Downded Salesforce systems slow Europe and US
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Failing to impress Oracle Salesforce.com systems are calling in sick this Monday. The company's service status page has been winking red X's as the software-as-a-service poster child struggles to wrangle its machinery.â¦
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Am I BOHFered? Keeping systems up and running is holding back European IT managers from contributing to business improvement as much as they could.â¦
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Like many, I was pretty shocked by the recent Microsoft-EU deal to settle the long-running investigation into interoperability issues.  This was not so much because of the way Microsoft has used every kind of delaying tactic it could before eventually agreeing (for the nth time) to try harder in the future.  My real dismay was provoked by the gap between appearance and reality â a chasm that I think bodes ill for the future of open source. read more
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With most organizations that planned to move already moved to Microsoft Server 2003, OS migration has dropped to the bottom ranks after making its mark on IT Professional&#39;s top five priority last year.
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European equities fell as technology shares lost ground after Cisco Systems (NASDAQ:CSCO) in the US warned of weak demand.
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Software on the Seine, anyone? Backup in Budapest? VTL from Vienna? And why not. Europeans have far more experience when it comes to dealing with data regulatory issues than we do.
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(Source: BMC Software) Are time constraints pressuring your development, QA, and support resources to cut corners on software quality? If so, your company's not alone. According to a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of BMC Software, "...problem resolution is a major time-sink for developers and a drain on the efficiency of application development and support."
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A Forrester study finds that corporate users are becoming increasingly frustrated with the license and maintenance costs of enterprise applications.
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p2pnet.net News:- Europeans will be able to buy a leaned-down version of Microsoft Windows, stripped of its music and video player, and the company will have to license out secret information to its competitors.
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Swiss-cheese time for A1S SAP has crashed Salesforce.com's annual Dreamforce conference with its own event, trumpeting its long-awaited ondemand business applications challenger.â¦
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European equity markets were choppy in the face of deepening US recession fears, with banking stocks providing the biggest drag.
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Plus: SCO to cap legal costs...Novell sees weakness in IT spending...Salesforce reports rise in profit...Nortel to lay off 3,500.
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IT spending in Western Europe is lagging behind the rest of the world, according to figures unveiled at Gartner&#39;s annual Symposium IT Expo in Cannes this week.
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Release of the Linux client has slipped from August to October at the soonest.
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The German business software maker SAP (NYSE: SAP) says sales in Europe were flat in the last quarter of 2004, which pushed its shares down in trading. Still, the company met expectations as revenue from software licenses grew 8 percent compared to a year ago.
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A dismal performance by European retailers led the continent's stock markets lower on Wednesday as fears escalated about a global economic slowdown.
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Just not in UK Acer will pile into the SMB server business in Europe this year, but UK companies will have to wait until September before they see the benefit of the renewed drive.â¦