Sean Michael Kerner

When the clock strikes midnight on December 31st, Microsoft will say so long to publicly supporting Windows NT Server 4.0. With the new year, the company will bring to an end an 11-year history of the NT brand that was its first entreé into the enterprise server market. The end of life of public support […]

IM is used in 85 percent of all enterprises in North America, but how many have actually bothered to measure its ROI? A new report from the Radicati Group titled “Measuring IM Productivity in the Enterprise” attempts to tackle the question of how to quantify IM productivity and its value in the enterprise. “We believe […]

It’s not rare when a flaw disables Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), but it is rare when the same flaw affects the alternatives. That’s the unfortunate case with a new bug that targets the Mozilla Browser, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Apple Safari. It causes them to crash and could potentially form the basis of an exploit […]

If your company hosts its e-mail outside of your organization, you’ve joined a fast-growing club. A new study from research firm Radicati Group found that hosted e-mail is growing at a faster pace than in-sourced e-mail. The firm estimated that more than two thirds (67 percent) of all e-mail accounts are hosted. In that total, […]

Novell today announced Linux Desktop 9, its first corporate enterprise Linux desktop product. Powered by its SUSE Linux subsidiary, Linux Desktop 9 includes the usual suspects of the Linux desktop, including Mozilla’s Firefox Web browser, the Gaim instant messaging client, the Novell Ximian Evolution Groupware client and the OpenOffice.org office suite. The OpenOffice.org (OOo) version […]

The market for handheld and wireless devices is current a bit of mixed bag. A series of research reports from IDC attempt to gauge where the various markets are, and what may be driving them. The global handheld market recently reported its third successive quarter of year over year decline. IDC’s Worldwide Handheld Qview found […]

According to a new study by research firm Radicati Group, most IM usage within enterprises occurs over the free public IM networks. In a study titled “Instant Messaging Corporate Survey, 2004-2005,” Radicati found that 76 percent of organizations have not deployed a formal IM solution. The study surveyed 78 global corporations, which the firm said […]

According to a new study by research firm Radicati Group, most IM usage within enterprises occurs over the free public IM networks. In a study titled “Instant Messaging Corporate Survey, 2004-2005,” Radicati found that 76 percent of organizations have not deployed a formal IM solution. The study surveyed 78 global corporations, which the firm said […]

If you believe comments made recently in discussion boards and blogs across the Internet, search giant Google is developing an instant messaging initiative. The gist of the speculation is that in addition to leveraging its existing assets and expertise in search technologies, IM would allow Google to complete a communication platform that includes Gmail (its […]

TORONTO — Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer came out swinging — verbally and even physically at times, at the Worldwide Partner Conference where he mocked open source technology, Linux in particular, while touting opportunities on the company’s own platforms. During a keynote address here Tuesday, Ballmer also identified Novell customers as prime targets for Microsoft’s partners […]