CenterBeam
NewsFactor, 11/5/02: Speeding Up Broadband
Mike Martin, www.NewsFactor.com
Reaching the outer limits of Internet speed is a daunting challenge for a rapidly evolving medium that already has surpassed velocities once thought unattainable, such as T1 and T3.
"The biggest barrier to a faster Internet is the speed of light," former Novell chief technology officer Glenn Ricart, who wrote the first TCP/IP stack for the IBM PC, told NewsFactor. "The way we will cross the barrier probably lies with something being worked on right now in physics labs."
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Outsourcing
ITWorld, 10/25/02: Outsourcing: A whole new model
Albert Leonardo, ITWorldCanada.com
It may not be the route Canadian organizations are choosing to take today, but according to Accenture Ltd., the business transformation outsourcing (BTO) model represents a fundamental way organizations could view and understand outsourcing down the road.
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Computerworld, 11/4/02: Jump Ball!
For Merrill Lynch's John McKinley, every IT service is up for grabs, and managing strategic service providers is a new core competency.
By KATHLEEN MELYMUKA
When Merrill Lynch & Co. CIO John McKinley talks, people listen to his ideas about managing the "virtual organization"—the intricate web of outsourced IT service partnerships that has become the strategic underpinning for many leading companies.
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Utility Computing
Business Week, 11/6/02: Computing Power Sold Like Electricity
By Spencer E. Ante in New York
Samuel J. Palmisano has seen the future of computing. On Oct. 30, at New York's American Museum of Natural History, IBM's CEO unveiled what his company deems The Next Big Thing: e-business on demand. Palmisano calls it the most important initiative IBM (NYSE:IBM - News) has undertaken since the Internet hit the scene. He's throwing all the might of IBM's 350,000 employees and $5 billion research and development war chest into the effort. "We have rallied the entire technology community at IBM around this," he says.
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Microsoft
eWeek, 11/4/02: Next-Generation Office Shows Promise
By Jason Brooks
With open-source offerings threatening to encroach on its imperious market position, Microsoft Corp. is under pressure to demonstrate that its products deliver superior value, despite any cost disadvantages. Although it's tough to compete with free, Microsoft has made a solid early case for itself with the first beta of Office 11, its next-generation office productivity suite.
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