Outsourcing
Computerworld, 10/6/04: Ex-CIO promotes rural U.S. alternative to offshoring IT
The low-cost services firm does work in Arkansas facilities
News Story by Patrick Thibodeau
OCTOBER 04, 2004 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Kathy Brittain White, a former big-league CIO, is capitalizing on her connections to win clients for her tiny, rural IT services company, which she hopes will eventually compete with offshore development firms.
White's firm is getting interest and IT work from marquee companies such as Mattel Inc., Sarnoff Corp. and Cardinal Health Inc., where White was CIO from 1999 to March 2003.
That's not bad for a year-old business based in Jonesboro, Ark., that has two development centers, each with 15 employees. White, founder of Rural Sourcing Inc. (RSI), is a longtime supporter of using low-cost IT workers in rural areas of the U.S. instead of sending technology work to India or China.
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Utility Computing
eWeek, 10/4/04: Andreessen Weighs in on Utility Computing
By Paula Musich
As Opsware Inc.—formerly Loudcloud Inc.—continues its transition from services company to software vendor, it is looking to stake a claim in the utility computing gold rush.
The Sunnyvale, Calif., company now offers server provisioning and change management software for data centers just two years after selling off its services business to Electronic Data Systems Corp., still its largest customer.
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Security
Computerworld, 10/6/04: New Trojan program squashes adware
The program, Downloader.Lunii, is not entirely benevolent, however
News Story by Paul Roberts
OCTOBER 06, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - A new Trojan horse program that attacks and removes troublesome advertising software, known as adware, is circulating on the Internet, according to antivirus company Symantec Corp.
The program, called Downloader.Lunii, was discovered on Monday. When run, it attempts to kill off computer processes and delete files used by common adware programs like Powerscan and BargainBuddy. However, Lunii isn't entirely benevolent. Like other Trojan horse programs, it also modifies the configuration of Microsoft Windows machines and attempts to download files from a remote location, Symantec warned.
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