Outsourcing
VAR Business, 7/8/02: Sherwin-Williams Repaints Systems
Paint retailer Sherwin-Williams is replacing its SCO Unix-equipped systems throughout its 2,500 stores with Linux. Under the multimillion-dollar deal, IBM Global Services will install roughly 9,700 M41 NetVista desktops, along with monitors, printers, cash drawers and related products. The new Turbolinux-equipped systems will run all store functions, including customer transactions, inventory and software applications used for paint mixing and tinting.
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IT Management
Optimize, 7/02: Can't We All Just Get Along?
Enterprise-technology leaders rise above rivalry between IT and business factions
by John Logan [ About the Author ]
Business and IT executives may talk about working together to achieve company goals, but actions, not talk, get the job done.
The classic success stories of Cigna, Dell Computer, ExxonMobil, Federal Express, Fidelity Investments, Toys "R" Us, and Wal-Mart have proven that strong IT-powered business strategies and partnerships can dramatically increase corporate market value.
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Microsoft
ZDNet, 7/11/02: Microsoft Readying 'Avalon' Framework for Longhorn
By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has promised for years how Windows will allow consumers to access "information at your fingertips."
With Longhorn, the next version of Windows due out in 2005, the company will take its first serious stab at delivering on Gates' vision. And a new application programming interface (API) framework, code-named Avalon, will be at the heart of Longhorn's new information-access architecture, according to sources.
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Economy /. Ethics
New York Times, 7/11/02: Cubicle Crimes
By SCOTT ADAMS
DANVILLE, Calif. — Apparently, without anyone's noticing, our entire universe collapsed into a black hole and emerged in another dimension where everything is backward: Bill Gates (who used to be evil) is spending billions to vaccinate children in third-world countries, while the Catholic Church (which used to be good) is defending priests accused of molesting children. The stock market (which used to go up) now only drifts downward. And the surest way to lose respect is to mention you started a dot-com.
But here's the strangest backwardism of all: People seem surprised that captains of industry are stealing vast amounts of money at every opportunity. Back in our old dimension everyone assumed that C.E.O.'s and C.F.O.'s were weasels. Now it's big news.
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