Global CIO: The 50 Top Tech Quotes For 2009, Part II
By
Bob
Evans
"Take two of the five most-profitable businesses in China: they don't pay for their software." We've got 24 more great quotes in Part II of our best of 2009.
Global CIO: The Top 50 Tech Quotes From 2009
By
Bob
Evans
What were the most-memorable, confrontational, insightful, and valuable comments in 2009? We've pulled together 50 of the best.
Practical Analysis: Pundits, Facts, And Competing Goals
By
Art
Wittmann
There's no silver bullet when it comes to building a technically competent enterprise content management strategy.
Global CIO: Outsourcer HCL To Cut Insurer's Costs By $150 Million
By
Bob
Evans
HCL is taking on an end-to-end chain of processes in a deal valued at $200 million that blends IT infrastructure and services with deep business processes and more.
Global CIO: Will SAP Move To Tiered Maintenance Fees?
By
Bob
Evans
SAP's intentions are always difficult to discern, but it might be on the verge of revising the support/maintenance fees its customers love to hate.
Global CIO: Fear Of Facebook For The Enterprise
By
Chris
Murphy
Enterprise social networking, at its worst, looks like another way to get buried in data.
Government CIOs Must Focus On Results, Not Data Centers
Data center proliferation entails unacceptable cost and risk, says the former CIO of the U.S. Postal Service. With cloud computing as an option, it's time to pursue a more sustainable strategy.
Global CIO: Oracle, Larry Ellison, The EU, And MySQL
By
Bob
Evans
Would you be shocked--shocked!--to learn that the EU's battle against Oracle is all about politics, power, and preserving jobs?
Down To Business: How Indian CIOs Stack Up
By
Rob
Preston
IBM thinks they're more progressive than CIOs elsewhere in the world, given their emphasis on innovation, customers, and other strategic matters.
Practical Analysis: Smartphones -- Passion To Profit And Productivity
By
Art
Wittmann
Mobile apps are hard to support, they're a new development discipline, and they have a squishy ROI--but they can't be ignored.