Offshore Outsourcing
Computerworld, 3/24/03: War may prompt firms to delay offshore work
By Patrick Thibodeau
WASHINGTON -- The Iraq war's impact on offshore outsourcing could be similar to what happened last year during the crisis between Pakistan and India, when for several months there was a decline in offshore contracts and a renewed focus on contingency planning. Once the threat declined, outsourcing to India largely returned to normal.
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IT Management
CIO, 3/28/03: Lies, Damn Lies and Average ROI
By Rebecca Wettemann
Everyone's talking about ROI these days — and vendors often tout the "average ROI" their users are getting. Others promote cumulative ROI (cROI) as the truest measure of value. Although both are great for marketing, both are laughable for the folks in finance. If you're spending real money, you should be using real metrics — and that means if it's not in your CFO's old finance textbook, you shouldn't rely on it to evaluate technology investments.
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Microsoft
TechWeb, 3/28/03: Windows Server 2003 On Tap; Slow Uptake Is Likely
By Paula Rooney, CRN
Microsoft is exected to announce Friday that its long awaited Windows Server 2003, the first major server upgrade in three years, has finally been released to manufacturing.
With the code now frozen, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will formally launch Windows Server 2003 to the market at an event in San Francisco on April 24, sources said. The server will offer built-in support for .NET Web services and application functionality as well as significant enhancements to the directory, management, security and clustering capabilities.
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Computerworld, 3/27/03: Windows flaw could allow denial-of-service attacks
By Joris Evers, IDG News Service
A security bug in a network function of Windows NT 4, 2000 and XP can expose computers running those operating systems to a denial-of-service attack, Microsoft Corp. is warning.
The flaw lies in Microsoft's implementation of a remote procedure call protocol that allows applications on a computer to call applications on another computer in a network. An attack on the RPC service could cause the networking services on the system to fail, Microsoft said in security bulletin MS03-010 yesterday.
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