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Mzinga has announced the latest version of its SaaS enterprise social software suite OmniSocial, with improved control panel, expanded analytics, mobile apps and more. The new features were made

Leading virtualization company VMware announced today that it's acquiring SpringSource for $326 million in cash, plus another $58 million worth of stock and options. SpringSource will retain its executives and

In our first post about trends in the enterprise for the coming year, we looked at five forces that will rise in importance in 2010. In part two, we picked

Senators John Kerry, and John McCain introduced a bill to the Senate floor last week entitled "The Commercial Privacy Bill Of Rights" that would reform and codify how Internet user

CA announced its SaaS service desk application CA Service Desk Manager On Demand and the service desk collaboration platform CA Open Space yesterday. Open Space, which focuses on community

Google Apps is offering migration for Microsoft Exchange. The service is free with Google Apps Premiere or Google Apps Education. Last July, Google Apps began offering migration from IBM's Lotus

In his book The Innovator's Dilemma, Professor Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School describes the theory of how large outstanding firms can fail "by doing everything right." The innovator's dilemma,

Second Life is introducing a behind the firewall service for enterprise customers, another sign that the very definition of collaboration is changing as more companies seek ways to do their

Whether you call it "enterprise 2.0" or "social business," one thing is for certain: you're going to need at least some tools to implement it. SaaS delivery models are

RackSpace recently published a survey on cloud hosting. The company asked 1500 small and mid-sized businesses in the US and UK what they knew about cloud hosting and if they

Dion Hinchcliffe did a bang up job presenting the essence of where we are and what's next for the Enterprise 2.0 community at the Web 2.0 Expo conference in San

In a recession, budgets are tightened, jobs are cut, and those who remain are expected to do more with less. Given this type of economic reality, it's surprising to hear

Stack Overflow, the uber-popular software developers' Q&A site created by Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood in 2008, now has a sister site called Server Fault. This new site, designed with

Linux is celebrating its 20th anniversary. To commemorate, the Linux Foundation created an infographic that highlights events in the past 20-years from the open-source movement. its also launching a video

The day started with a big band sound. Max Weinberg and his band played and SAP's CO-CEO Bill McDermott took the stage. He looked great - suave and smooth.

For the Enterprise 2.0 conference next week we will take a look specifically how the enterprise is adopting enterprise technologies. What services are companies using and why? Dachis Group is

Today, the much-lauded microlender Kiva announced it will begin a pilot program of loans to U.S. small enterprise. Kiva began in Africa, and after four years has since expanded to

Joyent, a company well-known to RWW readers for its backing of Node.js is announcing a step in a different direction today: the company has ported Linux KVM to its SmartOS

The advent of geodata and its use in the enterprise is evident in the advancements we're seeing in the cloud computing space. This past week ArcGIS Beta launched. It's an

Companies are dropping Internet Explorer 6 in droves and vendors are quickly following the lead by sunsetting support. It's a pretty safe move on the vendor's part. Data collected by

Open-source software is at an inflection point in the enterprise. According to a survey by Accenture, more than two-thirds of organizations anticipate increasing their investment in it this year, and

The Blackberry just doesn't seem to have the luster it once did. Today, it had another nationwide outage. According to Data Outage News: "A number of users are reporting and

Games can be a clever way to gain knowledge about a market and provide a simulated way for people to play with the products you sell. "IT Manager III: Unseen

Stories about the plight of IT remind me of commercials that feature the haggard, overextended information worker who really could manage the work if he had eight minds working for

Five years ago, the complaint against Microsoft brewing before the European Court of First Instance was that it was not contributing enough knowledge about Windows' source code to let others