CenterBeam
Infoworld, 1/10/03: Tech exec prognostications
By Eve Epstein
THE NEW YEAR often brings out the prognosticator in all of us, so we invited a few brave CTOs from InfoWorld's CTO Advisory Council to peer into a crystal ball and put their predictions down for posterity. What will be hot? What's hot now that will run out of steam in 2003? Here are their thoughts:
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Glenn Ricart, CenterBeam:
"The mantra of the new breed of tightly managing CTOs is 'measure, measure, and measure again' or maybe 'measure twice, and cut staff once.' Seriously, unless and until you measure IT, you can't tell where you're over- and underinvesting, and hence how to reallocate your resources well in these tight times.
"[In 2003] spam will get so out of control that people propose to regulate e-mail. And AOL and Hotmail (a Microsoft Network offering) strongly support the legislation, as it is costing them millions. As a personal response, people begin accepting e-mail only from vetted circles of nonspammers. Legitimate businesses and other senders of e-mail begin providing LDAP lookup services to verify the authenticity of the real people behind their e-mail.
"The 'next big thing' is context-aware computing. It knows where you are -- GPS; whom you're meeting with -- Bluetooth; your daily routines -- 'smart home'; and tailors to match the context in which it finds itself. With 802.11, it'll make sense to ask the browser to search for the three nearest pizza outlets because the computer will know where it is."
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Outsourcing
Computerworld, 1/9/03: Federal IT outsourcing spending to hit $15 billion in fiscal '07
By LINDA ROSENCRANCE
Federal government IT outsourcing spending will reach $15 billion in fiscal 2007, up 127% from the $6.6 billion spent in fiscal 2002, according to a report released yesterday by market research firm Input.
In a statement about the report, the Chantilly, Va.-based company said federal agencies will be forced to outsource those functions because of administrative pressures to complete nongovernmental functions as inexpensively as possible and because of difficulty in retaining and replacing qualified technical and program management personnel.
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IT Management
Harvard Business School, Working Knowledge, 1/6/03: Who Decides How Much to Spend On IT?
When it comes to technology, too often company executives cede decision making to the IT department. This excerpt from Harvard Business Review questions who should make decisions about long-term IT strategy.
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Business Continuity
The Laiserin Letter, 1/6/03: AEC Business Continuity Services: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Companies such as Centerbeam and Everdream, which offer turnkey leased/outsourced desktop and network infrastructure, already provide this type of service on the more conventional Microsoft Office-application side, through sophisticated software-delivery agents. I firmly believe that given current economic conditions many small, mid-size and large AEC firms would seriously consider migrating their AEC-specific applications to the data-outsourcing solution I am proposing.
Security
The Wall Street Journal, 1/9/03: E-Mail Users Fight Spam With Napster's Technology
By STEPHANIE MILES
Tens of thousands of frustrated Internet users aren't just getting angry about unwanted e-mail anymore. They're getting together.
SpamNet, a new e-mail filtering program using the same technology that allowed Napster users to swap music online, is helping its users banish unsolicited bulk e-mails from their inboxes -- and protect other people from the "spam" at the same time.
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