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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
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Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »April 03, 2006 — CIO —
Zend Technologies is porting its PHP development tools to IBM’s Series i servers for small and medium-sized business customers, bringing the popular scripting language to a new platform, Zend announced on Monday.
Zend will port its PHP tools to the i5/OS, the flagship operating system for IBM’s Series i servers, which include a package of hardware, operating system software and middleware aimed at smaller businesses.
The move reflects the growing popularity of PHP, a relatively easy-to-use programming language widely used for building websites and other Web applications, said Bola Rotibi, senior analyst for software development technologies with U.K. analyst company Ovum.
"PHP is getting a hell of a lot more use these days. This reflects the importance of it for a company like IBM," Rotibi said.
Zend helps develop the language and also sells products and services for building PHP applications. It claims that PHP is used on about 21 million websites, and says its tools are used by 15,000 companies worldwide.
It’s in the process of porting its Zend Core, Zend Studio, Zend Guard and Zend Platform products to the IBM platform. The products are planned for release in late 2006, it said. In the meantime, developers can download early versions of Zend Core and Studio from Zend’s website, the company said.
-James Niccolai, IDG News Service
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