Project Management

Microsoft Corp.'s chances of settling its European antitrust case are fading, as competition officials at the European Commission circulated a draft ruling to colleagues that finds the company guilty of abusing the monopoly power of its Windows operating system, people close to the Commission said Tuesday.

Although Novell Inc., SUSE Linux AG, Sun Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Red Hat Inc. are all offering protection or indemnification programs to protect customers from possible legal threats stemming from their use of Linux, industry leader IBM Corp. has quietly remained on the sidelines.

Imagine that you have your IS organization under control. Priorities are in order, targets are being met and everything is running smoothly. You decide to take a well-earned vacation. But on your return you discover that a management shuffle means you have a new boss.

When Microsoft released Windows Server 2003 last March, not long after Redmond announced that support for NT 4.0 would soon come to an end, the message sent to those same users was clear - namely, that it was high time to migrate.

The Internet is gaining value as a way to conduct business with suppliers, according to a recent report that identifies steady growth for Internet purchasing.

A move to open source and away from proprietary information management systems will help government departments avoid steep maintenance fees and increase the longevity of data, members of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and South Australian parliaments said at the recent Linux open source in government conference in Adelaide.

PeopleSoft Inc. is once again extending a customer refund offer aimed at fending off Oracle Corp.'s hostile takeover attempt.

Students studying enterprise resource planning (ERP) software systems at Nova Scotia's St. Francis Xavier University will get more "hands-on" training under a new initiative.