By David Weekly (LinuxInsider)
Increasingly, managers find themselves leading teams that are scattered in different cities or even continents, working on projects which have to be flexible enough to rapidly evolve to meet changing business  needs. In this environment, business managers are starting to learn what software  developers have known for years: Wikis provide a simple but powerful boost to collaboration and can quickly improve business productivity.

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InformationWeek (PRNewswire)
Responding to industry needs for cost-effective, next-generation collaboration tools, Novell today announced the worldwide availability of Novell(R) Open Workgroup Suite with Novell Teaming included. This expanded offering delivers collaboration capabilities -- like team workspaces, enterprise social networking, workflow, blogs and wikis -- to the proven workforce productivity tools already available in the workgroup suite.

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By J. Peter Bruzzese (InfoWorld)
The new Office servers I've discussed in recent weeks are diverse, opening up a wealth of opportunities: online forms, anywhere/anytime collaboration, advanced presence detection and VoIP technology, project management solutions, business intelligence with digital dashboards, and high-caliber search abilities. Microsoft has certainly granted users several computing capabilities through the Office suite.

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By Dan Nystedt (CIO / IDG News Service)
Microsoft's Craig Mundie and Ray Ozzie are poised to take over more of Bill Gates' technology role after the Microsoft chairman steps away from daily work at the company in July.
One of the first changes for Mundie, the chief research and strategy officer, is leading Microsoft's Unlimited Potential Group, which includes the company's work for the developing world as well as its philanthropy.

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By James Urquhart (Blog)
A few days ago there was significant coverage of Project Caroline, Sun's new open source cloud computing platform and service offering. While seemingly taking a page directly out of Google's play book, Caroline is actually interesting for a few key differences...

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By J. Nicholas Hoover (InformationWeek)
Microsoft and Research In Motion announced Monday that consumer e-mail and instant messaging services from Microsoft would be available on BlackBerry mobile devices later this summer. The move demonstrates both that BlackBerrys aren't just for business messaging anymore and that Microsoft isn't depending only on Windows Mobile for its mobile strategy.

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By Erica Ogg (CNET)
Hewlett-Packard said Tuesday it will acquire computer services firm EDS for $25 per share, or $13.9 billion, in a deal intended to boost HP's services revenue.
On Monday night, HP had confirmed that the two companies were in talks, following news reports earlier in the day.
The deal will create a computer services giant intended to rival IBM in the market for serving business customers.

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By Kevin Fogarty (CIO.com)
In case you needed any more evidence that basic virtualization capabilities were becoming a commodity, Dell has announced a wave of servers and services designed to "simplify the deployment and management of virtualization in enterprises of any size," per a company press release.

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By Theresa Bui-Friday (SYS-CON)
Hybrid applications made up of proprietary, open source and third-party components are the result of today’s fast-paced and complex software development landscape. Applications developed within the last five years – whether internal or external – are at least 50% open source software (OSS) and third-party components. Of that amount, over one-third of it is undocumented. What were once purely proprietary applications are now complex code mashups. It’s safe to say that open source is everywhere – it’s woven throughout your enterprise network whether or not you are aware of it.

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By Eric Lai (Computerworld)
Aras Corp. was a small, struggling software maker that stirred up a hornet's nest early last year, when it made a pair of seemingly contradictory decisions.
First, the Andover, Mass.-based company made its expensive — we're talking up to a million dollars for a single license — product life-cycle management (PLM) software available on a free and open-source basis.
Second, rather than trying to curry favor with the mainstream open-source community by making even a vague commitment to port its software to Linux, Aras said outright that it would continue developing only for Windows. And instead of distributing its wares through a mechanism such as the GNU General Public License, the company decided to use one of Microsoft's so-called shared-source licenses, which at the time had yet to be accepted by the Open Source Initiative (OSI) as legitimate open-source licenses.
The reaction, unsurprisingly, wasn't favorable.

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By Mark Hinkle (Socialized Software)
I remember when the big open source debate was whether a piece of software was really open source, meaning it was released under an OSI-approved license. The tides are shifting, debates now center around which open source license to use. Adding to the complexity of the debate is proliferation of OSI-approved licenses.

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By Virtualization News Desk (SYS-CON)
Citrix announced the availability of Citrix XenServer software factory integrated on Dell PowerEdge servers. Citrix and Dell have partnered to make integrated server virtualization technology a reality for customers of all sizes.

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By Mark Hall (Computerworld)
Kevin Turner, Microsoft's chief operating officer, complains about the hype around software as a service (SaaS), likening it to other trends that target IT but fizzle. "We've seen that movie before," he grumbles.
But that's SaaS. S+S is a different story. During a day-long briefing at Microsoft headquarters here on "software + services" (the local parlance for SaaS), Tim O'Brien, senior director of platform strategy, acknowledged that "this business is huge." And even Turner says, "We're going to lead in this area."

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By Walaika Haskins (TechNewsWorld)
Dell on Wednesday pushed out a wide line of virtualization hardware and services meant to target large and small businesses. Its strategy includes consulting services for implementation and maintenance of virtualization solutions.

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Mainsoft Corporation, a leading provider of .NET-Java EE interoperability software and an advanced IBM business partner, today announced the release of its SharePoint Integrator for Lotus Notes. This add-on to IBM Lotus Notes 8, an Eclipsed-based Rich Client Platform based on Java, provides point-and-click access to Microsoft SharePoint content...

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