IBM to Meet Upset WDSc Shops Half-Way on Features?
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

After a hullabaloo for the past month about features within the new WebSphere Development Studio Client V7.0 integrated development environment for the i5/OS and OS/400 platform, IBM appears to be ready to make some changes to appease customers who want to use the Standard Edition of the product but who do not want to pay for an Advanced Edition license to get what they perceive as two key features that are aimed at traditional green-screen programming. READ MORE >

Oracle Sues SAP Over 'Corporate Theft on a Grand Scale'
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Database and application software maker Oracle last Thursday sued competitor in the application space, SAP, for what it called "corporate theft on a grand scale" in its complaint. The suit was launched in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, in San Francisco. Oracle and SAP Americas are both Delaware corporations, and the choice of venue in California was chosen because of state laws against computer fraud. READ MORE >

IDC Chops Server Forecasts Thanks to Virtualization, Multicore Chips
by Timothy Prickett Morgan

The IT analysts are finally coming around to the idea that server virtualization and multicore processors are going to have a disruptive effect on the server market from this point forward. Only weeks after IDC announced its figures for server shipments and revenues in the fourth quarter of 2006, when virtualization and multicore chips started a small downdraft in the server space, the consultancy has revised its server market models through 2010 significantly downward. READ MORE >

As I See It: Workplace Heaven
by Victor Rozek

I think I may have found it, that mythical and much sought after place where meetings are optional and vacations are mandatory. A place where workers set their own hours and choose their own managers. A place where employees are so trusted they are even allowed to propose their own salaries. Impossible, you say? Quit smoking the ganja, you say? Well, scoffers, I swear to you--it's true. I've blundered onto workplace heaven, and I'm not even dead yet. READ MORE >