Offshoring
eWeek, 8/24/04: Outsourcing Debate Rages On
By Mark Hachman
STANFORD, Calif.—A conference of the meritoriously employed debated the benefits and pitfalls of outsourcing Monday night, largely concluding that the trend toward shipping jobs abroad was inevitable.
The post-dinner panel discussion at the Hot Chips conference here topped 2 hours, with questioners lining up to question, challenge and debate a panel of Silicon Valley executives, at least two of whom have tried to use their U.S. education to benefit India, a touchstone for the outsourcing debate.
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Security
eWeek, 8/24/04: Concerns Mount over Major Web Strike
By David Morgenstern
A coordinated online strike against Internet servers by terrorists, dubbed "electronic jihad," may or may not strike this week, security experts said. One security researcher in Moscow warned that Thursday would be the day in question.
But a recent string of attacks on primary Internet services and the unraveling of major encryption routines are raising concerns in the Internet operator community.
According to a Tuesday RIA Novosti report, Russian security researcher Yevgeny Kaspersky, founder of Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs International, said a strike against political and financial sites was expected on Thursday.
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Microsoft
The Wall Street Journal, 8/25/04: Microsoft to Change Anti-Linux Ad
Microsoft Corp. was told to change an advertisement that claimed the Linux operating system had a real cost 10 times higher than Microsoft's own Windows product. The U.K.'s Advertising Standards Authority, an industry watchdog, ordered the Redmond, Wash., software giant to alter the ad that ran in a specialist magazine for three months on the grounds it was "misleading." Microsoft is fighting a challenge from Linux, an open-source operating system that is finding increasing favor with corporations and government. A Microsoft spokeswoman said the ad was part of a series and was the only one to have caused a problem.
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C|net, 8/24/04: SP2: Bad for your blood pressure?
By Dawn Kawamoto
Most IT managers believe that upgrading systems to Microsoft's latest security patch for Windows XP could generate problems, according to a recent survey.
The InsightExpress study, which polled IT managers in the United States, found that 63 percent of respondents believed SP2 would prove the most difficult Windows update installation ever, with 3 percent noting their "blood pressure rises just thinking about it."
In addition, 66 percent said they expected calls for help from workers to increase with the update. And 30 percent did not know how the SP2 upgrade would affect their company's support desk.
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