Load balancing, which helps speed up Internet traffic and automatic failure recovery features, is also included in the software. Neil McDonald, an analyst with the GartnerGroup, believes the software will give users a reason to stay with NetWare...
Transparent failover and system recovery have been added to the database configuration to minimise downtime. Janice Chaffin, vice president and general manager of HP's Business Critical Computing Unit, claimed it is the first Internet database with...
Will a Novell file and print server migrate to a Linux environment? Will the Lotus environment migrate to Linux? This means they could migrate the services they run today on Netware seamlessly onto Linux.
The SA scheme ties companies into automatic upgrades of new Microsoft software but at a discounted rate. Although Office 2007 will run on Windows XP, most companies will probably look to have Vista installed before migrating to it.
Small businesses migrating line-of-business applications to open source may not want to do them all at once anyway, and there will be legacy applications that need to be integrated with new open source software.
New research has found nearly half of IT managers (49 per cent) will take more than 12 months to fully migrate their organisation onto Vista - once preparation, testing, rollout and post-migration issues have all been taken into account.