German railway firm offers admin job for 30-year-old Windows software
A German railway firm posted an eye-catching job opening online. The job description sought an administrator with knowledge of MS-DOS and Windows 3.11. MS-DOS is one of the first consumer device operating systems and was released in 1975.
In general, not much seems to have changed about the dig... Read more
‘Average IT professional wastes day a week on overcomplicated software’
Nine out of ten IT professionals are frustrated with their company's software. 89 percent say they spend close to a day a week on unwanted or overcomplicated software.
Freshworks questioned 900 European IT professionals on their experience with business software. The average professional spends ... Read more
Outdated systems and lack of IT knowledge are a ‘toxic cocktail’
Managers struggle with outdated systems. A large number of companies postpone updates due to a lack of IT knowledge. "A toxic cocktail", says USoft CEO Hans Canisius in a new research report.
USoft develops a low-code platform for rewriting and updating business-critical systems. Recently, the o... Read more
Meet Kyndryl, IBM’s new Managed Infrastructure Services Business
The new company is the result of Big Blue's spinoff of its Managed Infrastructure Services business.
IBM announced this week that Kyndryl will be the name of its new, independent company. The newco follows the separation of IBM's Managed Infrastructure Services business. The christening should h... Read more
“Office 365 implementations delayed by excessive network latency.
Organizations are seeing that Office 365 implementations are significantly delayed by gateway appliance upgrades and excessive network latency. This is the result of a survey carried out by Zscaler among 250 European and American organisations that have rolled out Microsoft's suite.
In the 2019 Off... Read more