IT Management
Computerworld, 10/7/02: Tech Check: Asset Managers Extend IT Control
By MICHAEL MEEHAN
The idea behind it asset management software is simple enough: These tools discover the assets on your network and act as a central repository for IT asset information.
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Information Week, 10/9/02: Companies Find CIOs Serve Key Role On Board Of Directors Oct. 9, 2002
Having business-technology executives on a board adds know-how in a vital area
By Eric Chabrow
As IT proliferates throughout a company, common sense dictates that a CIO or other business technologist should sit on corporate boards. Though boards are a collection of experts in management, finance, law, and merger and acquisitions, business technology know-how is visibly absent on most boards.
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EDS
Financial Times, 10/9/02: EDS seeks to cut cost of $8bn P&G deal
By Tom Foremski and Richard Waters in San Francisco
Electronic Data Systems, the beleaguered US IT services group, is trying to renegotiate an $8bn outsourcing deal with Procter & Gamble to reduce the initial capital investment required from $800m to just $100m.
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Microsoft
Computerworld, 10/9/02: IT administrators see benefits to Outlook 11
by TODD R. WEISS
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- New features in the upcoming version of Microsoft Outlook are being lauded by IT administrators who say the features answer some of the most pressing needs of the e-mail client's users.
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Infoworld, 10/9/02: ITxpo: Microsoft says XP means big savings for companies
By Ed Scannell
ORLANDO -- TRYING to accelerate desktop buying decisions, Microsoft at Gartner's ITxpo on Wednesday released the results of a multi-company study showing that larger IT shops can collectively save billions of dollars over the next few years by moving from Windows and Office 9.X level products to Windows and Office XP.0
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TechWeb, 10/9/02: Microsoft's New Security Black Eye
Scot Finnie
On January 15 Bill Gates sent his now-famous memo launching Microsoft's "trustworthy computing" security initiative. In the nine-plus months since, two things have become clear:
1. Microsoft really is serious about security;
2. The company's efforts so far haven't even come close to getting the job done.
Although Windows XP is among the least buggy operating systems Microsoft has ever shipped, it's virtually riddled with security flaws affecting everything from its HTML Help system to its Zip compression support and its Java Virtual Machine. Meanwhile, such applications as Microsoft FrontPage and Microsoft Word have also caught flack for security holes. The company has issued 57 security bulletins so far this year.
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