Many companies become lax during summer hours, but some real innovators hunker down in the heat and create products that can make business easier in the future. One such company is Newton Software.
Businesses across the country are searching for various ways to cut costs, while maintaining a robust, reliable and fast network infrastructure. Very often the key to success can be the research that goes into picking the correct data-center server solution brand. There are so many different solutions out there- how does a small business decide on one?
...not for fear of "losing" XP, but for realizing that everything is fine with XP and that you don't have to spend $$ for new OS and even more $$ for new PCs. You are suggesting a solution to a problem that does not exist (although you are pushing hard to convince us!) One of my favorite comments to salesmanship like this is "if this is the answer, then what was the question?"
...but what is the compeling reason to upgrade besides the threat that MSFT will pull support?
a Vista migration would have meant upgrading 60% of his hardware, something he was not prepared to do. With Windows
7 and its smaller footprint, the majority of his hardware is already compatible.
"If you are on XP, Windows 7 isn't going to solve a lot of Vista's migration problems," says Brett Waldman, a research analyst
for IDC. "Going from Vista to Windows 7 should be a much easier transition than XP to 7."
...W7 is not the solution for XP migration path... it is almost like MSFT is bifurcating back to the old w98 // NT days... Why can't MSFT extend XP rather than repackage Vista??
The predominant migration questions among those coming off XP are "when" and "how."
"What we are saying is that by the end of 2012 you should be off XP," says Michael Silver, vice president and research director
at Gartner.
If you are on XP, Windows 7 isn't going to solve a lot of Vista's migration problems," says Brett Waldman, a research analyst for IDC. "Going from Vista to Windows 7 should be a much easier transition than XP to 7.
results could either be a perfect storm for Microsoft with major product releases carefully planned to coincide with an
important milestone in the IT buyer's upgrade cycle, or a roar that falls on nearly deaf ears and severely deflated corporate
wallets
...or some architecturally designed combination of new and old. At some point increasing numbers of less sophisticated organizations will opt for a non-MSFT solution that better utilizes the organizational resources.
One of the major complaints about Windows Vista was the fact that it was consistently slower than Windows XP. If Windows 7 doesn’t significantly improve that situation, it may fail to convince people to move away from Windows XP
the six best practices are:
Use a phased methodology.
Develop a process documentation guide.
Create a decision matrix.
Simulate, model, and test.
Communicate effectively.
Monitor the processes.
"The first key characteristic of the emergent approach is best summarised as 'architect the lines, not the boxes', which means managing the connections between different parts of the business rather than the actual parts of the business themselves," said Bruce Robertson, research vice president at Gartner. "The second key characteristic is that it models all relationships as interactions via some set of interfaces, which can be completely informal and manual - for example, sending handwritten invitations to a party via postal letters - to highly formal and automated, such as credit-card transactions across the Visa network."
MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels for secure, high-performance network applications across a variety of cloud computing and mobile platforms.