Outsourcing
San Jose Mercury News, 6/8/02: Executives On The Move
CENTERBEAM
A. Kevin Francis
CenterBeam named A. Kevin Francis president and chief executive officer. Francis brings high-tech experience from such companies as Xerox Canada and Accelio that serve enterprise customers. He joins the company from Accelio, where he was president, chief executive officer and director of the Web-enabled business process solutions provider.
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Press Release, 6/10/02: CSX World Terminals Selects Everdream for Multi-year IT Outsourcing Contract
CSX World Terminals the latest in Everdream’s growing list of Fortune 500 customers.
Fremont, CA - June 10, 2002 - Everdream™ Corporation, a leader in desktop management services, today announced that CSX World Terminals LLC has selected Everdream to manage their desktop computing needs. Under the agreement, Everdream will support end-users desktop computing needs, including asset inventory, service request management and help desk services through Everdream’s innovative IT Management Platform.
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Infoworld, 6/7/02: Analysis: Dell morphing into IT services company
By Dan Neel and Ephraim Schwartz
DELL'S SUCCESS AS an enterprise server vendor paved the way toward this week's acquisition by Dell of IT services company Plural.
The Round Rock, Texas-based computer maker recently joined the ranks of the top five server vendors in the world, taking the No. 5 spot behind IBM, Compaq, Sun, and HP for worldwide server market share by revenue, respectively, according to IDC in Framingham, Mass.
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IT Management
Infoworld, 6/7/02: Revenue is your business
By Chad Dickerson
June 7, 2002
OF THE MANY things a CTO must do to be successful, the one that can never be pushed to the back burner is simple: Maintain an unrelenting focus on helping your company produce revenue and profits. On a purely superficial level, this sounds like the job of the CEO or vice president of sales, but successful CTOs know that being closely involved in the revenue game is the key ingredient to the growth of your company and your career.
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Microsoft
ZDNet, 6/10/02: Outdated Windows code poses a threat
By Robert Lemos
Microsoft will more quickly retire old code in its Windows operating system and other software as a result of the company's four-month-old "trustworthy computing" initiative, the company's lead bug basher said in an interview.
The revelation follows last week's warning that a serious vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer occurred in the software supporting a decade-old protocol that has rarely been used since the World Wide Web became popular.
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Wireless / Broadband
The New York Times, 6/7/02: 2 Tinkerers Say They've Found a Cheap Way to Broadband
By JOHN MARKOFF
CUPERTINO, Calif., June 7 — Anyone looking for the next big thing in Silicon Valley should stop here at Layne Holt's garage.
Mr. Holt and his business partner, John Furrier, both software engineers, have started a company with a shoestring budget and an ambitious target: the cable and phone companies that currently hold a near-monopoly on high-speed access for the "last mile" between the Internet and the home.
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