2013 – Page 2 – Unarium

China to standardize around local version of Ubuntu

Canonical partnership is China’s latest attempt to develop homegrown OS in market where Microsoft’s Windows dominates. By Michael Kan | IDG News Service China has picked Canonical’s Linux-based Ubuntu OS as the reference architecture to establish a standardized operating system in the nation that could end up in PCs, servers, tablets and smartphones. The result…

Lean Projects

in Project Management

Posted by Alex Falkowski at 09/03/2013 03:36 I have had the pleasure to start a new job for a very well established agency. As with every company, managing projects is not easy. However, what makes this company particularly interesting is the shear growth they are going through. As with any start you get the opportunity to…

SAP Speeds Deployment Time for Big Data Analytics

in Big Data

SAP’s Big Data Transition Strategy will be studied in MBA programs a few years from now. The company is disrupting its industry with revolutionary solutions without disrupting its customers. Needless to say, that’s a hard thing to do.

Analysts say software industry may be leaving Oracle behind

in Cloud Computing

“For a long time they’ve held firm on pricing for maintenance, which is their highest margin business, and they’ve really stuck it to their clients,” said Goldmacher. “Now that you have an ever-growing raft of alternatives, more and more traditional customers are availing themselves of those alternatives.” Shares in Oracle slumped nearly 10 percent on…

Reflecting on Yammer and Office 365: SharePoint is Definitely Dead

in Software

Microsoft sees Sites as an almost standalone service offered by Office 365, rather than the interconnected Intranet style system offered by what we knew as SharePoint. By Chris Wright (@partnerpulse) Mar 20, 2013 Last month I wrote an article that stated SharePoint, as a brand, would soon disappear. It seems with Microsoft’s recent announcement regarding…

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