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- Both sides come out swinging in the open source battle
- This article originally published on our sister site, TechRepublic.In the last few weeks, some announcements from major vendors have given CIOs a reason to reexamine their strategies regarding the open source movement. In one announcement, a networking has-been announced its intention to enter the emerging application services market by tying...
- Tags: e Advantage, Microsoft Corp., open source, Novell Inc.
- Technical articles 2003-12-15
- Rebuild a solid technical organization after downsizing
- As the economy continues to rebound, analysts who cover corporate IT hiring trends are projecting increases of 7% to 12% in corporate IT spending next year. Many of these budget dollars will go toward replacing staff positions that were lost during the recession of the last two years. As with...
- Tags: downsizing, e Advantage, knowledge
- Technical articles 2003-11-26
- Ruminations and observations from corporate developers
- Whenever Microsoft is gearing up to release new technologies, it brings corporate developers and ISVs from around the world together to discuss their implications. The Professional Developers Conference PDC allows Microsoft to get feedback from the community which will ultimately help drive adoption of its new technologies. And it allows...
- Tags: desktop, developer, e Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Professional Developers Conference, security, server
- Technical articles 2003-11-19
- Talking Shop: The coming convergence of EAI, BI, and Portal technology
- By Tim LandgraveAfter thousands of layoffs and dramatically decreased spending on IT initiatives, we may be turning a corner for investment in IT initiatives. Many surveys now show that CIO's expect to see spending increases in the upcoming year of 4 percent to 12 percent. But I expect to see...
- Tags: business intelligence, e Advantage, EAI, enterprise application, portal
- Technical articles 2003-11-12
- Did Microsoft gain any momentum?
- By Tim LandgraveIn early October, Microsoft held its World Wide Partner Conference (with the marketing subtitle "Building Momentum") in New Orleans. For the first time, it brought together all of its partner channels—Accounting Systems, Certified Partners, ISVs—to begin the process of creating a unified voice with which to approach the...
- Tags: partnership, Microsoft Corp., e Advantage
- Technical articles 2003-11-05
- In defense of Microsoft
- By Tim LandgraveIn late September 2003, the Computer and Communications Industry Association CCIA in Washington issued a new report that detailed its "findings" on the state of Internet security. The panel of experts who authored the paper agreed that the Internet security problems faced by corporations, consumers, and government users...
- Tags: Computer & Communications Industry Association, desktop, e Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows
- Technical articles 2003-10-29
- Who controls the IT department?
- By Tim LandgraveWhile most CIOs I talk to think that IT spending will increase in the coming months, they also recognize that the last few years of limited IT infrastructure investments may have permanently altered the balance of power in their organization. The weak economy has forced companies to allocate...
- Tags: IT Group, standards
- Technical articles 2003-10-22
- TechRepublic Tutorial: Is Windows Rights Management a conspiracy or customer value?
- By Tim LandgraveThe ABM Anything But Microsoft modem lights are flickering like fireflies this month with the impending general availability of Microsoft’s new Office System 2003. It’s not because Microsoft has updated its Office Suite with more usability features and deeper XML integration. What has the ABMers fuming is the...
- Tags: e Advantage, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Windows, rights-management
- Technical articles 2003-10-15
- Alternative methods for protecting your company from viruses
- By Tim LandgraveMicrosoft and other software vendors will certainly continue refining their software and issuing patches. And IS organizations like yours will continue to test and apply them. But corporations that are tiring of this "cat and mouse" game with the virus writers and hackers—and the expense associated with it—have...
- Tags: antivirus, Computer Associates International Inc., e Advantage, software, Symantec Corp., virus
- Technical articles 2003-10-08
- Linux gains an Asian foothold
- In late August, China’s State Council its governing body issued a proclamation requiring all government ministries to buy only locally produced software during their next upgrade cycle. Given the limited number of locally produced software titles, the directive seemed more symbolic than substantive. That is, until the joint announcement from...
- Tags: e Advantage, government, Linux, Microsoft Corp., software, WPS Office
- Technical articles 2003-10-01
- Red Hat's licensing moves have changed the future of Linux
- By Tim LandgraveOver the last three years, Linux has emerged from a cult phenomenon driven by thousands of programming enthusiasts around the world into an enterprise-ready operating system. This has become possible because Linux’s destiny has also shifted from the dedication of those enthusiast programmers to a small number of...
- Tags: e Advantage, hosting company, Linux, Red Hat Inc.
- Technical articles 2003-09-16
- Pattern-based software development
- In a recent article, “Add Value in an outsourcing economy,” I made the following observation:“…even though much of the actual development and support can be moved to lower-cost providers, the ability to break business requirements down into repeatable and replicated technology elements is not so easy to move outside of...
- Tags: design pattern, e Advantage, software, software development
- Technical articles 2003-09-23
- Add value in an outsourcing economy
- By Tim LandgraveIn the boom of the late '90s, our economy grew so quickly that many industries found themselves in a perplexing situation. For large companies, the cost of hiring domestic employees for almost any blue-collar job became so prohibitive that they moved large numbers of manufacturing jobs, not only...
- Tags: e Advantage, H1-B, H1-B visa, job, manufacturing, outsource, outsourcing, workforce
- Technical articles 2003-09-09
- Novell's Linux power play
- By Tim LandgraveWith its market share in the networking services market shrinking from over 70 percent to under 20 percent in the last 10 years, Novell has been searching for ways to increase its revenue and, more importantly, its strategic relevance to corporate technology buyers. Microsoft has not only decimated...
- Tags: desktop, e Advantage, Linux, Novell Inc., Novell Linux, Ximian
- Technical articles 2003-09-02
- Mitigate Java Virtual Machine risks
- By Tim LandgraveThanks to the 2001 Sun/Microsoft settlement regarding their legal dispute over the use of the Java Virtual Machine JVM in the Microsoft environment, many corporations may be facing a problem of Y2K proportions. In fact, many companies may not even know that they’re at risk because they’re not...
- Tags: e Advantage, Java, JVM, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft VM
- Technical articles 2003-08-26
- Productivity, technical, and legal hurdles in supporting your distributed workforce
- By Tim LandgraveIn late July, SprintPCS announced plans to deploy a nationwide network of 802.11b hotspots that would exceed 2100 locations. Where TMobile has focused on consumer locations including coffee shops like Starbucks, the SprintPCS strategy is to encourage a more rapid build out of commercial locations like hotels, airports,...
- Tags: e Advantage, e-mail, workforce
- Technical articles 2003-08-19
- The corporate impact of real-time inventory tracking
- By Tim LandgraveWhat do cows, runners in the Boston Marathon, and designer clothes from United Colors of Benetton have in common? They're all being tracked with a 10-year-old technology called Radio Frequency Identification RFID that will dramatically revolutionize supply chain management for corporations over the next three years. With large...
- Tags: bar code, e Advantage, inventory tracking, RFID
- Technical articles 2003-08-12
- Focus on these four areas when securing mobile devices
- Once mobile devices leave the well-protected, four walls of the company's building, what keeps outsiders from stealing the information stored on the devices? This is especially critical given the recent surge in the use of PDAs for applications like patient data collection or sales force automation. The devices now have...
- Tags: e Advantage, mobile device, security
- Technical articles 2003-08-05
- Apply the architectural "principle of the least" to your development projects
- By Tim LandgraveApplying the principle of the least PTL in your architectural plans requires that you ask yourself a simple question whenever you approach any element of the design. That question always starts with "What’s the least amount of ...." Although this principle can be applied throughout the design process,...
- Tags: .NET, e Advantage, developer, PTL
- Technical articles 2003-07-23
- Improve corporate identity management with these tips
- By Tim LandgraveIn 1998, I visited the North American headquarters of a large manufacturing company to deliver a presentation regarding a new software system that I had worked with several of its divisions to design. The presentation was intended to convince them to invest in the development of the system....
- Tags: credential, e Advantage, identity management
- Technical articles 2003-07-29
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