Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 29, 2012
Over the years, Microsoft has controlled the Office market – with Word and Excel being used everyday by millions of people. Even schools are teaching children to copy and paste etc using the familiar Microsoft products that they most likely also use at home.
People may fondly remember WordPerfect or VisiCalc, or may have tried OpenOffice and other alternatives to Microsoft, but for most organizations, the de facto standard has been MS Office.
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, December 24, 2011
For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
Luke 2:11 (King James Version)
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, November 28, 2011
Have you ever been out for a few drinks with friends. Maybe you’ve had more to drink than usual. What happens next? Well the answer seems to depend on which country you and the people you’re drinking with come from.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Zero downtime is a goal that many companies are striving for. It sounds so straighforward, and yet it’s not that simple to achieve – especially when it involves the continuous availability of large, high-volume databases. One of the inherent problems is that data replication for high-availability is filled with many nuances that need to be addressed for a successful deployment, including maintaining sub-second latency, active/active considerations, scalability options, conflict detection/resolution, recovery, exception processing, and verifying that the source/target are synchronized properly.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Saturday, November 5, 2011
I could only make Day 1 of this year’s Guide Share Europe conference on the 1st and 2nd of November – which was a huge disappointment. For those of you who weren’t there, I thought I’d give you a flavour of my experience.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, September 11, 2011
This week, Darren Pritchard, our SharePoint guru, lays out clearly exactly what needs to be done in order to find out the size of all site collections for a Web application in SharePoint 2007.
The first step is to create a batch file containing:
SET STSADM=”c:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\bin\STSADM.EXE”
%STSADM% -o enumsites -url <Your Site> SiteStats.txt
Pause
Pretty obviously, where it says <Your Site>, you need to change that to the name of the Web application that you need to produce the statistics for.
Next you need to copy the batch file to your Web front-end server and run it.
The output will be in a file called SiteStats.txt. Open the file and for each site collection you will see ‘StorageUsedMB=’ and a value. It’s the value that you’re interested in.
On a completely different topic: on Tuesday 13 September the Virtual CICS user group meets. Rocket Software’s Charles Jones will be discussing “CICS TS 4.2: Leveraging event processing and high-performance Java”. More details about how to register can be found on the user group Web site at fundi.com/virtualcics.
Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, August 8, 2011
IBM’s dark-suited legal team can relax a little following the news that three organisations have agreed to drop antitrust complaints filed against IBM in Europe and the USA. The companies involved are T3 Technologies, NEON Enterprise Software, and TurboHercules.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, July 4, 2011
The staff of the Mainframe COBOL website would like to wish each of you who are in the United States of America a very safe and happy 4th of July.
Take time to reflect on the freedoms that we enjoy, and the price that was paid by so many so that we could have those freedoms.
