Rosie Lombardi

The ferociously competitive telecom sector offers a vast array of services

The marriage of automated messaging with geographic information systems (GIS) technology can boost the public sector

Unity is hard to do. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help turn the masses of silo systems in government into modular components that can be snapped together to share common system services. But the devil is in making a business case today for SOA investments that will deliver indirect benefits tomorrow.

Unity is hard to do. Service-oriented architecture (SOA) can help turn the masses of silo systems in government into modular components that can be snapped together to share common system services. But the devil is in making a business case today for SOA investments that will deliver indirect benefits tomorrow.

The pandemic clock is ticking. Somewhere in our global ecosystem, scientists say, a virus is quietly mutating.

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The pandemic clock is ticking. Somewhere in our global ecosystem, scientists say, a virus is quietly mutating.

It may not be taking the world by storm, but open source still has a growing and determined group of adherents. Technology executives at two Canadian users of the technology, Pioneer Petroleum and Vancouver Community College, talk about why they chose it, what it was like to implement, and some of the advantages of moving to an open platform.