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 August 2007
8/31/2007
It's the next logical step, but there are a lot of alternatives and no single answer.
8/30/2007
Full text search and other features will become available for free download in beta code after Labor Day, with the final release to follow by eight to 10 weeks.
8/29/2007
With voting underway, critics contend there is already an ISO/IEC standard intended for documents -- the Open Document Format.
8/28/2007
The 3.5-inch-square box called a Pano is designed to run the output from a Windows virtual machine, running elsewhere on a networked server.
8/24/2007
The database architect talks about the emergence of a commercial company, EnterpriseDB, behind PostgreSQL and the vitality of the database itself.
8/23/2007
Sun hopes that trading for the better-recognized Java name will result in higher trading in the stock market.
8/23/2007
Virtualizing the desktop represents an even larger opportunity than virtualizing servers, but it may take someone other than a brainy, high-level virtualization company to capitalize on it.
8/22/2007
RingCube Technologies adds IT policy and security features to its virtual machine without packing on an extra copy of the operating system.
8/21/2007
The executives reveal that Citrix will create a fine balance to maintain the Xen open source community, while adding to its product line.
8/20/2007
The revised version of the Linux Weekly News includes information about changes to security, virtualization, and hardware support.
8/20/2007
Everything configured differently? IBM and Microsoft have submitted a draft standard to allow databases to work together as a federated system.
8/17/2007
Big moves by the two companies change the landscape for one of software's hottest markets.
8/16/2007
The software has the potential to break a stranglehold that Microsoft and other big system vendors have had on the exclusive tie between the application and the chip.
8/15/2007
The company outlines its product vision, which includes a separate one for Xen and one for Microsoft Viridian.
8/15/2007
Citrix has been trying to position itself as a virtualization player. The deal will give it credentials in the market.
8/14/2007
One analyst predicts that the virtualization software field "will become its own ecosystem," with Microsoft and VMware vying to lead in that space.
8/13/2007
XenSource's latest creation of server resource pools gives it a management framework somewhat similar to VMware's Virtual Center.
8/13/2007
Competition from both Microsoft and open source code is now emerging and will get stronger, analysts suggest.
8/13/2007
As owner of the copyright, Novell retains the right to Unix license fees from SCO and could order SCO to cease any copyright infringement claims against another party.
8/10/2007
Oracle is taking a recent acquisition, Coherence, to bolster its applications and tap data at a much faster speed directly out of server memories.
8/10/2007
As the 13th member of Open Invention Network, the search vendor will boost the group's stash of patents that serve as ammunition against would-be challengers.
8/10/2007
Peugeot is planning to give Linux desktops to a wide variety of computer users, including sales force workers and workers on the manufacturing floor.
8/9/2007
Is there a virtualization battle with Microsoft on the horizon? Based on the market share growth of Linux, Mendel Rosenblum seems to think so.
8/8/2007
Novell CEO Ron Hovsepian says it is in his interest to give customers GPLv3 code when they are seeking updates, even if the customer was paying for Novell support through Microsoft certificates.
8/6/2007
By adding a multiserver, parallel-query capability, EnterpriseDB is trying to provide a low-cost alternative to other commercial database systems.
8/6/2007
The Open Invention Network members share their Linux patents with each other and offer the prospect of a joint defense if Linux is confronted with a legal challenge.
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