The most recent Business Software articles from IT Week

OLPC partners with Microsoft

Rosalie Marshall — 2008-05-16T11:37:00.000Z

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Friday 16 May 2008 at 11:37:00

Microsoft Windows now available on the XO laptop

Microsoft Windows operating system will soon be available on One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) XO laptops. OLPC aims to distribute a laptop to provide every child in the world access...

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Google increases its Translate options

David Neal — 2008-05-16T10:34:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Friday 16 May 2008 at 10:34:00

Google has added ten new languages to its Translate service

Google has added ten new languages to its Translate service, bringing the total up to 23. Added languages include Bulgarian, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian and Swedish....

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Zoho opens up for Google and Yahoo users

David Neal — 2008-05-14T16:50:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Wednesday 14 May 2008 at 16:50:00

Now Zoho users can share documents and work with Yahoo and Google users

Zoho, the online productivity and business applications developer has opened up its tools to Google and Yahoo users. From today members of Yahoo and Google services can sign into Zoho...

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CIOs urged to lead by example

Phil Muncaster — 2008-05-14T16:49:00.000Z

Phil Muncaster, IT Week, Wednesday 14 May 2008 at 16:49:00

Enterprise IT leaders must show best practice in asset management, urges BSA

Anti-piracy body the Business Software Alliance has called on enterprise IT leaders to set an example of best practice in asset management, for smaller organisations to follow, in an attempt...

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EMC boosts XML management

David Neal — 2008-05-13T14:57:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 14:57:00

Two new products from EMC should help firms tackle document woes

EMC has released two new products today designed to boost the use of XML in enterprise document management. EMC Documentum XML Store and EMC Documentum Dynamic Delivery Services work together and...

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Graduate developers lacking security skills

Phil Muncaster — 2008-05-13T14:28:00.000Z

Phil Muncaster, IT Week, Tuesday 13 May 2008 at 14:28:00

New government-sponsored research finds most IT undergraduates get less than five hours security training

The latest generation of software developers have little to no experience in how to code secure applications, UK government-sponsored research has revealed....

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Labs report: SP3 strengthens XP security

Dave Bailey — 2008-05-09T14:45:00.000Z

Dave Bailey, IT Week, Friday 9 May 2008 at 14:45:00

Service Pack 3 adds support for the Network Access Protection (NAP) mechanism in Windows Server 2008

Microsoft's SP3 update is likely to be the final service pack for Windows XP, and consists largely of previously released updates and hotfixes....

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Oracle talks up its Fusion Middleware plans

David Neal — 2008-05-09T11:39:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Friday 9 May 2008 at 11:39:00

Oracle has been demonstrating the new capabilities that are forthcoming in its Fusion Middleware 11g product

Oracle previewed a number of planned enhancements, including better support for development and deployment of rich enterprise applications, for its Fusion Middleware family....

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Book review: Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

David Neal — 2008-05-09T10:22:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Friday 9 May 2008 at 10:22:00

Two Forrester analysts discuss and describe how businesses can benefit from the web 2.0 boom

This readable and clearly argued book by Forrester Research analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff explores one of today’s hottest technology areas social networking and explains how businesses...

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Leader: The dilemma facing SAP

IT Week staff — 2008-05-09T10:02:00.000Z

IT Week staff, IT Week, Friday 9 May 2008 at 10:02:00

What next for German software firm SAP?

SAP is in a dilemma. It is trying to adapt to an evolving market, but there are signs that in doing so this once highly focused firm is losing its...

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Salesforce announces future roadmap

Rosalie Marshall — 2008-05-08T12:51:00.000Z

Rosalie Marshall, IT Week, Thursday 8 May 2008 at 12:51:00

Visualforce will go live in Salesforce Summer 08

All Salesforce customers using software-as-a-service (SaaS) interfaces can now design them as they like, announced the firm at its European customer and partner event Dreamforce....

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Open Office 3.0 beta out

David Neal — 2008-05-07T17:49:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Wednesday 7 May 2008 at 17:49:00

New version of Open Office has better support for Macs and feature improvements

A new version of Open Office has been released for evaluation by the general public. The latest release, 3.0 supports the OpenDocument format as standard and will work with files...

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Sun talks up Java in San Francisco

David Neal — 2008-05-07T15:33:00.000Z

David Neal, IT Week, Wednesday 7 May 2008 at 15:33:00

Sun uses JavaOne to groom new developers

Sun Microsystems has used the JavaOne conference to announce new technologies aimed at powering and creating compelling online content. The JavaOne conference took place in San Francisco this week, and...

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Updated: SAP struggles with hosted ERP

Gareth Morgan — 2008-05-02T16:55:00.000Z

Gareth Morgan, IT Week, Friday 2 May 2008 at 16:55:00

Brakes put on Business ByDesign rollout

Business software giant SAP is slowing down the rollout of its new hosted applications, as it struggles to reign-in the operating costs of the service....

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Microsoft opens arms to Linux

IT Week Staff — 2008-05-02T10:56:00.000Z

IT Week Staff, IT Week, Friday 2 May 2008 at 10:56:00

Commercial imperitive to strong for Redmond to ignore

Many IT experts will check the date to make sure it is not the first of April when they hear that Microsoft is to support Linux servers in a beta...

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