Although Oracle plans to reduce its research and development budget by $150m for the combined company, Ellison said the cut is expected to spread equally between Oracle and PeopleSoft. It showed their maintenance business was more profitable than...
This lack of spread of risk means every deal has to be profitable if the company is to survive (and you really, really don’t want to deal with your outsourcer going out of business). Core systems running on outdated, high maintenance platforms...
Without naming any proprietary software products, the president asked defence engineers to develop and implement on open platforms. Software maintenance and software upgrade is an important issue for defence," Kalam said at a meeting of Indian Navy...
If the maintenance, operation and support of the legacy systems are draining IT money away from new tech investment then that has a negative impact on an organisation's ability to remain competitive. Legacy systems remain the bane of many an IT...
Forty-two percent of the sites running on Microsoft's new server are new sites, 43 per cent are upgrades from other Windows platforms, mainly Windows 2000, and one per cent are migrations from operating systems other than Linux or Windows...
With IT budgets being squeezed ever tighter and new regulations governing the way computers are disposed of on the way, it seems CIOs and IT departments are missing out on an obvious way to save themselves a bit of cash - and it's all to do with...