Today, June 2, 2004, search engine Google announced the availability of its upgraded Google Search Appliance. GSA is a hardware/software package designed to deliver Google-quality search results on intranets and public websites.
Exchange upgrades can deliver significant ROI
One of the core utilities IT provides to an organization is messaging services, including e-mail, calendaring, task management and collaboration. This utility is surprisingly expensive, especially if the organization runs prior-generation e-mail platforms. A typical Microsoft Exchange 5.5 solution has direct costs of more than $350 per user, per year, including hardware, software, IT operations, support and administration, and overhead. Older versions of same generation e-mail solutions like IBM Lotus Notes are similarly expensive.
Guerilla Upgrades: Start with Your Newsletter
One of the most frequent questions I am asked when speaking at conferences goes something like this…
Salesforce.com Upgrades Its Flagship
Salesforce.com today unveiled major upgrades to its two main products at its first annual Dreamforce user conference being held this week in San Francisco. Winter ’04 is the newest version of its hosted CRM solution, and sforce 2.0 is the latest version of the company’s on-demand application server.