Offshoring
Fast Company, 12/04: Offshoring Creativity
Never mind the call centers. Look at the high-tech firms and markets in China and India, and worry about the emigration of innovation.
By: Alan Deutschman
If we're really in the new global economy of the 21st century, how come everyone talks about outsourcing as though we were stuck in 19th-century imperialism? The debate casts India and China as colonial outposts of cheap, low-level labor serving the almighty American consumer. We look overseas and see only a vast pool of white-collar workers who can answer our customer-service calls or write technical manuals that no one reads anyway. This is shaking up our economy, true, but it's not threatening our ironclad egotism: We still believe that America will remain the world's leader in innovation while developing countries can aspire only to unglamorous jobs that require less brainpower or entrepreneurial prowess.
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Desktop Management
Infoworld, 11/17/04: LANDesk adds security component
Company broadens system management scope
By Bob Francis November 17, 2004
LANDesk Software has introduced the LANDesk Security Suite that integrates device-level security features into the company's systems management software.
LANDesk Security Suite is designed to help both corporate management and IT staff achieve higher efficiency by providing tools that solve their top security concerns such as spyware, malware, worms, unauthorized access, and vulnerabilities, said Steve Workman, director of product management at LANDesk. "Instead of having to deploy single point solutions, we're giving IT departments an integrated way to manage security," he said.
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Microsoft
Computerworld, 11/17/04: Windows XP SP2: A bandage, not a panacea
Product Review by Wayne Rash
NOVEMBER 17, 2004 (INFOWORLD) - SAN FRANCISCO - Unless you've been living in a cave for the past few months, you already know Microsoft Corp. has released Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2), the biggest update ever to XP. You also know that it's supposed to fix the security holes that have become all too apparent in Windows XP SP1. You know what SP2 is; what you might not know is what it actually does and how it works.
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Outsourcing
C|net, 11/17/04: Cisco buys IT management start-up
Cisco Systems signed an agreement on Wednesday to acquire network management start-up Jahi Networks for $16 million.
Jahi, a San Jose, Calif.-based privately held firm, develops interfaces that help networked devices talk to each other more efficiently.
"A major challenge in providing network management applications is the lack of consistent means of communicating with the variety of devices that comprise an end-to-end network," Cliff Meltzer, Cisco senior vice president, said in a statement. "Jahi's technology will help Cisco build a practical and unique solution for management of existing and new devices."
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