The operating system is Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, while the hardware platform comprises Compaq ProLiant 7000 servers. The intranet uses Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 as the data repository, Microsoft Site Server 3.0-Commerce Edition as the Web server...
Overall, the company is aiming to make Office "a partner with the rest of Microsoft technology - the whole .Net area," he said, by streamlining how Office connects to data stored in back-end systems. Microsoft this week plans to deliver the first...
Well, there is always much talk in management circles about the benefits of streamlining communications and business processes. Clearly field service automation, logistics and so on are not relevant to all companies.
Of those surveyed, 57 per cent said they are using either Microsoft's .Net web services framework (29 per cent) or Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) software (38 per cent), backed by vendors such as BEA, IBM, Oracle and Sun.
HP shipped the long-delayed ProLiant DL740 and DL760 servers in February. Servers can be configured with either 1.5GHz or 2GHz Pentium 4 Xeon processors and to run Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, UnixWare 7.1.3...
Not one of silicon.com's CIO Jury user panel said they are planning to upgrade to Vista when the enterprise edition is released early next year - with most saying that they're perfectly happy, thank you very much, with Windows XP.