Patrick Thibodeau

Articles by Patrick Thibodeau

Retail-like financing offered for IBM’s new mainframe

Junior version of IBM's System z10 mainframe costs about a tenth of company's top-end product

IT execs told to prepare for hiring freeze as recession sets in

The next big thing in IT is cost reduction and risk management says Gartner report

Open source software may prevent another economic meltdown

The fix for Wall Street's transparency problem could be to open source the proprietary codes used by financial firms

IBM opens door on Bluehouse – a Facebook for business

Bluehouse combines a familiar pallet of collaboration tools, including IM, Web conferencing, document sharing, profiles, directory and tools to build business networking communities -- all delivered via a cloud platform...

Obama wants to keep tech jobs in the U.S.

Sen. Barack Obama attacked offshore outsourcing in his Democratic presidential nomination acceptance speech

HP knocks ‘old’ IT before salt-and-pepper crowd

The roll call of enterprise platforms that HP has put on the path to extinction in recent years includes the Alpha chip, the Tru64 Unix operating system, and the midrange HP e3000 and its operating system MPE

Political blogging gets NASA employee suspended

Any employee can get in trouble for personal blogging on company time, but U.S. government workers, as one NASA employee has discovered, can get into a special kind of legal trouble if they also write about politics.

Chinese IT centre hit hard by earthquake

Rapidly developing outsourcing destination Chengdu is near the epicentre of the massive quake. How the quake is affecting the area -- and how the blogosphere disseminated news from the stricken city

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