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Gartner says employees should buy their own laptopsdoh!
Isnt that what citrix is for?
Posted by: Matthew, 22 Apr 2009
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IT Week's leader profilei am impressed
I am impressed with MR jibril's profile especially his humble beginning i wish him well in his endeavours
Posted by: segun Alaga, 13 Oct 2008
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Macro test floors StarOfficeVB macro incompatability a PLUS
The implication of importance is that macros are once again safe as M$Office VBScript-based malicious code will also not run.
Microsoft's attempt at keeping people paying seems to be to redesign the user interface (of a recent version of Office that i gave about 48 seconds of my attention to prior to uninstallation) in a GUI-change more drastic than how I remember upgrading from WordPerfect 5.1 to MSWord for Windows 2.0. In fact, StarOffice/OpenOffice.org is a more familiar environment than MSO has become. Office 2008 seems to be geared for people that prefer proprietary paperless formats to either printing (new users: find the Print command in under 30 seconds, I dare you!) OR international standard PDF (a solid, trusted open-standard format compared to MS's myriad of privacy-violating and speed-denying DRM-based formats) and anything short of 2 gigs ram runs like Windows 2000 on a 486. How the hell can Photoshop load/prepare to use a 4 gig image into 1 gig of ram in the same time it takes Office just to open its own readme.doc, 2K of text bloated to almost 500k ?
Posted by: v f elliott, 08 Oct 2008
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Cognos’ competitors believe acquisition will stem innovation Innovation is alive and well
Let's not forget, there is a major threat brewing in the open source BI world as well. Keep your eye on Pentaho - www.pentaho.com
Posted by: GOOS, 29 Aug 2008
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The decline and fall of the corporate desktop token resistance
Don't know about *any* kit being acceptable; surely opening WiFi holes in your infrastructure isn't a smart move. Also if your ISP has any downtime or mobile cover is not readily available, the cloud element is scuppered.
Using encrypted smart cards or USB key to run stable apps suite/OS is nice but has it's own performance limitations.
You'd of course need to be careful not to transfer your corporate data onto the card or key in case privacy is an issue; let's learn from HMRC and the Daily Mail shall we?
Posted by: Bob Dobbs, 19 Aug 2008
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