Big Blue hopes the latest release will entice fence-sitters
Companies that implement a centralized software-testing program report higher quality levels than companies that don’t
The business rules approach is gaining ground—and has proven successful in the most unlikely of environments: long-time mainframe shops.
Despite unimpressive results, offshore outsourcing market is growing rapidly. Even so, plenty of offshore adopters could bring it all back home again
Microsoft has had some success in improving the image of its Windows Server 2003 operating system vis-à-vis Linux
Phantom users and orphaned accounts are widespread in the distributed space, but things are even worse in the mainframe world
Big Blue must navigate a torturous path as it competes against, and partners with, Compuware, CA, BMC, and other vendors in the mainframe tools space
A senior IBMer notes how the company has made the mainframe a more affordable proposition for traditional and non-traditional customers alike
Workloads are coming back to the mainframe, as BI powerhouse Informatica demonstrated last month
Opsware brings its automation-centric focus to network management
Even though HP, IBM, and Sun have monopolized the utility-computing limelight, Opsware believes it has a trump card up its sleeve
How one hospital tapped DB2 Content Manager to drastically reduce its paper and printing costs—and realized other savings to boot
Utility computing isn’t a rip-and-replace proposition, says CA
For former Tandem and Digital users, it’s been bumpy going for a while now, and it could get bumpier still
These days, Sun has a pronounced bounce in its step—enough to give many Solaris administrators that old late-1990’s feeling again
Compromise may be possible—even within the most control-oriented of corporate cultures
Long-time Notes and Domino customers regard Workplace with suspicion—and IBM is still having trouble positioning the relationship between the two platforms
A new software license gives OpenSolaris a good foundation—even if Sun hasn’t worked out all the legalities of porting CDDL code to Linux
Big Blue’s durable workhorse still has plenty of kick left in it. And customers, for that matter, are increasingly willing to deploy it in support of new workloads
Compuware’s Vantage Analyzer lets customers identify and isolate J2EE performance problems—including troublesome memory leaks