Matt Asay has offered a rather strange post noting that if history had been different the roles of IBM and Microsoft would be reversed. If history were different I’d be George Clooney. It’s not. This is Clooney’s good fortune. Matt’s point is that, in future work, Microso...

Making Money From the Nazis! It's been a dirty little secret, like so many from that war, but this new book lays out the case nicely: Black's new Nazi Nexus uses these earlier works as primary sources. But this new volume offers a compact and highly concentrated dose of history that powerfully demon...

IBM got a leg up on Microsoft this week at the CeBIT show in Hanover, Germany, when it performed a "groundbreaking technology demonstration," moving a live SAP application from one cloud-based server to another. This would hardly be considered groundbreaking in the context of an on-premise data cent...

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Storage revenue slipped in the fourth quarter–the first quarterly slide in more than five years, according to IDC. The culprit: Weak server sales that reduced demand for storage systems.  IDC’s report indicates that weak IT spending is even hitting the storage industry, which has enjoy...

Ron Markezich corporate VP of Microsoft Online Services taking a swipe at Google says that Microsoft maintains its services at four-nines availability, while backing up its three-nines SLA with financial penalties: “We don’t just give service credits, we give hard......

I see from Techmeme that today people are discussing the latest “innovation” in Windows Mobile 6.5 - the honeycomb touchscreen.  I can’t get to the original article - the site appears to be down right now; however I looked at the discussion.   It seems that I’m not quite s...

I tend to think of interoperability as a gradient. The old industry stalwart from the 1990's is what I'd call "runtime interoperability", wherein you could write a Java EE application, deploy it on a Java EE application server, and (with a questionable amount of tweaking), get it to operate. SQL was...

Not too long ago, executives from IBM, Wal-Mart and General Electric might have seemed a motley crew of experts for a Congressional hearing about the electric grid and clean power. But yesterday the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming heard testimony from that very crew,...

GUANGZHOU, CHINA (MARKET WIRE) IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the launch of a new suite of healthcare information sharing and analytics technologies at the Guang Dong Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which combines the strengths of TCM and Modern Western Medicine (MWM). The first-of-...