Computerworld IT Management/Outsourcing
September 22, 2008
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In this issue:
* Millennials Demand Changes in IT Strategy
* India may be overhyped as innovation hub, but that's changing
* How to earn your boss's trust
* Social networking in business: Avoid the 'Kumbaya Zone'
* Infrastructure: IT's stepchild
* Letter: Studying the effects of telework
* HP cuts 24,600 jobs in wake of EDS buy
* Frankly Speaking: 'What noise?' Only new hires notice the jackhammers
* Project-manage your job search
* Wall Street turmoil unlikely to KO IT industry
* Lehman Brothers invested in IT despite credit crunch
* Editor's Note: The context of Lehman's collapse
* Indian outsourcer reshapes Tucson tax system
* Cisco buys Jabber for instant messaging
* Vendor pushes 'token-based' licensing model
* Update: Oracle Q1 earnings beat analysts' expectations
* Opinion: Nice folks really do finish first
Computerworld Blogs:
* Yet another TLA
* You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still Vista
* Dots right
* Five tips for a Web 2.0 start-up
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Millennials Demand Changes in IT Strategy
Generation Y workers are starting to demand the corporate IT managers provide access to instant messaging tools and a variety of Web 2.0 tools like social networks.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140320/2/
India may be overhyped as innovation hub, but that's changing
India's reputation as an innovation hub is overhyped, says Forrester Research, and others in IT in India agree.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140321/2/
How to earn your boss's trust
What your boss wants most is predictability, but most IT departments don't measure it. They should, argues IT Mentor Michael Strange; he offers some ways IT can do that.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140322/2/
Social networking in business: Avoid the 'Kumbaya Zone'
AMR Research analyst Jonathan Yarmis says that social media falls short of providing business value for many companies. In order to combat this problem, companies must start small and focus on what conversations they want to have in social media forums.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140323/2/
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Infrastructure: IT's stepchild
IT infrastructure gets no respect. As a result, many IT organizations don't have enough skilled infrastructure staff to provide the solid foundation required for today's environment. Bart Perkins explains what's wrong.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140324/2/
Letter: Studying the effects of telework
Telework does have an effect on performance, but not necessarily what you might expect.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140325/2/
HP cuts 24,600 jobs in wake of EDS buy
Hewlett-Packard said it is cutting more than 24,000 jobs as it restructures to ease the integration of Electronic Data Systems into the company after it closed on its purchase of the services firm last month.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140326/2/
Frankly Speaking: 'What noise?' Only new hires notice the jackhammers
Frank Hayes knows we all have work-arounds and kludgy procedures we don't even see anymore. But he can tell you who does see them.
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Project-manage your job search
Project management skills aren't just for your corporate life. The same discipline that brings in a major IT project on time can also guide personal projects such as the search for a new job. Heres how to use those skills to your advantage.
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Wall Street turmoil unlikely to KO IT industry
While spending on IT will slow in 2009, analysts say it is unlikely to experience negative growth from the troubles in the financial services industry.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140328/2/
Lehman Brothers invested in IT despite credit crunch
Even as it headed toward bankruptcy, Lehman Brothers was boosting its investment in IT.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140329/2/
Editor's Note: The context of Lehman's collapse
Lehman Brothers employees like Computerworld Honors laureate Sara O'Neill, head of Lehman's global storage management, will be fine following the collapse of their company last week. They've been through a lot worse.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140330/2/
Indian outsourcer reshapes Tucson tax system
Tata Consultancy Services, best known as an IT outsourcer, has quietly started modernizing tax systems for state and local governments in the U.S.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140331/2/
Cisco buys Jabber for instant messaging
Cisco Systems is planning to buy instant-messaging platform maker Jabber for an undisclosed sum.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140332/2/
Vendor pushes 'token-based' licensing model
Different application modules require varying numbers of tokens, and there's a 'peak usage' feature so end users don't need to fight with conventional licensing mechanisms.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140333/2/
Update: Oracle Q1 earnings beat analysts' expectations
Oracle came out slightly ahead of analysts' expectations in its first-quarter results.
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140334/2/
Opinion: Nice folks really do finish first
Virginia Robbins sings the praises of those who make the workday a bit more pleasant.
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COMPUTERWORLD BLOGS
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Yet another TLA
Programmer pilot fish is hired by a city government and quickly gains a pair of nicknames: "the Gateway guy" -- because he helped swap out Macs for PCs -- and "FNG."
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http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140337/2/
You can put lipstick on a pig but it's still Vista
Come on Microsoft, no new ads are going to con us into thinking Vista is any good. Besides, if it were decent, why would you be moving up 7's start date?
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http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140338/2/
Dots right
BlackBerry user is setting up his new device when he calls support pilot fish with a problem: The instructions just don't work.
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http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3655320/80502044/140339/2/
Five tips for a Web 2.0 start-up
I've talked to a lot of Web 2.0 companies in the past month, some big and some small. A few themes have developed in how to make a successful Web 2.0 company - here's a few ideas.
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