Vendor Management Strategies for the CIOMicrosoft Windows Vista installation and compatibility were hot topics for systems service providers in 2007. They were also eager to learn about upgrading a customer database to Oracle 10g and licensing virtual machines. Check out the rest of the top systems tips of 2007 and take a look at the information your peers were most interested in.
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Windows Vista installation dos and don'tsWindows Vista installations are still lagging in the enterprise, making now a good time to identify best practices (and worst practices) for inevitable Windows Vista installations.
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Run older Windows applications on Vista with Virtual PC ExpressOlder Windows applications can run on Vista's Enterprise Edition with Virtual PC Express.
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Vista and Unix integration opportunities
Unix shops may be averse to even considering Microsoft Windows Vista, but there are some tactics you could take to demonstrate the benefits of Unix/Vista integration.
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Oracle 10g: Database upgrade guideUpgrading to Oracle 10g can be challenging. This guide offers advice so VARs can make the database upgrade process go smoothly.
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Virtual machine licensing: Caveman-proof VMware product calculationsVMware product licensing is simple with the company's three virtual machine licensing levels for ESX Server, as part of VMware Infrastructure 3 (VI3).
This was first published in November 2007