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Asia is going green, like it or not
News Businesses in Asia may not be as strongly bound by law to go green as Western counterparts, but economic pressures will take care of that, says ILOG chief scientist.
Tags: Green IT, Logistics planning, Inventory management, Supply chain management (SCM), Ilog, Carbon Emission, Asia, Supplier, Emission, Europe
ILOG makes S'pore 'center of rules'
News Expected to generate US$6M in revenues, the facility will provide resources to train professionals in developing business rules-based applications.
Tags: Groupware, work flow software
W3C patent plan draws protests
News A proposal under consideration by the World Wide Web Consortium could open the way for companies to claim patent rights on standards authorized by that body.
IBM to acquire ILOG in US$340M deal
News Big Blue announces plans to acquire the maker of business rules management software in a bid to bolster its middleware offerings.
Tags: Acquisitions, Mergers, Software, Business applications, Ilog, IBM Corp., Database, Business Process, IBM WebSphere, revenue
10 obscure Linux apps to try
Techguide With thousands of Linux tools out there, some of the very best ones might get lost in the crowd. Here are some, more admins should know about.
Tags: Linux, Open source, Business applications, File, Tea, Tool, Video, certificate authority, Floola, Giver
Automate configuration backups with subversion
Techguide Vincent Danen explains how subversion can be used to keep track of revisions to configuration files.
Log Linux services with runit
Techguide Learn how to keep critical information on top of supervising services, with a program called svlogd in runit.
Tags: Open source, Linux
Run VMWare Workstation as a service on your server
Techguide Running VMware Workstation as a service gives you more virtualization options and saves you precious time.
Tags: Servers, Virtualization, Software-as-a-service (SaaS), Application, Path, Virtual Machine, VMware Workstation, Tool, domain controller, VMware Inc.
Logical reasons to create logical databases in SAP
Insight SAP comes with a set of tools that allows IT managers to manipulate database information. Because business needs are unique, however, there are many instances where new databases must be formed. Fortunately, SAP's ABAP/4 language provides a solution.
IBM roars into business consulting
News Its new 4,000-strong Business Analytics & Optimization Services will mine IBM's research and software divisions for innovations.
Tags: Consulting, IBM Corp., SAS Institute, data mining, Frank Kern, Data-mining Software, business analytics, Sales, software, analytics
Write custom tasks for Ant
Insight Most software builds can get by on the Ant's built-in tasks, but if you hit the limits of those tasks, you'll have to write your own. Fortunately, writing Ant tasks is simple.
'Dragonfly' biz rules to aid .Net services
News Microsoft's business rules engine technology--code-named Dragonfly-- promises developers more flexibility in building and maintaining business applications, particularly Web services.
