Oracle buys IP from Tacit to boost Beehive platform
Seeking to beef up the capabilities of its recently launched Beehive collaboration platform, Oracle said Monday it has bought the intellectual property of Tacit Software and hired all of its software engineers.
How I saved my intranet, one wiki at a time
It only took Bill Me Later, a web-based company (recently acquired by eBay), eight years to see its intranet and file sharing methods become pretty standard for the modern enterprise: that is to say, inefficient. Wiki to the rescue.
My E-mail Story and the New York Times
I have a friend always after me to write a book about what he calls “the e-mail train wreck,” which I probably should seriously consider. I thought about him when writing my latest Network World newsletter
Why security pros hate SharePoint, and what to do about it
The business world has enthusiastically embraced SharePoint, a collaboration platform that lets organizations host Web portals to shared workspaces and documents, including wikis and blogs. The problem is that it's an absolute bear to manage, according to some IT security pros. One of the biggest problems, they say, is configuring it in a secure manner.
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