Outsourcing
CIO Magazine, 1/03: Outsourcing: Directions and Decisions for 2003
Amazing what a difference a decade or so makes. Back in the fall of 1989, when Eastman Kodak Co. announced the first watershed IT outsourcing deal (10 years, $250 million), CIOs everywhere greeted the news with disdain. They thought outsourcing would be the ruin of their carefully constructed IT organizations.
Today, 13 years later, CIOs worldwide are building their IT groups around outsourcing. In fact, the recent Getronics/IDG Research survey of IT executives in the US and six European countries reveals that with 30% of IT budgets devoted to external service providers, outsourcing clearly is a major component of IT strategy.
As cost control and profitability lead business objectives in 2003, according to the survey participants, outsourcing may look even more attractive.
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Desktop Management
TechRepublic, 1/3/03: Press F11: the PC heals itself
IBM has teamed up with Xpoint to add Rapid Restore to its PCs. Now, with just the push of a button, IBM ThinkPads and NetVista desktops can automatically reimage themselves and restore user data.
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Microsoft
The New York Times, 1/9/03: A Microsoft Watch Will Provide Much More Than Time
By SAUL HANSELL
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 — Microsoft, continuing its effort to extend its reach beyond computers, today introduced designs for a new class of watch that gives more than the time and a pocket audio and video player.
The designs, which will be available from several manufacturers by the end of the year, were presented by Microsoft's chairman, Bill Gates, in a speech today that opened the annual International Consumer Electronics Show here.
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Government
TechWeb, 1/8/02: Government IT Outsourcing Expected To Soar
Eric Chabrow, InformationWeek
A Bush administration mantra has been to outsource when practical, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that federal government spending in IT outsourcing services is projected to grow at double-digit rates in the foreseeable future.
Input, a government IT market-research firm, sees federal government spending on IT outsourcing, which stood at $6.6 billion in fiscal 2002, soaring to $15 billion in fiscal 2007. That's a whopping 18% annual growth rate.
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