tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116904012011-04-22T04:58:27.363+01:00IT Outsourcing CommentsDifferent notes and thoughts about software development, outsourcing and other IT-related issues.IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comBlogger1361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1120686228100196892005-07-06T22:43:00.000+01:002005-07-06T22:43:48.120+01:00Ukraine as a New Outsourcing PlayerThis article conveys about the same idea as the one about Ukraine IT Myths:
Being in the software development business and living in Ukraine, it was nice to see the following piece written by a Ukrainian Colleague. Finally, the Ukrainians are learning how to work the self promotion. Of course his English is non native, but I think that also illustrates the level of English spoken in many IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1120667404849961322005-07-06T17:30:00.000+01:002005-07-06T17:30:04.863+01:00Metasoft Outsourcing Weblog: An Update: Waters Editor Reply
Today, I have received an email from Mr. Albinus, the editor of Waters, the magazine that has published the ripped article.
Waters asks for Open Platforms (OPs) from industry experts and we always ask them to make them interesting. One suggestion I often make is "please debunk some myths about your topic." With Mr. Miller, we asked him to take on the
top five myths in outsourcing to Russia, IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1120616321523598182005-07-06T03:18:00.000+01:002005-07-06T03:18:41.536+01:00Of Copyright and Unfair Competition
We have discovered recently that our review of Ukraine IT Outsourcing Myths has been shamelessly ripped! An executive vice president of project management of a certain Russian IT company which we are not going to do a favour to by advertising it here has used our material to produce an article of his own, which he even got published by a respected American financial magazine!
Of course, we tookIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1119479096107064702005-06-22T23:24:00.000+01:002005-06-22T23:24:56.120+01:00Magic City Morning Star: U.S. Offshoring of Personal Data Grows
According to the Identity Theft Resource Center in San Diego, CA there have been close to 60 reported security breaches of customer financial information from United States corporations thus far in 2005, involving 13.5 million customers’ identities. The companies include Choicepoint, Inc., Bank of America Corp., Wachovia Corp., Ameritrade Holding Corp., DSW Shoe Warehouse, Time Warner Inc., IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1119444084740262042005-06-22T13:41:00.000+01:002005-06-22T13:41:24.906+01:00Ukraine IT Outsourcing Myths Covered by Ezine ArticlesAn article about Ukraine IT outsourcing myths has been published by Ezine Articles, an online article directory.
While Ukraine is becoming a new popular IT outsourcing destination, there are still many myths about it and no clear understanding of the opportunities outsourcing to Ukraine can present...
See the article here: Ukraine IT Myths DispersedIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1118975345977050642005-06-17T03:29:00.000+01:002005-06-17T03:29:06.023+01:00Dell founder thinks different about Apple | CNET News.comApple has been in the news a lot lately. First, the news of Apple/Intel deal. Now, there's more coming.
Michael Dell is thinking different about the Mac OS.
The founder and chairman of the No. 1 computer maker told Fortune magazine that he would be interested in becoming a switcher himself if the opportunity ever came up.
"If Apple decides to open the Mac OS to others, we would be happy to IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1118786536261160892005-06-14T23:02:00.000+01:002005-06-14T23:02:16.286+01:00Falling CD Sales: It's Not All In Piracy
Declining CD sales can't be blamed on file-sharing networks alone, according to a new report.
The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said Monday that digital music piracy is a problem, but other factors--such as the rise in the number of entertainment sources--are more likely to have had a significant impact on music sales.
"It is very difficult to IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1118699055701344642005-06-13T22:44:00.000+01:002005-06-13T22:46:54.506+01:00The Advance of Open SourceOpen Source is gaining more and more popularity, and not only among developers and techically minded folks.Apart from software development, Open Source is gaining new markets. As Nokia announced, a new web browser for its smart phones will use two components already employed by Apple Computer in its Safari Web browser for its Mac OS X operating system. Moreover,This is not Nokia's first IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1118356246847975282005-06-09T23:30:00.000+01:002005-06-09T23:30:46.873+01:00Turning Outsourcing into Your AllyA white paper published recently by the Pythian Group covers the issue of making the IT outsourcing work for your benefit.
Nowadays, you often need to outsource just to stay competitive. However, not paying enough attention and giving it enough consideration can turn outsourcing from a life savior into a nightmare.
The trend toward IT outsourcing is increasing dramatically. According to a IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1118259545738986272005-06-08T20:39:00.000+01:002005-06-08T20:39:05.780+01:00What to outsource and what not to outsource: email security
E-mail security consists of five critical components: spam and fraud prevention; virus and worm protection; policy and content compliance; e-mail privacy; and intrusion prevention. Managed service providers address only two of these components: spam and viruses. Deciding to use a managed service rather than handling e-mail security in-house means leaving your organization vulnerable to threats IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1118094262223714582005-06-06T22:44:00.000+01:002005-06-06T22:44:22.250+01:00Macworld Concerned about Apple Outsourcing
US policymakers are looking to Apple as a "symbol of US industry" thanks to the success of the iPod, but is Apple's a good example to copy in the light of a collapse in the US manufacturing employment market.
The Boston Herald has some concerns about Apple's outsourcing of manufacturing jobs overseas at a time when the US jobs market is faultering.
Reporter Brett Arends looks at the IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1118005358466733682005-06-05T22:02:00.000+01:002005-06-05T22:02:38.486+01:00Mobile Era: Laptops Outsell Desktops for First Time
In a sure sign that the era of mobile computing has arrived, notebooks have for the first time outsold desktops in the United States in a calendar month, the research firm Current Analysis says.
After tracking sales from a sampling of electronics retailers, Current Analysis says notebook sales accounted for 53 percent of the total personal computer market last month, up from 46 percent during IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117833092175882092005-06-03T22:08:00.000+01:002005-06-03T22:11:32.180+01:00Why Outsourcing Fails - One More Attempt To AnalyzeSome time ago, I have seen an article that suggested possible reasons why outsourcing projects fail. Among other things mentioned in the article, the following statement looks very important:So why do so many IT outsourcing projects fail to deliver the benefits that companies want?Perhaps companies need to realise that just because a service is outsourced, it doesn't mean a company can forget IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117720336937415952005-06-02T14:52:00.000+01:002005-06-02T14:52:16.963+01:00How Savvy Are You About Your Online Security?US Internet users are not, as a recent study has shown.
For the study, titled "Open to Exploitation: American Shoppers Online and Offline" and released today, 1500 adult U.S. Internet users were asked true-or-false questions about topics such as Web site privacy policies and retailers' pricing schemes.
Most respondents failed the test, correctly answering, on average, 6.7 of the 17 questions. IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117578672018450832005-05-31T23:31:00.000+01:002005-05-31T23:31:12.053+01:00Interference with employee pensions isn't a legitimate business purpose for an outsourcingWhile there can be many reasons for outsourcing, some are not such a good idea and can lead to a court hearing.
In a recent outsourcing case, departing employees sought to use a time-honored principle of employment law against an outsourcing undertaken by Honeywell Inc. That principle is that a company may not discharge an employee in order to interfere with his pension benefits. While HoneywellIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117491026370859672005-05-30T23:10:00.000+01:002005-05-30T23:10:26.373+01:00Google PageRank is backThe end to all the rumours and expectations of Google's PageRank being gone for good - The grey bar in Google's toolbar is not grey any more.
Google's PageRank has been gone since May 26, which caused a lot of different emotions in SEO and web designer circles, ranging from complete despair to almost happiness. Google's PageRank is, to put it simple, a rating based on many factors, as Google IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117489984901295562005-05-30T22:53:00.000+01:002005-05-30T23:11:36.233+01:00Another Eastern European Report of Expected IT Outsourcing GrowthINFORMATION technologies require a significant start-up investment, both in terms of equipment and expertise, making it a natural activity to outsource.Slovak companies that outsource their IT generally use basic hardware and support services. Insiders expect that as time goes on, however, this will change, and companies will take advantage of the full range of IT solutions that providers deliverIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117412565663992692005-05-30T01:22:00.000+01:002005-05-30T01:22:45.690+01:00Outsourcing Don'tsI came across this short list of outsourcing don'ts and thought I'd share it with my blog's visitors. While there are other things that can be added to it, this is a start.
IT vendor relationships are challenging in general, but relationships with outsourcers are the most challenging of all.
According to a white paper by Technology & Business Integrators, a consulting firm in Ramsey, N.J., IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117235184922289812005-05-28T00:06:00.000+01:002005-05-28T00:06:24.926+01:00Six Winners of 2005 Outsourcing Excellence Awards Announced
A leading international marketing research firm has selected its best six companies based on outsourcing relationships, and presented its Outsourcing Excellence Awards last May 25 in Scotsdale, Arizona.
The Outsourcing Excellence Awards is an annual program developed by Outsourcing Center, an online community specializing in thought leadership, best practices, and innovation in outsourcing.
IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117232125633099392005-05-27T23:15:00.000+01:002005-05-27T23:15:25.646+01:00Another argument against Eastern-flavoured outsourcing
As tensions between Japan and China escalate over arguments with origins in World War II, technology companies should prepare to lessen their reliance on the two countries, according to market research company Gartner Dataquest.
"More than 95 percent of the largest 2,000 companies in the world have extensive interests, investments and employees in China and Japan," said Dion Wiggins, vice IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117144040687987002005-05-26T22:47:00.000+01:002005-05-26T22:47:20.700+01:00EU puts funds toward global research on open source | CNET News.comOpen Source is becoming a European priority:
The European Union is putting money toward research into open-source software and standards across the world.
The newly approved funding--660,00 euros, or $825,594--is for the two-year FLOSSWorld project, Europe's first initiative to support international research and policy development on "free/libre/open source software." Previous FLOSS projects, IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1117062143551723182005-05-26T00:02:00.000+01:002005-05-26T00:02:23.566+01:00IBM broadens its hosted-software effort | CNET News.comThe future of business applications is on the web. IBM's interest to the area is strong proof of it.
Increasing its focus on the hosted-applications sector, IBM on Wednesday launched programs designed to support companies that build, sell and market Web-based software to businesses.
The Armonk, N.Y.-based company introduced a set of initiatives aimed at helping its independent software vendor,IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116969005025175602005-05-24T22:10:00.000+01:002005-05-24T22:10:05.046+01:00Is Ukraine's IT Infrastructure Developed Enough? - Outsourcing Myths
Ukraine's IT infrastructure is rapidly developing. As the recent research conducted by the Ukrainian Democratic Initiatives Fund and Kiev International Sociology Institute has shown, 13.1% of Ukrainians have a computer. 14% use Internet and/or email either at home or at work.
Internet connectivity, being one of the primary concerns for offshoring, is also developing rapidly. Telecom is one of IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116805413832886532005-05-23T00:43:00.000+01:002005-05-23T00:43:33.836+01:00Ballmer: Google might dissapear in the next five years! - Softpedia NewsWhile Microsoft is still in the process of developing Longhorn that should reportedly improve searching, among other things, they can't find anything better to do but have a go at Google.
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, spoke during a lecture at Stanford Business School about the potential of the software considering the continuous expansion of the computing processes in other domains besides IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116794516119326452005-05-22T21:41:00.000+01:002005-05-22T21:41:56.140+01:00CRM News: Outsourcing : Outsourcing Duties Can Help Boost Efficiency
Few people can be good at every task. This is where outsourcing comes in handy for many businesses. Much of the savings that outsourcing creates is by allowing greater productivity among the in-house resources. It may not work for all, but every business should check its IT/accounting department to see if it would work better as just IT.
Before interviewing your next potential hire, you should IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116765567350961842005-05-22T13:39:00.000+01:002005-05-22T13:39:27.366+01:00Ten years on, has Java managed to deliver its promise of 'write once, use anywhere'?
The Java programming language was launched 10 years ago this month with a series of grandiose claims from its promoters.
Like most IT products, it may not have fully lived up to the launch hype, but it has certainly played a major role in the dramatic transformation of IT over the past decade. Users and analysts agree on Java's impact.
According to John Loiacono, executive vice-president at IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116721866598067392005-05-22T01:31:00.000+01:002005-05-22T01:31:06.613+01:00Sun licenses Franklin spell-check software | CNET News.com
Sun Microsystems has paid Franklin Electronic Publishers $800,000 to license software for correcting spelling and hyphenating words, Franklin announced on Friday. The software will be incorporated into future versions of StarOffice, Sun's competitor to Microsoft Office and a variant of the open-source OpenOffice.org suite.
The software works in 36 languages and also includes a thesaurus, IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116622692480974662005-05-20T21:58:00.000+01:002005-05-20T21:58:12.496+01:00The Australian: Jobs boss praises offshoring
THE prospect of jobs being exported offshore may make workers uneasy, but amid forecasts of labour shortages and wages inflation, offshoring may be part of the answer rather than being a problem, says Paul Bassat, the boss of online jobs classifieds company Seek.
"These may be very positive trends," Mr Bassat told a meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia yesterday.
Mr BassatIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116541271411071202005-05-19T23:21:00.000+01:002005-05-19T23:21:11.426+01:00Google/Yahoo Competition Continues With a Personalized Twist
Google (Quote, Chart) today invited journalists to its first-ever Factory Tour, billed as "an informal, and informational, look at all aspects of Google's business." The event, held at the company's Mountain View campus, took place on the same day as Yahoo's (Quote, Chart) annual stockholders' meeting.
Google keeps a serious eye on its rivals' doings. For example, the evening before MSN IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116485514781737162005-05-19T07:51:00.000+01:002005-05-19T07:51:54.800+01:00Netscape update takes aim at phishing | CNET News.com
Netscape on Thursday plans to release the final version of Netscape 8, a browser that includes features to protect Web surfers against online scams.
Early test versions of the new browser--so-called alpha and beta releases--have been available since February. As reported, Netscape has made mostly cosmetic changes in the final version, said Jeremy Liew, general manager of Netscape, a division IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116443425817033562005-05-18T20:10:00.000+01:002005-05-18T20:10:25.836+01:00Software Piracy Cost Makers $8 BillionAn article published in TechNewsWorld.com covered the problems of software piracy. Ukraine was mentioned among the countries with the highest rate of pirated software, to add up to the popular myth.
Vietnam topped the global BSA hitlist, with 92 percent of all software used coming from pirates. It was followed by the Ukraine (91 percent), China (90 percent), Zimbabwe (90 percent) and Indonesia (IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116427541108821932005-05-18T15:45:00.000+01:002005-05-18T15:45:41.130+01:00Ukraine IT Outsourcing Myths - Cost of Workforce
Ukraine's IT salaries level used to be low, but as the country's economy develops and integrates into the European and world market, it is growing, even though it is still lower than the salaries of EU and US IT specialists. The Ukrainian programmers possess high level of education and skills. As the IT sphere of the Ukrainian economy develops the demand for them increases. Hence, their highly IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116371426387664702005-05-18T00:10:00.000+01:002005-05-18T00:10:26.390+01:00Changing views on outsourcing
A recent study by Deloitte Consulting has sparked renewed debate about the business value of outsourcing mega-deals. The study, published last month, found that nearly 75% of the 25 large companies surveyed have had negative experiences with their mega-outsourcing projects. The study found nearly half of these firms have failed to see the cost savings they anticipated from these outsourcing IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116365854905663772005-05-17T22:37:00.000+01:002005-05-17T22:37:34.910+01:00Fighting Spam With Outsourcing
As we've said in previous articles, spam is a high-profile, rapidly growing threat to the well-being of our users and our networks. Average estimates show it to make up about 75 per cent of all email traffic so it's something we could well do without.
Both our network infrastructure and our users waste time and effort processing it and many people find it offensive, rather than just annoying. IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116364187003784382005-05-17T22:09:00.000+01:002005-05-17T22:09:47.026+01:00IE 7 mocks FirefoxWant to win over a competitor? Copy what they're doing! Will it help Microsoft? We'll see.
Microsoft has confirmed that its upcoming version of Internet Explorer will include tabbed browsing, a feature made popular by competitors Opera Software and Firefox.
In a Microsoft blog, IE product unit manager Dean Hachamovitch told consumers not to expect too much from tabbed browsing in IE's beta IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116284240101604472005-05-16T23:57:00.000+01:002005-05-16T23:57:20.103+01:00Local authorities offered outsourcing benchmarks | The Register
Local authorities wondering if they are keeping up with The Joneses in the outsourced IT stakes will soon be able to find out through a new performance benchmarking service from the Society of IT Management (Socitm).
As well as keeping an eye on how other local authorities are handling outsourced projects and partnerships, the service will allow IT managers to see how their external projects IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116281828032731632005-05-16T23:17:00.000+01:002005-05-16T23:17:08.053+01:00Wachovia and BofA Notifying Customers of Security Breach
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) _ Wachovia Corp. and Bank of America Corp. are notifying thousands of customers that their accounts may have been breached in a theft of financial records from four banks.
The theft was exposed last month when police in Hackensack, N.J., charged nine people, including a business owner, a New Jersey state worker and seven bank workers, in a plot to steal financial records IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116203149884080852005-05-16T01:25:00.000+01:002005-05-16T01:25:49.886+01:00PCWorld.com - Microsoft Readies Its Antivirus App
Microsoft is readying a new consumer security product that offers virus and spyware protection, a new firewall and several tune-up tools for Windows PCs, a move that pits the software giant squarely against traditional security software vendors.
The product, dubbed Windows OneCare, will be tested internally at Microsoft starting this week. A public test, or beta, version is scheduled to be IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116196113674381172005-05-15T23:28:00.000+01:002005-05-15T23:28:34.323+01:00Grassroots computing languages hit the big time
Once considered simple toys by serious programmers, scripting languages are becoming first-class citizens in the world of corporate software development.
Database giant Oracle is expected to announce on Monday a partnership to make it easier for businesses to create custom applications for its products using PHP tools from a company called Zend Technologies. PHP is an open-source scripting IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116109882190307122005-05-14T23:31:00.000+01:002005-05-14T23:31:22.193+01:00Google puts the brake on Web Accelerator Google's Web Accelerator can no longer be downloaded - reportedly, due to the privacy issues discovered in it earlier.
Google has disabled downloads of its Web Accelerator software less than a week after introducing the service. The suspension follows reports that the software was caching sensitive content, such as user control panels to online forums.
The beta application, a free browser IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116087810648192382005-05-14T17:23:00.000+01:002005-05-14T17:23:30.650+01:00Reasons for OutsourcingCost reduction is reported as a primary reason for outsourcing. Most companies are yet to understand the strategic reasons to outsource.
A recent study finds that companies that decide to outsource were primarily motivated by cost reductions and the opportunity to focus on core operations rather than revenue growth and competitive advantage.
Conducted by CAPS: Center for Strategic Supply IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116074570310794132005-05-14T13:42:00.000+01:002005-05-14T13:42:50.313+01:00Eastern Europe Winning Over Western Europe As Business LocationAnother twist, well predicted though, in the offshoring market tendencies: Eastern Europe is now preferred to Western Europe when it comes to choosing overseas business locations.
Earlier, we came across a BBC News article that tells of computer giant IBM pulling its operations out of Europe. It turns out they are not the only big business to decide to do this at this specific time.
It seems IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1116051874649565302005-05-14T07:24:00.000+01:002005-05-14T07:24:34.666+01:00Central America trade plan seen as little boost to offshore IT - Computerworld
The U.S.-Central America Free Trade Agreement now before Congress is supported by IT industry trade associations but opposed by high-tech labor groups, which see it as having the potential to erode jobs in the U.S.
In terms of outsourcing IT work such as application support and maintenance, though, the proposed agreement -- known as CAFTA -- isn't likely to make Central America more attractiveIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115943513685839272005-05-13T01:18:00.000+01:002005-05-13T01:18:33.750+01:00Ukraine IT Outsourcing MythsUkraine IT Outsourcing Myths - Metasoft: "While Ukraine is becoming a new popular IT outsourcing destination, there are still many myths about it and no clear understanding of the opportunities outsourcing to Ukraine can present."IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115909735569809062005-05-12T15:55:00.000+01:002005-05-12T15:55:35.636+01:00Firefox 1.0.4 availableA new version of Firefox is released. It is supposed to fix the security flaws reported in the previous version.
THE BROWSER that threatens Microsoft’s surfing hegemony got a new update.
Firefoxers say 50 million folk have downloaded versions of the browser. It now lays claim to almost seven percent of the market for PC browsers.
The updates browser, version 1.0.4 is available from Mozilla IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115844417850659422005-05-11T21:46:00.000+01:002005-05-11T21:46:57.893+01:00Microsoft's Bad Luck in EuropeMicrosoft is facing the music in Europe. Besides customers not being particularly happy about its pricing, its monopolist ways are put under scrutiny by the European Commission who demanded a year ago that the software giant stop violating the antitrust laws.
Microsoft is under growing pressure to comply quickly with the European Commission's year-old antitrust ruling, an EU representative saidIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115843304065396712005-05-11T21:28:00.000+01:002005-05-11T21:28:24.116+01:00Technology Fighting Money LaunderingMoney smells! - and for some, it might mean problems.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - Ah, the smell of money -- there's nothing quite like it. Some people, in fact, may soon be looking for ways to mask the special odor.
Drug traffickers who ship profits abroad in suitcases are not apt to be thrilled with some inventions developed by federal scientists at the Idaho National Laboratory.
One sniffs IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115843129634216372005-05-11T21:25:00.000+01:002005-05-11T21:25:29.676+01:00IT Systems Threats Warning
The range of threats facing IT departments is clearly demonstrated by the variety of vulnerabilities exposed by US security research organisation the Sans Institute, as reported last week by Computer Weekly. Here we give details of 12 new critical vulnerabilities which the Sans Institute has revealed.
They are the most critical flaws among 600 security vulnerabilities discovered by researchers IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115842707812254182005-05-11T21:18:00.000+01:002005-05-11T21:18:27.876+01:00E-mail Wars - Enter AOLGoogle and Yahoo have one more competitor now offering a free email service with large storage - AOL. How serious this new threat to their dominance is, can be argued. Here's how it's been covered in PCWorld's blog:
Okay, I guess Gmail's 2 gigs of free e-mail storage has officially raised the bar. AOL says it's about to launch AIM Mail. This free e-mail service for AIM users will offer...yes, IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115792473896573822005-05-11T07:21:00.000+01:002005-05-11T07:21:13.953+01:00Reasons to OutsourcePromotion of outsourcing in IT-related media continues.
Outsourcing is not a one-size-fits-all solution to your company's IT woes. We look at the rationale behind letting someone else deal with your critical business systems.
The challenge for CIOs
Now that CIOs have weathered the budget shortfalls of recent years and can once again prepare for growth, there is still pressure to prove that any IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115760154971634842005-05-10T22:22:00.000+01:002005-05-10T22:22:35.033+01:00Unified Standards to Serve End-Users Better
Backers of two overlapping standards submissions for reliable messaging will seek to reconcile their specifications, a standards group said Tuesday.
The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or OASIS, said the vendors behind the two reliable-messaging specifications have agreed to "advance development" within the standards body. Several Web services IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115749536175159542005-05-10T19:25:00.000+01:002005-05-10T19:25:36.243+01:00Secrets of succeeding in an outsourcing projectFor an outsourcing project to be successful, there should be clear understanding on the part of the customer as to what they are trying to achieve.
Outsourcing works best when the company thoroughly understands what it is buying and why it is buying it.
The underlying economic reasons for outsourcing a business function have long seemed compelling. By outsourcing, so the theory goes, companies IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115688025490124862005-05-10T02:20:00.000+01:002005-05-10T02:20:25.553+01:00Outsourcing AdviceThis article gives advice on outsourcing creative tasks such as advertizing, but I'd say many of these tips, when generalized, apply to practically to any type of outsourcing out there:
The current economy is causing most companies to tighten their belts. With limited staffing and a restricted budget, how do you continue to promote your business? The simple solution is the occasional or ongoing IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115682002299653872005-05-10T00:40:00.000+01:002005-05-10T00:40:02.370+01:00Financial RSS News Feed Added to Metasoft's SiteA financial news feed has been added to Metasoft's web site - it can be seen here: Financial Software Applications - METASOFTIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115680378749731392005-05-10T00:12:00.000+01:002005-05-10T00:12:58.800+01:00Outsourcing North European Way
TietoEnator Support OÜ and SEB Eesti Ühispank have signed a Letter of
intent regarding the outsourcing of on-site services and resources in
Estonia. The business deal will include the transfer of 10-20 of SEB
Eesti Ühispank's current on-site services staff to TietoEnator
Support OÜ.
The agreement is planned to be signed on October 31 2005
TietoEnator is one of the leading architects in IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115679955397888102005-05-10T00:05:00.000+01:002005-05-10T00:05:55.456+01:00Endless Work Day as a Side Effect of OutsourcingHow many times have I had to work long hours when there were urgent things to do, and who hasn't. But now the scapegoat for it has been found - you can blame it on outsourcing!
The traffic jam ended hours ago, the parking lot is nearly empty and fluorescent lights are dimmed at PortalPlayer Inc., where the nightly brainstorming session is about to begin.
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Instead of gathering the IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115674408847964612005-05-09T22:33:00.000+01:002005-05-09T22:33:28.903+01:00Google: Gone For Fifteen MinutesOnly the laziest bloggers haven't written anything yet about Google's recent disappearing act. Came across this PCWorld's blog entry today and decided to say my two cents worth too:
For fifteen minutes yesterday afternoon--from 3:45 to 4pm PT--Google, and other Google services such as Gmail, were unavailable. Google blamed the outage on DNS problems and said that hacking was not involved, but IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115670654833189182005-05-09T21:30:00.000+01:002005-05-09T21:32:31.156+01:00IT Sector Gains Government's SupportIT sector is growing rapidly in the Eastern European countries' economies, and Eastern Europe is becoming one of the most popular destinations for outsourcing. While there is still argument as to how the governments of these countries should support the developing IT industry, and how important is government's support as a decisive factor in choosing the outsourcing destination, this excerpt IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115585766820603192005-05-08T21:56:00.000+01:002005-05-08T21:56:06.906+01:00Who Created the Internet?
Man who claims he created the Internet gets award
Ironically from the man who really did
FAILED presidential candidate Al Gore, who once famously claimed to have invented the Internet, is going to get a lifetime achievement award for services to the Internet.
Gore was widely laughed at for his comments in a CNN interview that he "took the initiative in creating the Internet". In fact he was IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115563188772745012005-05-08T15:39:00.000+01:002005-05-08T15:39:48.826+01:00Outsourcing as Human Evolution
Sound economics may lie at the heart of humanity's evolutionary success
SINCE the days of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, advocates of free trade and the division of labour, including this newspaper, have lauded the advantages of those economic principles. Until now, though, no one has suggested that they might be responsible for the very existence of humanity. But that is the thesis propounded IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115496851437941462005-05-07T21:14:00.000+01:002005-05-07T21:16:46.133+01:00Experts work to aid compiler behind open source | CNET News.com Programmers are working to debug and speed performance of the newly released GCC 4.0, the compiler at the foundation of the open-source and free-software movements.Lead programmer Mark Mitchell released GCC 4.0 on April 22. It includes a new optimization framework designed to improve the process of translating source code written by humans into binary code a computer understands.The new version IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115414544259217912005-05-06T22:22:00.000+01:002005-05-06T22:22:25.246+01:00Percent of Ukrainians Using ComputersI decided to back up my statement about the percent of Ukrainians using computers with some factual data - and here we go.
According to the research conducted by the Ukrainian Democratic Initiatives Fund and Kiev International Sociology Institute in April 2005 and presented at the press conference on the 5th of May, 13.1% of Ukrainians have a computer.
The source of information: the site of IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115362499757361812005-05-06T07:54:00.000+01:002005-05-06T07:54:59.810+01:00Bill Gates praises UkraineFound this rather old article about outsourcing market tendencies, thi is all well known but I really liked this bit:
Ukraine in particular is becoming popular. Bill Gates, whose wealth exceeds the gross domestic product of that country, described the area as the fourth most important source of innovation in computer programming. He is not joking: Ukrainian engineers reliably developed software IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115332993811992382005-05-05T23:43:00.000+01:002005-05-05T23:43:13.903+01:00Closing the security holes in online applicationsSecurity of web applications is of high concern with the risk of attacks rising.
IT security has been a top priority for the past few years, with many companies investing in technologies such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems. But as they have been busy securing their networks, firms have largely ignored application security.
This has left applications vulnerable, especially as, IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115244944458488442005-05-04T23:15:00.000+01:002005-05-04T23:15:44.580+01:00Online Billpay on the RiseSince paying the bills online and other online banking transactions have become an everyday thing more and more banks are realizing the importance of being up-to-date with the new technologies.
Consumers in the U.S. will receive more bills through the online channel in five years than they will through traditional channels, and the average number of monthly household bills paid online will more IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115198798426690322005-05-04T10:26:00.000+01:002005-05-04T10:26:38.526+01:00OASIS forms new committee | CNET News.com
Standards body the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) has started a committee that will seek to provide guidance on a much-discussed software design pattern called a service-oriented architecture.
The committee, announced Tuesday, will create a reference model for service-oriented architectures, or SOAs, that will seek to improve the understanding of IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115150466985614492005-05-03T21:01:00.000+01:002005-05-03T21:01:06.986+01:00New Intel Dual-core Processors for Multiple TasksNew Intel's dual-core CPU has been tested soon after its release and the results look good.
As the name implies, dual-core processors incorporate two physical processors and two L2 memory caches into one piece of silicon, functioning, in theory, like two separate processors. Intel's first dual-core chip, the 3.2-GHz Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840 (which carries 1MB of L2 cache per core), goes oneIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1115065116459900892005-05-02T21:18:00.000+01:002005-05-02T21:58:44.390+01:00Mercury tools aim for IT data compliance | CNET News.comMercury Interactive has expanded its corporate governance applications to help information technology departments comply with Sarbanes-Oxley regulations. The company on Monday is expected to release Mercury IT Governance Center 6.0, a set of programs for managers of IT departments. The suite includes tools for managing IT projects and automating certain tasks such as adding updates to systems. IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114981548820123762005-05-01T22:05:00.000+01:002005-05-01T22:05:48.820+01:00Fidelity And Metavante Report Record Contract RenewalsFinancial and banking applications development is blossoming - or at least that's what the statistics say. This kind of applications are becoming the tools that many companies can't do without any more, hence they keep renewing the contracts with the companies providing them with these solutions.
Fidelity National Financial Inc. and Metavante Corp., which provide processing systems for financialIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114900075233846742005-04-30T23:27:00.000+01:002005-04-30T23:27:55.233+01:00Agile programmers warned not to reject configuration managementAgile programming, first initiated as means to better and faster software development, has always been criticized for skipping important steps, such as documenting the development process. Well, looks like Agile methodology theoretics are catching up with this critique:
Agile system development must not neglect the discipline of configuration management, which itself must become more agile to IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114896498962544302005-04-30T22:28:00.000+01:002005-04-30T22:28:18.963+01:00Fool-proof OS from Microsoft?
For security's sake, Microsoft wants more desktop business users to be "standard."
The next generation of the company's Windows operating system, code-named Longhorn, will allow users to perform more tasks under the standard setting in an effort to reduce the amount of users running software under the administrative setting, according to Brad Goldberg, general manager of Microsoft's Windows IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114759196484206362005-04-29T08:19:00.000+01:002005-04-29T08:19:56.483+01:00Application lifecycle management tools improve the life expectancy of IT projects
There are changes taking place in application lifecycle management (ALM), with increases in the range of tools available to support application development and in the scope of ALM. The scope changes are particularly pertinent in the climate of low project productivity that bedevils software creation.
There is a consensus that something needs to be done about the management of large and complex IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114638914151139802005-04-27T22:55:00.000+01:002005-04-27T22:55:14.150+01:00Four in five outsourcing deals get renegotiated
Four out of five outsourcing deals will be renegotiated during the lifetime of the contract, because many deals have been too focused on cutting costs.
A survey of 200 European executives by analyst house Gartner found that 55 per cent of those businesses with outsourcing contracts have renegotiated the deal.
One in eight contracts had even been renegotiated within the first 12 months of IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114610645966742992005-04-27T15:04:00.000+01:002005-04-27T15:04:05.966+01:00Protect Your Business From Spyware
Spyware has become one of the top security concerns for businesses. According to a CNET Networks survey conducted in March 2005, enterprise organizations rank anti-spyware protection among their top three IT priorities this year. Malicious spyware disrupts business productivity and compromises information security. It causes major system slowdowns, higher support costs, and lost productivity. ItIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114556756151043002005-04-27T00:05:00.000+01:002005-04-27T00:05:56.150+01:00The promise of RSS explored by advertisersRSS, being a new technology, has definitely stepped into the Internet users' experience to change it forever.
Google is floating a trial balloon of a service that pairs advertisements with blog feeds.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based search company is testing a new variation of its AdSense program for publishers, which allows sites to display text or image ads related to their content and get IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114373740670025712005-04-24T21:15:00.000+01:002005-04-24T21:15:40.670+01:00Outsourcing: A View from AustraliaOutsourcing is a global phenomenon, and Australia does not stay aside.
Outsourcing has been a global industry buzzword for some time, with various services and functions, such as IT and call centres having been given the outsourcing or "offshoring" treatment.
Two recruitment firms currently planning to join forces and become one of the biggest players in the Australian labour market are also IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114273881132051192005-04-23T17:31:00.000+01:002005-04-23T17:31:21.133+01:00Free Is Not Cheap?OpenSource, always associated with a "free" OS, is now reported to result in higher costs... Is it just Microsoft's new marketing policy or is there truth behind this statement?
Total Cost of Ownership and Acquisition Costs
Steve Ballmer
CEO, Microsoft
In the past few years, you haven't been able to open a computing magazine or visit a technology Web site without running into an article about IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114210213380222942005-04-22T23:50:00.000+01:002005-04-22T23:50:13.380+01:00PCWorld.com - Microsoft Sued Over JPEG PatentNext time you feel like messing with JPEGs, think of this:
Forgent Networks has added Microsoft to the list of companies it has sued alleging infringement of a patent for a data compression technique it claims is used in the JPEG digital image standard.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, comes after Forgent was unable to negotiate a licensing IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114116712512745802005-04-21T21:51:00.000+01:002005-04-21T21:51:52.513+01:00Skeletons on your hard drive | CNET News.comGiving away a computer and formatting the hard drive to erase all your information? Well, that might just happen to be not enough...
Tax records, resumes, photo albums--the modern hard drive can keep increasingly larger volumes of information at the ready. But that can turn into a problem when it comes to effectively erasing the devices.
There are a number of options for cleansing the drives IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114101596980381462005-04-21T17:39:00.000+01:002005-04-21T17:39:56.980+01:00From Offshore to Ship-to-Shore
Take a used cruise ship, plant it in international waters three miles off the coast of El Segundo, near Los Angeles, people it with 600 of the brightest software engineers they can find around the world (both men and women), and run a 24-hour-a-day programming shop, thereby avoiding H-1B visa hassles while still exploiting offshore labor cost arbitrage and completing development projects in halfIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1114082741726916762005-04-21T12:25:00.000+01:002005-04-21T12:25:41.726+01:00Offshore growth forecasts
Long-term factors driving offshore outsourcing, including cost and lack of in-house IT staff, are still prevalent.
Despite weaker financial results from a pair of top Indian services companies, a new research report that says most outsourcing deals are problem-plagued, and the recent theft of Citibank accounts by foreign workers, most analysts don't see an end to the offshore-outsourcing boom.IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113997588415314152005-04-20T12:46:00.000+01:002005-04-20T12:46:28.416+01:00Building Trust by Responding to Online Bankers' Privacy ConcernsWith the increasing concerns about identity theft and misuing the customers' private information, banks are getting serious about security, wich helps them build customer trust.
Watchfire recently worked with the Ponemon Institute to survey U.S. adult online users about their attitudes towards their bank's privacy and security commitments. The results of the 2005 Privacy Trust Survey for Online IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113942816349021372005-04-19T21:33:00.000+01:002005-04-19T21:33:36.350+01:00ITworld.com - The art of successful offshore outsourcingA very insightful article on outsourcing experience:
Even IT executives who have successfully outsourced parts of their companies' services abroad can tell you the road to profitable relations with offshore partners can be painfully bumpy. Just ask Group 1 Software Inc. Vice President of Postal Affairs Tim King, who was forced to pull the plug on two of the four offshore application developmentIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113925597639587942005-04-19T16:46:00.000+01:002005-04-19T16:46:37.640+01:00More About Thin ClientsMore news on Microsoft's "Server Centric Computing Clients" - what they are going to be is not exactly thin clients but hybrids called "smart clients:
This initiative is not a passing fad for Microsoft: it is 'betting big' on smart clients. Today, the company supports the concept in three ways: through Windows Forms, Microsoft Office System and the Windows Mobile Platform. It is also building IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113892489935394622005-04-19T07:34:00.000+01:002005-04-19T07:37:49.356+01:00A Thin Client for Microsoft?Thin clients are becoming a more and more popular solution. Loks like even Microsoft is about to make use of this technology:Microsoft is developing 2 new "Server Centric Computing Clients" these clients are based on windows XP, so these will be "thin" clients for Terminal server purposes.Microsoft wants to make Windows the platform of choice for server centric computing by offering new feature IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113839809963221942005-04-18T16:56:00.000+01:002005-04-18T16:56:49.963+01:00Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion | CNET News.comFlash in PDF documents? - Let's just hope this won't screw neither Dreamweaver nor Photoshop - I'm used to my tools, I want them the way they are!
Desktop publishing specialist Adobe Systems is buying multimedia applications maker Macromedia in a $3.4 billion deal geared toward building a software powerhouse.
The all-stock deal, announced Monday, is designed to create a better-stocked source IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113772155004768882005-04-17T22:09:00.000+01:002005-04-17T22:14:22.033+01:00Why Offshore Outsourcing Projects FailI came across a very insightful blog entry/whitepaper covering important issues vital for an outsourcing project's success.Why Offshore Outsourcing Projects Fail: Misunderstood and Often Overlooked, Cultural Differences Can Make or Break a Project.Recent examples of failed offshore outsourcing have made headlines and become hotly debated among opponents and supporters of outsourcing.Typically, IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113763755435646412005-04-17T19:49:00.000+01:002005-04-17T19:49:15.436+01:00News from the OS world
roundup Apple tells tales of Tiger, Adobe teaches a penguin to read, and Microsoft opens the cowmono on the new Windows.
There's a summary of the latest news about different OS's, see the complete list of articles here:
Longhorn and the OS menagerie | CNET News.comIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113692053598642002005-04-16T23:54:00.000+01:002005-04-16T23:54:13.596+01:00More about the Tendencies in the Outsourcing MarketCame across this rather old article, they state just the opposite of how I see it. Well, considering that this is the first article I see that has the outsourcing marketing tendencies backwards, and the source is Indian, I suspect this is rather what they'd like to see, not the real situation... Marketing wars :-)
Outsourcing hub India is now looking at ?nearshore? locations in east and centralIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113600654041271862005-04-15T22:30:00.000+01:002005-04-15T22:30:54.040+01:00The Skype Story ContinuedI have already mentioned Skype add-ons development here. The recent news is that some of these add-ons are already available:
Skype has enhanced its popular Net phone application with two new premium features: SkypeIn and Skype Voicemail.
Both have been available in limited tests but are now ready for widespread use for the Windows, Linux, Pocket PC and Mac OS X versions of Skype's free IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113600016426982212005-04-15T22:20:00.000+01:002005-04-15T22:20:16.426+01:00HP Attracted to Eastern EuropeThis story comes as part of the current tendency for Eastern Europe to become a more and more popular outsourcing destination:
Hewlett-Packard plans to open a new center in Poland for business process outsourcing, which involves taking over companies' ancillary tasks such as human resources or credit card processing. Over the next five years, HP will invest $50 million and hire about 1,000 IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113592776757270132005-04-15T20:19:00.000+01:002005-04-15T20:19:36.756+01:00Working from Home Becoming a RealityWhy go to the office in the crowded subway in the morning when your work can be done from home just the same?
Intriguing questions about working from home have been raised in a couple of recent blogs.
Wednesday, Sun Microsystems employee Marion Vermazen asked whether Sun's flexible worksite program, iWork, makes sense. "We get feedback all the time that Sun's policy about employee work IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113592470083978272005-04-15T20:14:00.000+01:002005-04-15T20:14:30.083+01:00An offshoring tidal wave to come? | News.blog | CNET News.com
A recent InformationWeek article offers a dizzying statistic about the scale of offshoring over the next decade.
The story says a forthcoming report from research firm Gartner predicts 30 percent of IT jobs in the United States and other developed countries will be "offshored" by 2015. That compares to less than 5 percent of those IT jobs being sent offshore now, according to the story, which IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113497311988880192005-04-14T17:48:00.000+01:002005-04-14T17:48:31.986+01:00Open Source's Impact on the Software MarketGood news for the software end users: the software prices are expected to go down. Open Source, being largely associated with non-commercial software development, nevertheless impacts the commercial software market:
The market for big-ticket server software is going the way pork bellies and other commodities once did: Prices are going down.
The overall market for infrastructure software neededIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113468507528782112005-04-14T09:48:00.000+01:002005-04-14T09:48:27.526+01:00Book Review: Barnes&Noble.com - Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective
The Barnes & Noble Review
How do you learn to write great code? By reading great code. Once, that was nearly impossible. (Imagine if you had to work for the “Shakespeare” company to read Hamlet.) With the success of the open source movement, however, there’s suddenly loads of great code to read, much of it written by true masters. (Some of it’s even well documented!)
But most folks have never IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113466483871753452005-04-14T09:14:00.000+01:002005-04-14T09:14:43.870+01:00Slashdot | Firefox Site Visits Up 237%There's an interesting Firefox-related discussion going on at Slashdot. While there are arguable issues in the report that spurred this discussion (just how are the visitors tracked? how reliable is this kind of stats? how do the site visits convert into the browser usage?), this whole discussion does show an increase in interest to the new Mozilla offspring.
The discussion can be viewed here:
IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113428952608306002005-04-13T22:49:00.000+01:002005-04-13T22:49:12.606+01:00An interesting discussion about standardsSlashdot | Naturally Occurring StandardsIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113414518161202152005-04-13T18:48:00.000+01:002005-04-13T18:48:38.160+01:00More about outsourcing market's top destinations
Is India yesterday's news? Will China, Russia, Vietnam and Brazil become the future of information technology offshore outsourcing?
Some are making that argument, and there is an argument to be made. After all, the cost advantage of doing business in India has come under pressure as salaries for qualified Indian IT professionals reach record heights. Average Indian salaries in the field rose 12IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113337062424005382005-04-12T21:17:00.000+01:002005-04-12T21:17:42.423+01:00Critical Decision Drivers in Evaluating Outsourced Testing Services - Computerworld
Long a critical component of the software development process, testing has only grown in importance in recent years, and each advance in the breadth and depth of business systems usage amplifies the need for thorough testing.
Software defects cost vastly more than their correction efforts, and they can tarnish reputations, performance and revenue. A National Institute of Standards and IT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11690401.post-1113336040459146972005-04-12T21:00:00.000+01:002005-04-12T21:00:40.460+01:00Programming Languages - METASOFTAccording to the recent survey by Computerworld, the top programming languages in use are C#, Java, Visual Basic, C++ and JavaScript.
Metasoft is moving in accordance with these current tendencies:
We can create software solutions in the following programming languages:
C/C++,
JAVA...
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Programming Languages - METASOFTIT Lassiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176157140988654276noreply@blogger.com