CenterBeam
Computerworld, 11/18/02, Predictions: Throwaway Machines
Welcome to the age of the disposable PC. What with Wal-Mart today selling a personal computer for $199, it is too expensive to dispatch a repair person to fix a machine and too expensive to ship it back and forth from a repair depot. Within five years, a hardware failure will mean that the user will throw away the machine, unbox a new one, plug it into the network and then watch as his data, preferences and applications are "reincarnated" into the new machine from a central service.
Sheldon Laube, chairman, CenterBeam Inc., Santa Clara, Calif.
Outsourcing
USA Today, 11/18/02: White House plan could give big boost to outsourcing industry
Stephanie Armour and Del Jones USA TODAY
The White House plan to put as many as 850,000 government jobs up for competition from private contractors could be an unprecedented boon to the outsourcing industry.
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Gartner, 11/13/02: Management Update: How to Build a Co-management Contract Team
As enterprises move closer to “buying relationships,” the contract negotiations will focus on the roles and responsibilities taken on by the external service provider and the enterprise in the co-management contract and associated processes.
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Meta, 11/8/02: North American Outsourcing METAspectrum:“Leaders”
Service Management Strategies
Dean Davison
A though all vendors in the North American outsourcing METAspectrum are relative y successful ,the leaders provide competitive end-to-end IT services, possess broad-based name-brand recognition, and have established histories of successful client engagements. Only IBM Globa Services and EDS stand out as leaders within this highly competitive market.
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Meta, 11/8/02: North American Outsourcing METAspectrum: “Challengers ”
Service Management Strategies
Dean Davison
Challengers constitute the majority of top outsourcing vendors in North America. While leaders provide comprehensive, end-to-end IT services, most challengers have more limited capabilities or strategies that target specific markets, niches, or solutions. META Group believes that vendors ranked as challengers are successful, effective vendors in a market of capable competitors.
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IT Management
Giga, 11/14/02: US IT Budgets Will Be Up Modest 2 Percent in 2003, but Expect Actual IT Spending to Be Flat or Down
Andrew Bartels
Giga projects that total US IT budgets will show about 2 percent growth on average, but actual IT spending will be flat to down slightly, as companies find they can get what they want at lower prices than they budgeted. A few industries, such as health care, the federal government, retailing, pharmaceuticals and consumer goods, will have better than the 2 percent average growth in IT budgets. Within this 2 percent growth for IT budgets, we are projecting that for 2003…
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Gartner, 11/15/02: Worldwide Forecast for IT Services:
November 2002 Update
Gartner Dataquest has updated its forecast for the worldwide IT services market by region and segment. We now forecast that this market will grow from $541.9 billion in 2001 to $736.6 billion in 2006 — a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.3 percent. Our prior forecast, published in April 2002, was for a CAGR of 6.0 percent from 2000 to 2005.
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Wireless
The New York Times, 11/17/02: Businesses, Big and Small, Bet on Wireless Internet Access
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 — From a rooftop overlooking hundreds of failed dot-com businesses in the South of Market district here, an inelegant picture-frame sized antenna is now radiating the Internet over a 20-block area.
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