Like any country, Pakistan has had a tumultuous ride through history to come as far as it has. A quick shuffle through the history books reveals only a small, perhaps more glamorous side of politics, culture and socialism that makes it seem inconsequential. But the recent advances in technology platforms, development tools and infrastructure have [...]
Open Source and Linux are the buzz words in IT all around the world but why no one is talking about it in Pakistan is a whole different story. It’s a question that has to be bluntly asked: Why isn’t Linux being used in Pakistan’s IT industry? The answer is very simple.
The lack of awareness [...]
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has established itself as a viable business alternative to the more common proprietary solutions. By offering everything from operating system, database system, development languages and application servers to specialized systems such as ERP that run over this basic software infrastructure, FOSS alternatives now rivals many of the high cost [...]
The Employees Old Age Benefits Institution or EOBI’s objective is to provide social benefits to old age employees of the private sector, autonomous and semi autonomous bodies in the form of pensions and grants. For this, it collects contribution from employers. The main data intensive tasks that are performed at EOBI are:
a) Registration of employers,
b) [...]
After announcing layoffs and poor earnings for Q2 2009 last week, Microsoft has to worry more about how it is perceived by Wall Street, competitors, shareholders and the press. But what about the people in the trenches? What do IT managers think about Microsoft’s economic woes?
While the media and Wall Street may be painting a [...]
[CIO.com] Mark Shuttleworth is not your average IT manager. A few weeks ago, he posted a question on an Ubuntu list. Not an order. Not a policy decision. A question: “Should we think about…?” he asked. Collaboration, community and teamwork are part of his personal style.
Yet Shuttleworth, who founded the Ubuntu project in 2004 and [...]
The virtualization market took a sharp turn toward the nasty, practical and cheap during 2008. [Microsoft finally shipped a version of Windows Server with a native hypervisor, effectively giving away the ability to create multiple virtual servers from one machine. That’s the cheap. The nasty: Microsoft also pulled marketing stunts like sending guerilla marketers into [...]
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So how big is Open Source in Pakistan? Is there a future for the penguin at the enterprise level? Faraz Khan of Emergen Consulting shares his views on the matter…
What’s the biggest query companies have to deploy OpenSource solutions at the Enterprise level?
The biggest concern in Pakistan, as well as globally, is that of resources. [...]
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