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Buy Or Rebuild Core Systems?
News The answer boils down to one or more of the following options: package migration, system migration, and application rewrite. Existing technology or an application's architecture sometimes don't allow for a system migration.
[September 1, 2002, 20:42]
How To Mitigate Java Virtual Machine Risks
News Finally, start your migration and testing. Once you’ve discovered the dependencies, begin developing a transition plan and plotting your migration path. Microsoft will be releasing transition and migration tools as well as processes and guidance...
[August 26, 2003, 15:45]
Extending Desktop Applications To The Web
White Papers These technologies do not support the migration of existing legacy desktop applications written with a GUI class library such as Swing, Qt, or GTK to web applications. The framework presented in this paper allows the programmer to expose arbitrary...
[July 5, 2007, 0:00]
Migrating To .Net?
News Taking advantage of server controls during a migration to .Net will most likely entail removing custom presentation, application, and database code and replacing it with a server control and required database logic.
[September 11, 2002, 9:44]
Closing The Office Door On Microsoft
News Before you jump right in and begin a migration, though, there are a few issues that you need to be aware of. Before you commit to a migration, you need to be aware that with OpenOffice, you get what you pay for.
[June 15, 2004, 11:20]
French Opt For Laissez-faire Linux
News Take the City of Munich, which decided to migrate its 14,000 desktops to Linux two years ago, but is not actually going to start the migration until 2006, claiming that an "additional pilot" is necessary.
[November 9, 2005, 10:30]
Broadband Migration Finally Gets Easier
News Starting on Valentine's Day, users nearing the end of their broadband contract will be able to demand a migration access code (MAC) from their ISP. Broadband users will find it easier to switch to a new ISP from Wednesday.
[February 13, 2007, 13:44]
MySQL Migration Tool Goes Beta
News David Axmark, a co-founder of MySQL, said the tool can carry out the majority of the migration work for simple database implementations, but will not be able to migrate code that does not adhere to ANSI standards - such as Oracle PL/SQL stored...
[April 19, 2005, 12:35]
Broadband Migration Safeguards Due This Christmas
News The telecommunications regulator Ofcom has revealed to ZDNet UK that it is prioritising the issue of forcing telecoms service suppliers to give customers migration access codes (MACs) due the high volume of complaints it had received over the issue.
[November 28, 2006, 12:48]
3G Goes Up A Gear In Singapore
News UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System), a mobile standard based on Wideband Code Division Multiple Access technology, is a popular 3G migration path among GSM (global system for mobile communications) operators.
[January 14, 2003, 9:02]
Ofcom Aims To Ease Broadband Migrations
News All they need is a Migration Access Code (MAC) which allows them to turn one service off and the new service on. Only vendors who have signed up to an Ofcom voluntary code of practice are duty-bound to hand over the code.
[August 18, 2006, 16:45]
Heroes And Villains
Leader In December, Ofcom admitted that a significant minority of small businesses and consumers have struggled to obtain a migration access code (MAC) from their ISP, which is vital when trying to move from one provider to another.
[January 5, 2007, 14:28]
Software Firm Slots Unix And Linux Into Windows
News Their strategy up until now has been migration, but now they're realising customers expect help with integration and making mixed environments work. Vintela Management Extensions lets IT administrators use Microsoft's Systems Management Server to...
[May 25, 2004, 8:30]
Today's Vista Launch Is Just The Beginning
News Other senior IT managers have concurred that it may take another year before migration to Vista picks up any pace. Analysts at Gartner have calculated that it will take an enterprise around 18 months to conduct a migration to Vista, starting with...
[November 30, 2006, 10:01]
Microsoft Shakes Up Software Assurance
News Extended Lifecycle Hotfix Support enables customers to receive code-fixes when needed, which Microsoft claims minimises migration risks and reduces support costs. Under the new changes, users with Software Assurance on their client operating system...
[September 15, 2005, 13:25]
Making IP Infringement A Crime
News For example, the City of Munich temporarily delayed its Linux migration due to concerns about patent problems in the open source operating system. Although those using proprietary software face a similar risk, there has been some scaremongering...
[August 1, 2005, 17:30]
Linux Brings Hope To Spain's Poorest Region
News The Ministry of Culture is part-way through a migration, having migrated around 60 percent of its 380 desktops, while the regional Ministry of Health will eventually run all medical applications on Linux servers and is migrating 14,000 PCs at...
[May 11, 2005, 13:30]
Ofcom: Return Of The MAC
News Although the issue of migration access codes (MACs) — a string of numbers that enable a speedy transition to a new ISP — has already been promoted under a voluntary code of practice, from 14 February next year a new rule (General Condition 22...
[December 13, 2006, 11:52]
Microsoft's Yukon: Late And Lacking Focus
News The adoption and migration to Yukon will be slowed by a lack of compelling features driving any single customer segment, and by the Enterprise Agreement/Software Assurance licensing issues. Establishing the "universal data store" behind the new...
[February 5, 2004, 13:55]
Microsoft Warns Of Another 'critical' Flaw
Talkback This, of course, is to be expected considering the fact that code migration across OS types does indeed occur - That is why Blaster had such a wide spread over Microsoft OS' releases. One can only envisage, that to solve the above problem, instead...
[September 4, 2003, 10:36]
