Microsoft unveiled its Enterprise Agreement option (EA) plan late on Thursday, as well as a raft of online management tools and simpler upgrade processes. The EA option is only valid for three years and users wanting to take advantage of...
Software companies routinely discontinue support for old products, requiring clients to upgrade or go without support. Often, software companies hope to grow service revenue through a mass upgrade to a popular product, or cut their internal costs...
Microsoft has said that the BizTalk upgrade will form the cornerstone of its long-term server software bundling strategy, Jupiter. By next year, the security, administration and development tools used in BizTalk will be built into Microsoft's...
At an open-format meeting, which was held last Friday with the Mass Technology Leadership Council, Kriss said the state would save significantly by migrating to OpenDocument-based products rather than going with Office 12- on the order of $5m for...
A recent Forrester survey of IT chiefs at European businesses found that more than half of European organisations have no plan to upgrade to Vista. In the silicon.com reader poll, seven per cent said they plan to upgrade "as soon as possible...
Half of silicon.com's 12-strong CIO Jury IT user panel said they plan to move to Windows Server 2008 at their next refresh or upgrade cycle. Chris Robinson, European IT partner at property consultancy Davis Langdon, said his firm plans to upgrade...