Tuesday's revamp, Solaris version 9 8/03, is the latest on the Solaris "release train. The train is a regularly scheduled quarterly update process, which Sun also plans to bring to its Project Orion server software collection.
CIOs should consider the EVA (economic value added) concept to calculate the real costs of IT spending. Integrating the total cost of capital employed by using the EVA formula of WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital) x Capital Employed in the IT...
In this first Linux desktop product sold by Novell, the company is selling primarily to companies that have people who use Unix engineering workstations or employees who have a "fixed function" PC that performs a few tasks in a call centre or on a...
IT directors love technology projects; business analysts love strategy. But in between the two a great gulf may be fixed: relationships between these departments are often strained, and sometimes acrimonious.
The addition of the EVA 6000 means customers now can buy an intermediate system: The 3000 and 4000 have 56 hard disks, the 5000 and 8000 have 240 disks, but the 6000 straddles the divide with 112 disks.
It can take up to six months to fully train an individual on the design and printing tasks, depending on how much previous IT knowledge they have, though inmates may be at Standford Hill for anything from a few days to a few years, with the...