As the IM market is growing (77 million Americans used an online instant messaging system last month) so are the players In April Sun had announced its Instant Messaging solution (read more about this ) and now its HP.
HP has signed an agreement to distributed Jabber on HP machines.
Read more at Jabber, Inc. Announces Global Agreement with HP
Another story HP Winks ;-) at Jabber
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Delta invested $1.5 billion dollars in a instant information network which they call it as Delta Nervous System to serve its customers better and save hundreds of millions a dollar a year.
With the current changes in the business trends and strategies in the airline industry Delta hopes to win the competitions with other small players because of its Nervous System, which has helped Delta in realizing $700 million this year in savings.
The Nervous System works like a radio network. Individual stations broadcast changes—a new ticket reservation, a flight delay, a gate change—as they occur. Messaging software supplied by Tibco Software picks up the broadcast and carries it to any station (a local computing system) that is programmed to receive it.
A ticket reservation, for instance, will be broadcast and recorded in Delta's financial systems, its frequent-flier database, and its boarding and flight records, among other places. This way, gate agents, food suppliers, even Delta's chief financial officer know immediately what's going on with any particular Delta flight.
Read the case study: Delta's Last Stand
This email virus has so far no fixed identity as it is capable of changing the subject line as well as the executable name it brings with it.
The virus has a complex set of routines it's going through and it covers a majority of the ways it could infect [a system]."
Stay away from Peer to peer networks like KAZAA
Read more details at Fizzer worm spreading
Web Services is the solution for distributed computing.
Bekins had considered using a distributed computing architecture (common object request broker architecture, or "CORBA") to tie its freight scheduling system to its partners' transportation management systems. But the company found that to accomplish that goal, it would have had to align with about 50 standards—a daunting level of complexity.
Read at trends in web services
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With the speed with which Internet is becoming part of every day life, Microsoft is trying to capture the market with the basic part of life LOO..
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