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General
by Scott Wilson on January 31, 2009
I figured maybe it was just because I was up early and hadn't had my coffee yet. But after trying it on three different computers, I'm pretty sure that Google has gone bonkers today. Every non...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on January 29, 2009
The problematic hiring of former IBM executive Mark Papermaster by Apple last year which resulted in a messy non-compete lawsuit has been resolved out of court.
I had been following the suit because ...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on January 28, 2009
As other major vendors have started to come out with their own online office and collaboration suites, Google is going old-school and is taking its own, bit by bit, offline. Today, the Gmail team anno...
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SOA
by Scott Wilson on January 23, 2009
It's been a few weeks since the dustup over whether SOA is dead or not (consensus: not), a tempest in a teapot kicked off by Anne Thomas Manes claiming that it was the recession that did it, in th...
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Market Perturbations
by Scott Wilson on January 22, 2009
This morning reveals that the rumored and expected layoffs at Microsoft have in fact materialized. In the wake of disappointing 2Q revenue results which missed company estimates by $900 million, the c...
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SaaS
by Scott Wilson on January 22, 2009
IBM has thrown its hat in the SaaS office collaboration suite ring this week with the announcement of the online version of Lotus Notes, Lotus Live (aside: why does that redirect to a secure channel e...
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CIO
by Scott Wilson on January 20, 2009
BusinessWeek is reporting that the Obama transition team has narrowed its choices for the newly created CTO position down to two: cisco CTO Padmasree Warrior and current city of Washington DC CTO Vive...
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The Cloud
by Scott Wilson on January 19, 2009
What with one thing and another last week, I didn't get around to mentioning that Apple finally took a baby step toward the online office applications market by announcing the development of iWork...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on January 15, 2009
I'm at the Seattle Tech Security conference today, and all I can tell you about it so far is that, despite quite a number of very excellent tools available, IT security today seems fundamentally b...
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Enterprise Software
by Scott Wilson on January 14, 2009
What with one thing and another I hadn't quite gotten around to commenting on the zoo that the Windows 7 public beta release turned into last week. I don't think there's much to be read in...
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Security
by Scott Wilson on January 12, 2009
At a time when most of us have finally become accustomed to big, bot-generated, impersonal attacks becoming the primary threat vector for malicious external attacks on corporate IT systems, it appears...
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Outsourcing
by Scott Wilson on January 9, 2009
Implicit in the conflation of agile operations with fragile support is a requirement that your users have access to services which are at once flexible and scalable and which are also efficient for yo...
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Help Desk And Support
by Scott Wilson on January 8, 2009
I've discussed, in passing, the concept of "fragile support" here before. If ever were there a time to investigate this idea more fully on your end, it's now.
Fragile support is a m...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on January 8, 2009
Not really fiction, but certainly stranger than anything I was imagining when I wrote this entry on the dismal prospects for Indian off-shoring firms last week, singling out Satyam particularly in lig...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on January 6, 2009
Due to the vagaries of copyright and the terms of my employment, you'll have to read the full text of this article at my other blog. Please due, I spent ever so much time polishing it up for you.
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Management
by Scott Wilson on January 5, 2009
Everyone thinks they are serious about running their business efficiently until something like the current economic client rolls in on them, and then the panic sets in and suddenly budgets which previ...
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Management
by Scott Wilson on January 5, 2009
I mentioned last week that it is probably about time to shake off the shock of the downturn and start looking seriously at how to restructure your IT department to deal with tighter, more competetive ...
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Offshoring
by Scott Wilson on January 2, 2009
In a downturn it's inevitable that those firms which are luckier or better prepared than their competitors will take advantage of their positioning to eat the lunch, or other savory delectables, o...
