Initiative to trademark projects aims to stop public cloud providers from offering their own managed service version of open source code. The decision to protect open source project trademarks comes after a number of highly successful projects were affected by public cloud providers undercutting the revenue stream of the project maintainers by offering managed services. … Read more
Businesses will need to work more efficiently and spend less, which means CIOs will need to forge new value-based partnerships with IT suppliers. Many businesses will struggle to recover economically, which will inevitably lead to job cuts as companies try to reduce their operating costs. Earlier in June, CBI director general Carolyn Fairbairn said: “The government’s … Read more
When less must be more, it’s essential to allocate IT resources intelligently and creatively. Here are 7 ways CIOs can meet key goals when challenged by a restricted budget. Nothing in this world is certain except death and taxes — and limited IT budgets. Few IT leaders lose sleep over overfunding. Rather, sleepless nights wondering … Read more
Cisco, Dell, HPE, and Nutanix craft payment deferrals, lower initial payments and trade-in deals as short-term sweeteners for businesses that need new gear but whose budgets are pinched by COVID-19. Enterprise equipment vendors are rolling out financing and relaxed payment plans in an effort to keep customers buying during the COVID-19 lockdown that might be … Read more
In its latest moves related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft is extending support an extra six months for SharePoint Server 2010 and Windows 10 1809. Microsoft on Tuesday extended support by six months for more products, telling customers that SharePoint Server 2010 will now receive updates until April 13, 2021 and that Windows 10 1809 … Read more
The public cloud is a boon for getting applications up and running in a jiffy, but some CIOs have found that business agility comes at a premium and are rethinking their deployments via repatriation. The public cloud offers the potential for better business agility, but offloading critical computing resources has a darker side. Some IT leaders … Read more
Several big-name vendors, including Microsoft, Google, Cisco and LogMeIn, are making some of their chat and video-conferencing services free as demand for remote working booms. Major collaboration and video conferencing software vendors are now offering products to users at no extra cost in response to the spread of the coronavirus. Concerns about the COVID-19 virus … Read more
The Open Source Insider blog on Computer Weekly recently asked industry experts for their views on the future of open source licensing. One of the pillars of software development is: never reinvent the wheel. Why invent a new algorithm or write a piece of code to achieve a particular objective, if something already exists? To … Read more
The end of support for Office 2010 is coming up in less than 10 months. What does that mean for companies still running the aging Office suite? We’ve got answers. With Windows 7’s retirement from support now behind everyone, the next major marker for a Microsoft expiration arrives in a little less than 10 months, when … Read more
On 17 December 2019, the US District Court, Northern District of California, San Jose Division, dismissed the 2018 class action case brought by the City of Sunrise Firefighters’ Pension Fund against Oracle, which alleged securities fraud. The pension fund has until February 17, to provide a list of people with written statements that back up … Read more
