Outsourcing
Gartner, 1/14/03: Cost, Caution and Consolidation Unsettle the Outsourcing Market
Sentiment: Unsettled and Uncertain
Since the late 1980s, when IT outsourcing first captured market attention as an alternative to internally owned, operated and managed IT departments, the outsourcing opportunity and value proposition has lived up to the adage "good in good times, good in bad times." Today, however, a hyper-competitive outsourcing marketplace has replaced the previous times of "more business than we can handle." Is it the broader economic and political concerns, the severe downturn in capital markets, or a delayed technology sector rebound that has taken the biggest toll on outsourcing? Or is it the convergence of all these forces that have unsettled the outsourcing market and outsourcers?
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Information Week, 1/13/03: Outsourcing Scrutinized
Federal outsourcing to boom, but states may limit providers that shift jobs overseas
By Paul McDougall
Federal spending on IT outsourcing is likely to soar in the next several years. At the same time, states worried about job losses to offshore service providers may try to impose limits on the practice.
Input, a government IT market-research firm, last
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IT Management
Giga, 1/14/03: Criteria for Selection: E-Mail Content Security
Jonathan Penn and Jan Sundgren
E-mail content security is a growing concern for many organizations. E-mail is a core application for both internal and external communications and presents the possibility of several problems, including loss of sensitive information, legal liability arising from offensive or otherwise inappropriate use, system overload due to spam or excessively large messages and virus infection. Satisfactory management and control of these problems requires well-developed policies and processes and, increasingly, sophisticated tools carefully chosen to suit an organization’s specific needs.
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Economy
The San Francisco Chronicle, 1/15/03: Rays of hope for technology
Upbeat reports have some believing industry is finally crawling out of shadows
Analysts: Some see beginning of turnaround -- others just say worst is over.
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Spam
The Wall Street Journal, 1/15/03: Try a Spam-Fighting Strategy That Might Actually Work
You've probably read a dozen articles on junk e-mail, or spam, this year already. My guess is that every single one has recommended some sort of software to filter out the rubbish from your inbox. My advice to you is to forget all that, and use Croaker, my brand new spam-prevention remedy.
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The Difference Between Take-Out in San Francisco and NYC
The New Yorker, 1/20/03: Annals of Gastronomy: Grandfather knows best
by Calvin Trillin
Although a grandparent who arrives on the scene after the birth of a child is traditionally pictured cooking dinner for sleep-deprived parents or stuffing the freezer with casseroles, I can tell you that these days it's mostly takeout. That is not simply the narrow view of a male grandparent who, admittedly, would have little to offer by way of home-cooked meals once he'd served the second dinner of meat loaf, accompanied by a salad of prewashed mesclun and a reminder of his mother's belief that meat loaf is one of the many dishes that always taste better the next day. As I was about to leave for San Francisco last spring to inspect my daughter Abigail's first baby, my son-in-law's mother had just completed a similar visit, and Abigail reported to me, "We had some good sushi while Brian's mom was here." Brian's mother is not Japanese. Abigail was referring to takeout sushi—or carryout, as they say in San Francisco, since, she warned me in advance, San Francisco is a place where restaurants are, in general, happy to prepare food to go but not happy to deliver it. In carryout, the accepted role of a visiting grandparent is to duck into the restaurant for the pickup while one parent waits behind the wheel of the double-parked car and the second parent remains at home, holding the baby with one hand and setting the table with the other.
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