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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.
April 2009
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IT procurment needs a rethink - industry consolidation changes the game
- Managing Editor 23 Apr 2009 -
Oracle buys Sun...now what will happen to Sparc
- Managing Editor 20 Apr 2009 -
Can traditional Call Centre applications ever catch up?
- Capgemini 14 Apr 2009
There are now four major suppliers of IT, namely HP, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. Through their acquisitions, these four take up a large chunk of the major IT purchases businesses make. CIOs have ...
Oracle doesn't need another Java application server; it doesn't need MySQL and it certainly doesn't need Sparc-based hardware, given that the whole world is moving wholesale to x86 commodity servers.
Although trimmed down to a single day, this year's Salesforce.com conference, Cloudforce at the ExCel centre on Tuesday 7 April, was proved to be as interesting and vibrant as ever.
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Intel: Netbooks just for children...you've got to be kidding
- Managing Editor 09 Apr 2009 -
The Realities of SaaS Delivery
- Capgemini 03 Apr 2009 -
SaaS comes with opportunities for change
- Capgemini 02 Apr 2009 -
Windows XP: The clock is ticking
- Managing Editor 01 Apr 2009
Don't be fooled into thinking the NetBook isn't particularly powerful. They are not as fast as a state-of-the art laptop, but I think they do most things reasonable well. Okay, so the screen may ...
One of the major selling points of SaaS is 'faster ROI'. But do SaaS projects really offer faster project delivery timelines?
Adopting an on-demand delivery model for software and platforms offers a now well-publicised array of business benefits. However a degree of culture change is required to unlock maximum benefit and ...
Unless you start planning your Windows XP migration now, you'll run out of time.