core server in comment and analysis
The Bloor Perspective: Ballmer on Linux, IBM's dinosaur and SQL's future
Comment To kick things off the company acknowledged that in the past it has lost credibility by criticising the Linux core (kernel and web server stack). It accepts that this core now possesses credibility in the commercial world. [19 May 2003]
What to look for in an outsourcing contract
Comment You bundle up your systems, give them to someone else and sit back (or 'focus on your core competences', as management gurus would put it) while someone else puts in the long hours in the server room on your behalf. [22 Apr 2003]
Meta Group Quarterly: The five most important trends for CIOs
Comment The core application server is a free or nearly free commodity. The application server market is a battleground. Meta Group believes success or failure in the application server market presages results in web services. [28 Mar 2003]
'And another thing, Gates...' - Microsoft and its MVPs
Comment Community has always been core to Microsoft's mission. Still, Shaw had many good things to say about Microsoft's security push, particularly the way Windows Server 2003 ships "locked down" to prevent accidental security breaches. [14 Feb 2003]
The Ovum View: Using Oracle to run your email
Comment For the moment Oracle is focusing on core email services because of the specific opportunity to drive a wedge in the IBM/Microsoft duopoly. For some time Oracle has been claiming it can provide a more cost-effective and reliable email server for... [15 Jan 2003]
What's the fuss about... selective outsourcing?
Comment Give yourself the opportunity to concentrate on what you should be doing - the core business, the issues that prevent you from being number one in your segment, the processes that must be changed to deal with the demands of the market. [28 Oct 2002]
What's the fuss about... server consolidation?
Comment In the same way as Quocirca believes that you should not view IT as a core competency (see What's the fuss about.selective outsourcing? But, for those who have the courage, the ultimate in server consolidation can provide a better up-time for your... [18 Oct 2002]
Intel developing chip with two brains
Comment Symmetric multiprocessing chips, such as IBM's Power 4 and presumably chips with core hopping, essentially squeeze two equal processors into a single piece of silicon, so that the chip provides the same computing power as a dual-processor server. [21 Aug 2002]
Analyst advice: How to choose an app server
Comment However, the performance of the core server product can often be overshadowed by the extensive use of enhanced features. With the core app server now bundled free as a commodity - for example with Solaris - the additional services, such as business... [10 Jun 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: ERM, Microsoft wants Unix converts and our old friend information overload
Comment This results in the organisation being able to focus on core business activities. By operating across the whole range of server platforms, the advent of open source Linux has managed to blur many of the traditional operating system divides. [20 May 2002]
The Ovum View: The reality of end-user IT circa 2002 - PART TWO
Comment Budgetary constraints, coupled with an aversion to the risk that 'big' software development entails, mean that few organisations are now motivated to rewrite their core applications using newer languages and technologies. [20 Jan 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Sun's web services progress, Toys R Us e-turnaround and the software slump
Comment Core to the Sun ONE strategy is the fact that applications have evolved into web applications. This evolution has been underpinned by application architectures that have moved from client/server to distributed computing to web applications to web... [02 Dec 2001]
The Ovum View: What will become of iPlanet?
Comment The iPlanet Application Server is a core component of this vision. Sun faces stiff competition in its core enterprise market from HP (in the future, HP plus Compaq), IBM and Microsoft. This raises doubts as to the importance to AOL of the server... [15 Nov 2001]
Why HP went for Compaq
Comment Services giant CSC has come out today to say it is glad HP has chosen to stick to its core competency as a product company, and give up on being a services player. Both big players in the mid-range Intel-based server market. [04 Sep 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Thank you India, McCashless fast food, and web services wars
Comment The latest WebSphere application server is a core piece of technology. The IBM v BEA app server bout The competition for the application server market is primarily against archrival BEA Systems and its Weblogic software. [04 Jun 2001]
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