Development

This retailer's stores are all running an aging point-of-sale system from an unhelpful vendor. But when management finally agrees to get a new system, guess who makes the short list?

Windows 7, even in beta, is a very fast, stable operating system, and appears very close to being ready for prime time. But is it really that much better than Vista --- and should you upgrade? The answer is clearly yes -- here are seven reasons why it will be worth the upgrade.

This big software company wants to automate its issue tracking -- and the price tag looks like it will run into the millions.

The financial scandal at Satyam, a leading Indian outsourcer, raises troubling questions about doing business in India.

Engine Yard has taken a small step toward making cloud computing pervasive and flexible for Ruby on Rails developers.

IoSafe is a company that, up until now, has provided enterprise-level disaster-safe storage. It is now entering the consumer market with its ioSafe Solo, a 3.5-inch external SATA hard drive that, according to the company, can withstand both flood and fire.

A study by Careercast.com identifies the best and worst jobs, based on salary and outlook, as well as factors such as working conditions, physical demands and stress. Software engineer and computer systems analyst ranked among the top 10 best jobs.

Answer: In both countries.

People have talked for years about Google taking Microsoft on with its own Linux desktop. Guess what? Google may already have sneaked a Linux desktop out there without anyone noticing... until now.

In Friday's IT Blogwatch, Richi Jennings watches Internet Explorer continue to lose market share -- mainly to Firefox and Safari. Not to mention why you shouldn't shout at your disk arrays...

AIR on Linux has arrived and it works well, once you get it to work at all and if you ignore the security issues.

Customer-facing employee buttonholes this IT pilot fish -- and it's just a quick question about a new feature.

This young pilot fish is just following the rules, but his actions create a major problem for a big-deal database guru who could get him fired -- or worse.

Cisco is going to be finding out, the hard way, that open source isn't the same thing as free software.

It's demonstration time at this manufacturing company, where the engineering department is set to show off two financial information systems -- one of which is clearly not the favorite....