Getting into applications will exacerbate that friction, but at some point, the friction is worth the return.
Here’s the catch, though: if this is true of JBoss middleware, it’s even more true of enterprise applications like customer relations management and enterprise resource planning. Why do you think Oracle has moved so quickly into applications, just as [...]

As such, a change in one country’s vote would not affect the overall result.

In Germany, too, there were accusations of improprieties in what was a close vote, but Germany’s standards organization said it will not change its Yes position to No or Abstain.

“As always, the sentiment has to be organic. It will be up [...]

It’s definitely worth checking out the full blog, as even more details are revealed, including why only stereo audio is included and how video quality is adjusted to match your connection speed. We haven’t done a full evaluation of Netflix’s new HD video streams yet, but we’re hoping they’re close to Vudu’s HDX content, which [...]

Software and servers also helped push up HP’s numbers: blades revenue was up 66 percent, and software revenue increased 29 percent to $731 million this quarter.

There were fears leading up to the announcement that slowing demand for PCs in Western nations and a strengthening dollar could mean HP had peaked this year already. But HP [...]

As Gordon Haff wrote at the time, Mosso takes a slightly different approach than other online service providers:

The core concept behind Mosso’s Hosting Cloud is that many Web-based applications or sites are built up using largely common stacks of technologies such as PHP and MySQL databases. Mosso takes advantage of this fact by providing the [...]

SanDisk reported a net loss of $1.86 billion, as it takes steps to reduce output and conserve cash amid a collapsing flash memory chip market and weak consumer demand.
Fourth-quarter revenue fell 31 percent to $864 million on a year-over-year basis but rose 5 percent on a quarter-over-quarter basis. This beat Wall Street estimates of about [...]

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcomittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights will call Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith, Yahoo general counsel Michael Callahan, and Google chief legal officer David Drummond to testify as witnesses.

Top legal counsel for Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft will address a Congressional hearing Tuesday, as lawmakers examine the Yahoo-Google search [...]