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Salesforce: Old platforms stifle business apps

...he asked on Thursday. "We have to leave these old platforms, these legacy platforms, behind." He singled out IBM WebSphere, Microsoft .NET and Oracle Fusion... Read more

2 September, 2011 by Suzanne Tindal

Hitachi announces 3TB hard-drive range

...storage. The software is considered necessary because most computers are limited by legacy motherboard and file system standards and therefore can only handle hard drives... Read more

15 December, 2010 by Dong Ngo

Cameron announces plan for 'East London Tech City'

...broadband in the Shoreditch and Old Street areas, and the Olympic Park Legacy Company will provide office space in the Olympic Park for companies that... Read more

4 November, 2010 by Jack Clark
A Software Reverse Engineering Methodology for <endeca_term>Legacy</endeca_term> Modernization

A Software Reverse Engineering Methodology for Legacy Modernization

This paper identified that Legacy Systems have embedded within them, a large investment which ranges from low... Read more

1 September, 2011
Semantic Query for Relational Databases

Semantic Query for Relational Databases

A vast amount of data in legacy systems is stored in relational databases. For the Semantic Web vision to... Read more

1 October, 2011
Rcause - A Root Cause Analysis Model to Identify the Root Causes of Software Reengineering Problems

Rcause - A Root Cause Analysis Model to Identify the Root Causes of Software Reengineering Problems

Organizations that wish to modernize their legacy systems, must adopt a financial viable evolution strategy to gratify the needs... Read more

1 June, 2011
Comparative Study on DFD to UML Diagrams Transformations

Comparative Study on DFD to UML Diagrams Transformations

Most of legacy systems use nowadays were modeled and documented using structured approach. Expansion of... Read more

20 February, 2011
Conquer the Cost of IP Complexity

Conquer the Cost of IP Complexity

Companies are frequently tied to expensive, complex, legacy telecommunications systems that don't support modern technologies and applications, such as... Read more

18 October, 2010
Gaining the Cloud Advantage

Gaining the Cloud Advantage

The cloud is emerging as the alternative model to on-premise legacy systems. The cloud means on-demand hosted services, such as computing, network... Read more

4 August, 2010
A Holistic Evaluation Strategy for the Modernization of <endeca_term>Legacy</endeca_term> Systems

A Holistic Evaluation Strategy for the Modernization of Legacy Systems

...for business application solutions. This development calls for a need to modernize legacy systems which store the fundamental business procedures for large organisations. The primary... Read more

19 July, 2010
U.S. Department of Defense Migrates From Oracle to SQL Server 2008 for Greater Reliability and Security, While Lowering Costs

U.S. Department of Defense Migrates From Oracle to SQL Server 2008 for Greater Reliability and Security, While Lowering Costs

The legacy Oracle database system was outdated, unwieldy, and no longer operational for the... Read more

1 July, 2010
The Mobile Website Kit

The Mobile Website Kit

root-cause analysis surrounding legacy systems. Legacy is defined as a system in the IT estate that... Read more

3 June, 2010
Preserving Privacy in Emergency Response Based on Wireless Body Sensor Networks

Preserving Privacy in Emergency Response Based on Wireless Body Sensor Networks

...vital part of the living environment and exhibits advantages over paper-based legacy systems. Wireless body sensor networks are indispensable in one application of e... Read more

1 June, 2010
Leveraging the Always On Support Experience for IT Transformation

Leveraging the Always On Support Experience for IT Transformation

...in IT environments. IT organizations are now required to support everything from legacy systems and storage to virtualized configurations and cloud-based computing in complex... Read more

4 May, 2012
Scan To PDF Standard Edition 4.1.4

Scan To PDF Standard Edition 4.1.4

...as OCR, Barcode Recognition, Batch Scanning, OCR Zone Data Extraction, Integration with legacy systems using Data Exporter plug-in. Only pay for the functionality you... Read more

2 May, 2012

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

2 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

5 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

8 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

9 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

11 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

12 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

13 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

1 day ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

1 day ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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