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Sun Seeks Developer Help to Make Solaris Ubiquitous

Sun Microsystems has ambitious plans for the commercial and open-source versions of its Solaris operating system, hoping to achieve for Solaris the kind of ubiquity already enjoyed by Java. To come close to reaching that goal, Sun needs to reach out more to developers and endeavor to overcome some long-held prejudices against the OS.

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Mid-Market Suites Tune In to iPhone, PDAs

With the help of three new partners, NetSuite now provides extensions to its hosted mid-market applications suite so it will run on mobile devices.

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Hot Jobs: Business Relationship Manager

A business relationship manager liaises between the business and IT communities. High demand for internal IT projects and the need to ensure that such work is done right has made this a hot hire, say hiring specialists

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IBM Extends Support for Sun's Solaris OS

IBM is extending its support for Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system to cover more of its x86 servers and blades, the two vendors announced Thursday.

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Enterprise Architect

Why do you need an enterprise architect? The EA role becomes key as companies adopt SOA approaches toward application development.

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Ready, Steady...Sprint! Creating Open-Source ECM

The open-source Plone community is finding holding sprints, highly focused development meetings, is highly beneficial to speeding up software development.

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Oracle to Buy ID Theft Detection Company Bharosa

Oracle has agreed to buy Bharosa, a provider of software to help detect online identity theft and fraud. The proposed purchase will beef up its growing identity management operation.

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Intel Joins One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Initiative

In an unexpected development, chip giant Intel has joined the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative. The nonprofit project aims to equip children in developing countries with specially designed low-cost notebooks powered by chips from Intel's rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).

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Microsoft Unveils ERP for Small Businesses

Dynamics Entrepreneur Solution is seen as a step above Intuit's QuickBooks and a step below Microsoft's Dynamics NAV ERP applications.

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Oracle Unveils 11g, Users Weigh Upgrade Plans

Will new security, testing and management features lead users to migrate to the major release of the vendor's database sooner rather than later? Oracle hopes so.

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Windows 7 Webcast Series

There's a lot of buzz about Windows 7 out there. Each month in our webcast series, listen to analysts and customers discuss how Windows 7 and the Windows Optimized Desktop is impacting large companies around the world. Learn how they evaluated Windows 7, including the cost of deployment, deployment strategies, and tangible benefits.

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Service Level Management Best Practices Life Cycle Overview - Improve Service Levels

Best practices for Service Level Management (SLM) is a process for consistently meeting customer requirements and delivering on IT's promises. See the steps required to ensure high-quality SLM.

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Keeping Your Members Safe from Online Scams and Predators

In order to keep fraudsters out, romance sites must deploy effective solutions that look at information independent of what is supplied by users. A device fingerprinting solution such as iovation ReputationManager™ provides unique insight into the computers being used to create multiple accounts and exposes hidden device-account relationships that identity-based fraud solutions often miss.

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Conquering Decision Making

Don Maruska, author of How Great Decisions Get Made, gives advice on making great decisions and overcoming decision-making obstacles.  Read More »

 

A Conversation with Craig Donohue, CEO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

Craig Donohue discusses his top business priorities, the role technology plays in supporting those priorities, his relationship with his CIO, and his worst IT-related nightmare. (13:11)  Read More »

 

Making the Best 'Right' Decision

Sometimes there can be more than one right answer to a problem. But the option you choose can say a lot about the values of your company—and your leadership. Making these "right versus right" choices can be one of the hardest tasks any manager can perform. But Joseph Badaracco, the John Shad professor of business ethics at Harvard Business School, says there are some simple methods you can apply to help you answer these tough questions. (10:47)  Read More »

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Defend Against Blended Threats: What You Need to Know

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Prescriptive Actions to Reduce Risk

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Webcast- Vantage 11: Redefining Application Performance Management

Compuware's latest release, Vantage 11, is a major advance in end-to-end application performance management--bringing together proactive issue identification, quantification of business impact and problem resolution into a single solution. Tune in to learn how Vantage 11's top-down approach helps you make better decisions and dramatically lower operations costs.  View Now »

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