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Set Expectations for Outsourcing

Like any other IT novelties, outsourcing and its cosmopolitan cousin, offshoring, have gotten much more than their Warholian 15 minutes of fame. In the quiet...

IT 101 Switches Gears

Its fall—back-to-school time—and there is no more appropriate time than now to look at IT education and its current crisis. On the heels of oversubscribed...

Oracle Tunes App Server for SOAs

Oracle Corp. last week announced a new version of its application server at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. The new version, expected in...

The Real Code War Is Over

I see no good reason for continued contention between the Java and .Net platforms. Thats why Im pleased by the packaging of next weeks...

Massachusetts Makes Dumb Move Official

When a public agency announces a plan with a very short comment period—like one or two weeks—you should assume the plan is, as we...

Massachusetts Verdict: MS Office Formats Out

The state of Massachusetts Friday made it official: It will use only nonproprietary document formats in state-affiliated offices effective Jan. 1, 2007. Although state...

Oracle Buying Spree Makes for Strange Bedfellows

Never in its history has Oracle had to appeal to such a diverse customer population and this situation has resulted in some remarkable sights...

Blogs, Webzines and the Money Question

At the core of much of the great innovation on the Web in recent years is the independent publisher: the blogger meticulously tagging her...

Supply Chain Security Poses Opportunities, Obstacles

With hurricanes and transit bombings top-of-mind, vendors at this weeks Maritime Security Conference talked up supply chain security technologies, while customers pointed to implementation...

Misplaced Caution About Open-Source Anti-Spam?

Given that the new open-source approaches to spam filtering are capable of virtually eliminating unwanted e-mail and preserving the good stuff, why do many...