Consumers are investing in digital content, but they increasingly face the challenges of needing more storage and having to manage commercial, personal, and hybrid content. As a result, consumers will be drawn to home media servers, lightweight devices designed to store, stream, sync, and manage a household's complex portfolio of digital assets. We examine what Apple, a leader in commercial digital downloads, could offer if it developed its own home media server.

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Posted by TomR at 02:56 PM | Permalink

IONA Technologies is making Celtix, an open source enterprise service bus (ESB), part of its core offerings. Previously, the company had heavily promoted its two commercial product families: Artix, its ESB, and Orbix, its battle-tested CORBA solution. But with this recent announcement, Celtix Enterprise becomes a fully marketed and supported IONA product -- the third element in the company's distributed computing portfolio.

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Yesterday, Microsoft announced the "business launch" of several of its most prominent software offerings, including Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft Office, and Exchange Server 2007. However, the individual organizational jury is still out on whether the new features and capabilities of these products outweigh the cost of their adoption, deployment, and support. The biggest hurdle for Microsoft to overcome will be trying to convince its existing customer base to upgrade.

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