Linux is ready for mission critical use in businesses - at least according to Larry Augustin, the CEO of open source outfit VA Linux, which has just opened offices in Europe. He said: "Linux started in Europe, and there's been early acceptance for...
It's our mission to expand that revolution so customers ultimately have freedom of choice. However, while scalability and stability are still major issues, most agree the biggest challenge is the corporate desktop.
Enthusiasts who have no business or mission-critical solutions use it. He then claimed Linux lacks the flexibility, reliability, scalability and security that customers get from Windows. Various flavours of Unix or Microsoft's Windows NT have long...
This is a mission-critical application and it takes a while to make a careful and deliberate decision," Prescott said. Publishing-software giant Adobe appears to be gaining ground on its main rival Quark in the page-layout realm as the long-time...
Phones based on OS v9 are expected to launch in the second half of this year, and Symbian is hoping the latest version of the operating system will help it to crack the mass market. Peter Bancroft, Symbian's VP of market communications, told...
Applications no longer supported by vendors are singled out as they could lead to increased maintenance costs and more work for IT departments as they work harder to maintain these outdated but mission-critical applications - another warning sign...