Outsourcing
C|net, 11/5/04: Study: Outsourcing mostly domestic
By Ed Frauenheim
Most companies that are outsourcing information technology work are not sending their jobs offshore, according to a new study. The report, released Wednesday from industry news organization Enterprise Systems, said more than 70 percent of companies that outsource choose a domestic provider. In addition, 33.4 percent of companies surveyed are currently outsourcing projects, 42.8 percent are evaluating outsourcing providers, and 23.9 percent lack solid plans to outsource.
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Security
Computeworld, 11/5/04: Symantec adds threat data to managed security services
The data will be posted using its Secure Internet Interface
News Story by Joris Evers
NOVEMBER 05, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - In a bid to expand its services business, Symantec Corp. next week plans to start selling security intelligence data as an add-on to its Managed Security Services.
Users who pay Symantec to manage their security infrastructures will now also be able to get extensive information on threats particular to their IT systems as well as global cyberthreats, said Dee Liebenstein, group product manager at Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec.
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Microsoft
eWeek, 11/5/04: Is Microsoft Ready to Assert IP Rights over the Internet?
By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Has Microsoft been trying to retroactively claim IP (intellectual property) rights over many of the Internet's basic protocols? Larry J. Blunk, senior engineer for networking research and development at Merit Network Inc., believes that might be the case.
Blunk expressed these concerns about Microsoft's Royalty Free Protocol License Agreement in a recent note to the IETF's Intellectual Property Rights Working Group. Specifically, Blunk suggested that Microsoft seemed to be claiming IP rights to many vital Internet protocols. And by so doing, "Microsoft is injecting a significant amount of unwarranted uncertainty and doubt regarding non-Microsoft implementations of these protocols," Blunk said.
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