The recommended strategy is to employ 'smart' buying practices to reduce acquisition and support costs, including software asset management, and increase the use of standards-compliant software,'

Software companies should take more responsibility for security holes, especially in browsers and e-mail clients. There are some straightforward things the industry should be doing right now to fix things, and I don't know why they haven't been done yet.

Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.

We have developed special software and applications to support Chinese users but we won't launch specifically designed products for mainland users.

The software appliance approach makes perfect sense for end-users who are interested in simplifying the deployment and management of applications. With this model, users are sheltered from operating system issues and are able to quickly and easily receive the value of the applications.

It's really a software management system that can be either nationwide or geographically targeted.