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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives
Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.
Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices
Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.
Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices
This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.
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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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2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT
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