A service-oriented architecture (SOA) is supposed to bring flexibility to IT resources and lower costs by letting IT personnel reuse software components instead of coding from scratch. However, some experts have suggested that reuse -- the principal justification in most cost-benefit analyses for SOA -- might amount to just 10 percent.
Manage the transition to agile processes.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 07/01/2007
Employees who work in Microsoft's Security Response Center (MSRC) can breathe easy: they don't have the worst job in science. Just the sixth worst.
Microsoft is naming Kirill Tatarinov as its top business solutions executive, according to documents examined by RCP.
- By Barbara Darrow
- 06/29/2007
A hacker managed a rare feat Wednesday, successfully attacking a Web page within Microsoft's U.K. domain and replacing the page with several graphics related to Saudi Arabia.
After six months of unprecedented hype, thousands of people Friday will get their hands on the iPhone, the new cell phone that Apple Inc. is banking on to become its third core business next to its moneymaking iPod players and Macintosh computers.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/29/2007
A Microsoft executive this week confirmed that Microsoft is close to offering a first step to help remedy the problem of Vista "downgrade rights," which posed complications for partners.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/28/2007
A new August offering by virtual lab maker Surgient will add support for two key enterprise virtualization products: VMware ESX Server 3 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1.
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday recommended against additional regulation of high-speed Internet traffic.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2007
Earlier this week, Microsoft put exam 70-621 up for general availability.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/28/2007
You've given your servers and desktops a thorough look prior to virtualizing them. It's time to check out a few of the solutions -- separating hype from fact.
- By Greg Shields
- 06/28/2007
Microsoft Corp. will sell "affordable" Windows computers aimed at students in India.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/28/2007
Microsoft will extend the current hardware incentive-based iteration of its Buy Local promotion for U.S. System Builders through the back-to-school season, a company executive said this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/28/2007
A Microsoft employee who is also an ex-Google employee gave some insight into working conditions at his old job, including the perhaps surprising to some fact that Microsoft is a better place to work.
MuleSource Inc. has started a Partner Alliance Program based on Mule, an open source enterprise service bus (ESB) solution. The program enables qualified channel partners to gain access to the Mule customer base.
You do a fantastic job with server, remote device, PC and laptop maintenance. Hey, don't forget about personal maintenance.
- By Jeffery Hicks
- 06/27/2007
The CTP release makes it appear increasingly likely that the successor to Windows Server 2003 will be shipped early next year.
Plus: QuickTime, WinZip flaws, and my hacker mom.
Consumer search giant Google is entering a partnership with Ingram Micro Inc. to distribute the Google Search Appliance and the Google Mini, according to a Google blog entry on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/27/2007
Even for a company that's mastered the art of product-launch hoopla, Apple Inc. appears to have pulled out all the stops to propel iPhone hysteria into the stratosphere.
- By The Associated Press
- 06/26/2007