While the focus during this recession may have turned to green IT and virtualisation for IT savings, Michael Bayer of Avaya argues the case for unified communications.
Open source software is the only way for users to meet the economic crisis, says Roger Burkhardt of Ingres. But they will have to take some short term pain to get out of proprietary licence structures.
Head of automation and virtualisation software company, Parallels is betting big on the cloud. But Serguei Beloussov says operating system consolidation and standards will be key.
The future for Java is an unknown, says its creator James Gosling. But at least Sun Microsystems is owned by a software company - albeit one with a "colourful" reputation
There's no one in charge of Java on Google's Android OS - and that's going to lead to trouble says Java creator James Gosling, in an interview on Java usage
Weaning users off their personal printers, and eliminating abandoned documents from the print tray are the key stps to greening hard copy, says Lexmark's Béatrice Marneffe
You'll survive the recession better, if you understand how your business is doing, and how it could be improved, says IBM's business intelligence manager - and former Cognos CEO - Rob Ashe
All it takes to get an efficient data centre is to apply well known technologies better, says Mike West - the man behind Europe's most efficient data centre
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