Software

Twenty months after partnering with Google to deliver cloud computing to universities, IBM is pushing into the business market in a bigger way with new products and services for on-demand, self-service IT capabilities. IBM is introducing “purpose built” cloud appliances, new public cloud services, and...

A second attempt by the University of Wisconsin System to install a new computer payroll program is millions of dollars over budget and a year behind schedule. Moreover, a company fired over subpar work creating Wisconsin's statewide voter database in 2007 is working as a...

New Coke. Chia pets. Ashton Kutcher. All are bad ideas that should have been snuffed out before they emerged into public consciousness. All are things that make you scratch your head and say, "What in God's name were they thinking?" Unfortunately, the tech world is full...

Developers of programs for the iPhone have already managed to make a decent living selling hundreds of thousands of copies of games from their living rooms or garages. But now, a new way to profit from writing software for the iPhone is emerging: Sell the apps,...

The worldwide recession has hammered IT budgets but has also prompted vendors to make their software pricing and licensing models more customer-friendly, according to a new Forrester Research report. Forrester's report looked at how 12 enterprise software vendors' pricing and licensing strategies changed in the fourth...

Grady Memorial Hospital awarded a $40 million information technology contract to a Wisconsin-based software maker. Verona, Wis.-based Epic Systems Corp. beat out blue-chip contenders, McKesson Corp. (NYSE: MCK), Cerner Corp. (NASDAQ: CERN) and Siemens for the contract. Epic is a private, employee-owned software firm focused on developing...

Cloud computing is spreading through the IT world like wildfire, with innovative start-ups and established vendors alike clamoring for customer attention. Generally speaking, cloud providers fall into three categories: software-as-a-service providers; infrastructure-as-a-service vendors that offer Web-based access to storage and computing power; and platform-as-a-service vendors that...