Energy suppliers always seem to be in the news these days, if they are not trying to justify some cryptic new tariff then they are explaining why prices are rising again. Over the summer most energy suppliers announced increases in energy tariffs of 12-18% for gas and electricity, so it is no surprise that everyone […]
IBM currently uses over 10 metrics to license its Tivoli software. This alone might make keeping track of your licenses difficult enough but with the advent of Virtualisation this can make your licensing a full time job. If you take the following simple example you can see the issue. In this case a customer has […]
Last updated on August 19th by Simon Barnes Movies that include computers are notoriously inaccurate. Who can forget the girl from Jurassic park shouting ‘it’s a Unix system’ as the velociraptors broke through the door or the graphical skyscraper directory listing from Hackers. Enjoyable films perhaps, but not fantastically plausible. So maybe I can put […]
I’ve converted a presentation I gave at the TTEC in Prague into a whitepaper which is available to download now. Read the whitepaper: TEC to OMNIbus The business case for migration Hits: 2
If you asked a child to name someone connected with McDonalds they would probably say Ronald McDonald. Ask an adult the same question and it’s not unlikely they’d answer Ray Kroc. Certainly, Kroc, with his mantra of “In business for yourself, but not by yourself”, had a key role in spreading McDonalds throughout the world, but […]