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 July 2008
7/23/2008
Its pace of growth exceeded the 12.6% rate of growth for the database market as a whole during 2007 and most of its relational database competitors last year.
7/23/2008
Any release of Enterprise Linux is given a seven-year lifecycle of support, but the level of support drops back in the fifth year, then is reduced further in the sixth and seventh years.
7/22/2008
New CEO Paul Maritz, who took over the CEO reins from Diane Greene in an abrupt changeover July 8, timed the ESXi announcement with VMware's 2Q earnings report.
7/22/2008
By tying project and portfolio management into existing technology optimization products, HP helps data centers answer difficult questions about what software can be fixed and what should be replaced.
7/22/2008
This is the sixth lawsuit the Software Freedom Law Center has filed on behalf of BusyBox seeking to uphold open source software principles.
7/18/2008
Open source databases are being adopted for use with interactive Web apps, small portals, RFID applications, and other new workloads in the enterprise.
7/17/2008
The free tools focus on the OVF standard, which should give IT managers more flexibility in deploying virtual machines.
7/15/2008
The tools will let IT managers generate virtual workloads and run them under hypervisors from Citrix Systems, Microsoft, or VMware.
7/15/2008
The Zimbra Mobile for iPhone 2.0 service allows two-way synchronization of e-mail, calendars, and address books.
7/11/2008
The company's TeamDemand, TeamFocus, and TeamAnalysis are designed to provide visibility into the software development process.
7/11/2008
The total database market grew at a rate of 12.6% in 2007 and hit $18.8 billion, compared with $16.7 billion the year before, says IDC.
7/11/2008
In addition to the license change, Samba 3.2 brings support for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, better conservation of memory, and a registry-based configuration system.
7/10/2008
Thrift helps keep Facebook's many moving parts working together and keeps outside developers producing new applications in the language that is best for the task.
7/10/2008
Version 8.04, also known as the Hardy Heron release, is shrink wrapped for $19.99 and includes other open source software.
7/10/2008
As earnings slip, EMC exerts control over its virtualization subsidiary.
7/8/2008
Paul Maritz is a 14-year veteran of Microsoft who came with a recent EMC acquisition, Pi Corp., a company created to build personal software to be used from inside the cloud.
7/7/2008
Rational Requirements Composer will use a wiki-like collaborative environment to elicit feedback and definition on requirements for a software project.
7/7/2008
With the re-engineering, JBoss Application Server may take on distinct personalities, since the core microkernel has been stripped down to essentials.
7/7/2008
Ratproxy was developed by Google security expert Michl Zalewski, who will continue to help maintain it.
7/3/2008
With a container approach from Parallels' Virtuozzo, memory consumption and processor overhead are reduced through the use of one operating system per host.
7/3/2008
Michael Robertson says Microsoft's imposing lead in the desktop market means Linux should look to next-gen devices for growth.
7/2/2008
Linspire produced Click'N'Run as a way of finding, reviewing, and downloading a copy of desktop software available on the Internet, including the Linspire Linux distribution.
7/2/2008
B-hive Conductor will allow VMware to add proactive management of applications running in virtual machines.
7/1/2008
BEA's WebLogic will become Oracle's strategic application server and will undergo very little reengineering, Oracle president Charles Phillips said.