Although a licensing plan for Microsoft Office has met with customer resistance, Sun's desktop applications group faces an uphill battle against the software giant, which dominates the market for desktop applications.
Microsoft listened to customer feedback and added this to the Professional Enterprise suite sold through volume licensing, which is the primary way large and medium organizations will obtain Office. The new programme, which research firm Gartner...
There are some words that periodically turn up in news articles and vendor marketing material. This is likely to be one of those occasions as last week saw vendor Intel introduce the latest products in its Itanium 2 family of 64 bit processors.
At the time, Ayala said: "Financing and licensing are very important. Oracle on Thursday announced it would offer the manufacturing, sales and service management modules for free to new customers investing in its E-Business Suite of applications.
Microsoft is dropping plans to combine several of its management software titles into a single package, saying customers wanted the products to remain separate. The company had planned to combine its Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003 and...
Despite his fondness for Windows, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says the company will make it easier for businesses to manage a wide variety of machines - including those running Linux. Ballmer said on Wednesday that Microsoft has listened to...