BECTA says Whoa!, to Schools deploying Vista and Office 2007

BECTA is an organisation which outlines the use of technology in Britain’s educational system. A report has been released by BECTA which outlines it’s position on deploying VISTA and Office 2007. Until Microsoft can create a more compelling business case. They recommend that schools do not deploy Vista or Office 2007

Cisco Unified Communications

Cisco have launched a product range targeted at the needs of small business. Cisco are not the only vendors who are now catering for the smaller. Lots of vendors have now acknowledge that the SMB market has been somewhat overlooked when it comes to IT application solutions and Hardware.
Cisco’s offering looks to address the following […]

NYSE Deploys 600 Linux servers in trading environment

The New York Stock Exchange have deployed over 600 Linux servers within their Hybrid Market trading system. The Hybrid Market system lets NYSE traders buy and sell stocks electronically or on the exchange’s trading floor.

Using linux on the desktop

I have been using Linux on the desktop for a number of years, despite this I would not have recommended a Linux desktop for the average user.
The best place for Linux was is in the server room, not on the desktop. This has changed drastically over the past few years with Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu Linux […]

Microsoft eases licensing to compete with LAMP

Linux Apache Mysql PHP are extremely popular web server components. All these components are free. This can make it challenging to compete with. Microsoft seem to be responding to claw back marketshare

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