CenterBeam
Knight Ridder, 11/2/02Microsoft: The valley reacts
By Chris O'Brien
After more than four years of legal wrangling, the Microsoft case may have mercifully come to a final conclusion Friday. Yet, with the latest ruling comes a nagging sense that Microsoft and its opponents have been fighting yesterday's battles.
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One Silicon Valley observer, Sheldon Laube, the former chief technology officer of Novell, applauded the ruling if for no other reason than he hopes his comrades in tech will stop obsessing about Microsoft and get on with their lives.
``Enough is enough. The court isn't going to help,'' said Laube, chairman of CenterBeam a Santa Clara systems integrator. ``Let's go back and create some great products. The industry now, more than ever, does not need to be distracted. There are bigger problems that we all face.''
The story, report on in a special edition of Today’s News published on 11/2/02, has been picked up on the Knight Ridder wire and publishing in the following newspapers:
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Outsourcing
Computerworld, 11/4/02: No. 2 bank may outsource IT
By THOMAS HOFFMAN
Sources last week said J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. is weighing a decision to outsource the bulk of its IT operations, a deal that one insider noted could rank second in size and scope to the $40 billion contract signed in 1996 by General Motors Co. and Electronic Data Systems Corp.
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IT Management
CIO, 10/02: IT Spending: The Fourth Quarter Is Not Ours
Few CIOs Expect Year-End IT Spending Splurge
BY LORRAINE COSGROVE WARE
By Lorraine Cosgrove Ware
The technology sector will not see an end-of-year surge in IT spending, according to the 316 executives surveyed in CIO Magazine’s October Tech Poll. Only 19% of those surveyed reported that their organization expects a year-end “spend-the-budget” shopping spree, while 75% indicated that their company will not invest any remaining 2002 budget dollars this quarter. Twenty-three percent expect this quarter’s IT spending to be higher than 3Q spending levels and close to half of those surveyed (47%) said spending would remain flat quarter-to-quarter. Twenty-nine percent predict that IT spending will be lower this quarter than last. Pent-up demand will remain as such and will not drive technology purchases until 2003.
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Microsoft
Meta Group, 11/4/02: Microsoft Platform Recovery: Looking out a Dirty Window?
Preliminary research indicates that fewer than 10% of business and IT organizations (ITOs) have confidence they can successfully recover Windows platforms (e.g., Windows 2000). Successful organizations have identified gaps by comparing business recovery objectives to existing replication capabilities for OSs, file systems, and databases. Typically, business needs are translated by component to match the desired component state (e.g., static, dynamic), with tactical planning efforts focused on state-appropriate solutions. Identical configurations support state-maintaining solutions, but cost 4x-8x more than static solutions suited for longer recovery-time objectives. ITOs can reduce recovery costs by considering component state, business need, and technology capabilities when offering the business recovery alternatives. Bottom Line: Defined business recovery objectives and mature inventory management processes will generally prevent organizations from rapidly solving Windows recovery issues; we expect slow maturity, and only 50% of organizations will be able to validate Windows platform recovery by 2005. Michael Buchheim - Service Management Strategies (SMS)
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