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Five ways Microsoft could change after Gates
News Bill Gates' legacy: A modern day Henry Ford Bill Gates' legacy hailed by IT chiefs Previous OSes have been launched as single all-you-can-eat applications but there is speculation Windows 7 could be modular. [07 Jul 2008]
Embracing SOA for the Legacy World: Architectural Strategies to Give Your Mainframes and Legacy Applications a New Lease on Life
White Paper Explore ways to stretch the return on IT investment of legacy platforms, such as mainframes, by using SOA-based technologies to expose critical business functions as business services. But since the advent and subsequent adoption of Web services... [30 Apr 2008]
Selecting a Platform for Your ERP System
White Paper Now, as the life cycles of many of these legacy platforms come to an end, these organizations are choosing to migrate their critical business systems to Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition with Microsoft SQL Server 2005. [28 Mar 2008]
Testing for SOA and the tools available in the market
White Paper SOA can reduce the cost, risk, and difficulty of replacing legacy systems, acquiring new businesses, or even extending the life of existing systems. SOA makes it easier for a large enterprise to support the broad technology base present in most... [21 Feb 2008]
How to Avoid Virtualization Gotchas
White Paper Legacy applications can be redeployed to virtual machines, extending application life and increasing performance Virtualization enables computers to run multiple operating systems and applications on the same physical server. [12 Dec 2007]
The McCue Interview: eSure head of IT Mark Foulsham
Comment But Foulsham warns even start-ups can quickly become restricted by creating their own legacy systems. One of the advantages of joining what was then still a relatively young and fledgling internet start-up in 2004 was the lack of legacy constraints... [27 Nov 2007]
Business tech degree to tackle legacy issues
News A degree course that aims to tackle the perceived lack of technologists with business skills will also cover the issue of migrating from legacy applications such as Cobol. Micro Focus, which began life as the developer of one of the first... [23 Aug 2007]
Remote and mobile working tech "essential"
News Richard Rundle, IT director at airport operator BAA, added: "Our infrastructure and our applications - both legacy and new - have been re-engineered to ensure all employees can work from home whilst ensuring our environment remains secure. [18 May 2007]
Intel Technology Powers Cutting-Edge Research for Leading Scientists at Erlangen University
White Paper The university's ten-year old legacy system was beginning to hinder the researchers, who wanted to run more sophisticated and complex experiments than before, and maintenance was becoming prohibitively costly. [25 Apr 2007]
India diary, day 4: Hyderabad's tech park
Comment Satyam has 260 people in Hyderabad working for Reuters, supporting 73 applications including Oracle Financials and HR support, working in areas including consulting and architecture; SOX scoping and remediation; and legacy systems. [07 Mar 2007]
SQL Server 2005 Helps Microsoft IT Payroll Group Reduce Need for Custom Code
White Paper For related financial applications, the group found performance gains of 20 to 90 percent, giving new life to legacy applications that had been slated for rewrites. The Microsoft Finance and Operations IT group has internal applications to help... [22 Feb 2007]
Smiths Manufacturing Pty (Ltd) Expands Production Capabilities by Integrating Manufacturing Processes
White Paper The company wanted to align and centralize disparate legacy enterprise resource planning applications. The company wanted to integrate manufacturing, distribution, and finance systems and enhance quality across the entire manufacturing life cycle. [06 Dec 2006]
Analysis: CRM - get involved
Comment The challenge of integrating new technologies with legacy systems was unachievable with the tools that were available in the late 1990s," she says. While big companies, especially the high street banks, are struggling to integrate huge legacy... [23 May 2006]
Analysis: The CIO's legacy IT nightmare
Comment Legacy systems remain the bane of many an IT director's life, draining precious resources just to keep the things up and running. He said: "There are often powerful political interests to deal with and legacy applications can be seen as providing a... [16 Mar 2006]
Kill off costly legacy systems in 2006, says Gartner
News CIOs should stop resuscitating costly legacy systems and just let some of them die in 2006 if they want to fight complexity in the enterprise, according to Gartner. John Mahoney, chief of IT management research for Gartner, said: "Each time you... [09 Dec 2005]
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