But in the long term who will gain and loose from the shift from a product oriented industry to a service model? The communications costs of shipping all the data and user interface traffic from your LAN to the ASP server farm may be part of the...
With OmniPortlet, part of the software upgrade, Oracle is introducing user-oriented tools that let people modify and build their own portlets, said John Magee, vice president of Oracle9i Application Server marketing.
With an already commanding share of the desktop market, Microsoft these days is trying to transform Office into a tool that is deeply tied into a company's core business processes. The first step in the effort was building XML tools into Office...
On Monday, the company will share some of its plans in that area, including the outlines of a new server-based system for managing Excel spreadsheets. As part of Office 12, Microsoft will add the ability to store and manage spreadsheets from a...
On the file format front, Microsoft said this spring it plans to have ready a beta test version of converters, allowing people with the current Office for Mac to read and write documents in the new file formats.
The downside to this has been the proliferation multiple spreadsheets being used within an enterprise, all with their own version of 'the truth'. Although this user-driven, self-service capability is superior to the tabular analysis associated with...