IT Management
Giga, 7/19/02: High Tech Companies Need IT Departments Too
In high-tech companies, the developers (and/or other professional staff) typically have the technical knowhow that is required to put in place and maintain their own IT infrastructure. But that does not mean they should — no high-tech company, however small, can get away without dedicated IT resources. The following analysis and recommendations apply mainly to smaller organizations but many of the issues, as well as the ways to address them, apply equally to high-tech companies of any size.
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IT Consulting
eWeek, 7/22/02: Contractor Meat Market
By Lisa Vaas
Thinking of chucking corporate life for the independent, ever-varied and richly remunerated life of an IT contractor? First, get out a marker, map out and label your skills on your body parts, and imagine being carved up like a roast pig. It will give you an idea of how IT contractors feel right now.
"It's just a meat market," said Ed Dosado, who's been contracting as a desktop and tech support lead for projects such as Windows 2000 upgrades for the past two and a half years. Recently, Dosado decided to leave contracting, thankfully accepting a permanent position in tech support at HealthNet Inc., a health maintenance organization in Shelton, Conn.
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PC Industry
Bloomberg, 7/24/02: HP plans to pull its printers from Dell
Hewlett-Packard reacts to speculation that Dell may start selling its own printing products
By Peter J. Brennan
PALO ALTO - Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's largest personal-computer maker, will no longer sell printers and related gear through Dell Computer Corp., which may start competing with it in those products.
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Microsoft
ZDNet, 7/22/02: Like it or not--we need Microsoft's security
By Peter Judge
COMMENTARY--Back in January, the industry's collective jaw dropped when an internal e-mail from Bill Gates, clearly intended for wider circulation, announced to the world that security was now the company's number one priority, even ahead of new features.
Industry watchers quipped that this could mean no more new Microsoft products. If the company just promised not to deliver insecure products, what could it do, given its apparent inability to deliver any other kind? The press looked at the endless list of patches and service packs, of features switched on that should be off, and other problems, and seized on a new stick to beat the company with.
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The Wall Street Journal, 7/24/02: Users Still Waiting for Microsoft To Deliver on Promise of '.NET'
By REBECCA BUCKMAN
REDMOND, Wash. -- Two years ago, at the tail end of the dot-com boom, Microsoft Corp. pledged to completely overhaul its business through a new Internet strategy. In touchy-feely TV ads, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates promised a "new generation" of software that would "understand your voice, anticipate your needs, protect your privacy and connect you to the Internet wherever you are."
In a slick, all-day strategy session unveiling the revamping, dubbed "Microsoft.NET," the company showed videos of grandparents receiving digital photos zapped right to table-top picture frames, and a high-school student tapping away on a tablet-style computer on the bleachers outside school.
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