Re: Are SaaS & Cloud Computing Interchangeable Terms? Community Center by peol Cloud computing and SaaS (Software as a Service) are not interchangeable terms. Cloud computing includes IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services that provide computing resources over the Internet. Essentially, SaaS is a subset of cloud computing where users access software applications online without managing infrastructure. Gartner Report Exaggerates Open Source IP Concerns Programming Databases by Techwriter10 … on enterprise open source usage released this week, Gartner research director Laurie Wurster stated in rather strong language … the [URL="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=801412"]Gartner press release[/URL] announcing the … said. [B]Should You Be Concerned?[/B] The Gartner survey went onto says that lack of governance was the… Gartner Group suggests 2008 for Windows Vista Community Center by kc0arf … -- expected to ship mid-2006 -- was recently reviewed by the Gartner group. The original document is available at Gartners' website for… Software budgets rising, says Gartner, but only just Digital Media Digital Marketing by newsguy According to a new Gartner survey, despite companies driving down overall IT budgets …a teensy weensy little bit better than this year. Gartner reckons that organisations surveyed indicated that software budgets will be… opportunities," said Joanne Correia, managing vice president at Gartner. "A market downturn is a disrupter that creates … Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by newsguy …=11463"]Reports are emerging[/URL] that according to a Gartner analysis, albeit a controversial one, Windows is on the verge… and dethrone the OS King. The analysis, carried out for Gartner by Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald, included a survey which… Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by jwenting I remember Gartner saying the same back about a decade ago, when they … Re: Gartner Report Exaggerates Open Source IP Concerns Programming Databases by jbachana License management will remain a problem regardless of whether software is copy protected or under the GNU GPL. What I think is of greater concern is source code management of open source in the enterprise. Since open source is relatively quick to deploy in instances around an organization, it becomes more difficult for a central IT governance body… Re: Gartner Report Exaggerates Open Source IP Concerns Programming Databases by Techwriter10 All good points. Thanks for posting. Re: Gartner Group suggests 2008 for Windows Vista Community Center by Danny Perhaps you should purchase the document and read from the primary source. Writing a story about hearsay isn't ever a good idea. I have a hard time believing that Microsoft would say the report is balanced if it [b]only[/b] knocks Vista's features. Maybe it's analysis of other features will cause many readers to infer that Vista is worthwhile to… Re: Gartner Group suggests 2008 for Windows Vista Community Center by alc6379 ...I'd like to see those applications. I still think it's insane that a recommended system configuration for Vista is 1GB of RAM, 512MB recommended. I think I'll be sticking with XP for quite some time, thank you very much. Re: Gartner Group suggests 2008 for Windows Vista Community Center by BILL S The other thing is XP is being said to run slower then Win2000 under less then 512K and older computers are limited in that regard. What I find interesting is the 200MHz computers in service. I just got a free one from my friend running a Pentium MMX at 233MHz, and am hoping to upgrade for DVD use to 500 or so. As far as simple Web service, I'm … Re: Gartner Group suggests 2008 for Windows Vista Community Center by BILL S Whoops, 512MB RAM is what I meant above. I'd also read that Vista is most being compared to other OS alternatives in it's features most might take interest in, I'd like to consider it if multimedia is even more intergrated, better in-box photo editor and hardware support -BILL Nexus of Forces erodes corporate privacy measures Digital Media Digital Marketing by happygeek …admitting their own existing privacy efforts are inadequate. Gartner insists that these companies need to refocus their … According to Carsten Casper, research vice president at Gartner, more than a third of organisations still "…for privacy issues, which is encouraging news as Gartner insists it has consistently seen that privacy programmes … eBay protects accounts with Tamagotchi lookalike Hardware and Software Networking by happygeek Gartner has estimated that phishing attacks cost the US something in … Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by jbennet Windows 7 should win back confidence thats what always happened vista is a step in the right direction. Its highly stable, up to date and secure> Problem though, is speed, cost and compartibility ms really messed up by releasing too many vista versions and by releaing it too late, and then rushing it anyway. imho it will be a stopgap… Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by jwenting I quite disagree with you that Vista is "crap", jbennet. I'm using it on 2 machines, it's rockstable and quite performant. Some applications may give problems, but that can't be blamed on the operating system as those applications were never designed for the operating system. Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by hammerhead The best part about Microsoft's OS is that they keep posting updates. Though I dont know much about vista but XP has proven to be very reliable for me. Lets see what SP3 brings us. Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by MattEvans 500 text editors? 10 office suites? 20 windows managers? OK, whilst there may well be that that many of these things, it's the same as with Windows free/easyware. There are some main choices ( 2-5 text editors, 2-3 office suites, 2-4 window managers ) and the other options are just niche / rarely looked at, or are based heavily on the main options.… Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by jbennet [quote]I quite disagree with you that Vista is "crap", jbennet. I'm using it on 2 machines, it's rockstable and quite performant. [/quote] thats why i said it was a step in the right direction. highly stable, up to date and secure but had problems with speed, cost and compartibility [quote] Some applications may give problems, but… Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by lasher511 Fire Balmer. Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by lasher511 Fire Balmer. Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by jwenting [quote]uh. No. an OS is designed to run apps. Its its function hence OPERATING system. [/quote] Sure, to run applications designed to work on it. Vista is a different operating system to XP, let alone Windows 1.0. There were a lot of programs designed for Windows 98 that would no longer work on XP either, yet at the time noone seemed to care … Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by scru Jbennet needs to make up his mind about what he thinks about Vista and stop having different 3p opinions every three days. Vista is far from crap. It might not be the speed demon you seem to want, and it does have problems (depending on who you are), but it is still good imo. Vista should be to the Windows line similar to what 2000 was in it's … Re: Windows on verge of collapse, says Gartner Hardware and Software Microsoft Windows by antona jbennet | Microsoft Fanboy I believe you have not quite got it right:- windows 98 = good. Windows ME = crap windows xp good vista = crap windows 7 = good ? 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While Gartner use this as an advice springboard for enterprise users… Firms Turning to India to Keep Costs Down, Stock Prices Up Community Center by Brian.oco … presence of local and traditional service providers. The Gartner report also concludes that U.S. companies will… in the US and possibly other global economies, Gartner expects a more-aggressive movement to cut IT budgets…any discretionary IT spending will be cancelled”, says the Gartner report. “Some variation by vertical market will occur, …