Outsourcing
Computerworld, 6/11/04: Report: Top companies spend less on IT, more on outsourcing
They tend to outsource more IT infrastructure support
News Story by Thomas Hoffman
JUNE 11, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - The best-performing IT departments typically spend less on technology and personnel and take different approaches to outsourcing than do their peers, according to an examination of 200 customer benchmarks being released Monday by The Hackett Group.
Top-rated IT operations on average spend 18% less per end user on technology and operate with 36% fewer staffers than average companies, according to Hackett's benchmarking study. The information in the report is drawn from an analysis of customer benchmarking tests that The Hackett Group conducted over the past 18 months. The data for this study was gathered in March.
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Security
Computerworld, 6/11/04: New Internet Explorer holes causing alarm
The four flaws could allow hackers to run attack code on Windows systems
News Story by Paul Roberts
JUNE 11, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Four new holes have been discovered in the Internet Explorer (IE) Web browser that could allow malicious hackers to run attack code on Windows systems, even if those systems have installed the latest software patches from Microsoft Corp., security experts warned.
Some of the flaws are already being used to attack Windows users and include a glitch that allows attackers to fake or "spoof" the address of a Web page, as well as vulnerabilities that enable malicious pages from the Internet to be handled by IE with very little scrutiny or security precautions.
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Hewlett Packard
C|net, 6/11/04: HP seals open-source e-mail deal
By Stephen Shankland
Hewlett-Packard has signed an agreement to sell Sendmail's e-mail software, the latest move by the longtime Microsoft ally to also woo open-source players.
Under the agreement, announced Thursday, the computer maker may sell some of Sendmail's products, chiefly aimed at combating spam, with its ProLiant servers. The deal grew out of a narrower relationship, a joint marketing pact begun in 2001, said Greg Olson, executive vice president of business development for Sendmail.
"Joint marketing and co-marketing is kind of like dating. Reselling is like going steady," Olson said.
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Otherwise
The Wall Street Journal, 6/14/04: The Music Man
Apple CEO Steve Jobs Talks About the Success of iTunes, Mac's Future, Movie Piracy
By WALTER S. MOSSBERG
Last week, Mr. Jobs sat down with the Journal's Walter S. Mossberg for a rare onstage conversation at the second annual D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, Calif. Excerpts:
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What's your favorite thing you've not done?
A PDA. We got enormous pressure to do a PDA and we looked at it and we said, "Wait a minute, 90% of the people that use these things just want to get information out of them, they don't necessarily want to put information into them on a regular basis and cellphones are going to do that." So getting into the PDA market means getting into the cellphone market. And you know, we're not so good at selling to the enterprise where you've got, in the Fortune 500, five hundred orifices called CIOs. In the cellphone market you've got five. And so we figured we're not going to be very good at that.
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