Posts with keyword: purchasing

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Buying Windows Vista

Tue Jan 16 11:00:00 2007

A while back, I posted links to reviews of Windows Vista. That page is getting quite a bit of play and undoubtedly, my flippant summary at the end isn't much help for people trying to make buying decisions, so here's my buying advice (with links to Amazon for easy purchasing). First off, will Vista run on your computer? If you're computer is reasonably new (last two years), then you're probably OK. You'll need gobs of memory, however--probably at least 1Gb of RAM. So, make sure you add that into the total purchase price if you decide to upgrade. Now,
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Making IT Purchasing Decisions

Tue Jan 16 10:30:00 2007

I just published the latest in my Technometria series on IT Conversations, a conversations with Kelly Phillpps. Kelly is someone I've turned to for years because of his way of thinking deeply about issues. We discuss the weeks announcements from CES and MacWorld and those turn to a discussion of open source in the enterprise and how companies make IT purchasing decisions.
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