Legacy Application
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Microsoft: Developer interest fueling OOXML
News Software giant has ramped up efforts on building developer tools for the Office Open XML document format, says a senior company executive.
Tags: Standards, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Developer, software company, public sector, software, industry, development tool
Novell: Virtualization's nothing to fear
News Developments in the technology are helping to ease fears around implementation, and Novell wants CIOs to leave their apprehension behind.
Tags: Virtualization, Server consolidation, Virtual Machine, Novell Inc., Environment, Server, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, software, enterprise server, asset
The great legacy skills debate
Insight COBOL expert Mike Gilbert looks at the looming skills gap between the legacy world and the worlds of Web services, Java and .Net.
Tags: Mainframes, IT training, Programming languages
My favourite new features of Windows 7
Blogs I'm a happy user of Windows 7. I have been doing heavy multitasking with the 64-bit version of Windows 7 every day for t...
Clearpace puts archived data in the cloud
News The software vendor introduces Rainstor, which uses Amazon's cloud tools to store customers' legacy data in the cloud.
Tags: Data centers, Services, Cloud computing, Database, Archiving, EMC Corp., Storage, Service, Cloud computing, Amazon.com Inc.
To challenge Google, Microsoft might want to think Apple
News Redmond's challenge is to prove the Windows experience is worth paying for. If it is looking for a game plan, it might want to look at how the Mac has tackled the PC.
Tags: Investor relations, Public relations, Forecasting, Network administration/implementation, Standards, Growth strategies and tools, Innovation, Apple Inc., Google Inc., Web Browser
Industry group champions legacy migration in Asia
News Global alliance sets up Asia-Pacific wing to encourage businesses in the region to migrate to the Windows platform.
Tags: Microsoft Windows
Setting the stage for legacy applications in Windows XP
Insight Every consultant has had a client with users who depend on legacy applications running in MS-DOS. Windows XP's Compatibility Mode can help you help your clients' users deal with legacy applications.
Web Services: Time yet?
Insight This could be a crunch year for Web Services, which has tested the patience of companies waiting for standards to gel. Should companies implement Web Services this year?
Tags: Web services
Windows 7 works great on the MacBook Pro
Blogs As a registered Microsoft developer, I had early access to the final release version of Windows 7, which I installed on ...
Virtual servers: VMware vs Microsoft
Insight With one new product released, and one about to be, server virtualisation is becoming a reality in the low-end server space. How can virtual servers help you?
Tags: Business applications
Affordable colour laser printers
Reviews Colour lasers have long been too expensive for the mainstream market, but are now coming within range of small businesses and even home offices.
Oracle packs SOA in PeopleSoft tools upgrade
Techguide PeopleTools 8.48 is designed to accommodate Web services, serve as an entry point to Oracle Fusion Middleware.
Ten examples of SOA at work, circa 2008
Techguide In the past year, many companies have finally moved on beyond the experimentation and pilot stages when it comes to SOA. Joe McKendrick presents stellar examples of where and how SOA made a difference for some companies in 2008.
Tags: Web services, Standards, Mainframe, ITIL, SOA, CERN, Enterprise Service Bus, Lufthansa, United Airlines, AbeBooks.com
Capture changes using Oracle 10g's new row timestamps
Techguide In Oracle 10g, a new pseudocolumn called ORA_ROWSCN is available on every row that approximates when the row was last updated. ORA_ROWSCN gives a "conservative upper bound" system change number for the transaction that last modified the row.
