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Newsletter November 2010 |
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Red Hat CEO: Software Vendor Model is Broken - Joab Jackson, IDG News Service Google (GOOG) The current modelof selling commercial enterprise software is broken, charged the CEO of Red Hat (RHT). It is too expensive, doesn't address users needs and, worst of all, it leaves chief information officers holding all the risk of implementing all the new systems.
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CIO Roundtable
January 27, 2011
HY's Encore Steakhouse
637 Hornby Street,
Vancouver, BC
Exchange ideas with other CIO's who are managing technology to create successful and profitable organizations.
The format will be a facilitated discussion with lots of time to ask questions while enjoying delicious cuisine.
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Oracle Defends MySQL Support Pricing Changes – Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service Oracle (ORCL) may have raised the price of an entry-level support contract for its MySQL database, but customers are going to get a lot more than they did from former owner Sun Microsystems (JAVA), according to an official blog post Wednesday.News emerged last week that the lowest-price MySQL support contract from Oracle is now US$2,000 per server per year. Before Oracle acquired Sun, a basic support offering for $599 per server per year was available.
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Inside HP's New $1 Billion Outsourcing Plan– Stephanie Overby, CIO HP today revealed further details of its previously announced $1 billion investment in offshore outsourcing, selecting six countries—Bulgaria, China, Costa Rica, India, Malaysia and the Philippines—as its global delivery hubs. Those six spots are "best for our clients and best for where our markets are headed," says Robb Rasmussen, VP and general manager, Best Shore, HP Enterprise Services. (Best Shore is what HP calls its global services delivery strategy within HP Enterprise Services.)
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Making Money with Mobile Apps - Serder Yegulalp, Computerworld To many companies and independent developers -- not just software publishers -- mobile apps represent something even more powerful and important than a brand-new platform to deploy apps on. It's a new and dynamic source of revenue, one with a lot of room to grow. And given how tough it can be to make money selling software at all, especially in this world of open-source and free Web apps, any proven way to make money in that field can become a magnet. Just like there's more than one way to deliver software in general, there's more than one way to monetize mobile applications. The various strategies aren't conflicting, but complementary. Each app can use the business model -- or models -- best suited to it.
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Apple Trips Up Enterprise iPhone Apps - Tom Kaneshige, CIO Apple has come a long way, secretly courting the enterprise to adopt iPhones and iPads, but a closer look at its iOS Developer Enterprise Program shows that Apple still has much to learn about the needs of companies.
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Maximizing Server Uptime: Best Practices – John Edwards, Computerworld In an IT world full of elusive goals, there's probably no target as slippery and generally elusive as server uptime.Keeping servers alive and awake, or at least ready to instantly spring into action whenever needed, is an ambition close to the heart of virtually all data center leaders. Click Here to Read About the Six Steps to Maximize Server Uptime
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