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My favourite book or movie ... my reading tends to be mainly limited to trade and business publications, but if I pick up a book it is normally a biography or similar. On the screen one that comes to mind is Top Gun, but I am also a M.A.S.H tragic -- I love the clever combination of a serious situation with humour.

What was your first job?

If green technology practices are to be adopted, the channel has a vital role to play in educating the market. What is Cisco doing to get that message through its channel community?

What was your first job?

My favourite book or movie ...I always have a book on the go and enjoy a night at the cinema. My favourite movie is Life is Beautiful, directed by Roberto Benigni. Ever the optimist, I love the way this movie captures a sense of hope, love and laughter in adversity, while being set amidst the holocaus

What was your first job?

As senior director of platform technology at Microsoft, Sam Ramji is positioned uniquely at the nexus of proprietary and open source development models. Here's how Ramji sees open source and proprietary development models evolving.

Since its establishment in 1970, the Palo Alto Research Center funded by Xerox has developed groundbreaking technologies, including Ethernet, the GUI (graphical user interface) and the computer mouse.

What is SpectrumData focusing on this year?

Symantec chairman and CEO John Thompson last week delivered a keynote speech to thousands of security professionals at the RSA Conference 2008 in the US. Ellen Messmer caught up with Thompson at the RSA event, where he expanded on a range of topics including vendor alliances, Symantec's competition and the importance of data-loss prevention technology.

Mike Milinkovich is the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation, a nonprofit that oversees an open source community focused on application development tools. Founded by IBM in 2001, Eclipse became independently managed in 2004 and now boasts that more than 4 million people worldwide use Eclipse and Eclipse-based products. EBay, for example, used Eclipse to build much of its online architecture. Milinkovich this week discussed the Eclipse organization and its goals with Senior Writer Jon Brodkin.

Intel is embracing the trend to virtualise across a broad range of business facets, from security to multiple core CPUs. The company has teams working on hardware features to assist with virtualised environments, and is taking an open approach to the technology by partnering with major ISVs such as VMware and Microsoft, as well as open source communities.

Sprint CEO Dan Hesse shared the company's WiMAX plans last week at CTIA Wireless. The plan to build a fourth-generation wireless network is a risky one, but Hesse explained to Denise Dubie why it's a smart strategy for Sprint.

Nearly three months after closing the biggest merger in its history, SAP has set the dual challenge of integrating Business Objects' BI tools more tightly with its enterprise resource planning software, while also maintaining the independence of those tools to appeal to non-SAP customers.

Director of product management for Google Enterprise, Matthew Glotzbach, claims corporate customers still need to become more comfortable with hosted application delivery before it will really take off. He sat down with IDG's BRIAN FONSECA during the recent AIIM International Conference to talk about the company's fledgling Google Apps software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering and how the company plans to compete with traditional application vendors like Oracle and SAP, and with new hosted offerings from top vendors like Microsoft.