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IBM posts poor hardware sales in last quarter

IBM hardware sales over the past three months have been poor according to the latest quarterly results, although Big Blue has continued to excel at selling software and systems.
IBM targets comprehensive mobile app development support

IBM is trying to replicate the success it's had with WebSphere in the mobile market.
IBM buys software testing vendor Green Hat

IBM is buying Green Hat, maker of automated testing tools for integration, SOA (service oriented architecture) implementations and cloud-based deployments, the company announced on Wednesday. Terms of the deal were not provided.
Bamboo integration server updated with Mercurial version control

Continuous integration server technology upgrade adds deployment capabilities.
New testing proccess recognised by US patent

A software testing company has improved the automation of testing, gathering a US patent in the process
New community for testing professionals launched

Testing consultancy ROQ IT has launched a new community for software testing professionals
Email is top cloud application in Europe

A survey from F5 has revealed some interesting differences in the way that European and North American organisations perceive cloud services
Microsoft Security Essentials to go free for small business

Starting early next month, Microsoft Security Essentials, Redmond's anti-malware service for Windows PCs, will be free for small businesses to install on up to 10 PCs.
Antivirus software often misses new malware

New research has further confirmed the difficulties security software companies are having keeping up with an explosion in malicious software programs on the Internet.
Enterprises loath to spend money on software testing

Companies are still reluctant to spend on software testing according to Sogeti survey

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Is Oracle about to destroy Red Hat?

Database vendor Oracle plans to eat Red Hat's revenue stream -- will it destroy Red Hat and the open source movement in the process?
Book review: Practical Development Environments

"Development Environments" is one of those phrases that means different things to different people. But whatever it means, this is a book that seems short of practical guidance.
Sun pushes Solaris 10 as Linux alternative

Sun are now talking bluntly about their failure to recognise the corporate IT push to low-cost commodity systems and want to remedy that.

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Mergers and Acquisitions:IT Testing Requirements

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are amongst the most strategic decisions that are taken in the corporate world. To reduce the disruption caused by the introduction of new systems, risk based testing should be considered.
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Testing SOA applications

This paper brings together all the risks, challenges and benefits of SOA under one umbrella so that test teams understand what they are up against.
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Intellect Software Testing: A code of practice

Outlines the basic pledges that Intellect software testing makes to its customers.
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The Business Case for Outsourcing Software Testing to Vietnam

This white paper provides a business case for considering Vietnam as an offshore outsourcing destination, and offers specific examples from the IT and software industries including a US software testing firm with a facility in Vietnam.
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Independent Software Testing

Software complexity, size, time to market and user sophistication have led to development of software testing as an independent discipline. This white paper analyzes different testing engagement models in terms of its organization structure and interaction mechanism with the development organization. Given the increasingly specialized nature of software testing, outsourcing to organizations having an independent testing practice brings significant advantages to cost, quality, and time to market for software applications and products.
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