Stories about: Bynari

Microsoft Exchange is a standard groupware platform in many corporate environments, but it needn't be limited to just Windows.

Mainframe Linux can boost application uptime and reduce support costs. But users and analysts recommend acting carefully when choosing which applications to move to the open-source operating system and when training staff in the required skills.

High-end Unix vendors will lose out more than Microsoft from companies running Linux on a mainframe, says Cliff Reeves, head of Microsoft's Windows .Net product management group.

Maybe it is coincidence; maybe it is just fate. I spent much of the last two weeks examining many of the latest products and projects that work toward a viable Linux office desktop. So, naturally, what crosses my desk but a document from otherwise intelligent people proclaiming that Linux has a long way to go before it can stand as a corporate desktop system.

If IBM gets its way, users will soon be thinking about operating systems the way investors view pork bellies: as mere commodities. The instrument the company will use to make this sea change in IT? Linux.

Bynari, an open standards-based messaging and collaboration software company, has introduced an enhanced version of its TradeXCH client software application. The program has functionality similar to Microsoft Outlook for Unix- and Linux-based workstations and desktop systems.