Outsourcing
Gartner, 1/27/03: Outsourcing: Understanding How Much to Trust Suppliers
Gartner reveals a simple yet powerful model to help managers define and monitor trust in outsourcing deals. Based on 10 key components, it is a tool that yields consistent, repeatable measurements.
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Security
The New York Times, 1/28/03: Worm Hits Microsoft, Which Ignored Own Advice
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
The frantic message came from the corporation's information technology workers: "HELP NEEDED: If you have servers that are nonessential, please shut down."
The computer system was under attack by a rogue program called SQL Slammer, which affected servers running Microsoft software that had not been updated with a patch — issued months ago — to fix the vulnerability. The worm hindered the operations of hundreds of thousands of computers, slowed Internet traffic and even disrupted thousands of A.T.M. terminals.
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Technology Economy
Always On, 1/28/03: Brace Yourself for the Real Internet Boom
The short-term recovery may still be uncertain, but the long-term opportunities are not.
A lot of discussion today centers on wondering: when are we going to have a recovery in high-tech? This is, of course, a good question. And I have to say that I am probably more bearish on that subject than most. But when there is a recovery, it is going to be ten times bigger than we could have ever imagined. Technology recoveries are always driven by the next big thing, not by the old thing that just keeps going.
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Reuters, 1/28/03: Tech CEOs sour on IT turnaround
DAVOS, Switzerland--Technology executives toned down expectations for 2003, after hard-learned lessons that their customers cannot predict the future.
From Microsoft's Bill Gates to Michael Dell, the founder of the world's second-largest personal computer maker, few were prepared to predict a recovery in global demand for technology after the Internet bubble burst.
"There's no big uptick," Gates told the World Economic Forum. Comments from Dell, chief executive of Dell Computer, struck a similar note. "It's OK, but not good," Dell said.
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