core ibm system in comment and analysis
The McCue Interview: Steven Bandrowczak, CIO, Nortel
Comment Those core services are not core competencies in CIO," he says. With an educational background in computer science he went on to become global CIO for logistics company DHL and then CIO for Lenovo Group where he helped lead the initial stages of... [01 Apr 2008]
Minority Report: Macs gaining enterprise cred
Comment It has hard core tech credentials with a Unix-run OS. It's a highly aggressive arena where price is the key consideration - quite an alien environment for Apple which has typically sold its high margin computers to smaller firms and to core markets... [19 Jul 2007]
The McCue Interview: Rob Fraser, IT director, Boots
Comment More recently the company has been facing fierce competition from the big supermarkets eating into its core toiletries and drugs market but, having bounced back with a £7bn merger with Alliance Unichem last year, the Alliance Boots group is... [25 Apr 2007]
The anti-establishment vote
AS Analysis Brampton said: "He still maintains a close grip on Linux, which is a pretty core element of the open source movement, one of the validating elements of the whole thing. Russell Altendorff, IT director of the London Business School, said: "I think... [26 Sep 2005]
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]
Outsourcing: What every company should know - before picking up that phone
Comment Core systems running on outdated, high maintenance platforms could be replaced with far more efficient alternatives but it is a tough sell to the board: I need divert £2m to replace our core systems instead of funding the CRM project. [22 Apr 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Procurement outsourcing, ROI and the PS2 grid
Comment Deutsche Bank has already outsourced its IT operations and this is a further step in its initiatives to focus on core business, reduce costs and improve profitability. Would, for example, IBM as a procurer have any restrictions placed on its... [17 Mar 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Online healthcare, Lotus rebranding and Amex won over by the net
Comment Thus, rather than throw the baby out with the bath water the company has decided the core Lotus Notes and Domino products will continue under their current names. Amex has always moved cautiously and in a measured way, not losing its core... [20 Jan 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: Online healthcare, Lotus rebranding and Amex won over by the net
Comment Thus, rather than throw the baby out with the bath water the company has decided the core Lotus Notes and Domino products will continue under their current names. Amex has always moved cautiously and in a measured way, not losing its core... [20 Jan 2003]
The Bloor Perspective: IM compatibility, mighty Borland and QXL's turnaround
Comment Its core product is the 'Together ControlCenter' which is probably best defined as a model-driven development suite as opposed to a model-driven application development environment (ADE). Best of breed meaning that a customer can pick and choose... [11 Nov 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? Strange as it may seem, IBM has resurrected the mainframe, made it smaller, made it so that you can put as many... [18 Oct 2002]
Analyst advice: How to choose an app server
Comment Because the core functionality of all application servers has now reached commodity status, vendors have to differentiate their products by using value-added features and/or services to enhance the provision of elements such as load balancing, or... [10 Jun 2002]
Devil's Advocate: Redmond's dilemma
Comment Despite the diversity of its broad portfolio, the core of Microsoft's business is the Windows operating system and the Office Suite. In the drive for profit and thereby share price growth, Microsoft has kept the prices of both core products high. [11 Feb 2002]
Microsoft's big idea: Why .NET matters
Comment The idea is that by using a group of standard technologies - with XML and SOAP at the core (two things everyone seems to agree on) - different websites will link services. Tim Beadle, chairman and CIO of marketing consultancy the Opus Group, said... [03 Oct 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: IBM's branding nous, MS security lapses and government open source opportunities
Comment Root Core, a group of hackers, claim to have discovered a simple loophole in Hotmail security that has enabled them to read a user's email. You would have thought everyone knows IBM and what it does. On one hand it demonstrates to OEMs the degree... [03 Sep 2001]
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