Decision Central

Archive: 10-2008

• How can TechRepublic help you decide about products?

  A recent study by Jupiter Research and BuzzLogic has suggested that blogs are more influential in product decisions than friends on social networks. What can a site like TechRepublic, which has a...

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 28, 2008, 12:28 PM PDT

• Process 300 million transactions a day without going crazy

  And you think you’ve got a busy day. How’d you like to be the CIO responsible for processing 300 million transactions a day? This CIO Session video comes from ZDNet and discusses what...

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 27, 2008, 2:21 PM PDT

• What influences you in making a final product decision?

  When you have a product purchasing decision to make, there are usually dozens of different makes and models to choose from. Trying to sort out the differences isn’t always easy to do without...

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 24, 2008, 9:34 AM PDT

• Make better decisions with less information

  Is it possible to have too much information to make a decision? The obvious answer is yes, but what’s key is how you define what ‘too much’ information is. By minimizing the...

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 22, 2008, 12:11 PM PDT

• Is price no object to the typical Apple customer?

  Apple recently freshened the Mac line, including souped up CPUs and new graphics from nVidia. What didn’t change however was the Mac price point. Although there’s now a (barely)...

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 20, 2008, 2:48 PM PDT

• If you sit out Vista, what are your alternatives?

  Steve Ballmer has finally come out and said that it’s ok with him if you sit out Vista and stick with XP until Windows 7 ships. But will you wait? And when 7 ships, will you sit out that as...

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 17, 2008, 12:32 PM PDT

• The eternal IT debate: Build or buy?

  The classic conundrum is IT has always been between building the solution yourself or buying it from someone else. Let’s look at some of the common build vs. buy scenarios and see how to...

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 15, 2008, 11:59 AM PDT

• From Web 2.0 to DotBomb 2.0?

  The dawn of the 21st century saw a lot of Internet companies crash and burn in the first DotBomb era. With the recent economic problems, Rafe Needleman from Webware talks to CNETTV about the...

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 14, 2008, 11:58 AM PDT

• What has the economic meltdown done to your IT projects?

  One of the, if not the primary, factor to take into consideration when rolling out a new IT project is ensuring there’s an available budget for it. With the economy in a near meltdown,...

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 10, 2008, 1:05 PM PDT

• Should users be allowed to supply their own computers?

  In an attempt to show the power of virtualization, Citrix has implemented a policy to allow users to purchase any computer they want. Is a BYOC policy a good idea or a bad idea?

  Posted by John Sheesley | October 9, 2008, 3:03 PM PDT