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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.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
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.
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March 15, 2003 — CIO —
| Proprietary | Open Source |
| Web browser | |
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape | Mozilla (based on Netscape) |
| Web server | |
| Microsoft IIS, Netscape | Apache (60 percent of all websites run it) |
| Application server | |
| WebMethods (includes opensource JBoss application) | JBoss (2 million downloads in 2002); Apache Tomcat (most WebSphere widely used application server) |
| Office suite | |
| Microsoft Office, Corel WordPerfect Office | OpenOffice.org (based on Sun’s proprietary StarOffice) |
| E-mail/collaboration | |
| Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes | Ximian Evolution |
| Database Oracle9i, IBM DB2, currentlyMicrosoft SQL Server Trial | MySQL, PostgreSQL (both lack the power and depth of industrial-strength Oracle and DB2) |
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Red Hat Open Source Security
Now is the Time for Open Source
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Gary Beach, publisher emeritus of CIO magazine,...
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Taking a Seat at the Executive Table: The Reality of Virtualization
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