Pioneering desktop Linux project put on ice
News Ole-Bjorn Tuftedal, special advisor on contracts and technology at Bergen, said on Monday that the desktop Linux migration would not happen for at least the next two years. Tuftedal, though, is still confident that the migration will happen...
[September 5, 2006, 16:10]
File Shares to SharePoint: 8 Keys to a Successful Migration
White Papers In the Quest Software white paper, "File Shares to SharePoint: 8 Keys to a Successful Migration," see how migrating your data to a single platform - SharePoint - has many benefits for your enterprise.
[May 20, 2009, 15:13]
Nordic IT Services Group Cuts E-Mail Messaging Administrative Costs 25 Percent
White Papers The group estimates that the migration will save 25 percent on its e mail messaging service administration operating budget. Working with Microsoft, WM-data delivers mobile workplace solutions, which take the pain out of implementing mobile...
[November 23, 2006, 0:00]
AGCO Fendt Ploughs a New Furrow for SAP With IBM System x and DB2
White Papers The company will add further IBM System x hardware in the coming years to support the complete migration of its remaining SAP applications. The aim was to simplify administration and open up new possibilities, while decreasing both hardware and...
[November 17, 2007, 0:00]
OpenOffice.org 2.0 review
Reviews StarOffice 8 has more extras, including additional presentation backgrounds and clip art, as well as better administration and Microsoft Office-migration tools. More importantly for business users, only StarOffice provides a variety of tools for...
[December 7, 2005, 12:00]
Another survey rates Microsoft cheaper than Linux
Talkback For so many organisations, the type that do not only pay for software, but must deal with administration, security, development and other such issues, the greatest fear that relates to migration would usually surround the direct one time impact...
[September 16, 2003, 9:31]
StarOffice 8 review
Reviews StarOffice 8 Enterprise Edition includes advanced tools such as the Macro Migration wizard, which converts Visual Basic macros, and the Document Analysis wizard, which estimates the amount of work you'll undertake to switch from Microsoft Office.
[September 29, 2005, 0:00]
Novell: Fighting the Microsoft FUD machine
News We are also using ourselves as a case-study and using our migration to develop a set of migration tools for companies. If you look at all the FUD that Microsoft has levied against Linux, it is all about cost of deployment, cost of management, cost...
[June 23, 2004, 14:20]
Time to get real about PC virtualisation
News As software gets more complex migration costs go up, and in a saturated market anything that delays or inhibits replacement is a market limiter. Longhorn is going to be the biggest migration since Windows 95 and it's going to be painful, so it's...
[August 17, 2004, 13:30]
Business Objects ready to swallow Crystal
News He emphasised, however, that the move to a single underlying platform should not require major migration work on the part of customers. The move should reduce the cost to customers of using both sets of products by requiring less administration and...
[January 12, 2004, 8:05]
Quarter of SMEs test Linux
News Unsurprisingly, smaller companies find it easer to adapt to new platforms and have been among the first to embrace Linux because they have a relatively simple migration path and can realise any benefits very quickly.
[December 8, 2003, 10:45]
Munich's Linux plans attract international attention
Talkback As such Munich's case is interesting as it is a concerted, documented and complex effort of migration involving users at all levels - meaning it is a first for a 'real-world' Linux. However you can't switch a complex organization like a twon's...
[October 27, 2004, 11:33]
French MPs dump Windows for Linux
News The study showed that open source software will from now on offer functionality adapted to the needs of MPs, and will allow us to make substantial savings despite the associated migration and training costs," the parliament said.
[November 27, 2006, 8:03]
Vienna to softly embrace Linux
News Erwin Gillich, the head of IT at Vienna's municipal authority, said this will be a 'soft migration' where users have the option of switching from Microsoft Office 2000 to the open source productivity application OpenOffice.org, and from Microsoft...
[January 25, 2005, 12:35]
New SuSE Linux to debut next month
News SuSE Linux 9.0 adds support for Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit Athlon processor, allows easier migration from Windows and includes a test version of the latest Linux kernel, said Holger Dryoff, SuSE's general manager of Americas.
[September 30, 2003, 14:20]
