Linux Firms Rubbish Microsoft's Customer Win
Talkback "On Monday Microsoft announced that the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) had replaced its Linux Web server with a Windows alternative to save costs and improve its Web offering. Later in the article it is stated that the RICS had...
[March 25, 2005, 12:48]
E-commerce Will Kill The High Street - Report
News Visions of the Future -- the latest research from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)-- predicts that in twenty years time the majority of shopping will be done online. People are already turning to e-commerce," an RICS spokesman said.
[January 24, 2000, 15:06]
Linux Firms Rubbish Microsoft's Customer Win
News In an interview with ZDNet UK, Richard Carlson, the head of business systems at RICS, admitted that the company did not do a comparative study of Linux and Windows. On Monday Microsoft announced that the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors...
[March 22, 2005, 13:30]
Linux Firms Rubbish Microsoft's Customer Win
Talkback Since RICS IT infrastructure is Microsoft-based, and they're staffed with people knowledgeable about Microsoft-based products, with little or no Linux experience, I can't say I blame them for sticking with what they know.
[March 23, 2005, 12:04]
Mountains And Molehills Don't Mix
Leader The RICS is Windows through and through, so that's what it ran its server on when it brought the service back inside. Getting the perspective right in IT reportage can be tricky. On a big story - picking up the interstellar equivalent of Tomorrow's...
[March 22, 2005, 17:00]
Europe Could Take Five Years To Catch US In E-commerce
News In other e-commerce news today, the Royal Institute of Surveyors (RICS) are predicting the death of the high street -- with online sales taking the lion's share of retail by the year 2020 they say. Just exactly how wired is European business?
[January 24, 2000, 17:21]
