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
Date: January 2008 09:00:42 AM Category: IT News
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
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Date: January 2008 07:12:53 PM Category: Networking
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.
Date: January 2008 09:00:05 AM Category: IT News
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
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Date: January 2008 09:00:15 AM Category: Open Source
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
Date: January 2008 09:00:44 AM Category: IT News
One of the many lines of FUD
which often appear in the press and on blogs is that you can not get good Linux support. These sort of articles are designed to reduce confidence in Linux and hinder the deployment of Linux, especially in a commercial environment.
Date: January 2008 09:00:58 AM Category: Open Source
If the general economic forecast for 2008 is correct, then we are in for a challenging year. The media are reporting the reduction of house prices, rising inflation, the credit crunch reducing the amount of funding available. While these things may occur, I'm not going to add to frenzy of doom sayers. I'm a great believer of self fulfilling prophecy, and I'm going to highlight something different. One of the hardest things to do is to change the way you think. This is because we have all been programmed by our environment to respond in certain ways. I want to show you something different.
If the general economic forecast for 2008 is correct, then we are in
for a challenging year. The media are reporting the reduction of house
prices, rising inflation, the credit crunch reducing the amount of
funding available. While these things may occur, I'm not going to add
to frenzy of doom sayers.
Date: January 2008 12:01:28 AM Category: IT & Business
How important is email to you? Is it a convenience, or a vital part of your business ? Over the years email has become one of the most important applications on the internet. We now use it to send money , manage projects or just keep in touch with our families.
We expect near instantaneous replies to our email, and we expect to store hundreds of messages within folders categorised with tags. We also expect to have access to our email where ever we travel, or even while on the move
Date: December 2007 12:20:44 AM Category: IT & Business
The term Open Source is being used increasingly in the press and technology programs. But what is it? and How can it be of use?
Date: December 2007 12:30:09 AM Category: Open Source
In some ways, running a successful business has become a lot harder than say 10 years ago. We are all taking advantage of the opportunities presented to us by the global market, and we also have to deal with the disadvantages, Competition is fiercer and margins are a lot tighter. Business owners have to manage
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Date: April 2007 11:14:17 AM Category: IT & Business
Centos stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System. It is a Linux distribution based on the Source RPM’s of Redhat Enterprise. It has the same functionality as Redhat enterprise, but does not include some of the Redhat Specific support tools. The Centos Team work hard making this distro comply with Redhat’s redistribution policy by re-branding and
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Date: April 2007 10:39:42 AM Category: News
Running a business is an extremely challenging, but rewarding activity. To make things easier, most business’s have some form of computerised information systems. These systems record information which is naturally created , emails, products, customers and financial transactions. Once you have selected the software solution you require, you will most likely be sold a software
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Date: April 2007 05:02:40 PM Category: Open Source
Kent Police have cut the cost of running its major criminal investigations system by 90% using Novell Open Enterprise Server, the company's version of SuSE Linux.
Date: February 2007 01:29:38 PM Category: News
industry, growth of 28 per cent is forecast between 2006 and 2010.
Date: January 2007 05:31:55 AM Category: News
By 2010, 32% of all IT related services will relate to Open Source.
Date: January 2007 05:15:41 AM Category: News