Bruce Brown, a spokesman for BugNet, proclaimed: "We have tabulated the bug fix records of the major PC software vendors as usual, but we are not going to give out an award for 1998 because, frankly, the PC software industry's performance has been...
Profits were further damaged by the news in May that the company had been fined $142m for 'accounting irregularities'. Informix have kept their sound technical reputation despite having a drubbing in terms of management.
That's just the cost of the failure and doesn't include potential lost revenues or damage to reputation. For the IT directors, it's the lost revenues that concern them. Opportunities exist for both operating systems as developers continue to work...
It should be possible to enable the monitoring of true business processes - 'customer buys a product' would be a good example of a process which is directly impacted by an IT service being delayed or restricted.
Western companies are concerned over IP, the legal system, dispute resolution. According to Gartner's most recent market analysis, India dominates the offshore sector, taking around 90 per cent of the total revenues.
It said companies have "significantly delayed" the start of their Windows Vista migrations, with most now planning to begin deployment in late-2008 or even 2009, making some think of skipping Vista altogether.