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Works in Progress
Among the stories InformationWeek is chasing this week: a big endorsement of VoIP; RFID and the global supply chain; RFID and the global fun chain; and open source doesn't necessarily mean open doors.
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Works in Progress
Many stories will be written and edited this week by InformationWeek staff. Here are a few of the more significant articles: RFID and the Global Supply Chain; RFID and the Global Fun Chain; and Open Source Doesn't Necessarily mean Open Doors.
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SMB Tax Incentives
There could be good news for small and medium size business that want to invest in technology. It appears legislation to extend tax incentives beyond the end of 2004 has passed both the House and Senate, and now awaits the President's approval.
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You Sat in Seat 7F AND You Ordered the Chicken ...
In the three years since 9/11, the term "data mining" has become a dirty word among privacy advocates. While much evidence points to digital invasion of privacy as a legitimate concern, I didn't think much about it until I wrote a story this week about the Transportation Security Administration's plans to test its new Secure Flight program. TSA has ordered all 77 domestic air carriers to provide passenger name record data for anyone who flew during the month of June. Hey, wait a minute, I flew during the month of June.
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Confident Customers Could Boost PeopleSoft
I went into this week's PeopleSoft Connect user conference expecting to find the shadow of Oracle's hostile takeover bid casting a pall over the proceedings. What I found instead was a community rallying to support a valued vendor in trouble.
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Works in Progress
News is popping on many fronts this week. Here are some of the more significant stories InformationWeek is chasing: CA's long corporate nightmare is over--maybe; Giving renewed focus to Web sites; GM doesn't want to re-invent the wheel--literally; Does your salary reflect IT's performance?
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Keeping EA Demons at Bay
When describing the principles behind a successful state enterprise architecture, Patricia Carlson earlier this week said it should be as practical and flexible as possible and include input from not just state IT professionals but those on the federal and local level as well. Speaking on a panel at the National Association of State CIO's annual conference in New Orleans Monday, Carlson, the Wisconsin Department of Administration's chief enterprise architect, used a "nonexample" to make her point (I learned about nonexamples as an undergrad but haven't thought much about them over the past decade).
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The State Of Craig Conway
It’s amazing what you can learn about a CEO when he faces an audience of thousands of customers. I certainly felt like PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway’s keynote address at the company’s user conference Tuesday provided a fascinating window into the state of a man who clearly feels under attack.
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Works in Progress
InformationWeek reporters are working on many stories this week, including: Does Your Salary Reflect IT’s Performance? Back To Basics: Is Your Site Working? Shaving Costs By Saving Steps
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Career Imperative: Get Inside The Boss' Head
J.P. Morgan Chase's decision to in-source the bulk of the IT operations it recently outsourced points to what could be one of the great career-planning hazards over the next couple years: Divining what direction IT strategy is headed.
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Open Source Hardware
Can the open-source model be extended beyond software? It already has. In speaking today with Indian scholar Deepak Phatak, I learned about the "Simputer," introduced in 1998 and licensed under the Simputer General Public License, an open-source license developed for hardware.
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If You Think You Know the Solution, Clearly You Don't Understand the Problem ...
When it comes to understanding the big picture during a terrorist attack (what's being attacked, how it's being attacked, and who's at risk) emergency responders who can't communicate are like the proverbial blind men interpreting the elephant each in their own way. Although I wish I could take credit for that analogy, it goes instead to Matt Walton, vice chairman of crisis-management software maker E Team Inc. and chairman of the Emergency Interoperability Consortium, a group launched in October 2002 to address the country's lack of interoperability and standards for emergency and incident management.
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IBM's Big Tent Approach
Since its debut in February, IBM’s PartnerWorld Industry Network for ISVs has attracted 1,500 software developers clustered around eight key industry segments: automotive, banking, financial markets, government, healthcare and life sciences, insurance, retail, and telecommunications. On Monday at the monthly meeting of the New York Software Industry Association, Buell Duncan, general manager for ISVs at IBM, laid out a roadmap for how Big Blue plans to incorporate them into its own business model.
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What's Next After "Good To Great"?
Jim Collins changed the way a great many people think and talk about business with his books "Built To Last" and "Good To Great." Monday he shared an idea that just might join these two mega-sellers in a trilogy.
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Works in Progress
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Do You Have An Open Source Sweet Tooth?
Could open-source enterprise applications be closer than we think? A potentially signficant move in that direction came last week when startup SugarCRM introduced the first commercial version of its Linux-based customer relationship-management offering. Sugar Sales 1.5 may be a point release, but it's one with wider-than-usual implications: It's touted as an enterprise-ready CRM application that, for an introductory price of $149 a year per user, will rapidly expand its capabilities through the collective efforts of customers and a small but growing developer community.
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Karma Catches Up With The RIAA
I can't help but wonder how the execs at the Recording Industry Association of America are feeling now that they're on the wrong end of a lawsuit, for a change. And it's accused of infringment, no less. (Patent infringement, that is.)
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Patent Revolution
Not since the dawn of the previous century has technology, and the need to protect inventors' ideas and techniques, had such a profound impact on business and society. Today, as it was 100 years ago, new inventions that change the way people work and live emerge at a furious pace. Likewise, today, as it was a century ago, inventors (we're more likely to call them developers now) seek to capitalize on innovative ideas and build upon other's innovative ideas.
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Works in Progress
InformationWeek reporters are busy looking into many stories this week. Among the more notable: cyberextortion--a victim speaks; a new database of clinical-drug-trial results; a new database of parolees who cross state lines; and a proposed database of financial information gathered from 8,000 banks.
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Echo of the Presidential Campaign
For a group that promotes the benefits of offshore outsourcing and the need to import foreign workers under the H-1B visa program, the nation's largest IT trade group seems to be providing fodder for the John Kerry campaign. The Information Technology Association of America issued a report Wednesday that shows a meager 2% growth in tech employment this year. More discouraging, American employers will hire 270,000 fewer IT workers in 2004 than they did in 2003. The ITAA all but concedes that offshore outsourcing is a contributing factor.
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Works In Progress
Is a decision near in the case if DoJ v. Oracle? One might be and that's one of the many stories InformationWeek is looking into. Others include: Sharing open sourse among friends; what's IT going to offer tomorrow?; and direct to you!
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Dispatch From Inside The RNC Security Zone
New Yorkers this week are complaining how difficult it is to get around the city during the Republican National Convention (as did Bostonians during the Democratic National Convention in August). But no one has it quite as tough as the employees at Information Builders Inc., whose Two Penn Plaza headquarters is right next to Madison Square Garden.
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