Filed in archive Security
by Scott Wilson on September 29, 2007
I include this link not so much because it's really pertinent to the average CIO or IT manager, but more just because it's kind of cool: now, just like in the movies, you can electronically...
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Ben Worthen's Wall Street Journal article on Arizona State University's recently completed ERP implementation project has resulted in quite a little mini-firestorm of debate over the relative...
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Filed in archive SOA
by Scott Wilson on September 28, 2007
Sometimes the easiest way to describe something to non-technical people is to leave the technical bits out of your description and just talk about the functionality. I personally feel this way about...
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This isn't really the point of his article, but I have to both say that I am jealous, and to point you to Dan Farber's tantalizing glimpse of Nick Carr's upcoming book. Oh, yeah, 3Tera...
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If you are standardized on Microsoft (and who isn't?) and have not been satisfied by Sharepoint server as a web-based document management solution (and who has?), then you may be gratified to...
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Filed in archive SOA
by Scott Wilson on September 26, 2007
Mike Kavis at ITToolbox has a good article up on his approach to "selling" SOA approaches to executives. As you might expect if you have ever done any of this sort of lobbying, it revolves...
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Network World has published their 2007 IT salary survey and revealed that most of us aren't really happy with what we are making on the job these days. I am a bit curious as to whether or not...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on September 25, 2007
Longjump, this time, with a free trial period going through the end of the year. No word on pricing-looks like they are hoping to hook you and then spring the bad news after you're already into...
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Just wanted to throw up a quick link to Nick Malik's recent post on MSDN on the benefits and pitfalls of IT involvement in business process management functions. I think he's dead-on in his...
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Filed in archive SOA
by Scott Wilson on September 24, 2007
So we have seen advice recently on conducting a revolution over the IT department, and now we're getting advised on how to conduct guerilla SOA operations. It's a wild IT world out there, I...
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And I have to admit I was hoping for more detail on that most important of matters when I started in on this CIO magazine article on the pitfalls of making strategy stick. But it's worth a quick...
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Information Week, among other sources, is reporting that the next version of Microsoft Office is due out in 2009. With no official word yet from Microsoft, you have to wonder why they would be...
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So what about the folks on the other side of the wire from you, the CIO, and your loyal army of IT staff? How do they feel about all this stuff that we are talking about all the time,......
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on September 19, 2007
I'm ashamed to say I don't have any good coverage myself on SAP's new mid-market SaaS solution Business ByDesign, but I am happy to instead point you toward Michael Krigsman's concise...
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Phil Wainewright today posts a much more articulate argument than mine why Yahoo's acquisition of Zimbra might indicate a move more oriented at assaulting Microsoft's Exchange bastion than...
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Filed in archive Events
by Scott Wilson on September 18, 2007
It seemed like just the other day I was hearing about how the IT hiring outlook was improving and that CIOs were planning on bringing in more staff and opening up the checkbooks in Q4 of 2007. So...
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Zimbra, darling of the Web 2.0 collaboration suites, is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Yahoo. It was probably just a matter of time until the company was snapped up by a larger fish; previous...
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Filed in archive SaaS
by Scott Wilson on September 17, 2007
eXpresso Online Spreadsheet Manager for Excel, that is. eXpresso is delivering a Software as a Service offering which promises to ease collaboration issues with Excel spreadsheets, a problem of...
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Filed in archive Events
by Scott Wilson on September 17, 2007
It's official-the European Union has rejected Microsoft's appeal of the 2004 anti-trust decision against the company, sustaining the $600 million fine originally levied as well as a number of...
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Filed in archive General
by Scott Wilson on September 15, 2007
Well, maybe not exactly. But neither the Evil Empire of yore, according to this recent post from Mary Jo Foley. Writing in response to the upcoming resolution of Microsoft's appeal of the...
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Filed in archive Security
by Scott Wilson on September 14, 2007
According to yesterday's Windows Secrets post, looks like it's probably Microsoft. You may have known or assumed that already, of course; it's not the first time Windows has been caught...
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Filed in archive Security
by Scott Wilson on September 13, 2007
Chris Anderson has come up with an interesting, and some might say more practical, solution to some of the issues he originally identified in his controversial "Who Needs a CIO?" article...
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