CenterBeam
Press Release, 6/24/02: Internet Society Announces Election of New Board of Trustees;
Founded by Internet Pioneers, ISOC Celebrates 10 Years of Advancing The Internet for the Benefit of All People Throughout the World
The Internet Society (ISOC) today announced the election of eight new members to its Board of Trustees. The organization, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, functions as the international focal point for global cooperation and coordination in the development of the Internet.
The new board members will took office last week, in conjunction with ISOC's 12th Annual INET Conference, held in Washington, D.C. INET is an annual event where technology experts, policy makers and business leaders meet to debate and discuss technologies and policies that will define the future of the Internet. ISOC's board is made up of representatives from industry, the engineering community and the Society's membership. New board members include Philippe Courtot, Chairman and CEO of Qualys, Inc.; Fred Baker, Cisco, Inc.; Erik Huizer, University Twente; Toshio Miki, DoCoMo Communications Laboratories; Glenn Ricart, CenterBeam; Latif Ladid, Ericsson; Osten Franberg, Ericsson; and Veni Markovski, Global Internet Policy Initiative. They will join current board members Brian Carpenter, Rosa Delgado, Barbara Fraser, Christine Maxwell, Wawa Ngenge, Alan Greenberg, Don Heath, Kees Neggers and George Sadowsky. Newly-appointed board member Fred Baker was elected chairman of ISOC's Board of Trustees.
Ten years ago ISOC was formed with the primary intent of providing an institutional home for and financial support for the Internet standards process through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The Society was to engage in a variety of activities including public policy, conferences, workshops, and other activities that would facilitate developing countries getting on the Internet as well as contribute to its overall stability and openness.
It was also to act as a neutral and internationally recognized body, devoted to the support of Internet administrative infrastructure. Plans for ISOC's formation were announced at the INET Conference in June 1991 in Copenhagen and it was officially formed in January 1992.
Today, ISOC has fulfilled that role and more. It is the foremost not-for-profit organization focused exclusively on Internet issues. Not only is it the organizational home of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), but also the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) and other Internet-related bodies. ISOC has played a critical role in ensuring that the Internet has developed in a stable and open manner.
For the last 10 years it has run international network training programs for developing countries which have played a vital role in setting up the Internet connections and networks in virtually every country that has connected to the Internet. ISOC is taking the next step in this evolution with the recent announcement of its intent to bid for the .ORG registry based on the belief that a thriving non-commercial presence is a key element in developing a strong social and technical infrastructure in all nations.
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IBM Global Services
Press Release, 6/24/02: IBM Global Services Launches "Manage It for Me" Program for Medium-sized Businesses; Suite of 20 Security, Hosting and Management Services
To address the needs of the growing number of medium-sized companies looking for IT services to help manage their business, IBM today announced the "Manage It for Me" program, a suite of services offerings and attractive financing to enable customers with fewer than 1,000 employees to outsource their computer operations to IBM Global Services.
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Infoworld, 6/24/02: IBM teams up with Narad to target SMB market
By Scott Tyler Shafer
IBM TODAY ANNOUNCED it is teaming up with startup Narad Networks to jointly develop a service delivery platform that will aid cable operators in reaching the oft-forgotten SMB (small and midsize business) markets.
The announcement was characterized as part of a "far reaching" strategy of IBM's to extend the company's technologies and services from the enterprises to the SMBs, said IBM executives.
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Outsourcing
Gartner, 6/14/02:Rush to Outsource and Trouble Will Follow
Too often, IT outsourcing decisions are made by executive management with a singleminded goal to cut costs in the short term. Deals made this way are usually in trouble within a year.
When financial pressures build, many enterprises replace or supplement their leadership with executive change agents that are charged with turning around poor financial results. Usually, the change agents set aggressive time frames for reducing costs that take priority over the longer-term health of the enterprise. Often, they target IT outsourcing as a way to reduce costs and rush enterprises into outsourcing.
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Gartner, 6/17/02: Considering Outsourcing? Shout It Out!
Effective communication is crucial for a successful transition to an outsourced environment. Communications practices that undermine transitions can be replaced by practices that significantly decrease service disruption.
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Gartner, 6/14/02: Outsourcing SLAs: Business Value Is the Missing Link
Service-level agreements that measure the technical attributes of services yet fail to meet minimum business requirements or deliver business value frequently lead to bad deals.
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Gartner, 6/14/02: Benchmarking Helps Outsourcing Deals Stay Competitive
Outsourcing deals will inevitably change over time. Benchmarking ensures that these deals remain competitive.
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Gartner, 6/17/02: Mitigate Outsourcing Risk or Pay the Price
Enterprises often enter outsourcing deals without considering risk, assuming that all of the risks lay with the external service provider. Lack of risk analysis will likely mean that deals go wrong from the start.
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Gartner, 6/17/02: Retain Enough Resources to Manage Outsourcing Deals
Enterprises incorrectly assume that few, if any, internal resources will be required to manage the contract and relationship with an external service provider, and they do not build these resources into their outsourcing plans.
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IDG, 6/24/02: Gartner: 2002 record year for bad outsourcing deals
Gillian Law, IDG News ServiceLondon Bureau
The IT service industry in Western Europe will see only 2.3 percent growth in 2002, the lowest in 10 years, while customers will sign a record number of bad outsourcing deals, Gartner Inc. predicted at a conference in London on Monday.
The industry is in a "gap year" period when most businesses are taking a step back to look at where they stand, and at how to make do with what they have, said Robert Brown, a senior Gartner analyst at the Stamford, Connecticut, company's IT Services and Sourcing 2002 conference. Therefore, they are not spending much money, he said. That means the competition for each customer has intensified, and companies are being talked into deals they will regret, he said.
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Microsoft
The New York Times, 6/24/02: It's a Tablet. It's a Notebook. From Microsoft, a New Hybrid.
By STEVE LOHR
Microsoft began promoting its Tablet PC nearly two years ago with a clear message and vision: a powerful, pen-based computer unfettered by a keyboard. Bill Gates, the company's chairman, made the rounds of industry events, prototype tablet in hand, extolling the virtues of handwriting and digital ink.
But when Microsoft announces in New York today that machines using its Tablet PC software will be introduced on Nov. 7, the emphasis will be on using pen-based features to enhance conventional notebook computers.
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San Jose Mercury News, 6/25/02: Will IBM or Microsoft control small-business market?
By David Lidsky
IBM and Microsoft are going after small businesses -- again! Over the past decade, the two tech titans have made more promises -- about how well they're going to serve this market -- than a cheating husband begging not to have his suitcases tossed onto the front lawn. Maybe they should just send small businesses a Hallmark card every year saying how much they care.
Yet this time things may be different. Now that IT spending for large companies has slowed, small business looks a lot more attractive. It represents an untapped honey pot of anywhere from $30 billion to $300 billion, depending on how broadly you define the market (Microsoft generally adheres to the lower estimate and IBM the higher).
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