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SA losing to Kenya in tech race

Duncan McLeod | TechCentral | June 9, 2013

South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. By Duncan McLeod. Read More »

Sears Eschews IBM/Oracle For Open Source And Self Build

Dennis Howlett | ZDNet | October 9, 2012

As Sears refactors its IT landscape, legacy vendors are finding themselves out in the cold in favor of open source alternatives. Read More »

South Africa losing to Kenya in tech race

Duncan McLeod | TechCentral | June 9, 2013

South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. That honour, increasingly, is going to Kenya, which may be on the cusp of a technology-fuelled era of economic growth. Read More »

The Forkers Saving Open Source From A Corporate Bear Hug

Matt Asay | The Register | January 16, 2013

Open source has long had a strong corporate element to it, perhaps starting in earnest when IBM pledged to spend $1bn on Linux back in 2000. Despite the benefits of corporate funding of open-source software - more money, more source code written - some question whether open source has become too corporate... Read More »

Top 10 Amazon Cloud Challengers

Christine Burns | InfoWorld | August 30, 2013

Amazon may rule the roost for now, but these companies could take a big bite out of the cloud market Read More »

Watson Now Open For App Development

Mike Miliard | Healthcare IT News | November 14, 2013

IBM has made its Watson cognitive computing technology available as a cloud-based app development platform, and healthcare vendors are already getting in on the act. Read More »

Will Watson Help Solve The Mystery Of The Missing DOD EHR?

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | April 24, 2014

As the Department of Defense edges closer to choosing one lucky vendor to support its planned department-wide EHR system, IBM is doing some strategic shifting of its own by adding technology from its Watson supercomputer to its federal health care repertoire.  With a new request for information (RFI) released by the DOD, asking for details about infrastructure requirements to replace its aging ALHTA system, the department is putting a contract valued around $11 billion up for grabs.

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