Infrastructure

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For Steinback, Man.-based Loewen, selling windows and doors got one step easier with the help of IBM Corp.'s application server, WebSphere 5.0.

With over 600 new features including the ability to integrate business applications, manage business processes and a Web Services infrastructure, Oracle Corp. announced on Wednesday the availability of its Application Server 10g.

The worldwide market for cell phones is outstripping even the most enthusiastic predictions from the beginning of the year, as consumers continue to snap up handsets at a dizzying rate, according to research released Monday by Gartner Inc.

Microsoft Corp. launched version 1.2 of its customer relationship management (CRM) software Monday, making it available for the first time outside of North America.

Corporate environments may be saying goodbye to PCs at every desktop if Hewlett-Packard Canada Co.'s latest developments in the world of virtualization catch on.

Continuing its war of words against the Linux community, The SCO Group Inc. on Wednesday accused free software advocates of threatening the intellectual property protections provided by U.S. and European law.

IBM Corp. and SuSE Linux on Thursday announced the opening of a new software integration centre in Toronto, which will support customers and better enable the integration of SuSE Linux with IBM offerings, according to the companies.