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Desktop Linux: Sun Shines
Desktop Linux is good enough to supplant Windows in a number of enterprise desktop roles, and it has been for some time now. However, major enterprise Linux vendors—most notably Red Hat Inc.—have been too busy until recently with server-room Linux to produce desktop products with the sort of management frameworks and stable product road maps…
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Getting MS Applications Right for Your Customers the First Time
You’re proud of the custom application you wrote for your big client. Not only does the software do everything they asked for—with a little extra panache—but you’ve thoroughly tested it on your development environment and you know it’s rock solid. However, when you sit down at the user workstation to show off the software, your…
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Code for the Road
JetBlue Airways may be known for its high-tech efficiencies, but its system for tracking cargo—computers and airplane parts—that it hauls between hubs in New York; in Long Beach, California; and around the country was decidedly low-tech. As the airline grew, its inventory tracking needed to keep pace with the times too. JetBlue turned to a…
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Automating Compliance
No one would confuse Crown Media Holdings Inc. with media giants like Time Warner Inc. and Viacom Inc. With only $208 million in 2003 sales, the Greenwood Village, Colo. owner of the family-friendly cable station Hallmark Channel competes for advertising and distribution agreements with some of the best-known corporations in the U.S. Still, over the…
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IBM Extends Tivoli’s On-Demand Capabilities
IBM’s Tivoli management software brand on Monday launched the latest round of automation capabilities at Forrester Research Inc.’s GigaWorld IT Forum. IBM extended automation functions in its IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager to cover its own storage products and also made it possible for customers with other vendors’ storage gear to integrate those products in order…
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Can Real Business Value Be Gained from Sarbanes-Oxley?
Judging from the results of this month’s research (a joint CIO Insight/Gartner EXP survey of CIOs on the status of their Sarbanes-Oxley compliance programs), most CIOs feel optimistic about their efforts. Their compliance mechanisms will be completed on time, and the necessary financial data will be rationalized—though it will take a lot of work. Becoming…
