With its massive, multi-billion dollar loan portfolio, muddled objectives and failure to contain corruption, a decade of reform efforts have done little to fix the World Bank. Continue »

We are currently in the biggest data center construction boom in history. At the same time, this boom is dramatically weakening the future flexibility and financial performance of information technology. How can this be? It's the old domino effect at work again. The number of servers in the U.S. has grown from 5 million in 2000, to 10 million in 2005, to a projected 15 million in 2010. More server

Is Paul Maritz the anti-Diane Greene? He's definitely not press shy like Greene, whom he replaced as chief executive of VMware two weeks ago after she was ousted from the company. Maritz, a legendary former Microsoft executive who led the charge on Windows 95 and Windows NT, chatted with Forbes.com after the software maker's second-quarter earnings results late Tuesday. Maritz analyzed the market'

Bill Gates' retirement from Microsoft --the tech goliath now worth $260 billion he founded as a teenager--may not mark the end of a career, but it certainly offers a logical vantage from which to view a most remarkable one. And as do legendary sports heroes, the software king no doubt will invite endless assessments and comparisons. To be fair, there aren't all that many people one can compare Bil

With its massive, multi-billion dollar loan portfolio, muddled objectives and failure to contain corruption, a decade of reform efforts have done little to fix the World Bank. Continue »

With its massive, multi-billion dollar loan portfolio, muddled objectives and failure to contain corruption, a decade of reform efforts have done little to fix the World Bank. Continue »

Less risk, more reward? Regardless of how you do the math, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications are providing smaller businesses with software capabilities that previously only larger companies could afford. For example, when Steven Vine, deputy general counsel for Register.com, joined the company about a year and a half ago, the new CEO was pushing Register.com, which now has about 500 emplo

With its massive, multi-billion dollar loan portfolio, muddled objectives and failure to contain corruption, a decade of reform efforts have done little to fix the World Bank. Continue »