IT Management
Information Week, 5/19/03: IT Is A Must, No Matter How You View It
By Bob Evans
As we chatted about last week, the vaunted Harvard Business Review recently came up with the conclusion that "IT Doesn't Matter," and the prestigious journal devoted several pages to an article penned by Nicholas Carr and dedicated to proving that IT is going the way of the telegraph, railroad tracks, and internal-combustion engines.
No doubt, lots of people will have lots of different opinions on the conclusions framed in the article. But one person with a truly unique set of qualifications with which to assess the article is Ralph Szygenda, CIO of General Motors for the past several years and InformationWeek's "Chief of the Year" for 2002. Ralph was gracious enough to share with InformationWeek some of his reactions after reading the piece in the Harvard Business Review.
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CIO, 5/22/03: Is IT Still Strategic?
Is IT still strategic? Or is it just necessary?
Nicholas G. Carr, the editor-at-large for the Harvard Business Review, believes the correct answer is answer number two, and in an article in the May issue of HBR, he offers up a thesis that is sweeping through the world of IT thought leaders like a fire through dry grass.
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Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 5/22/03: New information technology products emerge in a tough market
Steve Alexander
Bill Gates may not be feeling the pinch of a tight economy, but his customers are.
About 70 percent of the nation's corporate information technology departments expect their budgets to be flat or reduced this year, according to the Meta Group in Stamford, Conn., and some say that doesn't bode well for Microsoft's latest operating software, Windows Server 2003.
"Information technology departments are being fairly protective of their budgets, and many are in hunker-down position," said Jerry Havemann, vice president of information technology services at Cargill Inc., the Minnetonka-based international grain giant. Cargill doesn't need the newest Microsoft server software because the technology it's using now is adequate, he said.
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Mobility
TechWeb, 5/21/03: IBM Courts Deskless Workers With New E-Mail
By Gregg Keizer
IBM on Tuesday pulled the wraps from its long-discussed low-end e-mail for the enterprise, the second such entry in the "deskless worker" market in a week.
Targeting enterprise employees who traditionally don't enjoy access to corporate e-mail, IBM Lotus Workplace Messaging 1.0 aims to bring factory floor workers, retail clerks, airline personnel, and others into the corporate fold with Web-based e-mail that runs on a portfolio of IBM products.
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Backup and Restore
The New York Times, 5/22/03: Phoenix in a Box: A Desktop That Can Handle Crashes
By J.D. BIERSDORFER
Have you ever wished for a panic button when a hard drive crashed, taking all of your data down with it? The Rapid Restore Ultra program from I.B.M. provides just such a button: the F11 key.
Rapid Restore Ultra, an enhanced version of the Rapid Restore PC program, comes preinstalled on I.B.M.'s new ThinkCentre desktop computers, which went on sale yesterday.
The program regularly stores backups of the system, including the software programs, settings, personal data, the Windows operating system itself and even open files, in a hidden hard-drive partition that typically takes up about 20 percent of the drive's overall space.
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Microsoft
StatMarket, 5/13/03: Windows XP Captures More Than One-Third of O/S Market on the Web
Despite significant growth, Windows XP has taken three times longer than Windows 98 to capture one-third of the market. Windows XP first reached 33 percent global usage share in late March 2003, nearly 18 months after its launch in October 2001. Windows 98, on the other hand, reached the same benchmark in January 1999, only six months after its launch.
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What’s Next?
C|net, 5/2203: Get ready for the post-PC, post-Web world
By Kevin Werbach
COMMENTARY--To understand where the technology industry is going, don't focus on the future--look to yesterday.
Technologists just can't stop thinking about tomorrow. The future always looks bright; the question is who and what will help get us there. Even the grinding downturn of the past three years has hardly dampened this belief among entrepreneurs, technology executives and investors. Will broadband be the hot new development that lifts us out of the doldrums? Will it be Wi-Fi? Online gaming? Web services? Homeland security? Those are the wrong questions.
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