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  Smarter Linux file structure aims to ease software management

  The Unix file system hierarchy has been used for decades and remains the model for most of today’s modern Linux systems, but one distribution, GoboLinux, is making software management easier with an innovative directory structure.

  By Rodney Gedda | 22 January, 2010 14:31

  Tags: system administrators, software management, software maintenance, linux.conf.au, Linux, GoboLinux, files

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  Microsoft sets July kill date for Office 2000

  Microsoft yesterday reminded Office 2000 users that it will discontinue security updates for the aged suite in less than two months as it drops all support for the software.

  By Gregg Keizer | 22 May, 2009 04:57

  Tags: end of life, Microsoft, Office 2000, software maintenance

• The computer maintenance flash drive

  In "Applications on a Flash Drive," I mentioned that I keep a flash drive with portable diagnostic tools I use for fixing friends' and relatives' PCs. Andy Ludlum asked what programs I keep on that flash drive.

  By Lincoln Spector | 08 December, 2009 03:43

  Tags: software maintenance, flash drive

Whitepapers about software maintenance

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  IBM agility@scale™: Become as Agile as You Can Be

  In this eBook, Scott Ambler, IBM Rational software's Chief Methodologist for Agile and Lean discusses how IT organisations are finding that agile project teams, as compared to traditional project teams, enjoy higher success rates, deliver higher quality projects, have greater levels of stakeholder satisfaction, provide better return on investment (ROI) and deliver systems to market sooner.

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  Transforming Software Delivery: An IBM Rational Case Study

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  Case Study: Danske Bank Group improves efficiency and reduces time to market

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  Collaborative software delivery: Managing today’s complex environment to improve software quality