Outsourcing
IDG News Service, 10/10/02: ITxpo: Contracts at heart of outsourcing success
Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News ServiceLatin America Bureau
LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLORIDA - Many outsourcing projects are doomed before the ink dries on the contract because the contract stipulations don't correspond with the clients' expectations, a Gartner Inc. analyst said Thursday during a presentation at the company's Symposium/ITxpo here.
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Microsoft
cs|net, 10/11/02: C# standardization moves ahead
By Stephen Shankland
Microsoft and its allies have quietly expanded an effort to gain acceptance for C#, the software giant's competitor to Java and a foundation for its next-generation Internet services.
To convince potential customers that C# is a sound, independent technology, Microsoft already succeeded in getting it recognized by an international standards group known as ECMA, formerly called the European Computer Manufacturers Association. Microsoft has now used that as a stepping stone to gain the imprimatur of a more widely recognized standards group, the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO, which governs standards for items as diverse as dental equipment, nuclear fuels and shoe sizes.
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Infoworld, 10/11/02: Microsoft warns of 'critical' flaw in Outlook Express
By Paul Roberts
MICROSOFT RELEASED A security alert Thursday acknowledging a serious security hole in its Outlook Express e-mail client. The vulnerability, which was found in Outlook Express Versions 5.5 and 6.0, could allow a remote attacker to take control of machines running Outlook Express using malicious code embedded in an e-mail message.
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Data Security
CSO, 10/7/02: How to Rope in Rowdy Technologies
GROWING UP, A FRIEND of mine would cite entropy as the reason for never cleaning her room. After all, if the universe inexorably trends toward chaos and all systems eventually dissolve into disorder, what's the point of picking up a T-shirt or putting away a board game? It was an ingenious, if usually ineffective, application of scientific theory. It's also one that I suspect many CSOs can relate to as they confront the growing complexity of new technologies and its anarchic effect on their best-laid security plans.
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Larry Ellison
Seattle Times, 10/10/02: It's always personal in Ellison's eyes
AUCKLAND, New Zealand — It's not personal.
Larry Ellison, billionaire sailor, entrepreneur — and self-imagined Renaissance Man — looked us in the eye and swore to it before the first sail was hoisted on the Louis Vuitton Cup.
"I don't think it's personal at all," Ellison, founder and CEO of Oracle, insisted about his business and now sailboat-racing nemesis, the Paul Allen/Craig McCaw-sponsored OneWorld Challenge. "I wish them luck every day they're not racing against us."
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