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Skandia outsources IT to India
News Skandia announced last week it will use Tibco software for its SOA migration. Tim Mann, customer service and technical director at Skandia, told silicon.com the job losses are scheduled to begin in June of next year. [20 Dec 2006]
CIO Jury: Businesses cool on Office 2007 upgrade
News Andy Pepper, director of business IS at Tetley, is looking at an Office migration within two years. Mark Beattie, head of IT at waste management company LondonWaste, is planning to upgrade to Office 2007 within the next 12 months. [17 Nov 2006]
Vista upgrade costs will boost Linux uptake, says Novell
News The City of Munich announced last week that it has delayed its migration to Linux on the desktop until 2006, a year later than planned and three years after it decided to migrate to Linux. Commenting on this news, Novell European general manager... [13 Sep 2005]
Sun boss scorches rivals and open source
News However the Sun boss couldn't resist a small dig, claiming that technology existed for companies to ease the migration from Microsoft systems by running Windows on Sun's thin client hardware. Sun chief executive Scott McNealy was on scathing form... [09 Jun 2005]
Interview: William Hill bets on new technology
News We will do a managed migration to the new infrastructure. However, Kemeny said the company is planning a gradual approach: "Rather than try to do a great big bang we are doing lots of little drops so the customer doesn't see the migration. [27 Apr 2005]
Fear of Microsoft keeps big businesses quiet on Firefox rollouts
News Despite Microsoft's reported intervention, Munich decided to go ahead with the migration. It is essential that Firefox makes inroads in the enterprise before Microsoft launches the next version of IE, according to Nitot. [01 Mar 2005]
Telcos told 'you're no better than the gas board'...
News He added that any large-scale VoIP migration "won’t happen fully in the current [regulatory] environment. Singleton said incumbents have been "investing billions in next generation networks which will yield little more than utility prices". [28 Feb 2005]
IT pros in demand in 2005
News Also recently, the Information Technology Contract and Recruitment Association (ITCRA), the major recruitment body for the technology industry, called upon the Australian minister for immigration, Amanda Vanstone, to increase the 2005/2006... [10 Feb 2005]
Telco mergers may spell bad news for hardware firms
News But if they're integrating networks, it may accelerate the migration to an IP infrastructure. Last week, US local phone giant SBC announced it is buying AT&T for $16bn. MCI is believed to be the next carrier on the auction block. [09 Feb 2005]
CIO Jury: IT bosses OK $8.8bn Oracle/PeopleSoft deal
News It will also, eventually, mean an expensive ERP migration across to a supported platform which adds very little business value," he said. Despite competition concerns, US and EU regulatory authorities have given the green light for the deal to go... [03 Nov 2004]
Biggest ever Windows-to-Linux migration halted in Munich
News The biggest ever Windows-to-Linux migration - the city of Munich's 14,000 desktop switch - has been put on ice while legal issues are settled. Until they've been sorted, the migration is on hold. Before embarking on the migration, Munich carried... [05 Aug 2004]
Virgin Atlantic inks $7m IP VPN deal
News Virgin reckons the migration will result in "a double-digit percentage saving" on current data communications expenditure. The network will run between 39 locations and handle sales, reservations, cargo and all internal applications by the end of... [18 Nov 2003]
Ericsson's answer to Cisco's all-IP threat - mobile
News It argues the three key enterprise trends now are migration to IP for most networking, which is a key concern for IT departments; increased mobility, a key concern for end users; and enterprises gluing their systems together by top-notch... [25 Sep 2003]
EDS claims .Net first for online banking
News Microsoft last week claimed a number of victories for the .Net platform, including the migration of the Australian Taxation Office's Australian Business Register onto the platform. However, he declined the opportunity to discuss those in detail... [15 Aug 2002]
Oracle finally sees some return from hosted services
News Although he made no mention of the 50 per cent migration target that cropped up so often at Oracle's Appsworld conference earlier this year, he said the company is getting more aggressive in its marketing push. [27 Jun 2002]
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