Annual Salary Survey: IT managers with mainframe and large Unix-based systems skills earn as much as 20 percent more than those in Wintel-based positions.
The price of software has risen dramatically, especially for large systems. Today, software costs can quickly consume the average IT budget. That's why increasing numbers of organizations are turning to Software Asset Management (SAM) to help manage and control their software costs. Yet according to IDC, less than half of 250 companies it recently surveyed actively practice asset management.
In IT circles, the term "disintermediation" usually means removing the middleman—the dealer or wholesaler—from the distribution chain, thanks mostly to e-commerce. When Daniel Loranger uses it, he's talking about changes that have removed the middleman standing between users and the information they seek.
Increasing numbers of organizations are turning to Software Asset Management (SAM) to help manage and control their software costs