CenterBeam
Kirstin’s Puppy
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Outsourcing
Giga, 8/7/02: ITAM Responsibility Cannot Be Outsourced Alone
Many organizations fail at IT asset management (ITAM). Some think that if they outsource the problem then it disappears. This assumption has proved problematic. Effective IT asset management is dependent on the accuracy of the data that is being tracked on the distributed IT environment and success is dependent on IT operations continually updating any changes made to the ITAM system in a manual or semi-automated process.
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Microsoft
C|net, 8/8/02: .Net name ties Microsoft in knots
By Mike Ricciuti
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has said that building the company's .Net software architecture is more difficult than "getting to the moon or designing the 747."
But the company's massive initiative apparently faces an even tougher problem that has nothing to do with the technology itself: explaining the meaning of .Net to consumers, corporate executives and investors.
"We still get people saying to us, 'What is .Net?'" Gates said at a conference held two weeks ago specifically to answer that question. "It's one of those great questions that people can say, 'Yes, it's come into focus at the infrastructure level,' but a little bit where we go beyond that has been unclear to people."
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What People Do While Waiting for the Economy to Recover
The New York Times, 8/8/02: Turning Mysteries of E-Mail and Technology Into Theater
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES
FOR many people, e-mail is simply a part of daily life. They send and receive messages with a few easy keystrokes. But few stop to ponder what happens to their message once they hit Send. "In the Wire," a new play being presented this month as part of the New York International Fringe Festival, seeks to change that.
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