But creeping featuritis has added megabytes of rarely used code to key Microsoft products-adding complexity and reducing reliability. With the world changing at Internet speed, Microsoft must focus on the marketplace, not the courtroom.
The B2B marketplace has become a weary labyrinth of companies, technologies and partnerships. Mid-tier player Clarus claims given, three weeks, it can create a basic marketplace with two to three suppliers, and a couple of thousand users, for about...
IBM's WebSphere application server platform is too full of proprietary technologies to allow real interoperability with other systems according to UK messaging technology firm SpiritSoft. The firm today criticised Big Blue for bundling together old...
For integration, IBM will offer a revamped version of its WebSphere Business Integrator product, which shares data among different business applications, to connect business processes, he said. These features came out of IBM's autonomic computing...
While thin screens are drastically reducing consumption, processors are going in the opposite direction. Taking both power and data to desks, which in modern flexible offices frequently have to be moved, more than doubles the complexity and work...
Reducing range complexity can improve all other parts of the business - from forecasting through to supply chain - and can unlock working capital. For instance, a potential five per cent reduction in landed cost price should be set against the...