Recent Articles
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eHarmony Finds Own Fulfillment as Web 2.0 Pioneer
eHarmony.com, that romantic cyber-space place where people meet and often get serious relationships off and running, has been a textbook example of a successful Web 2.0 company since it made its debut six years ago. With more than 8 million users, Pasadena, Calif.-based eHarmony claims to be the Internet’s fastest-growing relationship service. It stores background…
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The Channel Is Changing and It’s Time for VARs to Change with It
First, the bad news. The channel is changing and those traditional relationships between vendors, distributors, VARs and solution providers have begun to alter in fundamental and lasting ways. But there is also good news. For VARs and solution providers, it’s not too late to change, readapt and profit from this change in the channel. That…
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Ingram Micro Teams with Level Platforms for Seismic Shift
Ingram Micro is looking to shake things up through a new partnership the distributor signed with vendor Level Platforms to deliver managed services to small and midsize businesses. The distributor, based in Santa Ana, Calif., is using the partnership to launch the Ingram Micro Seismic Platform and Virtual Services Warehouse, a program through which the…
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End-users: Zero Tolerance for Microsoft Office
I read with interest Peter Coffee’s article “Zero Tolerance for Microsoft Office,” as we are midway through a transition away from that suite [Sept. 11]. However, as this is a transition not to another suite but to a [file] format, I was concerned about Coffee’s comment, “Open XML-based formats are years away from giving enterprise…
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Study: Few Physicians Use IT at Work
The low adoption of electronic medical records and e-prescribing is well known. Now, a new study has worse news: most physicians do not use inexpensive, widely accessible IT tools in their practice. The study, to be published in November in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, finds that fewer than 4 percent of physicians e-mail…
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Oracle Intros Spring 2.0 Integration
Oracle has announced enhanced support for the Spring Framework in the way of integration with the new Spring 2.0 release. Oracle, based in Redwood Shores, Calif., announced on Oct. 3 that it has provided integration of TopLink Essentials, the open-source EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) 3.0 Java Persistence API (JPA) reference implementation, with the latest Spring Framework…
