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Elliott/Novell: What Might Happen to GroupWise?
Blogger: Bill Pray The bid by Elliott for Novell has lead to speculation on what may happen should the buyout be successful. Blogs from Drue Reeves (Novell Going Private?) and Richard Jones (Elliott/Novell: Implications on SUSE) have highlighted their observations....
Bill Pray
Google Re-Launches Apps Marketplace
Blogger: Larry Cannell Last night Google announced the launch of their marketplace for Google Apps. Actually, this should probably be considered a re-launch. Google has long featured partners building on their enterprise products (Google Apps and the Google Search Appliance)...
Larry Cannell
Google Buys DocVerse: Maybe This Collaborative Authoring Thing Finally Has Legs?
Blogger: Craig Roth This morning, Google announced it is buying a little company in San Francisco that enables real-time and asynchronous (offline) collaborative authoring of Microsoft Office docs called DocVerse. The founders of DocVerse are actually ex-Microsoft product folks. As...
Craig Roth
Google Buys DocVerse: Maybe This Collaborative Authoring Thing Finally Has Legs?
Blogger: Craig Roth This morning, Google announced it is buying a little company in San Francisco that enables real-time and asynchronous (offline) collaborative authoring of Microsoft Office docs called DocVerse. The founders of DocVerse are actually ex-Microsoft product folks. As...
Craig Roth
We'll Be Talking About Microsoft 2010 and Its Alternatives at Catalyst
Blogger: Guy Creese For those of you pondering whether to attend Burton Group's Catalyst Conference in Prague (April 19-22), you should know that we will be spending half a day on a track called: Microsoft 2010: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives....
Guy Creese
We'll Be Talking About Microsoft 2010 and Its Alternatives at Catalyst
Blogger: Guy Creese For those of you pondering whether to attend Burton Group's Catalyst Conference in Prague (April 19-22), you should know that we will be spending half a day on a track called: Microsoft 2010: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives....
Guy Creese
How Will CMIS Be Adopted?
Blogger: Larry Cannell Since the content management interoperability standard (CMIS) is moving closer to becoming a reality, I began thinking again about how it might be used by commercial vendors and open source projects. The committee developing the CMIS standard...
Larry Cannell
How Will CMIS Be Adopted?
Blogger: Larry Cannell Since the content management interoperability standard (CMIS) is moving closer to becoming a reality, I began thinking again about how it might be used by commercial vendors and open source projects. The committee developing the CMIS standard...
Larry Cannell
Spam – The Scourge of E-mail
Blogger: Bill Pray Gary Thuerk is probably not a name that dwells somewhere in the corner of your mind as someone you should remember or know for most of us. Gary has the ignoble distinction of the first person to...
Bill Pray
Spam – The Scourge of E-mail
Blogger: Bill Pray Gary Thuerk is probably not a name that dwells somewhere in the corner of your mind as someone you should remember or know for most of us. Gary has the ignoble distinction of the first person to...
Bill Pray
A SharePoint and Portal Governance Example (Kind Of ...)
Blogger: Craig Roth After web governance presentations, I am frequently asked if there is a sample I can provide. I understand the need and would probably ask the same thing if I was in the audience. But my gut says...
Craig Roth
A SharePoint and Portal Governance Example (Kind Of ...)
Blogger: Craig Roth After web governance presentations, I am frequently asked if there is a sample I can provide. I understand the need and would probably ask the same thing if I was in the audience. But my gut says...
Craig Roth
SharePoint 2010 (beta) Web Browser Support
Blogger: Larry Cannell While SharePoint 2010 will provide a better experience for users accessing SharePoint sites with non-Internet Explorer (IE) web browsers (i.e., Firefox and Safari), you should be aware that some remnants of ActiveX remain. In short, there will...
Larry Cannell
SharePoint 2010 (beta) Web Browser Support
Blogger: Larry Cannell While SharePoint 2010 will provide a better experience for users accessing SharePoint sites with non-Internet Explorer (IE) web browsers (i.e., Firefox and Safari), you should be aware that some remnants of ActiveX remain. In short, there will...
Larry Cannell
Iron Mountain Buys Mimosa Systems
Blogger: Guy Creese On Monday, February 22, data archiving specialist Iron Mountain announced that it had acquired Mimosa Systems for $112 million in cash. Mimosa Systems brings with it 1,000 enterprise customers and an on-premise solution that archives e-mail, SharePoint...
Guy Creese
Iron Mountain Buys Mimosa Systems
Blogger: Guy Creese On Monday, February 22, data archiving specialist Iron Mountain announced that it had acquired Mimosa Systems for $112 million in cash. Mimosa Systems brings with it 1,000 enterprise customers and an on-premise solution that archives e-mail, SharePoint...
Guy Creese
A SaaS Downside: No Forklift Upgrades
Blogger: Guy Creese Part of the sales pitch of a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution is that updates and upgrades are included in the pay-as-you-go price. There's no separate support fee to pay (for software, the annual support fee...
Guy Creese
A SaaS Downside: No Forklift Upgrades
Blogger: Guy Creese Part of the sales pitch of a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution is that updates and upgrades are included in the pay-as-you-go price. There's no separate support fee to pay (for software, the annual support fee...
Guy Creese
Burton Group Reports on Microsoft SharePoint
Blogger: Guy Creese With the recent publication of my report on Microsoft BPOS, Burton Group now offers 10 reports on Microsoft SharePoint 2007. At 350+ pages, that's a good sized book. (Note: you will need a Burton Group license to...
Guy Creese
Burton Group Reports on Microsoft SharePoint
Blogger: Guy Creese With the recent publication of my report on Microsoft BPOS, Burton Group now offers 10 reports on Microsoft SharePoint 2007. At 350+ pages, that's a good sized book. (Note: you will need a Burton Group license to...
Guy Creese
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