Kevin Tolly

Worried about dealing with .doc, .xls and .ppt files? Probably not, but the people at OASIS think you should be. OASIS has been at work since 2002 building up an open alternative to proprietary office file formats under its OpenDocument Format initiative.

Late last month, Microsoft was in the news for being the target of another formal complaint to the European Union for alleged anti-competitive practices. This time the complainants are focusing on the ubiquitous MS Office suite and asking

If your lot in life

Late last month, Microsoft was in the news for being the target of another formal complaint to the European Union for alleged anti-competitive practices. This time the complainants are focusing on the ubiquitous MS Office suite and asking

Some six months and counting, it is still difficult to get a handle on what Cisco is really doing with its Application-Oriented Networking initiative. More importantly, it is difficult to understand how Cisco

For many years, those of us in the analyst community had been talking about the coming migration to VOIP. While we touted the benefits,...

As network and system architects and product designers, we deal with a world of black and white. We deploy technology to optimize and enhance legitimate business transactions and we fight a never-ending battle against those anonymous malicious miscreants who pound our network walls with a stream of spam, viruses and malware. But a recent experience has me thinking there is also a significant grey area between the two