Google to launch business software

Web-based package aims at Microsoft's, IBM's core business
By Robert Weisman, Globe Staff | February 22, 2007

Jumping into a new market, Google Inc. is unveiling a product today to compete with Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. in the multibillion-dollar business of providing e-mail, calendar, and other tools on corporate computer desktops.

The Web-based product, called Google Apps Premier Edition, also will include word processing and document sharing, instant messaging, and Internet voice capability. Google will offer it to large companies for $50 per employee, host the applications on its own servers, and provide a service guarantee for its customers.

If successful, Google's business software suite could expand the revenue base of the world's dominant Internet search company beyond search-related advertising, reshape the way businesses deploy their productivity and collaboration software, and pose a direct threat to Microsoft's largest profit center.

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Oracle moves a step closer to Fusion

The launch of Oracle E-Business Suite 12 last month is a major step towards Oracle's first fully standards-based, service oriented architecture (SOA) suite, Fusion Applications, due in 2008.

Fusion Applications is a collection of enterprise resource planning programs based on Oracle's core database management system that make extensive use of web services. It is separate from Oracle's various branded business applications, such as PeopleSoft Enterprise and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, although they will use a common applications platform called Oracle Fusion Middleware.

Courtesy - Computer weekly

Ten things you need to know about VoIP

Before rolling out voice over IP in a business, it pays to tap into the lessons others have learned.

By Network World.

Anybody working on a VoIP project should stand on the shoulders of those who have gone before to avoid their mistakes and glean tips that can make their own deployments go more smoothly. In the interest of promoting this knowledge sharing, here is a list of 10 tips you should follow if you want to roll out VoIP with as little pain as possible.

1. Buy Time - Get Buffer time in advance to meet the unexpected delay.
2. Get Everybody onboard - Give all employers a stake in the project.
3. Know what you have got.
4. Bandwidth Control.
5. Use the right CODEC.
6. Emergency ! Remember 911!
7. Make training simple
8. Gateways to savings. - Use Analog phones and IP convertors where ever possible.
9. The Soft touch
10. Remote Control - Encourage and Implement remote management.

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Sify Launches WiMAX Solution with Mobility

Sify Limited, a leader in consumer Internet and Enterprise Services in India with global delivery capabilities, launched a WiMAX solution with Mobility features, with the deployment of Proxim Wireless Corporation's advanced wireless product.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, February 19, 2007 -- Sify Limited has chosen and deployed Proxim's Tsunami MP.11 WiMAX product line as the core communications platform for last mile access using the 5.8 GHz frequency band. Sify has deployed over 700 Tsunami MP.11 base stations and 3,500 subscriber units to provide Internet access, voice and video broadband services to enterprise, residential and cybercafé subscribers in over 200 cities throughout India.

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Telecom Operators re-evaluating their CDMA startegies

Telstra recently confirmed its plans to shut down its CDMA network in Australia, in favor of its new Next G W-CDMA based network. This is bad news for Telecom NZ customers as they will no longer be able to roam to Australia. (Unless they acquire dual mode CDMA/W-CDMA phones!)

This may not be the only bad news for Telecom however. It appears that Telstra is not alone in re-thinking its CDMA strategy. According to GigaOM, “CDMA is losing friends faster than me losing my pounds”. Some examples of this:

# Three carriers in China (Unicom), India (Reliance), and Brazil (Vivo) are re-evaluating their CDMA strategies
# Sprint announced last year that it will deploy mobile WiMAX as its 4G network instead of evolving its 3G CDMA network
# Europe has, and always will be exclusively GSM/W-CDMA based.

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