Newham will not now take part in the Office of Government Commerce open source trials with IBM, instead focusing its energies on talks with Microsoft, after council officers decided any major migration would pose "unacceptable levels of risk" to...
The migration will officially take place on 1 July, with 14,000 desktops to permanently migrate to the open-source platform. It's thought the migration will be complete by 2008 or 2009. Munich - the city whose switch to Linux was seen as so...
The Corel user group in the UK has voiced concerns over the $2.44bn merger between Corel and Inprise/Borland which will see the Canadian software house move away from Windows and towards Linux. Brian Smithson, a member of Corel's user group in the...
The company warned that leaving migration work until the last minute could be very time-consuming and expensive, taking around one hour per desktop. Peapod Group has released a product which it claims is the first migration software package...
Macros are mini-programs typically used to automate repetitive or time-consuming tasks in spreadsheet and word processing software, such as calculating sales commissions and formatting documents, among other uses.
At one time, this was done manually at every ATM, which was clearly costly and time consuming. Alliance & Leicester's head of the ATM business unit Wendy Luczwyco is one of many tasked with the migration from OS2 to a Windows platform.