Utility Computing
Gartner, 7/16/04: Fusing Business Processes Will Boost Utility Outsourcing
Business process fusion is a new concept. But it’s already driving two trends in business and IT: business process outsourcing and the provision of standard IT and business services as utilities on pay-per-use tariffs.
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Offshoring
Infoworld, 7/20/04: Democratic platform focuses on outsourcing, broadband
The 41-page platform includes a handful of technology-related issues
By Grant Gross, IDG News Service July 20, 2004
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government should focus on protecting U.S. workers' jobs and creating universal access to broadband services, says the Democratic Party's 2004 platform.
The platform, approved by the party's Platform Committee July 10, doesn't mention offshore outsourcing by name, but it does seem to focus on the position taken by some Republicans that U.S. companies have the right to move jobs overseas. "We believe Americans are the smartest, toughest competitors in the world," the platform says. "Our products and ideas can compete and win anywhere, as long as we're given a fair chance. And our companies can keep and create jobs in America without sacrificing competitiveness."
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Security
Internetnews.com, 7/20/04: Windows 2000 Exploit Code Released
By Ryan Naraine
Exploit code for a known security flaw in Microsoft (Quote, Chart) Windows 2000 has been posted online, putting millions of users at risk of a PC hijack.
Less than a week after Microsoft released a fix for an "important" privilege elevation vulnerability in the Windows 2000 Utility Manager feature, hackers have reverse-engineered the patch and released the code that could lead to an exploit.
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Microsoft
C|net, 7/20/04: HP memo: Microsoft planned open-source patent fight
By Stephen Shankland
Hewlett-Packard on Tuesday sought to distance itself from a June 2002 memo in which an HP executive said Microsoft planned to use patents as the basis for a legal attack on open-source software.
"Basically, Microsoft is going to use the legal system to shut down open-source software," said Gary Campbell, then vice president of strategic architecture in HP's office of the chief technology officer, in a memo to several HP executives. "Microsoft could attack open-source software for patent infringements against (computer makers), Linux distributors, and, least likely, open-source developers."
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