However, there is a lot of hype surrounding ‘On Demand’ computing, 3G, 64 bit computing, grids and artificial intelligence, which we believe enterprises should hold off until at least 2008. Companies investing in new wide area networks are advised...
Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are as reliant on IT as large enterprises. Before I go on, you'll notice I'm using the term 'SMB' as opposed to the also popular 'SME' (small and mid-sized enterprises) which silicon.com normally uses.
I have to agree with Gartner, it's the middle ground where Microsoft looks set to be most vulnerable over the next five years because it's here that Linux offers the kind of evolutionary flexibility which doesn't quite exist in larger enterprises...
While more than half of organisations are already making plans for introducing SOA, large enterprises are being held back by the weight of their IT legacies, which have grown dramatically in the past decade as they have adopted ERP, CRM and many...
Basso said enterprises' need for flexibility meant different back-end servers would need to be supported, and suggested that a licensing of Microsoft's mobile-synchronisation software would make the iPhone more attractive to businesses using...
Around a quarter of enterprises plan to upgrade to Vista in 2008 although Forrester said companies may change plans and wait for the release of Windows 7 - pencilled in for the second half of 2009. The survey quizzed more than 50,000 users from 2...