Why did Microsoft buy Skype?

by: Ben Crouch

Microsoft’s $8bn (£5bn) acquisition of Skype on Tuesday certainly had the markets asking why the software blue-chip has paid so much cash for a loss making consumer service. As the markets closed Microsoft’s stock was slightly down, suggesting...

11 May 2011

Bring Your Own PC

by: Stephen Eveleigh

Last week I was sat in a meeting and noticed the plethora of devices which each individual summarily threw on the desk as the meeting started. iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, legacy handsets, tablets and laptops.   The pre-meeting conversation...

04 May 2011

Ask Your Communications Partner About their Product Roadmap

by: Ben Crouch

As product lead for the new hosted Office Communications Server (OCS 2007 R2) service WorkLife IM; I’ve been testing different mobile devices with the service. Being an iPhone user it was the first device I was keen to try out. I was surprised to...

24 November 2010

ISV to SaaS to MSP?

by: Grant Tanner

So you are an ISV with a niche market - perhaps you run software for Estate Agents, Property Developers or Charities. You have standard software, perhaps for Workflow or Content Management and charge professional services for the "tweaks" for...

06 January 2010

Avoiding Single Vendor Lock in with cloud computing

by: Hugo Harber

You have infrastructure in place right now; it’s built on a common Windows or UNIX platform and you’re either in-sourcing or outsourcing the hosting. As cloud computing matures your business has more and more options to move services to the cloud....

30 October 2009