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	Southern scales back desktop virtualization | Informatica adds support for 'big data,' Hadoop
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	Extreme automation: FedEx Ground hubs speed deliveries FedEx Ground's highly automated hubs, which sort 3.5 million packages a day without human intervention, are speeding up deliveries and helping the company win market share. Read More WHITE PAPER: SAP SMBs: Affordably Meet Your BI Needs Small- and Mid-Sized organizations need the same, robust business intelligence functionality large enterprises already enjoy - only at a small business price and in a fraction of the time. Explore this new report by TEC to see how. Read now! In this Issue Southern scales back desktop virtualization Informatica adds support for 'big data,' Hadoop Business VPs are driving many SaaS purchases FAQ: What's the future of OpenOffice.org? IBM launches city government software platform EBay's PayPal to stop service on Alibaba site Using VMware Fusion to fire up old games. Or not. WHITE PAPER: Cisco Systems, Inc. Social Technologies Add Business Value Social technologies are moving from the consumer space into the enterprise, and Enterprise Social Software (ESS) is changing how people work. A white paper based on a Forrester Consulting survey commissioned by Cisco reveals the benefits and inhibitors faced by decision makers and how ESS is transforming business processes. Read the white paper now. Southern scales back desktop virtualization Southern Co. had been planning to move most of its employees into a virtual desktop environment within two to three years but will now tackle a much smaller-scale deployment over time. Read More Informatica adds support for 'big data,' Hadoop Informatica is joining the growing ranks of vendors moving to support Hadoop, the open-source framework for large-scale or "big data" processing, the company announced. Read More Business VPs are driving many SaaS purchases Much of SaaS purchasing comes from business groups outside of the IT department, according to a Forrester Research report. Read More DOWNLOAD: Citrix Free Download: Citrix® NetScaler® Now you can get the ultimate in dynamic, cost-effective Web app delivery with Citrix® NetScaler® VPX. Simply download the free Express Edition of this virtual appliance and you'll experience infinitely flexible L4-7 load balancing, Web app acceleration and security from a single, virtual appliance. Click to continue FAQ: What's the future of OpenOffice.org? Oracle suddenly announced it was submitting the codebase for OpenOffice.org to the Apache Software Foundation, ending speculation about the open-source productivity suite's fate following Oracle's recent announcement it would be transitioned to a "solely community-based project." Read More IBM launches city government software platform IBM plans to launch a software framework that will help city and local government executives get a more complete view of how well their operations are running. Read More EBay's PayPal to stop service on Alibaba site EBay's PayPal will no longer be a payment option on a site run by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, a sign that cooperation between the two companies may be cooling. Read More Using VMware Fusion to fire up old games. Or not. Gibbs wants to run "Star Wars Episode I: Racer" on a W98 VM but runs into compatibility problems. Read More
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