Day: April 4, 2012

IT investments deliver profits, study finds

Spending on revenue-enhancing IT systems more beneficial than focusing on streamlining processes to cut costs Investing in IT departments can have a big impact on a firm’s profits, more so than similar spending on R&D and some marketing endeavors, according to a team of university reasearchers. The researchers reached their conclusions after examining the IT […]

Microsoft counted as key Linux contributor, for now anyway

Microsoft’s work on the Hyper-V driver accounted for a significant chunk of recent Linux kernel development For the first time ever, and probably only temporarily, Microsoft can be counted as a key contributor to Linux. The company, which once portrayed the open-source OS kernel as a form of cancer, has been ranked 17th on a […]

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