They need to reduce fixed costs and find more innovative ways of addressing the technology support for their range of services. However, the increasing trend of financial institutions outsourcing the maintenance of their legacy systems at a time...
Public sector bodies should be addressing themselves to the needs of their users - not re-inventing the wheel. And, while large bodies such as the NHS have successfully used migration to open source to extract concessions from Microsoft, it's not...
The Austrian capital city of Vienna kicked off its soft migration to open source software on the desktop on Tuesday. Plans for the migration were announced in January. Departments in the city administration will now be given the option to migrate...
The 2008 Olympic Games could switch to a cost-saving open source technology platform under proposals to be considered by the Beijing Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG). The open source move will be recommended by the International...
The Munich Linux migration remains one of the most high profile mass implementations of the open source OS to date. Software patent campaigner Florian Mueller revealed this week that the City of Munich's decision to stall its Linux migration was...
An SOA is more efficient because it calls up just those parts of applications required to perform a service, rather than loading the entire application. As the survey shows, SOA implementations are occurring in large numbers - but this could be the...