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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.
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A Breakdown of Open-Source Development Tools, Major Open-Source Projects, Repositories
Anticipated benefits Low cost. Widespread support through development communities. Ability to modify source code. Tools often constitute de facto standards.Hurdles ...
April 15, 2003 — CIO —
Anticipated benefits Low cost. Widespread support through development communities. Ability to modify source code. Tools often constitute de facto standards.
Hurdles Tool quality varies. Some tools lack support. Slow upgrade cycles. Long learning curve compared with commercial tools.
Primary markets Enterprise development teams, especially those already using Linux or other open-source software. Software vendors. IT consultancies.
Estimated cost Zero licensing fees. Support contracts from commercial vendors add variable costs.
Major open-source projects
CVS (www.cvshome.org): Code management system.
Eclipse (www.eclipse.org): IBM-sponsored integrated development environment.
GNU Compiler Collection (gcc.gnu.org): Compilers for C, C++, Java and other languages.
JBoss (www.jboss.org): Enterprise JavaBeans application server.
Mono (www.go-mono.com): Project to replicate Microsoft .Net Development Framework functions on an open-source platform.
NetBeans (www.netbeans.org): Sun Microsystems-sponsored integrated development environment extensible via modules.
Tomcat (jakarta.apache.org/tomcat): Apache module for Java Servlets and JavaServer Pages.
Open-source repositories
Apache Jakarta Project (jakarta.apache.org): Repository of open-source solutions for Java.
SourceForge (sourceforge.net): Repository of open-source code and applications.
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