Bill Miller

WASHINGTON, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard K. Studley, President & CEO of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, to the Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100 (CCC100). (Photo ...

According to reports from the Baltimore Sun, Legg Mason Capital Management is cutting its workforce by one-third, but senior investment managers, like Bill Miller, will keep their jobs. The firm ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Digium(R), creators and primary corporate sponsors of the popular Asterisk(R) open source telephony platform, announced today the release of a new version of the award-winning AsteriskNOW(TM) software appliance. Designed to significantly simplify the process of installing, operating and managing an Asterisk-based telephony system, the new release includes the popular FreePBX web-based Asterisk management interface and an array of other open source components. AsteriskNOW 1.5 allows organizations of all sizes, as well as systems integrators and other solutions providers, to benefit from the power of genuine Asterisk while enjoying the ease of use of a software appliance. Asterisk is the world's leading open source telephony engine and toolkit. It offers flexibility that is unheard of in the world of proprietary communications in order to empower developers and integrators to create advanced communication solutions. Licensed under the GNU General ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- XAware, Inc. today announced the introduction of a QuickStart program designed to help companies quickly and cost-effectively take the first step toward building composite data services for service-oriented architecture (SOA), rich Internet applications (RIA) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) projects. Pricing begins at just $750. Despite the urgency and hype around SOA, RIA and SaaS, many companies experience significant challenges related to accessing and managing data from disparate sources. Without accurate real-time data, SOA, RIA and SaaS projects will never realize their full potential. The ...

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- BMC Software (NYSE: BMC) today introduced the industry's most advanced Performance Advisor technology as part of BMC SQL Performance for DB2 for z/OS. The new technology provides customers with a proactive means to identify and resolve performance problems, reducing CPU consumption by as much as 85 percent while improving service levels and productivity. According to a recent industry survey conducted by BMC, 99 percent of large mainframe shops (those using more than 10,000 MIPS) use DB2 for z/OS. The survey also revealed that 83 percent of large mainframe shops predicted an increase in MIPS, 31 percent being double digit growth. With the exponential growth in data and 80 percent of the world's data residing on the mainframe, optimal performance of DB2 applications is crucial as organizations look to manage the data that powers their businesses. BMC SQL Performance for DB2 for z/OS addresses this issue by providing application tuning tools and first-of-its-kind Performance ...