Not every user will be won over by the backing of tier one vendors who at the same time stand by their own OS and those of Microsoft. He then claimed Linux lacks the flexibility, reliability, scalability and security that customers get from Windows.
Duncan Johnston-Watt, MD of Enigmatec, which provides Java solutions for the finance industry, reckons the world will have to decide between the two camps: "In the arena of web services it will come down to .NET versus Java, the open standard.
In addition, initial portfolio management adoption has resulted in unparalleled improvement in communications quantity and quality, notably between business and IT executives regarding IT spending. By augmenting the legacy talent of their IT...
For those who have a high legacy content to their existing environment, this is seen as problematic but services from the likes of Attachmate, IBM, Neon and Seagull help to pull mainframe systems into the services environment, while systems such...
Today, TowerGroup estimates that European tier 1 banks impose a vendor threshold of about £1.5bn in revenue, almost double what it was two years ago. Banks' long sales cycles, complex legacy systems, demanding lines of business and large and...
First, it is expensive to maintain multiple platforms, although they have to do this to some extent because of customers' legacy systems. Infor has built a huge and successful business out of on-premise legacy applications; it is now the world's...