IT Management
Optimize, 9/02: IT On The Fast Track
The agile IT organization is key to Competitiveness in today's high-velocity business environment.
by John Damgaard
Although the term "Internet time" isn't in vogue anymore, business timelines keep shrinking. Major offensives that previously took many mon0074hs to plan and many more to execute are now conceived and carried out in a single quarter, allowing businesses to capitalize on fleeting market opportunities. To be competitive and create shareholder value in such an environment, companies can't relax; they have to respond to external forces, seize market opportunities, and squelch competitive threats with counteroffensives very quickly. The key is an agile IT organization.
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Utility Computing
Optimize, 9/02: Is Utility Computing A Viable Business Option?
Yes. The shift to utility computing is inevitable, and companies are already adopting the new model. By Dev Mukherjee, IBM Global Services.
No. Business-model and architectural obstacles will cause users either to delay or bypass utility adoption for several years By Alex Osadzinski, Trinity Ventures.
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Security
Computer Reseller News, 9/11/02: Intel To Work With Microsoft, Standards Groups On Security
By Kristen Kenedy
Intel's hardware-based security technology, which the company unveiled this week at its fall developer forum, fits into a larger industrywide vision that includes work by standards groups and Microsoft, according to security experts.
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Microsoft
eWeek, 9/11/02: Microsoft: No Office Subscriptions on Tap?
By Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Watch
Microsoft apparently has decided that the world isn't ready for buying Office via subscription.
An Australian Office program manager let the news slip that the company had decided to nix its long-term plan of selling its desktop suite this way, based on customer feedback that found subscriptions a less-than-optimal method for purchasing Office.
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PC Industry
Giga, 9/6/02: IT Trends 2003: Desktop and Mobile PCs
Rob Enderle
The PC market remains soft, and poor back-to-school performance in 2002 does not bode well for the fourth quarter of 2002 or for 2003. Giga sees little budget relief for 2003 purchases, and demand-generation activities from the primary vendors, Intel and Microsoft, remain weak. We expect Intel to ramp-up a significant marketing effort in a few months but have been badly disappointed by past efforts and we doubt Intel, by itself, has enough resources to change this trend significantly even if they executed unusually well. It appears that unless something dramatic happens in the industry we are not likely to see anything we can call a market recovery until the 2004 or 2005 timeframe and by then, we are likely to see a dramatic reduction and change in the PC vendor landscape.
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