Careers & Education

SAP AG's resistance to the establishment of a workers' council will end Thursday when employees of the German business software company will vote on a committee to organize the election of 37 employee representatives.

It's official: Australia's skills shortage is back with IT managers confirming they are working longer hours and struggling to retain staff. While the impact is only starting to emerge in some states, the nation's capital, Canberra, is being hit the hardest.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will lose its top software executive to Adobe Systems Inc., the company confirmed. John Loiacono, who succeeded Jonathan Schwartz as executive vice president of software at Sun when Schwartz was promoted to president and chief operating officer (COO) in April 2004, will take on the role of senior vice president of Creatives Group at Adobe, according to a Sun spokeswoman. His last day at Sun will be March 24.

People often say they

In response to market pressures in its desktop business, Lenovo Group Ltd. Thursday announced it would lay off 1,000 employees and move its corporate headquarters from Purchase, New York, to Raleigh, North Carolina.

ShoreTel combines its Conference Bridge appliance with collaboration applications that run in a standard Web browser. From a presence-aware instant messaging console, users make phone calls and conference calls, plus share applications and presentations. Each area provides competitive functionality and usability. Yet what differentiates this solution is that enterprises eliminate monthly fees, gain faster collaboration, and get high data security.

SAP AG has taken steps to form a workers' council comprised of non-union employees in an effort to fend off what the German software vendor views as the harmful influence of unions on its "start-up" company culture.

IBM Corp. is allowing its business partners to join it in selling front-end consulting services to small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) for the first time, the company announced.