Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 284 views
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 Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 209 views
COBOL has a certain seniority in the IT world. Nobody can get it to retire—and nobody can find a replacement either.
The question of when COBOL will meet its demise has been debated for years now. But there is general agreement that the Common Business Oriented Language, first developed in 1959, will be alive and kicking well into this century.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, November 21, 2011 - 281 views
DETROIT, Nov 21, 2011 — Compuware Corporation, the technology performance company, today released the results of an independent research study conducted by Vanson Bourne* into mainframe use in the enterprise. Key findings from the international survey indicate that a retiring mainframe workforce is exposing enterprises to rising costs and increased business risks.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, August 15, 2011 - 334 views
There used to be a time when selling software was a cut-throat game. A salesman would turn up saying how good their product was and quietly poison the prospective client’s mind against alternative products from other vendors – listing their weaknesses and down-playing their strengths. In fact, I’ve even been paid to write documents for sales teams to use doing exactly that!
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Posted by Mike on Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 478 views
The International Business Machines corporation is celebrating its 100th birthday this year. And to do so, the company has released a video lecture of its history that contains at least one very contestable assertion—that IBM gets credit for the personal computer.
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Posted by Mike on Friday, April 1, 2011 - 269 views
Here’s a basic Enterprise 2.0 adoption analysis question:
The owner of a process within business function X, within corporation Y, operating in market Z comes to you for help. Her process involves collaboration among multiple contributors to certain business documents. The incumbent process is a COBOL-based beast comprising klutzy editing and messaging workflows, reporting logic, and various business rules. Most of the complexity doesn’t even apply to 90% of the cases the process handles.
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Posted by Mike on Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 379 views
Cobol software supplier Micro Focus has lost nearly one-third of its value as it warns that its full year figures will be disappointing.
Revenues in the three months to January 2011 were below expectations and the shortfall will not be made up this year. A number of deals were deferred or lost. The business is still cash generative. Net debt is $5.5m.
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Posted by Mike on Saturday, December 18, 2010 - 260 views
One of the oldest programming languages, COBOL (COmmon Business-Oriented Language) turned 50 this past week. On December 6, 1960, COBOL was first used on two different makes of computers, proving that compatibility across systems could be achieved. To celebrate the anniversary, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History built out a new section of their website dedicated to documenting the language’s history; a related exhibit will open at the museum this spring. READ MORE
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