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The increased financial scrutiny that many IT departments are facing isn't limited to the private sector.

The ongoing IT platform debate boils down to a strict total cost of ownership comparison, according to one Microsoft Corp. exec.

For Sasha Puric, the IT director responsible for Toronto's Air Canada Centre (ACC), setting up its new Wi-Fi infrastructure was a virtual slam dunk....

Academics and researchers in New Brunswick now have access to more bandwidth thanks to a new fibre-optic network built by Group Telecom Services Corp.

Siebel Systems Inc. executives used a day-long meeting with analysts on Friday to reiterate many of the themes mapped out at Siebel's User Week conference in October.

3Com Canada Inc.'s recently released Switch 7700R should help the network equipment vendor increase its foothold in the enterprise market, according to an industry observer.

At Cisco Systems Inc.'s annual Analyst Conference held here in December, CEO John Chambers took some time to chat with a group of international journalists, including Network World Canada editor Greg Enright, at a roundtable interview session. Recently pegged as the most powerful person in networking by Network World (U.S.) magazine, Chambers offered his insights into topics as varied as the networking job scene and Cisco's view on services.

As part of its initiative to put Linux on the desktop, IBM Corp. wants to migrate Microsoft Corp.'s Office suite to Linux. Microsoft said it's not involved and suggests that IBM might do it by emulation.