Managed Services & Outsourcing

Web services seems to have as many definitions as it has implementations, but one thing is for certain

In a deal that appears to buck the growing trend among governments to adopt open-source alternatives, the U.K.'s Office of Government Commerce (OGC) is negotiating a renewal of a three-year agreement with Microsoft Corp.

Telecom New Zealand Ltd.'s Australian subsidiary AAPT Ltd. has lost its Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Service (EFT-POS ) services account with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia.

Sony Corp. will turn over the connectivity side of its Hong Kong broadband business to competitor PCCW IMS Ltd. from early September, it said Tuesday.

Weeks after coming under criticism for sitting on patches for multiple holes in its database software, Oracle Corp. has announced that it is moving to a monthly patch release schedule. The company said that it is moving to the monthly model

Open Source Development Lab Inc. (OSDL) has upgraded a key Linux kernel development tool, the Scalable Test Platform (STP), with new features to improve simulations of enterprise data centres on the Linux kernel.

For an outsourcing agreement to work, managing the relationship between the customer and service provider is crucial

After enduring a year of personal attacks from across the IT industry, SCO Group CEO Darl McBride pledged to continue the company