Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 220 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 Trevor Eddolls on Monday, September 19, 2011 - 291 views
For many organizations, we’re beginning to a see a model of how IT customer support can be organized – and the model is coming from management who are completely platform-agnostic. To them, IT is IT – it doesn’t matter whether something runs on a mainframe or a distributed platform. And this new way of working brings with it new challenges.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, August 8, 2011 - 305 views
It’s been a funny old week. IBM offering apps for mobile phones instead of sticking strictly to big iron, and Google buying a slew of IBM patents. When the British surrendered to the rebel American army at the end of the war of independence they played a tune called the world turned upside down. That’s what this week feels like.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Monday, June 6, 2011 - 271 views
All this talk about 2011 being the year of the cloud rings true. I say that because marketing hype is usually a bit ahead of the curve. But I realize that I’m using cloud computing a lot these days – and I don’t mean (necessarily) for work.
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Posted by Trevor Eddolls on Sunday, March 20, 2011 - 533 views
Almost everyone is predicting 2011 will be the year when cloud computing becomes a reality for many organizations. CA produced surveys towards the end of last year showing this to be part of the planning of most of the organizations they surveyed. Other surveys, like BMC’s and the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook found that cloud computing wasn’t quite on the radar of many of the people who actually do the day-to-day systems work.
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Posted by Mike on Monday, February 14, 2011 - 336 views
“But I can just Google it.”
I was staring across my desk at a mop-haired young man who was interviewing for a Java software developer position on my team. He was responding to a question about memory management, but he wasn’t really answering the question.
He hemmed and hawed for a few seconds and that’s when he blurted his Google answer.
When I was first interviewing for jobs as an IBM mainframe developer, I took many written tests about COBOL, JCL and CICS. I knew going in that there would be a test, so I prepared for it.
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Posted by Mike on Thursday, December 31, 2009 - 151 views
In Silicon Valley, the decade brought the rise of Google, the resurgence of Apple, and drama involving HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, Cisco Systems, Facebook and other technology titans. MORE
