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Schmidt: Enterprise shouldn't fear Google cloud

Google CEO Eric Schmidt reckons the company's cloud computing model is mature and secure enough for the enterprise -- but without support staff, analysts say business users won't touch Google. Read more »

BEA Systems pours 'Liquid Computing'

Speaking at its customer conference, BEA's CEO outlines product plans, including messaging-based integration software and administration tools. Read more »

Adobe snaps up document security tools

Adobe Systems is adding new document protection mechanisms to its business workflow software with an acquisition announced on Monday. Read more »

Flaw hunters pick holes in Oracle patches

Oracle, the business software maker that has marketed its products as "unbreakable," faces mounting criticism over its security practices. Read more »

Microsoft in 'trouble' as Bill Gates leaves

A Harvard University dropout who ushered in the home computer age and made billions of dollars along the way will have his last official day of work at Microsoft on 27 June. Read more »

Yahoo seeks search developers for ad revenue

In an attempt to boost its search-ad business, Yahoo has begun a project that lets anyone build a customised search engine atop the Internet company's technology. Read more »

Gates looks back on 30 years at Microsoft

If you were to ask Bill Gates what life will be like when he stops working full time at Microsoft, he'd have to get back to you.Read more »

Tech greats bid farewell to Gates

As Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at Microsoft, well-wishing cheers and not-so-nice jeers are echoing from Silicon Valley. Read more »

Can Google break Microsoft's enterprise chokehold?

A tie-up with Saleforce.com sees Google pushing even further into Microsoft's businesss applications territory Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

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IBM lights up mainframe's 40th birthday

Forty years after Big Blue introduced the S/360, the zaftig systems are still going strong and finding a way to fit into 21st-century computing. Read more »

Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates

Bill Gates has left the building and the question on many people's lips is: will Microsoft change as a result? What influence will Steve Ballmer have and how will the company's strategy alter without Gates? Read more »

Google vs. Microsoft

At the 2008 Gartner Application Development, Integration and Web Services Summit, David Mitchell Smith, vice president and Gartner fellow gave a presentation titled "Google vs. Microsoft", discussing the seeming battle between the two companies. Read more »

Building Microsoft code inside the tornado

Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

10 ways the credit crunch will hit IT

As job losses mount and with HP announcing it will lay off tens of thousands of workers following its purchase of EDS, we look at what the crunch means for the IT industry. Read more »

Model-Driven Development today

Model Driven Design promises to cut development time, reduce bugs, and increase maintainability. Pipe dreams? Maybe not according to Matthew Overington. Read more »

Deliver RSS content with JSP and JavaScript

You can generate RSS feeds for your JSP-based web site easily. We'll show you how. Read more »

The seven deadly sins of integration

Software that is open, approachable and agnostic enables customers to cut costs and increase revenue and business opportunity. Does "on demand" fit that bill or is it just the next fad? Read more »

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While the big guys scrap at the big end, who's creating the little guy's computer heaven?

Graham Lauren [blogs:intheether] -- Having sampled Google’s new calendar, I, for one, can’t wait until full synchronisation between it and Outlook’s calendar is full and fluent, so I can dispose of another chain to my desk. Read more »

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