 'real world web'

Which technologies should small businesses consider in 2008? The list includes green power, unified communications, virtualisation, mashups and social software.