Between the Lines
Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.
Larry Dignan
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.
Andrew Nusca
Andrew Nusca is a writer-editor for ZDNet, contributor to CNET and the editor of SmartPlanet, ZDNet's sister site about innovation. In 2013, his coverage will focus on enterprise startups. He is based in New York.
Rachel King
Rachel King is a staff writer for ZDNet based in San Francisco.
Latest Posts
GM test drives corporate blogging
General Motors is joining a handful of other companies test driving corporate blogs.
Will you be victimized by a patent terrorist?
Although he doesn't come right out and say it, Richard Wilder, who is a partner with law firm Sidley Austin Brown & Wood and is also an intellectual-property counsel for the Association for Competitive Technology has labeled SCO as a "patent terrorist." Wilder's definition of a patent terrorists is a company whose business model is based on patent litigation as athreat and licensing as a revenue source.
2005: Early warning systems and decoding nature
After the devastation of the tsunami that swallowed up as many as 200,000 lives...
Gartner-Meta merger a sign of the times for research industry
It's not just the IT industry that is consolidating but so is the industry that provides advice and insight about it.
Steve Jobs: Loose lips must be eradicated
Apple (Steve Jobs) runs a tight ship. Information leaks are treated as flaws in the system that must be eradicated, using the courts if necessary to protect "trade secrets.
Oracle, not just PeopleSoft, employees on chopping block
Victorious in its takeover of PeopleSoft, Oracle is set to debut its newly combined company on January 18 with a live Web cast. This will come four days after it may lay off as many as 6,000 workers, according to the company's initial estimates, and not all from the PeopleSoft side.
Symantec/Veritas: A marriage of convenience or brilliance?
The $13.5 billion Symantec/Veritas merger is somewhat confounding, at least to the investment community.
Businesses move into Linspire's desktop Linux crosshairs
In response to my recent column on why the future of desktop computing is less about what operating system or applications you'll be running and...
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