Enterprise Software & Services

In September 2008, the London Stock Exchange collapsed because its Windows-based electronic trading platform, TradElect completely failed. Now, under new leadership, the Exchange will finally do away with its fatally flawed Windows system.

If you want to use Ubuntu Linux serveea, and the idea of saving money by running your servers on a cloud sounds interesting, boy does Canonical have a deal for you.

During yesterday's WWDC, Apple spent some time showcasing the new Exchange capabilities of Snow Leopard.  It got a lot of ooohhhs and ahhs because it has, out of the box, free of charge, most everything Mac users will need to connect to their company's Exchange 2007 Server.

Ironically, it seems to have more functionality than Microsoft's own Entourage 2008 product.

Later this month Asankya will launch its cloud-based acceleration services which promises to make the public Internet's performance competitive with private leased lines.

EMC employee Nick Glasgow has Leukemia and efforts to cure the disease by transfusing blood platelets and antibiotic treatments have so far failed. What he needs is a bone marrow transplant. The technology community is rallying around the cause of getting as many possible donors to submit a simple sample to the national donor base.

Service-now.com, a SaaS provider of IT service management technology, has learned some best practices that will resolve a lot of communication gaps in your service operations.

It took longer than originally thought, but today Google made its inline email translation service available to all Gmail and Google Apps customers.  See how easy it is to translate your email on the fly.

Who says the lion can't lie down the with the lamb? The normally mortal enemies Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have signed a joint letter that argues against advice a key legal group is planning to recommend to judges regarding software licensing. I guess Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have found the only thing that they hate worse than each other --- lawyers.

It's just become easier than ever both to run your own Ubuntu servers on the cloud, and to manage them, and any other Ubuntu systems you happen to have, as well.

For about an hour this morning, 14% of Google users experienced sluggish Google services throughout the US. It was later revealed that Google's own routers had pushed the traffic through its busy Asian servers, which couldn't handle the load. That doesn't mean you should scrap your SaaS plan.

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches bloggers get to grips with Windows 7: with mixed results. Not to mention the supermarket joke...

In Monday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches last week's reactions to XP Mode in Windows 7 -- now that the dust has settled, what do bloggers think? Not to mention an Ich Bin 8-Bit installation timelapse...

Windows 7 will feature a Windows XP mode that will allow applications to run in an XP virtual box so they will run without problems, but will appear as if they're running natively on Windows 7. It's a great tool for businesses and may end up killing Windows XP. But there are five reasons that it's not ideal for consumers.

Despite spending lots of money for anti-malware tools, people's machines continue to get infected. One European vendor thinks it has improved PC protection significantly with a new, free service.

Go ahead, take a guess. Here's a hint: It's well over a hundred-billion.