Outsourcing
Press Release, 10/17/02: The Yankee Group Forecasts 2002 Worldwide Market for Centralized IT Outsourcing at $95 Billion and Decentralized IT Outsourcing at $85 Billion
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 17, 2002--
Research indicates that changing user needs are driving the most complete restructuring of the outsourcing industry since the beginning of the 1990s.
The Yankee Group projects an annual growth rate of 12 percent for centralized IT (traditional data center outsourcing) and 10 percent for decentralized IT (desktops and mobile devices), through the next four years. A new report from the Yankee Group's Technology Management Strategies research and consulting practice, "Key Trends in Outsourcing," presents the key drivers and inhibiters for the growth of IT outsourcing.
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Technology Economy
The Wall Street Journal, 10/18/02: Tech Will Be Back, Past Slumps Suggest, as Innovators Revive It
By SCOTT THURM and KEN BROWN
Will the battered technology industry -- an engine of growth in the U.S. economy and the stock market -- ever regain its strength?
History offers a convincing answer: Yes, but it could take years. Look at a decade ago, when the U.S. technology industry was left for dead. Asian chip-makers had grabbed roughly half of the global semiconductor market. Personal computers were helpful at work but seemed of limited utility elsewhere. Investors didn't see much future: Tech companies shrank to their smallest share of stock-market value in 15 years.
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IT Management
Optimize, 10/02: Tech Gets In Step
The information-technology sector is maturing and for the first time in its history mirrors the gyrations of the overall manufacturing sector. Therein lies the good and bad news.
by Lakshman Achuthan
October 2002, Issue 12
Information technology has grown up to become a full-blown cyclical business. Prior to the 2001 recession, economic downturns and outright recessions did little to hurt the IT sector--largely because it represented a much smaller proportion of overall capital spending. However, by 2000 almost half of all U.S. capital investment was IT-related.
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Security
Giga, 10/16/02: IT Trends 2003: Network Security
Michael Rasmussen
Network security technologies, such as firewalls, represent a mature segment of the security market. While most organizations have deployed firewall technologies, the demands placed on these network security devices are causing the technology and its use to change rapidly. Organizations are reevaluating their network security architectures (e.g., demilitarized zones (DMZs), internal firewalls), and beginning to evolve them for their future business needs.
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Microsoft
C|net, 10/17/02: Microsoft squashes three security bugs
By Joe Wilcox
Microsoft issued three security warnings late Wednesday affecting its popular SQL Server database, Windows XP operating system, and Word and Excel applications.
The SQL Server flaw, which Microsoft deemed critical, is the most serious of the lot. Exploitation of the flaw would "allow a low-privileged user the ability to run, delete, insert or update Web tasks," according to Microsoft's security warning. The flaw affects SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 7, as well as Microsoft Data Engine 1.0 and Microsoft Desktop Engine 2000, which are used by developers building software using Microsoft’s Visual Studio development tools.
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Giga, 10/16/02: Office XP Adoption Trails Windows XP Adoption, Although Combination Still Best Bet
Ken Smiley
In the last year, Windows 98 has dropped from about 50 percent market share among computers accessing the Internet to just under 37 percent share, while Windows XP has climbed from just over 1 percent to 20 percent during the same time frame, according to Websidestory’s Statmarket.com Web site. This places Windows XP second only to Windows 98 on the Web, and makes it one of the fastest growing operating systems Microsoft has ever produced. Giga has also previously published market share estimates based on client surveys.
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Wireless
Giga, 10/16/02: IT Trends 2003: Wireless WAN 2.5/3G Services
Bernt Ostergaard
What are the trends in mobile wireless area network (WAN) services?
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PC Market
c|net, 10/18/02: PC companies expect little holiday cheer
By John G. Spooner and Michael Kanellos
While reporting their third-quarter earnings, major PC companies have been shedding some light on how the all-important fourth quarter will shape up--and the outlook is dim.
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