As a few hardware and software suppliers come to increasingly dominate, companies must use caution, Gartner advises.
Sun executives claim that open source will benefit as US consumer spending grinds to a halt, and that its revenues are not negatively impacted by its development of "free" software.
Determining which new or existing technologies align with the business goals and are ripe for exploitation can be a difficult undertaking. As a starting point, Gartner has selected ten top strategic technologies for 2005.
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IBM is hoping to recruit developers by offering free access to high-powered grid computing servers over the Internet.
The Olympics are nearly over, and the Australian team deserves kudos for an excellent performance all around. Yet even as the Olympic sun sets on the Bird's Nest for the last time this weekend, millions of spectators around the world will be scanning their dials in the hope of finding something else to fill their viewing hours.
special report The two Web services standards are now settling into their respective roles and the reasons for choosing one over the other are becoming clearer.
Information technology spending has stabilised at the start of 2003, but talk of general improvement for the rest of the year is premature, according to a new survey.
As a few hardware and software suppliers come to increasingly dominate, companies must use caution, Gartner advises.
Budgets may be tight but there's still some room for spending. CIOs and CTOs say they're choosier about what they buy--they're looking to save money and make disparate systems work together.
Multicore processors have been around since 2005, when Intel shipped its first dual-core processor and the advantages of many cores have been widely touted, but a working model for costing software to work with them is still on its way.
With such a wide variety of server platforms available, we take a look at some beefy servers sporting some very impressive processing grunt.
Thin clients seem to be a perennial runner-up to full-featured desktops, but we think the time is right to stop thinking "what if?" and to get rid of those clunky desktop PCs.
Need a new server but only have AU$2500 to spend? The range of options is surprisingly good as long as you're willing to do without some of the fancy features.
There's no such thing as an average server, but for just about all your everyday computing needs one of these Intel Xeon-based servers is likely to do the trick.
You've got a lot invested in that current infrastructure, but there are those who are telling you it's time to upgrade. When is really the right time?
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