Profile of Charles Babcock
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Charles Babcock is an editor-at-large for InformationWeek and author of Management Strategies for the Cloud Revolution, a McGraw-Hill book. He is the former editor-in-chief of Digital News, former software editor of Computerworld and former technology editor of Interactive Week. He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism. He joined the publication in 2003.
Articles by Charles Babcock
posted in December 2006
12/15/2006
Scott Miggo, VP of technology solutions, has replaced more than 700 Intel and Unix small servers with two refrigerator-sized boxes -- IBM z9 mainframes.
12/15/2006
Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University operating system researcher and chief scientist at VMware, is an approachable, brainy uncle kind of figure. For example, he pauses to think about a question instead of just automatically answering it.
12/15/2006
Companies invest $3 million to develop software packages for biz intelligence, collaboration, content management, and other apps.
12/15/2006
BestBuy's Web site response times have been climbing as holiday shopping has become more active in December, according to WebSitePulse.com.
12/14/2006
Thirty percent of wireless developers rely on SQL Server as the central, server-based database from which a wireless application receives data, according to Evans Data.
12/13/2006
The software packages may include business intelligence, knowledge worker collaboration and content management, business process integration, and messaging/unified communications.
12/12/2006
Oracle makes four databases that it wants developers to embed into other products, a fast growing segment of the database market.
12/12/2006
HP is rolling up the product line of its recent Mercury Interactive acquisition and its existing OpenView suite into a single product line and branding the combination HP Software.
12/8/2006
AccuWeather will build a set of software components that work with IBM's QEDWiki tool to create a variety of services.
12/5/2006
Eclipse is central in IBM's strategy to compete with Microsoft's Visual Studio.net. Both packages offer the ability for developers to plug multiple toolsets into shared environments.
12/5/2006
OSDL appointed Mike Temple, its chief financial officer, as COO and plans to employ 19 in 2007.
12/4/2006
The company plans to provide SOA policy enforcement over running services as well as service governance.