Infrastructure

India may be closer to getting an important jewel in its technology development crown: a semiconductor fab set up by a multinational company. A number of companies have announced tentative steps towards setting up fabs in the country.

Ontario's Ministry of Education is bringing an open source-based office productivity suite into classrooms around the province after inking a deal with Sun Microsystems of Canada Inc. for its Star Office 7.

Customers at this year's Sapphire user conference said their use of the software vendor's integration and application platform NetWeaver is helping them transition to a services-oriented architecture.

Findings from a recent survey indicate that the concept of utility computing is seeping into the boardroom, with 43 per cent of executives surveyed saying they plan to implement it in their environments in the next two years.

Most organizations do not have their sights set on world domination. Conquering their IT environment is another matter. And when it comes to easy access to customer records and data, untying that enterprise knot of poorly integrated ERP products, mainframes, databases and legacy systems has proved to be just like the fabled Gordian Knot

Back in 2000, La Capitale Assurance Generales noticed that its customers were going virtual, but thanks to limitations in communication technology, the Quebec-based insurance company had a hard time keeping up with this high-tech trend.

Lucent Technologies Inc. will plug a hole in its voice-over-IP (VoIP) offerings by buying Telica Inc. for its IP-gateway products.