Outsourcing
Outsourcing Center, 1/30/03: What You Need to Know About IT Outsourcing Trends for 2003
By Kathleen Goolsby, Senior Writer
While many bemoaned the flat budgets for corporate IT investments in 2002, don't assume nothing has changed in the IT outsourcing (ITO) arena. Indeed, five trends are reshaping the dynamics and future of this market.
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Security
ZDNet, 1/30/03: CERT's 'favoritism' draws fire
By Robert Lemos
A group widely used by security companies as a clearinghouse for newly discovered software vulnerabilities has raised the ire of a well-known researcher, who criticized its policy of disclosing information early to preferred members.
In an e-mail released to a public security mailing list this week, a vulnerability research company took to task the nonprofit Computer Emergsency Response Team (CERT) Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
In the e-mail, noted security researcher Mark Litchfield wrote that his company would no longer submit information on security flaws to the CERT center. Such a submission, he wrote, is "an act of good faith" intended to give information technology administrators the information they need to patch their systems. But Litchfield said he felt "a betrayal of trust" because CERT had "leaked (the information) to certain organizations and government departments" before passing it on to IT workers.
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Microsoft
AlwaysOn, 1/30/03: Bill Gates On the Future Computer Hardware
For a few bucks, we can now pack more intelligence in the microprocessor than the original PC.
What are the fundamental hardware trends? Consumer electronics historically has been about hardware. How is that changing? First and foremost we have a continued truth of Moore’s law. It may not last forever, but for the next decade we are going to get this doubling in power every eighteen months to two years.
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Economy
TechWeb, 1/29/03: Gloomy Outlook For IT Services Spending
IDC says spending on IT services will grow only slightly, with only outsourcing and training experiencing real growth.
By Gregg Keizer, TechWeb News
The IT service sector in the United States continues to grow, but just barely, according to a new forecast by IDC based on preliminary numbers from 2002.
Opportunities in IT consulting, systems integration, outsourcing, and IT training, both current and through 2006, vary substantially by vertical market, IDC says in the report, U.S. Services 4Q 2002 Forecast By Vertical Market, 2002-2006. Only outsourcing and training will experience real growth by 2006 compared with 2001 spending levels.
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