John Fontana

Release 2 of Office Communications Server includes trunking via session initiation protocol. Why an analyst does not see OCS as an immediate threat to Cisco.

Nortel's decision to file for bankruptcy protection makes it harder for its Innovative Communications Alliance with Microsoft to get things done, according to industry analysts. They also fear that competitors will try to steal the Canadian company's VoIP customers

The fruits of 18 months of interoperability lab work now allows Access Manager to provide non-Active Directory users with single sign-on to Windows-based Web applications

Novell, Sun and Oracle this week announced that there are changes to their identity management platforms that centre on monitoring access controls and strengthening authentication

Hosted service allows companies to share ID credentials securely across corporate boundaries...

The software giant hopes to redefine business intelligence and data warehousing with its strategy for SQL Server and a range of add-ons

The Mono Project releases the long-awaited version 2.0 of the open source implementation of the .Net Framework this week. Application developers can use the Mono Migration Analyzer feature for their .Net-to-Linux migrations

Responding to customer complaints, Redmond will also offer its Virtual Machine Manager as a standalone product separate from the System Center suite