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The Dangers Of Downsizing
News We're a high-tech company," says Cindy Childers, a top manager at Acxiom, the $1bn maker of highly sophisticated database integration software. So when we started to consider cutbacks we realised we needed to create our own tools to help us with...
[September 20, 2001, 18:30]
Full Application Of Business Application Assets And Know-How, For A Smooth Downsizing
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[May 8, 2007, 0:00]
Take Heart, Tainted Ones - V2
White Papers Downsizing, even partial downsizing, is in fact an expensive and potentially disastrous move for most mainframe users. Straight Talk" series of reports addresses the unwarranted claims made against the mainframe and challenges those who either...
[January 22, 2004, 23:00]
Has HP Underestimated Job Losses?
News Boon, for the most part, agrees but believes there will be a longer delay between the initial round of redundancies and later phases of the downsizing process. For Boon, the only reasonable prediction that can be made about the layoffs at this...
[May 14, 2002, 10:51]
Laid Off Or Fired? Questionable Corporate Policies Blur The Line
News I am not the only one who has been inconvenienced by questionable corporate policies when it comes to company downsizing. Recently, I was talking to a developer friend of mine who has been out of work for a few months.
[May 28, 2002, 13:28]
E3: Smaller Is Better?
News ESA execs said E3 is getting a major downsizing because it had gotten too big, with 60,000 attendees in May. Industry experts agree that for the most part, it's a changing market, not red ink, behind much of the downsizing.
[August 2, 2006, 10:20]
Energy Company Reduces Expenses With Switch To New Database System
White Papers Like many organizations in the energy industry, El Paso Corporation faced downsizing and cost-reduction pressures. In an effort to help meet its financial goals, the company wanted to decrease the cost of its IT support, particularly as it related...
[April 24, 2008, 0:00]
Infrastructure Simplification And The ROI Of Consolidating Windows, Linux, And AIX 5L Applications On IBM EServer ISeries Systems
White Papers The drastic downsizing and cost-cutting of the past few years have abated in many organizations, and IT spending is once again growing worldwide. But demand for computing resources - and the flexibility to change information technology (IT...
[November 28, 2005, 23:00]
Human Capital: DOD's Civilian Personnel Strategic Management And The Proposed National Security Personnel System
White Papers DOD's lack of attention to force shaping during its downsizing in the early 1990s has resulted in a workforce that is not balanced by age or experience and that puts at risk the orderly transfer of institutional knowledge.
[May 25, 2005, 0:00]
Staying Loyal To Your Company Amid Layoffs
News There's also quite a bit of information available to companies on dealing with the aftermath of downsizing. Tech managers everywhere are finding themselves stuck with decisions that nobody wants to have to make.
[August 15, 2002, 9:02]
Desktop Batch Processing
White Papers There are lingering doubts about downsizing batch transaction processing applications. Today, online transaction processing applications can downsize from mainframes to microprocessors. Commodity database systems, operating systems, and hardware...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
The Changing Role Of FEPs In Integrated Networks
White Papers This white paper identifies the most common paths along which data centers evolve when downsizing FEPs or migrating to FEP alternatives, and will help users pick the appropriate path. This white paper describes the changing role of front-end...
[December 3, 2003, 23:00]
"Keeping It Real" - Or Just An Exercise In Making It Easier To Govern? Media Trainings, Life Events, The Blogosphere, And The E-Citizen
White Papers The paper identifies potentially reductive elements in some new online practices initiated by government, political candidates and citizens, working from the concept of the 'downsizing' of democracy which Crenson and Ginsberg (2002) argue, in more...
[August 26, 2004, 0:00]
F-Secure Sees Smaller Botnets On The Rise
News Cybercriminals are downsizing their botnets to try and trick software security companies. Computers infected with a virus unknowingly become "zombies" in a botnet — which is a network used to send out spam and to mount further attacks on other...
[October 1, 2007, 9:23]
Five Years Ago: PC Server Vendors Close Out Clones
News With clones clinging on in desktops and notebooks, Compaq, Dell, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others are making a big push to cash in on corporate downsizing to Intel-based servers, and continue to chalk up big growth.
[November 30, 2001, 6:00]
Hayes Denies US Reports - Still Looking For Buyer
News He adds, "what is true is that we have gone through a significant downsizing exercise in the US which has resulted in significant job losses, but we do have our core team. "The US reports are wrong, we're still here," says Croisdale who has been in...
[January 5, 1999, 17:05]
Second-hand Microsoft Licences Take Off
News Disclic has been able to sell over 2,500 second-hand software licences from insolvent or downsizing firms to other businesses through discount-licensing.com. A company that began trading in second-hand licences for Microsoft software last autumn...
[April 7, 2006, 16:00]
UK Firm Sells Second-hand Microsoft Licences
News Shocked vendors have reacted angrily to the news that Disclic, through discount-licensing.com, has been able to sell second-hand software licences from insolvent or downsizing firms to other businesses with Microsoft's blessing.
[November 10, 2005, 15:00]
Sun Plans 'computer Free' HQ
Talkback Such an increase in efficency would lead to an enourmous downsizing in IT costs aswell as making administration far easier. Thin clients are definatly the way of the future for enterprises. It is just so much more efficient if IT resources can be...
[January 24, 2004, 15:32]
More Stealth As Outsourcing Picks Up Speed
Talkback These companies will then be able to justify much more in the way of downsizing. Can't find the right spin? How about this-- The good news is that fewer and fewer Americans will have to go to work in the morning.
[December 31, 2003, 16:41]
