Outsourcing
Gartner, 10/23/03: Employee 'Stay Incentive' Programs During Outsourcing
Many enterprises underestimate the retention risks associated with keeping the right talent through an outsourcing migration. A judicious "stay incentive" program is one part of the required human capital management strategy.
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IT Management
Gartner, 10/23/03: Delivering Business Value Through Effective Governance
Effective IT governance demands the building of consistent relationships and the coordination of a wide range of IT services to deliver value to the business units of the enterprise.
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Desktop Management
Computerworld, 10/27/03: Symantec to buy ON Technology for $100M
It will use the technology in its line of enterprise security administration products
Story by Paul Roberts
OCTOBER 27, 2003 ( IDG NEWS SERVICE ) - Symantec Corp. continued to strengthen its standing as a seller of enterprise security technology today, announcing plans to purchase ON Technology Corp., a maker of remote PC management technology, for $100 million in cash.
Symantec will use ON's technology to enhance its line of enterprise security administration products, with the goal of giving Symantec customers the ability to spot and patch security holes in their computer network, Symantec said in a statement.
For example, ON's iCommand product allows administrators to use a Web-based portal to coordinate a variety of activities, such as pushing out new operating systems, software applications or security patches to computers or mobile devices on their networks, or to remote systems outside of the organization's firewall, according to ON.
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Security
The Register, 10/27/03: Sober email worm gives Windows users the DTs
By John Leyden
A virus which poses as a security fix from an AV firm is the latest menace to assault Windows users.
Sober typically spreads by email. The viral messages it generates have infectious attachment names such as typically anti_virusdoc.pif, check-patch.bat, playme.exe and variable English and German subject lines. A full list can be found in anadvisory from Finnish AV firm F-Secure.
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Microsoft
C|net, 10/27/03: Gates trots out Longhorn
By Ina Fried
LOS ANGELES--Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates tried to win over developers here Monday as he offered the first look at Longhorn, the next version of Windows.
Longhorn is built around three major advances--a new graphics and presentation engine known as Avalon, a new communications architecture known as Indigo, and a new file system known as WinFS that borrows from Microsoft's relational database technology.
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Cringely Blog, 10/23/03: How Microsoft's Misunderstanding of Open Source Hurts Us All
By Robert X. Cringely
This week, speaking at a Gartner conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said some fascinating things about Linux and about Open Source software in general. And thanks to those remarks and the blinding realization they caused for me, I finally understand exactly why Microsoft doesn't understand Open Source.
Ballmer asked, "Should there be a reason to believe that code that comes from a variety of people around the world would be higher-quality than from people who do it professionally? Why is its pedigree better than code done in a controlled fashion? I don't get that. There is no road map for Linux, nobody who has his rear end on the line. We think it's an advantage a commercial company can bring -- we provide a road map, indemnify customers. They know where to send e-mail. None of that is true in the other world. So far, I think our model works pretty well,"
The model has worked well for Microsoft, that's for sure.
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High Tech Directions
The McKinsey Quarterly, Winter 2003: What High-Tech Can Learn from Slow Growth Industries
During high technology’s boom years in the late 1990s, companies across many sectors tried to emulate their high-tech counterparts. The business models, the creativity and innovation, the speedy decisions, the headlong growth in revenues, profits, and shareholder value—slower-growth industries aspired to all of these blessings.
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