The study states: "In many cases, especially in infrastructure software, the baseline is a fully developed and working system. Rosenberg told silicon.com sister site, CNET News.com: "IBM is threatened by open-source SOA [service-oriented...
The 0870 scams are also generating increasing resentment as more people become aware that the so-called 'national rate' costs more than an ordinary call by a margin sufficient to pay owners of such numbers four pence a minute.
Microsoft has already said that with Office 2007, due early next year, it will offer tools for generating reports or analysing data from Excel. Existing business-intelligence vendors, including BusinessObjects, Cognos, Hyperion and SAS are also...
In some cases, open source products are proprietary products that have been turned into open source by the likes of IBM. Certainly there will be cases where it results in shifts in the use of software and it will have financial effects.
Not having to go through a major implementation process means smaller organisations can take advantage of these solutions with minimum fuss, upfront cost and the need for in-house support - and can gain faster time to capability, in many cases...
Few City bosses have heard of the tech industry's latest three-letter acronym, SOA (service-oriented architecture). Just one in 10 City department chiefs has heard of SOA, lagging well behind their German counterparts - 32 per cent of whom are in...