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Despite tremendous growth potential, the life of mid-market IT is tough. Many mid-market IT staff operate as "silos," with each person supporting different organizational needs, Scott Cosby, program director for WebSphere Business Integration at IBM, told CRM Buyer. In other ...

On the upside, Cathey said that the IT staffs of enterprises could modify open-source software. But closed-source software -- such as Microsoft Windows -- cannot be modified, he said "Linux provides an operating system that is open source and gives you the freedom to provide a...

"That is the hype, that it is free," Greg Buzek, an industry analyst at IHL Consulting Group, told LinuxInsider. "But there are a number of things that the retailer needs to take on -- driver compliance, support, maintenance, increased staffing -- that in a Microsoft world is typically in the application and operating systems."

Among the changes the company will be making in the coming year are more staff reductions, although it did not say which areas will see cuts. According to the report, 1,500 jobs will be cut. Currently, the company has about 3,500 employees Gateway spokesperson David Hallisey t...

According to computer security experts, BJ's management did two things right: one, it didn't hide its possible security leak; and two, it didn't rely on its own IT staff to sweep the system for security holes Those two steps are critical whether the potential security intrusio...

This speculation suggests that as far as priorities for the firm go, the litigation is priority one. There might not really be a priority two that is important enough to sustain at this time, which could mean the executive staff should be taking almost all of its direction from the legal team as opposed to the other way around. Everything the company does privately or -- especially -- publicly, should be focused on one thing and one thing only: winning the litigation.

Also on Monday, Google revealed it has begun hiring staff for a research lab in Tokyo, extending its reach to a fourth overseas country. The company emphasized the move does not reflect a desire to move U.S.-based jobs overseas, but rather a need to take advantage of engineering talent wherever it can find it.

For her part, however, Electronic Frontier Foundation staff attorney Wendy Seltzer said the program likely ended because the RIAA's promise of immunity was hollow "The problem that the RIAA was forced to recognize was that they couldn'tguarantee they were not creating more lia...

Ashley: What's on the market now is like a Band-Aid. It addresses the problem, but not at the level that it should. Companies need to make sure that devices are safe and compliant, and do this with a level of staff involvement ...

Attorney General John Ashcroft's staff lawyers, however, view the settlement's "protocol licensing plan" as key to resolving the four-year-old case, hoping it will enable other software companies to compete with Microsoft on a more equal footing. During the 2000 election, Geo...

Dell has increased staffing in that country in manufacturing, sales and support -- but not in high-end work like design or management. Across the Sea of Japan, in Japan, Dell's revenues rose 26 percent last year.

For each application and user role, Novell evaluated the ease of migration alongside the cost and expected value. For example, in the data center, motivation to migrate tends to be high because Linux gives IS&T staff complete control. Core services, such as Web, file, print and firewall, can be moved to Linux with virtually no end-user impact. With immediate payback in greater uptime and lower licensing fees, migrating these core services first was a no-brainer...

The topic of IT scams, both those done to IT folks and those done by IT folks, has come up several times in conversations over the last month. Since internal audit organizations are receiving massive increases in funding, staffing and provisioning, I thought it would be good to review some of the more interesting IT scams so that you too will know some of the things that likely will be found in a large number of firms.

Playing the Anti-SLAPP card has some stumped some observers. "It seems like a stretch," observed Fred von Lohmann, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco "ICANN may be trying to stop discovery," added Lohman's colleague, Wendy Seltzer. "An An...

Personally, I'd put DEC's failure to recognize that commercial VMS users weren't remotely like mainframers (in their spending or thinking) in solid second place, though I can think of some other contenders too -- including AT&T's purchase of NCR, American Microprocessor's decision to lay off the first microprocessor design team, the Defense Department's choice of staff and criteria in the development of ADA, and Intel's decision to continue 64-KB block addressing in the i80286...

I think this dedication has to come from the top down -- the CTO or CEO level, depending on the company. "We've got to have a super-fast Web site, and it can never go down," they say, and then they set specific performance goals. The companies that do that achieve it. When you can go to your staff and say, "Here, look at the numbers we've got to meet," they can do it...

After years of legal wrangling, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft jointly announced that they have brokered a 10-year "technology collaboration" agreement, plus several related agreements -- including a settlement of all pending legal issues between them ...

Many companies work with consultancies like ISS, which has a staff of bilingual project managers working in China, as well as state-of-the art custom communications software that allows them to track and manage the manufacturing process seamlessly. In essence, they outsource their outsourcing...

SBC Communications, one of the telecom industry's landline leaders, announced Tuesday its plans to roll out "FreedomLink" WiFi hotspot service at UPS Store locations throughout the United States. The announcement is the latest stage in the company's overall FreedomLink strategy, which promises to bring mobile connectivity to a mass audience ...

Fred von Lohmann, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, added, "I think it's a terrible idea to have the American taxpayer essentially foot the bill for the RIAA's 'sue all American music fans' strategy." Von Lohmann told TechNewsWorld that...