Data/Document Management
- OOXML Approved, but Battle with ODF Begins
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4/2/2008
Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format was accepted as an international standard, according to an announcement issued today by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
- Salisbury, Central Washington, Florida State Deploy Oracle Apps
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4/2/2008
A number of campuses have gone public about upgrades of their PeopleSoft and Oracle applications.
- Leaks Suggest OOXML Approved as ISO/IEC Standard
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4/1/2008
Apparently, it's not a joke on this April Fools day that Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document format was approved as an international standard. Information posted by the OpenDoc Society to its members and unofficial tallies and blogs all suggest it is true.
- Missouri College Streamlines Document Management
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4/1/2008
Missouri's College of the Ozarks has chosen a new document management solution from Perceptive Software to help it transition from paper and manual processes to an electronic document repository. The school, located in Point Lookout, MO, will be implementing Perceptive's ImageNow in its financial aid and admission offices.
- Hadoop Summit: Yahoo Gathers the Stuffed Elephant Crowd
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3/28/2008
Yahoo hosted the first-ever Apache Hadoop Summit this week in Santa Clara, CA. The day-long event presented a program of speakers from the Hadoop developer and user communities, including representatives from Yahoo, IBM, Microsoft, Facebook, Google, and University of California, Berkeley, among others.
- University of New Mexico Pilots Unified Communications System
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3/25/2008
In 2006, the University of New Mexico began implementing its IP communications network, which will eventually support 22,000 voice terminals (IP, TDM and analog), connecting administration, faculty and students, as well as the UNM Hospital campus and Health Science Center.
- Appistry Launches Open Distribution Initiative
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3/24/2008
Appistry, a pioneering provider of grid-inspired application servers known as "fabrics," is reaching out to developers with a free version of its flagship product, a new open licensing model and a newly launched developer portal.
- Free Software Identifies Applications Requiring Administrator Rights
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3/24/2008
Enterprises can now more easily determine which applications their employees run that require administrative rights, a condition that makes the environment more susceptible to malicious users and viruses and prevents compliance with regulations such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and HIPAA. BeyondTrust’s free Application Rights Auditor automatically identifies and reports Windows applications that need elevated user rights.
- Arkansas Using Data Quality Tools in Information Quality Graduate Program
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3/24/2008
The University of Arkansas Little Rock (UALR) has decided to use a DataFlux application in its information quality master's degree program. Students will be working with dfPower Studio, a suite of tools for data quality and data integration activities, including data discovery, business rule creation and execution, workflow management and other functions necessary for improving and consolidating data.
- BEA Systems Releases WebLogic Portal 10.2
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3/21/2008
BEA Systems, a provider of enterprise infrastructure technology, announced the availability of WebLogic Portal 10.2 earlier this month. The solution is a Java-based portal for service-oriented infrastructure. It supports the creation of Web pages with dynamic content, as well as composite applications and Web 2.0 apps.
- Citrix, HP Team Up on Embedded Hypervisor
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3/21/2008
Citrix has become the latest entry into the increasingly-crowded field of embedded hypervisors. The Fort Lauderdale, FL-based company Thursday announced a deal to embed a small, lightweight version of its standard hypervisor, XenServer, into ProLiant brand servers from HP. Called Citrix XenServer HP Select Edition, the hypervisor will come pre-installed, giving customers the opportunity to try virtualization out of the box.
- IBM Expands Information Server, Sets Delivery Dates for Collaborative Software
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3/19/2008
IBM this month will release two new software updates focused on collaboration--Lotus Quickr 8.1 and Workplace Collaborative Learning 2.7. The company has also expanded its Information Server software platform with the introduction of IBM Information Server FastTrack, a new module for information integration projects.
- Hyper-V Continues on the Fast Track
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3/19/2008
Microsoft, famous for its product delays, has taken a different approach with its latest virtualization offering: instead of multiple delays, it's pushing up delivery deadlines.
- Vista SP1 Goes Live
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3/18/2008
Microsoft Tuesday announced the availability of Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. The company has also posted the upgrade to its download site. SP1 releases are typical milestones for Microsoft products as many IT shops wait until the first update before deploying. Vista's update comes a little more than a year after its initial release.
- SAS Opens Up SAS OnDemand for Academics
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3/18/2008
SAS has broadened the availability of SAS OnDemand for Academics, a service that allows faculty and students to integrate advanced data analysis in their teaching and learning activities. Users register for the service, download a SAS software application via the Web, and then perform processing by connecting to a hosted server at SAS.
- Software AG Releases Mainframe Modernization Suite
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3/14/2008
Enterprise solution provider Software AG announced its webMethods Application Modernization Suite--software designed to bring service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology and other improvements to standard mainframe infrastructures.
- Electronic Transcripts at the Tipping Point
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3/13/2008
In an age of electronic information, it seems obvious--exchange student transcripts electronically, thereby cutting costs, speeding the process, and making fraud more difficult. But in a process that has taken many years, student transcripts are just now being pushed and pulled into the 21st century. Often on a state-by-state basis, high schools and colleges are gradually adopting technologies to allow them to exchange transcripts electronically.
- CodeGear Releases 3rd Rail 1.1, Donates Ruby Debugger
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3/13/2008
CodeGear announced last week that it has released a new 1.1 version of 3rdRail, a Ruby on Rails integrated development environment that plugs into Eclipse.
- Coral8 Updates CEP Software
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3/13/2008
Coral8, based in Mountain View, CA Monday announced a new version of Coral8 Engine, its complex event processing (CEP) software.
- Microsoft To Acquire Desktop Virt Vendor Kidaro
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3/12/2008
Microsoft today announced its intent to acquire Kidaro, a Redwood City, CA-based provider of enterprise desktop virtualization software.
- Q & A from Sun's Worldwide Education and Research Conference
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3/12/2008
Each year, Sun Microsystems holds its Worldwide Education and Research (WWERC) conference to bring together thought leaders in education and technology. Campus Technology joined a press conference at this year's WWERC in San Francisco and asked Sun Chairman Scott McNealy and Global Education VP Joe Hartley two questions of interest to higher education...
- Document Interoperability Initiative Unveiled by Microsoft
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3/10/2008
Microsoft Thursday kicked off its plan to set up labs around the world to test the interoperability of various document formats, including Microsoft's Open Office XML (OOXML) format as well as the Open Document Format (ODF) originally developed by Sun Microsystems.
- VMware Supports BEA's Effort To Virtualize Java Apps
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3/10/2008
At last week's VMworld, BEA and VMware announced their partnership on a project to allow BEA's Java applications to work within virtual environments created with VMware's tools.
- Open Source Vendor rSmart Collaborates with Sun on Kuali Programs
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3/5/2008
rSmart, which makes open source software for education, said it is collaborating with Sun Microsystems to develop Kuali-based programs certified to run on Sun's collection of systems and open source infrastructure software, including Solaris, MySQL, GlassFish, OpenSSO and OpenESB. The first application will be the Kuali Financial System.
- Report: Microsoft Readying New SaaS Push
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3/5/2008
According to blogger Nicholas Carr, Microsoft may be preparing to make a major Software-as-as-Service (SaaS) announcement soon, possibly at its MIX08 conference this week in Las Vegas.
