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The Grill: Manesh Patel
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| It wasn't broken, but he fixed it anyway.
| After launching an initial pilot, Manesh
| Patel, senior vice president and CIO at global
| contract manufacturer Sanmina-SCI Corp.,
| ramped up quickly to move more than 16,000
| users onto Google Apps for e-mail, calendaring
| and contacts -- and he began turning off the
| company's Microsoft Exchange infrastructure.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/347635/Manesh_Patel
End of Microsoft Select means smaller discounts for savvy shops
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| Microsoft will phase out its popular Select
| volume licensing plan in favor of its "Select
| Plus" program, which the company claims is a
| simpler option. Others say Select Plus will
| mean smaller discounts for buyers who truly
| worked the system and who could wangle bigger
| discounts from Select than other volume
| programs, including Microsoft Enterprise
| Agreements.
|
| "Select is the funnest [sic] program to deal
| with because there are ways to game the system
| to get more than you're entitled to," said
| analyst Paul DeGroot with Directions on
| Microsoft, a Kirkland, Wash.-based consulting
| firm.
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http://searchwinit.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid1_gci1506681,00.html
Recent:
NZ Post trials open source on desktops
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| The project is about freedom and diversity in the choice of operating
| systems, not about specifically moving towards an open-source desktop, says
| NZ Postâs technology innovation manager, Barry Polley. NZ Post already uses
| some open source software, for example Red Hat Linux in the companyâs
| datacentre, but not on the desktop.
|
| NZ Post is the only government-owned agency that has gone public on its
| participation in the Remix open-source public-sector desktop programme (see
| page 14), coordinated by the New Zealand Open Source Society (NZOSS).
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/83C4710E299C3A1BCC257623001997DC
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