Sharepoint by Microsoft could be described as a “jack of all trades / master of none”. While Microsoft sales have fell for the first time in history, Sharepoint has climbed. The software can be used to build websites, as content management for those websites, as a business intelligence tool for corporate business, as a collaboration [...]

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Microsoft will be moving it’s Azure headquarters out of Washington for tax purposes. The Azure data center is located in Quincy, Washington. Microsoft informed customers that applications would need to be moved from the Quincy data center. Soon Microsoft will roll out a tool to automate the move of applications to it’s San Antonio, Texas [...]

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Microsoft recently announced its worst fiscal year in the company’s history ( since 1986 ). The company’s revenue fell 17%, showing both a hit from the economic downturn and displaying other problems in its business. Full-year sales of Microsoft’s flagship Windows software fell for the first time.

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The 1300 servers that manage the US Postal Service’s package tracking system will now run on Linux. The original system code was written in Cobol, and it has taken the better part of a year for the code to be updated for the Linux environment. It was less expensive for the Postal Service to convert [...]

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Red Hat, Mozilla, Novell, Oracle, and Sun among the 50+ members of Open Source for America–a project to help open source development of software in the United States. The goal of this project is to educate the government and other decision makers of the benefits of open source.

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