IBM CEO Sam Palmisano on Wednesday spoke before a gathering of several hundred top IBM customers and executives, offering a State-of-the-Union-like rundown on IBM's view of the IT industry and vision of its future.
Enterprise software maker J.D. Edwards will begin integrating IBM's middleware software into its own products. J.D. Edwards' chairman and CEO Robert Dutkowsky called the pact "the most significant technology partnership in our 25-year history".
Microsoft will launch its anticipated tablet PC operating system in November, Microsoft Group Vice President of Productivity and Business Services Jeff Raikes said here Tuesday in the opening keynote of TechXNY/PC Expo.
Microsoft is preparing to expand its "shared source" initiatives, through which partners are allowed a peek at the prized Windows operating system source code, but Microsoft executives say the company remains opposed to the open-source ethos and scorns the popular GNU General Public License (GPL).
