Tag: migration

  • Windows NT to 2003 Migration: The Final Steps

    Windows NT to 2003 Migration: The Final Steps

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    The countdown for Windows NT 4 Server is ticking away and with the new year, Microsoft officially pulls the plug on NT Server support. Smart resellers know their clients’ migration from NT to Windows Server 2003 shouldn’t be done in a year-end rush in between holiday shopping. First off, managers should carefully prepare the servers… Read more

  • Is XP SP2 Helping Windows Migration?

    Is XP SP2 Helping Windows Migration?

    Steven Vaughan-Nichols

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    Warts and all, Windows XP SP2 is finally here, but has its arrival gotten users of older versions of Windows finally ready to upgrade? We put that question to Microsoft, an analyst and resellers, and here’s what we found. First, a Microsoft representative downplayed the importance of SP2 in getting users to migrate from older… Read more

  • IBM, HP Map Linux Migration Plans

    IBM, HP Map Linux Migration Plans

    Peter Galli

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    IBM and Hewlett-Packard Co. are putting renewed pressure on Sun Microsystems Inc. with new solutions to help customers and ISVs move away from SPARC/Solaris and onto Linux. At this week’s LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco, IBM will announce new resources to help ISVs and developers port Linux applications to the company’s Power microprocessor architecture, which… Read more

  • IBM, Veritas Gird Users for Upgrades

    IBM, Veritas Gird Users for Upgrades

    Brian Fonseca

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    A pair of storage developers, anticipating a “perfect storm” of convergence and massive enterprise application upgrades, are rearchitecting their respective wares to help the masses manage major migration projects. IBM and Veritas Software Corp. are updating their storage management software lines with enhanced virtualization and replication technologies that officials at each company said will help… Read more

  • NT 4.0 Sunset Could Lead to Migration Bonanza

    John Moore

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    Imagine a contract featuring cutting-edge servers, storage and the opportunity to offer high-level consulting services. Don’t have one of those? Some channel executives think there could be quite a few in your future. And you’ll have Microsoft to thank for the windfall. Microsoft will cease support for Windows NT 4.0 at year’s end. That means… Read more

  • Office 2003 vs. OpenOffice.Org

    Office 2003 vs. OpenOffice.Org

    Jason Brooks

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    In recent years, open-source alternatives to Office have matured to the point where IT managers are beginning to investigate the viability of moving from the Microsoft Corp. suite to a license-free alternative. So when eWEEK Corporate Partner Ed Benincasa shared his desire to perform a user-based comparison between the OpenOffice.org project’s OpenOffice.org suite and Microsoft’s… Read more