Jeff Jedras

Like diamonds, e-mails are forever. Or at least for three to five years, as more companies implement e-mail archiving regimes to comply with regulatory and legal requirements.

With its recent offer of support at half the price quoted by Oracle, SAP is continuing to go hard after former PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers. The customers came to Oracle when the software giant acquired PeopleSoft, which had previously acquired JD Edwards.

TD Bank Financial Group and Microsoft Canada have teamed-up to bring an offering to market that promises retailers quicker transactions by streamlining credit and debit processing and eliminating the need for a standalone point of sale (POS) device.

The ooo

From Windows and the Office suite to its Visual Studio Developer tools Microsoft says it is aiming to close the gap between the developer, the IT support technician and the user, and XML will underlie it all.

Users of Care Anywhere

Enabling home working within the enterprise can present challenges for the IT department but the benefits for the organization may be too compelling to be ignored. No commuting and more time with family are just some of the benefits for the employee, but the benefits can be even greater for the employer.

Perhaps feeling the heat of a fire-breathing fox on its neck, Microsoft will be closer to compliance with the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) 2 standard when Internet Explorer 7 is released in the new year. The software giant, however, is stopping short of saying just how close.