Kathleen Lau

Articles by Kathleen Lau

Sun Microsystems unveils new version of OpenSolaris

At its annual CommunityOne conference, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company released OpenSolaris 2009.06, which is also the preview release for the next major Solaris update for enterprises. Based on OpenSolaris, the company

Ingres forecasts MySQL

Redwood City, Calif.-based open source database vendor releases its Ingres Development Stack for JBoss, designed to be a speedier and more economic model for Java developers. Plus, Ingres CEO dishes on Oracle Corp.

Immersive Internet technology is no video game

Virtual world technology in a business context is more about learning, training and collaborating. Why something that is considered experimental today will hit mainstream in just four years, an analyst says

Intel Nehalem-EX to be its highest-performing chip

The chipmaker unveiled its

SOA is not dead: Five key lessons from early adopters

A report from Info-Tech Research Group Ltd. finds a growing number of enterprises making real progress with SOA initiatives. SOA can't be termed a project, and organizations should leave buying the software till later

Quit likening it to Google

It’s not uncommon for vendors of software like content managementand business intelligence to develop interfaces with keyword searchfunctionality. Indeed vendors and users alike will...

The sweet business of making candy

A veteran confectionary company orchestrates virtual operations around a sweet centre

Digital Universe expands, storage spending shrinks

An EMC Corp.-sponsored research report by IDC Ltd. estimates that 487 billion gigabytes of digital information was created globally in 2008, a volume set to explode at a rate of 30 per cent year-over-year in Canada. The role that data management policies play in handling that growth

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