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- Which should a small business choose: Windows Home Server or Windows Server Foundation?
- CompetitionThe $1000 Mac-Mini with Snow Leopard Server and no user-count limits may have inspired the outreach.That depends on your needs.WHS is a great solution for file sharing and/or client backups. It's backup feature is a strong selling point, IMO. It would be nice to see this extended to every version...
- Tags: Backups, Servers, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Windows Home Server, WHS, server, backup, small business, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-11-09
- Are the Microsoft layoffs over now?
- I hope soI hate seeing "SoandSo killing X amount of jobs" in the news =/Ballmer should be the first to get laid offHis reklessness to ignore the FOSS and cling to the proprietary model drove M$ into the ground.Q1 revenues of $13Bn generating $3.5Bn in net profit ...... would tend...
- Tags: Operational accounting, Financial services, accounting, Creative accounting, Microsoft Corp., layoff
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- EvriChart: A Linux Success Story
- Tony Maro, CIO of EvriChart, a hospital records management and archiving business, successfully migrated his company's Windows-based line of business document management extranet application and his employees' 40-odd Windows-based desktops to a 100 percent Linux-based server and desktop infrastructure. Jason Perlow interviews Tony Maro, CIO...
- Tags: Desktop, Hospital, Imaging, Health Care, Server, Computer, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Document Management, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- Art of the software deal can get messy
- Software buyers and vendors are increasingly butting heads amid a budget squeeze and increasingly aggressive sales tactics, according to Gartner. In a series of presentations at the Gartner IT Symposium in Orlando, analysts walked buyers through a few negotiating tactics with the likes of SAP, Microsoft, Oracle,...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Gartner Inc., Customer, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Negotiation, Software Audit, Software-as-a-service Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Linux, Free Trade, Sales Strategy, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Finance, Sales, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- SharePoint: What's coming when with the 2010 release?
- Maybe the POS will actually workMillions spent and 3 releases later and Sharepoint is still not working.It's JUNK, plain and simple.Maybe if you sayu that enough......it will eventually come true. As things stand, it's hard to imagine SharePoint on a more successful trajectory than it currently is.$1.3B and nothing...
- Tags: Content management, Groupware, Collaboration, Enterprise software, Microsoft SharePoint, WSS 3.0
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- The troubling thoughts re: outsourcing
- Watch this space for future problems! There’s a lot going on in the outsourcing world lately. Things like: - Perot Data Systems being acquired by Dell - ACS getting bought by Xerox Add to these deals,...
- Tags: Solution, BPO, Outsourcing Company, Customer, BPO Deal, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Outsourcing, It Services, Managed Hosting, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Brian Sommer
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Logalty Ensures Scalability and High Service Levels With Service-Oriented Architecture
- Logalty wanted to provide a platform to enable the certification of electronic documents and support a high volume of transactions - starting at 10 terabytes of data - while ensuring high system availability and comprehensive security. The challenge was to provide a scalable and flexible IT architecture to accommodate the...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Scalability, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Linux, Servers, Enterprise Software, Databases, Web Services, Software, Operating Systems, Hardware, Data Management
- Case studies 2009-10-01
- Red Hat gains operating system share at Sun's expense
- Red Hat's fiscal second quarter results were solid across the board as the company continues to poach operating system market share even though server sales are weak. Simply put, you can't extrapolate Red Hat's results to other enterprise software vendors. Red Hat's continued growth is at the...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc., Operating System, Sun Microsystems Inc., Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-09-24
- Open source loves profit
- with M$ on the brink....OSS is the only way to make money from software.nah, socialism doesn't workIt doesn't at national level. It ain't in software industry as well.RE: Open source loves profitThe brink of what?re: aboveDo you even know what socialism is? It's not driven by money it must be...
- Tags: European Socialists, socialism, socialist, Microsoft Corp., brink, OSS, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-09-14
- PostBooks 3.3.0 (Mac)
- PostBooks is the free and open source ERP solution from xTuple. It is built with open source technologies such as the PostgreSQL database, and both the server and the graphical client run on Windows, Mac, and Linux. PostBooks features a fully integrated accounting system (A/R, A/P, and General Ledger), as...
- Tags: Accounting, Apple Macintosh, xTuple, PostBooks, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Open Source, Finance
- Software downloads 2009-09-08
- Conversation with Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing Customer
- I recently had the opportunity to communicate with Joel Chaplin, CIO at Virtuoso, a Liquid Computing customer, and thought you'd like to read a bit about that conversation. By the way, I posted Liquid Computing and the dynamic datacenter back in March 2009. Please introduce...
- Tags: Virtuoso, LiquidIQ, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Data Management, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2009-08-05
- Ubuntu adds desktop support for small businesses
- Ubuntu adds desktop support for small businesses Ubuntu adds desktop support for small businesses And yet no one cares because no one wants linux. It just doesn't offer what small businesses need to survive in this economic climate and grow their business.Good Move - won't change anythingAs per the...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Ubuntu, small business, desktop
- Discussion threads 2009-08-03
- News to know: Amazon-Zappos; eBay earnings; Windows server; AMD; Plastic Logic Reader; Apple-AT&T
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: A good fit: Amazon gobbles up Zappos Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Don't Forget to Turn Out the Lights,...
- Tags: Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Plastic Logic, Microsoft Windows Server, Server, Matthew Miller, Earnings, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., eBay Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, Corporate Communications, Team Management, E-books, Operating Systems, Software, Marketing, Management, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- They're soup: Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 released to manufacturing
- They're soup: Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 released to manufacturingWell, I for one would like to congratulate Microsoft and the Win7 teamThey've pulled off quite the coup - Win7 and Server 2008 R2 are fantastic products that are going to make quite a difference in the market.Well done MS on...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, soup, Microsoft Windows, Windows 7 Server 2008 R2, Windows 7 Server
- Discussion threads 2009-07-22
- Google Chrome OS announced, It should just work
- Google Chrome OS announced, It should just workNice for Google USersThis is challenge for the Microsoft. I think Microsoft will be prepare to face this google challengeRE: Google Chrome OS announced, It should just worklet's wait and see.. "should" is always a dangerous word... Everything "should" always work...Netbook needs?My netbook,...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Google Inc., operating system, Linux, Google Chrome OS, Google Chrome
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- Cloud computing and open source face-off
- Cloud computing remains one of the big topics in software this year despite considerable and ongoing concerns over lock-in, lack of control, and security. The siren song of ease-of-development, reduced costs, highly elastic scalability, and next-generation architectures has many in IT and in the Web community carefully weighing the...
- Tags: Cloud, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Virtualization, Hardware, Dion Hinchcliffe
- Blog posts 2009-06-14
- Intel buys Wind River; Targets software for embedded devices
- Intel said Thursday that it would acquire Wind River, which makes software for embedded devices, in a deal valued at $884 million. With the move Intel is making a move to diversify into software and away from its dependence on the PC and server markets. The chip...
- Tags: Software, Wind River Systems Inc., Intel Corp., Tools & Techniques, Research & Development, Semiconductors, Management, Business Operations, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Windows server has Linux in crosshairs
- Windows server has Linux in crosshairsBringing in any server OS without...technical expertise is STUPID. It is a recipe for disaster. In addition, 10 users and less means you don't even need a server so basically this is for companies with between 10 and 15 users. Not 15 or less.Plugging In...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, Servers, OPEN SOURCE, Cal, CALS, Linux, server, Microsoft Windows Server, crosshair, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2009-05-22
- Time's 10 biggest tech failures of the decade
- Time's 10 biggest tech failures of the decadeIf the Zune is a failure..then so is every other mp3 player besides an iPod. After so many years and at 2-3% world marketshare it would be obvious to say Macs are failures as well.I see Time left their own failures off...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Desktops, tech failure, Microsoft Windows Vista, YouTube Inc., Apple Macintosh, Linux, Apple Mac OS X, Time Warner Cable Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-05-19
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