CenterBeam
Computer Reseller News, 10/11/02: The E-Forms Proposition
Channel mulls value of Microsoft's XDocs technology for Office
By Paula Rooney & Steven Burke
Microsoft channel partners say the software vendor's XML-based e-forms technology for its Office productivity suite appears promising but that its value remains to be seen.
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Another solution provider said he's not sure if XDocs would function amid a network failure, even though it has an offline mode that lets users save their work before going online.
"XDocs is built on two enormous assumptions: It has been designed to work only on a network of computers that are up and running all the time, and if critical information is inaccessible due to network or computer failure, XDocs fails," said Glenn Ricart, CTO of CenterBeam, Santa Clara, Calif.
The level of demand for such technology also remains unclear, Ricart said. "It's assumed there's market demand to build complex, compound documents drawing from various live sources. While that may be the case by the time XDocs reaches market, [so far] the market has expressed little if any desire for this capability since Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) was introduced and productized five years ago," he said.
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Outsourcing
VARBusiness, 9/20/02: CSC Has a Lock On Government Business
By Dennis McCafferty
In changing times, Computer Sciences Corp.'s (CSC) federal-sector operation in Falls Church, Va., is quick to adapt. CSC, based in El Segundo, Calif., commands $2.9 billion in annual sales, one quarter of its overall revenue, from the U.S. government.
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IT Management
ZDNet, 10/11/02: Ten predictions to shake your world
By Dan Farber
Gartner analysts took out their crystal balls and came up with a list of ten predictions that will impact enterprise businesses. The predictions cross over technology, economics, and social boundaries over that will morph during the next eight years.
What follows is a brief description of each prediction and my commentary. What's your take on these predictions? Send me [dan.farber@cnet.com] yours and we'll gather some of them for a special edition of Tech Update Today.
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Mobile Computing
Computerworld, 10/11/02: New systems ease support of handhelds
By BOB BREWIN
Good Technology Inc. this week announced a system aimed at making it easier for IT departments to provide mobile device users with access to back-end information systems without the need to individually configure their handhelds. AT&T Wireless Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. jointly announced a similar hands-off approach to setting up remote users on corporate e-mail systems.
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Data Security
TechWeb, 10/14/02: Are Your Company's Laptops Safe?
By Larry Lange
Happy 10th birthday to the ThinkPad. Now maybe it's time IBM made the devices more secure.
Actually, that's an important goal for all laptop makers. The same portability that makes mobile machines so convenient also makes them easy targets. Reports of theft and loss of laptops at government agencies (including the FBI, the IRS, and the Pentagon) underscore real dangers, but let's face it—we all know someone who's had a laptop stolen at an airport or taxi stand, or simply forgotten it at the security counter.
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