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Sunday, May 4, 2008

Establishing the Web community which promotes Sun and greenhouse effect gas reduction

As for the United States Sun Microsystems September 24th, enterprise and the group the discharge quantity of the greenhouse effect gas calculation started the new Web online community "OpenEco.org" which supports the work which it compares & reduces.

OpenEco.org, in the community where it can participate all organizations freely, registers the important matter for participating, with actual name or anonymity, it is the ? which is the other community participant and to possess also the data.

When the new community where as for Sun, in the times when the social network of Facebook and the like is bearing big role, the organization which thinks of power that we would like to cope with the problem of climatic variation together, is available is actualized it has explained.

OpenEco.org sets improvement goal, in order to invest on the project in order to achieve that bears also the role which corresponds to needs such as enterprise and Government agency and the non government organization which are required.

According to Sun, as for analysis job of the greenhouse effect gas, using the tool and the individual tool which enterprise and the group developed with by its, there are many times when it is done, it must throw the enormous resource and it must utilize the consulting service whose cost is high, you say that either the cases are not few.

If as for the new community, the normality the carbon dioxide discharge quantitative calculation data which enterprise and the group have kept when it is input into the spreadsheet and the like, using the greenhouse effect gas discharge measure tool, it was born from the idea that it tries to be able to share easily.

If the tool which is offered with OpenEco.org is used, all organizations, execute benchmark mutually, they are possible to set realistic reduction goal, to share the best practice.

The investor and Ceres etc. which is the powerful federation of the protection of the environment group it has joined early as participating parties.Also naturallogic early is 1 corporation of participation enterprise, the gill friend person of CEO this sight principal has served the technical adviser with the founder of the same company.

You appraise that you can expect that as for the corporate program charge director, and the rare Mho fat person of Ceres, the OpenEco framework cooperates, enterprise and the group becomes the basis in order to stop terrestrial warming.

"Technology such as social network, when coping with social problem and environmental problem, has reached the point where important role is borne. We recognized, when Sun has carried out direct role with the match which advances the solution of environmental problem with the Web community and up-to-date technology joined to OpenEco.org "

Starting the DoubleClick purchase opposite campaign of Microsoft and Google

But it is something where true purpose scrutinizes, whether the DoubleClick purchase of Google is not contrary to antitrust law, in order to obstruct purchase, keeps approaching IT industry.

that the same company receives the intention of Microsoft, enterprise of 100 or more where it has interest in "creation of the free online service market"/in the consumer organization and the like, hits the DoubleClick purchase plan of Google and as signed "the suit book which in the stand, protects the principle of the online service market", approaches, you say.

The fact that you approve to icomp at present time is just Microsoft and But, the gear bottle grant person who serves the president with English , assumed, that even in addition the approval person is, made that the enterprise/corporate name which approves to icomp in the next few days is published clear.

The grant person does not release the list of enterprise/the group which transmitted E-mail. Of course, there is Google in that list, whether or not is, it has not made clear. Furthermore, the IDG News Service requested comment vis-a-vis Google, concerning icomp, but it could not obtain reply.

As for the grant person purpose of icomp establishment has not declared, is the DoubleClick purchase obstruction of Google with. To the last "with enterprise and the consumer organization which it is the place where in order hold anxiety in the DoubleClick purchase of Google, for the online service market to be able to maintain elements of competition, it keeps arguing", that it has done.

But the suit book of icomp, as for being something which the counter confronts in the DoubleClick purchase of Google is clear. You insist that as for group of objectors, when the same purchase is formed, Google controls 80% of announcement on Internet, is contrary to antitrust law.

What anxiety is stated to the DoubleClick purchase of Google is not just Microsoft. On April 20th this year three citizen groups of the United States, when guarantee of privacy protection of Internet user cannot be obtained from both, in order to prohibit purchase, the American Federal Trade Commission (FTC) the petition is submitted.

Vis-a-vis such insistence, as for Google with of the respective company, "Microsoft and the United States Yahoo! And so on, in order online announcement and to strengthen the consumer marketing strategy, acquisition is done ", that it does, insists the justifiability of DoubleClick purchase. "DoubleClick purchase has not obstructed the competition of other companies", is the opinion of Google.

Of course, Microsoft has refuted to the opinion such as that from front. Jack ????? you take charge of public information with Microsoft if September 24th, there is no DoubleClick purchasing plan of Google, that you did not establish, has recognized icomp.

"The DoubleClick purchase with Google, privacy of competition and the consumer of the online service market, in copyright protection, is something which throws serious doubt",

On the one hand it seems that is also the direction which you see that the movement of such Microsoft, they are mere sour grapes. The rumor that is widely known in IT industry Microsoft you tried the purchase of DoubleClick, Google had competed.

By the way, Microsoft the May this year, purchases American of online announcement/marketing service enterprise for 60 hundred million dollars, makes the policy of assuring the expansion of Internet announcement business clear.

2Q balancing of accounts and RHEL of Red Hat being favorable, increase both in sales and profits - - the business enlargement in Japan the primary fac

2008 accounting period 2nd quarter the United States Red Hat announces on September 25th balancing of accounts (2007 June -8 month period) according to, it continued to front quarter and "Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)" subscription sale was favorable, both the gross sales and Sumitosi benefit the extension of 2 column level was shown.

The gross sales of 2nd quarter of the same company being 1 hundred million 2,730 ten thousand dollars, 28% increased from 9,967 ten thousand dollars of the same period of last year. The profit for 1,820 ten thousand dollars of the same 64% increase, Sumitosi benefit before the correction which is based on general account principle was 3,690 ten thousand dollars (per 1 stocks 9 cents). This number almost matches the analyst estimate which Thomson Financial collected.

According to Red Hat, 2nd quarter although the sale of servicing and training extended, it continued to front quarter and the sale of the subscription exceeded those. As for the gross sales of the subscription being 1 hundred million 917 dollars, the gross sales of servicing and training 1,810 ten thousand dollars (entire 14%) was vis-a-vis occupying 86% of the whole earnings.

Red Hat in declaration for the news media, outside the United States, especially has listed the business enlargement in Japan as the primary factor of the favorable achievement. The same company puts out the result of the investigation which Nikkei market access executes in the April this year to the inquiry, it emphasized that with item of the technology vendor which you think that the customer in the future would like to transact, the same company had reached 1 rank.

Same company executive vise President and CFO (the highest financial affairs patsy) has extended in declaration, operating profit ratio and business cash flow and the business result, you say that it has become important, at the time of business developing where these primary factors are international.

For example, as for operating profit ratio of 2nd quarter with 20.7%, as for business cash flow they were 6,370 ten thousand dollars, (value before the correction where each of them is based on general account principle). Concerning cash flow among these, in comparison with the same period of last year 22% it has extended 43%, in comparison with front quarter.

Red Hat 2nd quarter, not only RHEL, expanded also the open source software for the enterprise user. Application platform "JBoss of the open source Enterprise Application Platform 4.2" and, "Eclipse" based development execution time/opening source tool set "Red Hat Developer Studio" (beta edition) hits to that.

The same company for RHEL is putting effort into also support of third party application. As for the number of applications which it was operated were verified on same OS it exceeded 3,000 types 2nd quarter.

Chairman and CEO of Red Hat, Mathieu in telephone interview, made that part it modifies business system clear making provision for the ecdysis to the enterprise software vendor which offers inclusive service.

Concretely, as for the same company after September 25th, the infrastructure, it divides into three business sections, middleware and online service. And, the general manager is arranged in each section, in them means that remuneration is paid on the basis of the profit of section.

The general manager has come to the point of product marketing generalizing, the Michael chain person was inaugurated as corporate marketing charge vise President anew. According to you say that the chain person participated to the start-up of the business in China from 3 years, ago came to the point of recently returning to the United States.

The rack-mounted server of Sun and Xeon loading announcement - - "Xeon 7300" 4 on-board possibilities

The United States Sun Microsystems September 25th, added the rack-mounted type server who loads theXeon processor of Intel onto the x86 based server product line. Sun and Intel have exchanged joint development contract 8 months ago.

As for the server who this time is announced 2 types "of Sun Fire x4450" and "Sun Fire x4150". As for Sun Fire x4450, Intel this month be able to load 4 Xeon 7300 processors which release are done, 2GB? The memory of 128GB is supported. As for height of frame 2U (3.5 inches) with as for price from 8,895 dollars. Shipment is started from next month.

Sun Fire x4150 2 item packaging preparations does the socket, other than the dual core Xeon processor, supports Xeon 5300. As for height of frame with 1U, as for price from 2,995 dollars. You call schedule of start of shipment during this month.

Also both servers, other than Solaris of Sun, correspond to Linux and Windows.

The fact that it reaches the point where Sun tackles the offer of the x86 platform in earnest is, when announcing the cooperation with AMD 4 years ago from. As for Sun it discontinued how many of the low-end systems which load the Intel processor in 2005, started the shipment of the AMD on-board server. Entering into this year, until it exchanges Intel and development contract, Sun exclusively used the Opteron processor of AMD in the x86 line.

Sun being joint, with other than and Intel the plan which develops the Xeon on-board server/the work station on the full line as a part of the contract with Intel, had announced the plan which assures the optimization of Solaris to for the system which loads the same company processor.

After that, the blade server "Sun Blade 6000 where" it is announced in the June this year that first it appears, is. In Sun Blade 6000, other than the dual core Xeon processor, the AMD Opteron processor and the UltraSparc T1 processor of Sun can be loaded (the related article).

As for Sun staff, as for the rack-mounted type server of 2 types which this time are announced you say that the Intel on-board system 1st it is no more than feature. However, as for Sun you call the plan where also the machine which loads Opteron whose AMD is new within year ships. As for this processor which is called in the development cord/code name, "Barcelona", AMD, it is something which it announces as the leading product in order to recapture the share which in the server market is taken in Intel.

So far the platform specialist of the eastern Michigan University that, building heil according to the man person it did the beta test of Sun Fire x4450, you call the policy of adopting Sun Fire x4450 at the same university as a server integrated platform in order to reduce the electrical cost of data center. Concerning the reason, heil the man person has explained, "for the sake of disordered proliferation of the server is cancelled,".

Tying two universities which are located on the both ends of the North American continent, the ambitious dither star recovery project which is develop

The dither star recovery which now, between the university which is ready the campus in the state which is located on the American, east west both ends main state and California state, it tries probably to assure the joint ownership of the hardware and the software over the North American continent (disaster restoration) joint project of for the sake of is advanced. With this manuscript, not only the education system, even from general enterprise, we would like to do to the thing which reports the details of this match which pours attention as a model project of dither star recovery.

John Cocks
Network World online American edition

The almost identical designates the hypothetical server software "VMware" of blade server and VMware as the basis sight is installed in the campus of both universities, through the 30Mbps circuit of secure VPN connection, is linked to Internet.

Large and large joint project, the Web sight for emergency, started from Exchange E-mail and the match which is directed to the inter operation of the DNS server. As for both schools it is the schedule which adds the new hypothetical server from this summer extending through this fall, but with this new server it seems like "Connect-ED" of the NTI group and so on, ()"the Active Directory" based program of Microsoft and management of study and management of allowance, it has meant that the enterprise application such as the student information system is supported.

By the way, it is the software where Connect-ED, you record audio message in emergency, E-mail, the portable telephone and paging (the pocket pager), instant message (IM) and the like uses the media and transmits.

"Project of both universities (is) very appropriate example of dither star recovery measure", that those where it applauds, the IT investigation company which designates the Colorado state Bordeaux as base, are the upper-class analyst and the Michael carp person of enterprise management . In addition as for the same person who makes storage special, combining, deals with, smaller-scale enterprise it is the person who lectures about the necessity of the cooperation type dither star recovery which.

According to the investigation which is recent, you say that almost 30% of enterprises, does not have having completely vis-a-vis disaster and the kind of emergency which give hindrance to management. You will be able to call one of the reasons, that there is a height of cost of dither star recovery, not to be wrong.

In addition, it is estimated that because it is introduction, the software license of network storage of blade server and 1TB and introduction etc. of new application as a future additional cost, per 1 university cost of approximately 5 ten thousand 4,000 dollars occurs.

According to the place where both universities investigated, when the dither star recovery hot sight of commercial business is utilized with the same environment as this, you say that cost of 120 ten thousand dollars becomes necessary, per 1 month 10 ten thousand dollars, to a year. When you compare with the latest case, truly it is the calculation where as much as year 110 ten thousand dollars or more becomes hight cost of production.

But, so far about project, the project which was advanced ambitiously is not found in other things.
The compensation effect which "is different and" bears

Being joint, although being the relation which advances project, ???? large and the ??? large way, "distance" not only, at the point "of sensitivity" and "culture", the example which is widely different considerably is unusual.

large it is located to the California city vis-a-vis being the university which turn the small ? about several 1,700 of students who are to the throat kana area where large, the white occupies large number, is far from the city center are to, is the large-scale university which the student approximately 8,700 people of various race commute.

But, instead of such of both universities "it is different and", it becomes the barrier, because to compensate mutually, you say that rather it has become strength.

That time Davis says that to become the fetter of advantage - - dither star recovery measure of cooperation type project of the small-scale system the thing - - which can reduce tend enormous cost was emphasized in the session regarding dither star recovery.

The griffin person who receives being impressed to the theory hailed Davis, discussed concerning the method directly of practicing that. But after project starting moving concretely passing then for a while it was.

After importance of disaster restoration is more strongly recognized by ?????, project started moving directing to preparation, in earnest, 2006 summer, was decided that more and more the planning and decision making job start. First, adopting VMWare as fundamental technology was decided, continuously, from DNS until VoIP below in order to support the basic service of 1st stage kept being decided one after another.

Serious bug to be detected with Excel 2007, the calculation result by mistake indication - - from release half year or more, in report of the user gro

The United States Microsoft September 25th, recognized the fact that it is the bug which indicates the calculation result which you make a mistake to the latest edition "Excel 2007" of the chart calculation software, under fixed condition.

This bug last week Saturday, is something which in news group "microsoft.public.excel" of the Excel user makes clear. "The mol ham cicely -" with the user which you are identified, "when 850x77.1 was calculated with Excel 2007, 100,000 calls the result was produced, (correct answer 65,535)" with reporting is beginning.

After that, the same news group is utilized from many users, could move aside similar report. The number of comments for the corresponding thread has risen to also 133 in the September 27 day and time point. According to the verification of the user and others, you say even in the calculation other than 850x77.1 that there are times when the erroneous result is indicated.

The Excel team of Microsoft September 25th, this problem apologized with official of the same company, recognized the existence of bug. As for Chief project manager is served in the Excel team, "as for many of report from the user, it is something regarding multiplication. But, at the point where we verify, connection of multiplication and bug was not recognized, "that you commented.

According to, Excel 2007 indicates the erroneous number as for the phenomenon where, the calculation result 65,535? Among the floating point calculations which become 65,536, you say that it occurs with the case of 12 of specification. By the way, the same problem occurring with just Excel 2007, does not exist in Excel of other versions.

As for , "as for this problem it is not to be the computing of Excel 2007, the occasion where the number is indicated in the worksheet, bug of the cord/code which processes value and the format is cause", that it has done.

As for "the calculation result of 850x77.1 100,000 is indicated as the evidence where the computing of Excel 2007 is not error. But when furthermore 2 is bet on this value, reply is not 200,000, 131,070 of correct values is indicated. In other words, correct value is retained in Excel 2007, ", that it has explained.

Furthermore it is seen that as for the correction patch of the same bug, from the Web sight of completion circumstance Microsoft download becomes possible, is distributed to the user "Windows (Microsoft) via the automatic operation update of Update" and so on. But at present time, "the schedule which for the correction patch of the same bug, release is done to ??? of the same company urgently" it just is stated, as for concrete schedule it is not made clear.

As for the user and others of Excel 2007, also the late, has estimated to distribution day of next conventional security correction patch that the patch of the same bug is distributed. Furthermore, next security correction patch distribution day is schedule October 9th.

How to find the IT out-sorcing partner in China which is understood in 2 minutes

The offshore ring to China of IT development project the merit which the enterprise which is in the midst of examining calculates exceeds the limits of simple cost reduction, the labor force which receives high education, the IT infrastructure which passes in the world, has expanded to those such as the positive attitude for the protection of the employee and the intellectual property whose change of occupation ratio is low. In fact, China India, has been about to convert IT development/view of the out-sorcing, to those which seriously considered the cooperation which accompanies value and the talent and the important organizational leadership which from the strategy of cost where the countries like the tie and the Philippines crowd in the market oriented, are superior low.

CEO (the highest management patsy), after receiving the approval of the offshore ring to China from the upper-class staff employee, or board of directors, feasibility of the thing where enterprise finds the overseas out-sourcing partner and three important procedures in order to appraise value exist.

Partner candidacy is made clear, - IT investigation company Gartner and Inc. According to, there is IT and a software company of approximately 30,000 in Asia, the approximately 10,000 corporation among those is the software company of the Chinese government official recognition. The many of them only project management function and construction function of the minimum are the small-scale company which it does not have, but each environment of Java, Windows and general-purpose C programming is handled preponderantly as for the young developers mainly.

At company of such scale generally 25? Because only 50 about employees it is not, there is restriction in the range of the project which can be handled. There is also about if to make offshore development proud in this kind of company, there is also the tendency which handles the field of specification such as electronic government and game specially is strong. Because difference of the quality by the company is large, in regard to prudent selection movement decide to offshore.

When searching the overseas partner, the Fortune 1000 corporation has directed needs of the offshore ring somewhere you note. Perhaps, it is different from that of small and medium-sized business, but, the enterprise group such as that can regard the examination item in the financial aspect benchmark in order to do the appropriate weight attaching of the important matter which it should consider and the most suitable partner selection. For example, the desirable partner is a possibility of having had the condition without for having something to say for the company of consumer oriented for Boeing and Citibank.

In addition, whether the talent pool which is acquired anew, enviroment for software development, someone utilizes the relationship of strategic alliance examine. When propriety of offshore movement is judged, cost is the direct primary factor certainly, but partner side the developer of top class, something with related to important global bender, is the expectation which has been conscious of the point such as offer of up-to-date technology sufficiently even in the world. Concerning this point, the case of the enterprise which obtains high appraisal already in the community of the IT out-sorcing it is best to try hitting.

Furthermore, by all means track record of the customer is checked before the last decision of the partner candidacy. The Web sight which attracts public attention greatly is good, but when company name and the actual operational result are not recognized accurately, opinion of the other customer only is found.

The eye can be lustered in quality, when - partner candidacy gets together about 5 or 10 corporations, throwing the question of 5 items below to each company, you select.

1) As for base it is somewhere, why having put in there?

Above having a some influence any place vis-a-vis the talent and cost, it is important for the partner to be able to explain the reason where the presence is established in the area of specification. The difference of the wage structure in the development field of specification depending upon area of course is the difference even in quality and technicality of labor force.

For example, the out-sorcing to China a certain enterprise which is in the midst of examining if the place where it can do for the Japanese customer support is searched,it probably is best to search the partner who has base in Dalian. This city is a result which contracts for the Japanese out-sorcing from the time before. In addition, if the talent of application development is sought,ifthe company which has base in Suzhou, BPO service is entrustedthe companyof the ? mountain probably will be good. Enterprise purpose of the self has the necessity to direct the eye to both parties of suitable area to that.

2) As for average experience level of employee which extent?

With complicated project, various skills are required in addition to pure programming of the software. Release of the product, with the second look at the cord/code and release and the like of new version, also skill of construction and integration of the system is required. To planning the front end product of project, as for the Java programmer of experience year several 1 years there is no necessity. In that case, it means to find the person who has the experience of various fields from midst of the employee.

3) Which is there a communication skill?

The worst situation which happens to the enterprise which obtains the new out-sorcing partner is that sufficient intention understanding does not come off with the wall of word and the difference of culture. Many of the Chinese IT affiliated company are not well versed to programming and the product development which you follow the European-American product specification, the time the document by English only minimum, or are also times when the work it is not formed completely. Enterprise goal being shared between thing and everyone who have the expedient of the individual intention understanding regarding communication skill and business or the culture where the IT affiliated company which is selected is sufficient when the gap of schedule and present condition occurs, has the necessity to verify that the intention understanding which is sufficient comes off.

4) As for ratio of separated workers of employee which extent?

Here several years, the IT-RELATED out-sorcing company of India is bothered in height of ratio of separated workers. The big business which connects name at the Fortune100 corporation seeking the development resource, is because it advances to (Bombay) and With special care obtaining the partner, in 4 people of the employee 1 person taking in Google, and IBM it does not accumulate. To avoid such situation, you ask the ratio of separated workers every of quarter which past spans 1 year in partner candidacy, you have not become the mere short-term training center in order to obtain job at multinational or it should have judged whether seriously considers the long-range employment of the employee the environment which is stabilized has been prepared.

5) When problem occurred, when you should have communicated to someone?

As for enterprise the partner whom the self chooses organization must be convinced of the fact that it protects his own product sufficiently variation of consideration and software quality to intellectual property right, in the industry which is filled the element such as importance of unemployment of the employee, soaring and the infrastructure of wages.

Because risk has rolled with anywhere in the world of business, the partner business ethics and being able to share the basis in regard to management are ideal. For example, method of the European-American types has been experienced, if or the out-sorcing partner who carries out the American advance is found, it is very favorable, whatever problem happens and India and Vietnam, can exclude the time which it keeps flying to the tie. In addition, culture of the technical team and the out-sorcing development team which have the necessity to cooperate normally mutually or it means that also physical distance is reduced.

When constructs the relationship of reliance - selection of the out-sorcing partner ends, it stresses to the mutual related making. For cooperation-related development of the job accomplishment of decision of effective development program and according to schedule and success ?you cannot miss both cooperation. That kind of basis is connected to establishment of the long-term relationship which every project keeps developing succeeds knowledge moving to the full-time partner out-sorcing partner from the customer of the respective company.

Sense of value of the partner the thing where technical effort of the customer develops naturally you should have thought. If the higher stratum of society section builds cooperative relationship, joint ownership of secret information and important technical examination item probably will start. As a result, software development cycle several months are even times when it is shortened.

On the one hand, receiving development plan, the out-sorcing partner who independently advances job, there are no times when you understand essential development needs from heart. In other words, it is the partner who returns the reaction where the appropriate out-sorcing partner, adaptability is effective in the solution in regard to the design, the delivered item and development, is desirable.

If you follow the guide above, the valuable development team not only being found obtain the best combination, presence in the overseas market for future technical needs, cost reduction and acceleration of commercialization, furthermore it probably can.

The service which executes the daily job on IBM and Web automatically start - - recording periodic task of the user inside the script

The United States IBM started the offer of the online service which simplifies September 26th and the daily job of the user which is done on Web.

Being something where, the same service which is called "Scriptures" records the task which Internet user executes periodically, executes automatically afterwards if it utilizes this, the same search job and the necessity to repeat job is gone.

CoScripter can be developed at the research center of IBM, can utilize with the alphaWorks sight of the same company. Alpha Works is the online community for the early introduction person who can try the tool which is the up-to-date software and in the midst of developing were offered from the research and development section of IBM.

If CoScripter is used, besides the fact that it takes in the job on the Web sight as the script, it does that the same job is executed automatically afterwards, you say that also it is possible also the other user to possess the information of job.

If IBM in declaration, "used CoScripter, it is possible to simplify the general process which you called actual time of arrival of check and the airplane of E-mail, and check of operation circumstance and search of the Wi-Fi hot spot which is inside area repeatedly execute daily. As for this service, ' programming by demonstration ' with you use the technique which is called, observing the job which the people do, you take in the step of process those steps as the script by recording. In addition you have expressed that the script can be integrated, Wiki can share also the other user simply ".

As for CoScripter it is the service which was developed in for the general consumer, but it is the service which very has value in the vendor of the Web 2.0 application whose it is many repeatedly to execute the same task.

If "CoScripter is the technology which streamlines task execution process and this is used, applying between always, the necessity to repeat the same search job on Internet is gone. In addition, because it becomes the resource in order to execute the task which overlaps the online or without necessity, enterprise it can retrench expense "(from the declaration of IBM)

Dell, it directs to the carbon neutral conversion during 2008 and strengthening environmental measure

The United States Dell September 26th the, makes the discharge quantity and the absorption quantity of carbon dioxide same, it announced that "carbon neutral" conversion is achieved to 2008 end of year. As for setting forth the policy, carbon neutral conversion in the major computer manufacturer you say that the same company is unprecedented.

As for Michael is chairman and CEO of Dell the same day, Washington D.C. So you lectured, environmental improvement emphasized, expressed that it is responsibility of enterprise, as follows.

"To produce plus effect on the earth, enterprise of all scales must cooperate. If only this corporation becomes the leader of environmental measure, it is insufficient. To adjust the customer and power, improving the environmental load of the customer dramatically is required, "

Promised the fact that the same company keeps decreasing the discharge quantity of carbon dioxide with various methods. In that, also development of the product whose energy efficiency is high and supply etc. of the electric power whose energy efficiency is high are included.

Dell which is the PC manufacturer of worldwide 2nd rank that carbon dioxide is decreased vis-a-vis the main supplier has shown also the policy of urging. ??, when the carbon dioxide discharge quantity of the supplier is excessive, have assumed that there is also a possibility of inflicting penalty, but it did not make the detailed contents clear.

The match of Dell to environmental problem entering this year, from having materialized and converting. For example the same company January, has announced afforestation program "Plant a Tree for Me". This program, in order to offset the energy consumption of Dell make PC, the customer paying the money of small amount, is something which 1 plants the wood.

This time, for the enterprise of Plant a Tree for Me even the program you can call Dell, also it announced "Plant a Forest for Me". At the same company, being joint with Salesforce.com and Ask.com and AMD etc., we have assumed that it propels the afforestation program in order to offset carbon dioxide discharge.

As for ??, "when decreasing the discharge quantity of carbon dioxide, as for being able to make enterprise there is a large quantity", that after doing, integration of the server with the purchase and imagination conversion of the IT equipment whose energy efficiency is high and introduction etc. of the software which turns off the power of the computer and the monitor after the returning home of the employee were listed.

According to the same person, it is not the former criteria such as price efficiency ratio, in order to adopt the new criteria, "efficiency per 1 watt" you say that the customer who is sought from the IT vendor increases. "When you thought from the viewpoint of efficiency per 1 watt concerning IT, the enterprise like this corporation it cannot avoid reconsidering concerning the how to design and the using of the product"

It is competitive with other companies in many fields, but if it regards environmental problem, no one is the rival and is the partner" when you say, it is joint with other companies and it keeps tackling environmental problem, attitude was made clear.

Salesforce.com which is 1 corporation of participation enterprise of the Plant a Forest for Me program has appraised the match of Dell for environmental improvement high. The international public policy charge senior vise President of Salesforce.com, as for Don Barton, "as for Dell by the fact that it tackles environmental improvement via business activity, it has been about probably to redefine the meaning of the social work business with enterprise substantially" that you have expressed.

Symphony" of IBM, in release 1 week 10 ten thousand download achievement - - as for 2nd beta edition 6? 8 weeks later, as for general release in begin

The United States IBM September 26th, free office suite "Symphony" of the same company which opposes to "Office" of Microsoft, made that from release 10 ten thousand download are achieved in the first 1 week clear.

The collaboration of IBM/the Lotus software charge general manager and microphone ???? vis-a-vis the collection of data of the IDG News Service, "honesty saying, this much are short, the fact that it was accepted to the user at period is the surprise", you said. As for IBM because it corresponds to unexpected Symphony popularity, you say that the download server for the same suite 2 days later of release was reinforced in 3 times.

The 1st beta edition of Symphony release was done on September 18th, but at the beginning, it downloads, registering IBM ID and the password, it was necessary to input the information of this human identification. But, from the fact that the voice of dissatisfaction rises from the user vis-a-vis such complicated process, IBM modified register process, effective E-mail address just is registered anyone that tried can download simply.

"(With the modification of register process those where it distinguishes whether), it is or the enterprise where those where Symphony is downloaded are the private user became difficult, but as much as possible makes many users use the fact that was preferred"

Symphony has designated "OpenOffice.org" and "the Eclipse" framework as the base, the alternative suite of Microsoft Office is offered not only, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) the XML based document standard "Open Document for XML which is approved (ODF)" it has made important goal in the private user and enterprise that use is urged. "Last purpose is spread of open standard", (the same person)

It has 90% share in the office application market, ODF native it does not support "Microsoft Office 2007,", the same company individual "Open XML (OOXML)" adopts the format, but this format was rejected with the standardization poll of ISO which recently was done (the related article).

The vendor of the ODF support group which begins IBM and Sun Microsystems and Google, aiming toward the spread of the same standard, strengthens the attitude which opposes to Microsoft. Each company for Microsoft not to support ODF of international standard, sees that, it becomes the chance which breaks down the monopolistic position of Microsoft in the office application market.

IBM by the fact that Symphony which is made the OpenOffice.org base is offered, carrying Sun and the like which offers the pay edition suite "StarOffice" of OpenOffice.org and the hand, is the posture which sets the encircling net for Microsoft Office. So far, the OpenOffice.org based suite product includes free edition and pay edition, has not supplied the success of the extent which opposes to Microsoft Office.

IBM so far, participation to the OpenOffice.org community was waived, but finally it finished to step on recently in participation, (the related article). Because as for , as for IBM offering Symphony, the free suite of the same community is neglected, you explain that is not. With say, as for IBM not only aiming toward the spread of ODF, with the reason which is not the feeling that we would like to supply success with suite business, it is improbable.

As for IBM, the 2nd beta edition of Symphony 6? In the schedule which release is done, as for general release you say within 8 weeks that it becomes the beginning in next year. As for the same company it is the intention which offers the charge support for the enterprise, but we have assumed that it is no more than an option because to the last enterprise feeling at rest, that tries can introduce Symphony.