IT SECTOR

One of the founders of the company MySQL AB, David Eksmark, announced his resignation from the corporation Sun Microsystems. For several years he worked at Sun Microsystems, holding a number of senior posts: supervised the development, is the head of the internal IT department, responsible for liaison with the community of MySQL. As explained himself Eksmark caused his departure from the Sun as the internal rules of the company: "I hate rules, which I have to follow, and I hate to violate them. Therefore, the preferred option for me is the denial of permanent employment and further cooperation with MySQL and Sun at less formal environment. " The company Stimulsoft announced withdrawal Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2008.2, a new version of the famous reporting. In Stimulsoft Reports.Net 2008.2 fully processed kernel is reporting that caused more than doubling the speed. Radically redesigned interface that is implemented on the basis Ribbon UI. For several dozen existing bar codes hav...

8 October in Moscow went SAP-Forum 2008, organized by Europe's largest producer of software company SAP AG. As you know, she is developing corporate software for the automation of all internal business processes: accounting, trade, manufacturing, finance, personnel management and warehouses, etc. Among the customers SAP - almost all companies from the list of Fortune 1000, and now SAP is starting to earth and small business (on their classification, is a company with annual sales of at least 10 million euros). Forum SAP - a traditional event for the business community, representatives of large corporations and partners SAP, but have never before in its history it has not been in such grim circumstances, when all around and just talked about the financial crisis. The tone of the Forum asked in his opening remarks, Jovan Maryanovich, general director of SAP CIS. He explicitly said it is now forced to deal with the company: "We call customers and say: everything has changed, we d...

Microsoft has released information about Visual Studio 2010 and development platform. NET Framework 4.0. So far released only those changes that affect Visual Studio Team System 2010 - component VS, which would create a single ALM-space for the entire project. In VSTS 2010 will be enhanced support for UML and DSL, will increase the effectiveness of testing at the expense of special tools designed to deal with difficult reproducible bugs, plan testing, verification of changes in the code. Microsoft Team Foundation Server will have a built-in support for Agile Development'a, improved communication between developers, new visualization tools. Moreover, as assure the representatives of Microsoft, the introduction and management of TFS was greatly simplified. Nokia announced a package of Qt Extended 4.4 (formerly Qtopia), a new version to develop applications for mobile and embedded devices that are running Linux. The composition of Qt Extended includes 19 components for the implementat...

The biggest Russian search engine and Web portal «Yandex» postponed the primary placement of its shares (IPO) for an indefinite period. First public offering was planned for the third quarter of this year. Now the IPO could take place until May 2009 th, but only if the situation in financial markets will soon stabilize. IPO to be held in the U.S. high-tech NASDAQ stock market in Silicon Valley. June 20 «Yandex» even opened its own office in California - Yandex Laboratories, - headed by peremanil one of the top managers caught up in crisis Yahoo. Defectors Vish Mahidzhani was previously directed at Yahoo Search, and until then engaged in the same company Inktomi. Before the first half of 2009, Yandex Laboratories should have been a small representation of staff 10-12 staff. The official purpose of opening representative offices (in the version «Yandex») - to support the search quality. According to the guide, «Yandex» became a company of international standing, and it needs to maintain ...

The World Trade Organization (WTO) often becomes the latest instance in economic disputes developed nations. But rarely such proceedings relate to companies IT-industry. One of those rare cases occurred relatively recently. Conflict of interest This is not completed so far story began in June this year. Then the U.S. government and Japan sent a joint complaint with the WTO. They complained to the European Union, which in their view, charged with manufacturers of computer equipment unnecessary taxes. Specifically, it was about companies that produce computer monitors, printers and cable converters. The reason for the differences is that these groups when importing goods into the territory of the EU duty-free to reach 14%. Interestingly, however, that the major manufacturers of such equipment - China, Taiwan, Malaysia - claims not to the Europeans. In a sense, the root of the conflict - the International Agreement on Information Technology (International Technology Agreement - ITA), whic...

Today, to any outside observer, it is obvious that the company Apple serious crisis of governance. And he was not due to failures and not the world's financial turmoil, but precisely the contrary - stunning success of Apple products in recent years. Even in summer and early autumn of this year against the backdrop of excellent sales and elegant financial condition of Apple, just exactly the place the company experienced a few unpleasant moments associated with the sharp fall in its shares. And, revealing, they were all linked to the persona Co-founder and head of Apple Steve Dzhobsa. More precisely, with the state of his health (Dzhobsu about a year ago, removed the malignant tumor of the pancreas). Now is Dzhobsu appear on a person not in the tsvetuschem as rumors start to crawl on his feel unwell. The last time Apple shares have collapsed, most recently, when spread information that Steve took Dzhobsa ambulance with a heart attack. Then, the truth, it turned out that this is hog-...

October 7, one of the most famous producer of microprocessors - the company AMD - announced its restructuring, which divided it into two companies. One will specialize in the development and design of chips, the second - to release processors. So AMD intends to reduce operating costs and increase their market share. The company, which will release a chip, will be temporarily named Foundry Company. AMD, it will have 44.4% stake. Attachments from AMD it would be technology, intellectual property, patents, manufacturing facilities including two production sites in Dresden and related assets of factories. Headquartered Foundry Company will be located in Silicon Valley in the USA. The remaining shares of Foundry Company will be at the disposal of an investment company Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), established by the authorities of Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates). Advanced Technology Investment Company promised to immediately invest in Foundry Company $ 2,1 billion, with $ ...

Against the backdrop of crisis Intel will continue to invest in new products and technology, despite a potential slowdown in emerging markets because of the financial crisis in the United States. The company chairman of the company's Craig Barrett. According to him, when financial markets crashing, it has some impact on everything else, but nobody can get and to predict how serious it is. In particular, Barrett said: «We have always thought that must be sustained investment - whether in good or bad times. And, as a blind greyhound, we just continue to move in that direction ». Barrett also expressed the view that it is impossible in advance to protect themselves from the global crisis, but you can proinvestirovat their salvation. «We have always had a plan for the rainy day», - figuratively put chairman of Intel, backed its words with information that the company has Stabfund of about $ 10 billion in the event of a crisis. In doing so, Barrett made it clear that the financial crisi...

The financial crisis forced shake world markets, dramatically changed the behavior of the leading IT-corporations. Those that have only recently boasted popularity of its shares to investors now enjoy the moment and quickly buy up their own podeshevevshie securities. And these actions are not devoid of meaning: in a situation of instability and the lack of interesting investment projects profitable companies to invest in themselves. Microsoft has announced that it is ready to redeem their shares at U.S. $40 billion over five years (the stand about 17% of securities companies at their current price). In addition, the company increased its quarterly dividend of one share at 18% - up to 13 cents. According to the experts, all this shows that the direction Microsoft wants to return funds to shareholders, lost from the failed deal with Yahoo. Another, much more obvious goal - to increase the value of their assets during the financial crisis. After Announcement of new stock repurchase progra...

For the first time the news came as early as August, but only at the end of September, it seems, have begun to take seriously. The company Siemens is going to go out of business for the production of computers, sold its share in the joint venture Fujitsu Siemens Computers. One of the buyers may be China's Lenovo. As a result, the market will disappear one of the last European computer brands. German group Siemens plans to exit the business of manufacturing computers, sold its share in the joint with a Japanese company Fujitsu enterprise. In doing so, it is a company Fujitsu has a preferential right to purchase shares in Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC), which was founded 9 years ago. But, interestingly, Fujitsu does not burning desire to buy share of Siemens. According to the President Fujitsu Kuniaki Nodzoe, production of mobile phones his company is now considering a more profitable business. In his view, using the phone company can reach in overseas markets better than engaging...

In a regular talk show parents resent her son, who in his spare time immersed in the virtual world they chose. But when it advised to read Gogol, Dumas, Pushkin ... Eventually, the son does not stand and said that the same book - it also initially by worlds than dumbfound present. Resisting generations? No, ordinary society. In this case, is worth recalling that the «techno-» translation from Greek means nothing as «skill». Many are serious or very wary of advances in artificial intelligence, and some nedoponimayut the importance of what is happening in this segment now, to the extent necessary training of our society to introduce a computer as integral participants. In fact, nothing so often scold young people for the excessive enthusiasm for computer technology. The fact is that at the games, advanced training programs, mathematical simulations otkatyvayutsya new levels and mechanisms of interaction, and one can say how intimidating it may sound, the emergence of «digital», or «techn...

The world financial crisis continues, though, seems to have passed its peak. But while the number of jobs is declining, and in Silicon Valley top managers think: What generally mean a financial crisis for the IT sector? One of the main expectations due to the reduction in IT-budgets of large companies would ensure that these companies rather prefer to have a universal model. There will shift to computing clouds and programs taken from the network, because in this case, you have to pay only the cost of services, rather than the work of an entire IT commands. Also, corporations will be more willing to use software with open source. The crisis has opened new areas of IT-development. Due to the fact that the same U.S. companies close their offices or out of business real estate, it is expected that many adapted from a distance model. And with the changes, which are expected to occur after the adoption of a law on flexible working hours, the companies may have additional reason to allow the...

Further financial crisis that shake the planet and, above all, the USA, yet not too seriously addressed the IT-industry. But, of course, its consequences have seriously reduce the pace of development and computer and telecommunications industry. For example, revenues fall manufacturers of thin clients - their main clients just been bankrupt financial giants. But there is another, very serious and not all measured, the consequences. At the place collapsed «elephants» IT-business will present «moski», that is, those who are the current giants of competitors, actually, and do not believe. However, this is the future of the case, even quite close. Google first and foremost Andy Rubin - creator of a mysterious OS Android and director of the mobile unit Google - said that the first smartphone based on Android is in the final stages of development and will soon be presented to the public. In addition, Rubin said that the income earned from the sale of applications for the platform Android, wi...

Recently there was news: Google is planning to open its own venture fund that will invest in promising startups. It is expected that the Fund will lead the new David Dryummond, the chief lawyer company and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, and Bill Maris, a former business partner and friend of Anna Voysitski, the wife of one of the founders of Google, Sergey Brin. Google scheme According to analysts, Google will invest primarily aimed at supporting those startups, which can be regarded as the main candidates to buy the search giant. By investing their own funds - even at the initial stage of relatively minor - Google will be competition to traditional venture capital companies and investment funds. In addition, it will be possible to avoid a sharp rise in prices startups in a situation where the company Brin and Page decided to acquire technology or the development of young companies. Of course, such a tactic in the IT-industry - does not know how Google. Own venture uni...