Shares in accounting software firm Sage have fallen after speculation its profits have been propped up by unusual accounting practices. Strangely, the firm - whose software runs accounts systems for businesses up and down the country - does not use...
Nortel Networks has shaken up its top management, firing its CEO and two other top executives as a result of an internal review of the company's accounting practices. The management shakeup comes as Nortel conducts an internal investigation of its...
Ian Osborne, project manager of IECNet, told silicon.com that the need to make legacy systems work with the new grid set-ups is one of the key barriers to UK businesses using grid computing, along with techies being too used to hearing about the...
CIOs should stop resuscitating costly legacy systems and just let some of them die in 2006 if they want to fight complexity in the enterprise, according to Gartner. The analyst said "resuscitating" old IT systems will become costly as businesses...
More than two-thirds of UK organisations admit they are running parts of their infrastructure on ageing legacy technology that is more than 10 years old, according to a new survey. The poll of 150 IT directors found 70 per cent are still using...
Banks all over Europe are becoming increasingly hamstrung by their own legacy systems, allowing new players an easy entry into the market because existing ones can't react quickly enough.silicon.com Financial Services