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07.13.04
Linux
IT Services Market Poised for Rapid Growth
The market for IT services around Linux and other open source software
projects is expected to more than double between now and 2008, according
to International Data Corp, but will remain a small percentage of
the overall services market.
Linux and free software is responsible for less than 1% of the total
Western European IT services market, according to research firm IDC,
but is growing faster than the market as a whole and is set to hit
$228m by 2008 from $98m today.
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Open
Country Seeks to Simplify Linux Management
While many IT managers gravitate toward administration tools from
large providers, one upstart vendor is attracting attention with simple
Linux desktop and server management software that balances functionality
with low cost and ease of use.
Open Country Inc., which counts among its customers Cisco Systems
Inc., Intel Corp. and Electronic Data Systems Corp., this week will
launch OC-Manager. The tool supports standard and enterprise versions
of Linux and provides operating system provisioning, software and
patch management, asset management, backup and restoration, remote
system administration, and remote control from a centralized console.
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Selectively
changing the source
SELECTIVE sourcing is an increasingly popular choice for businesses
disillusioned by full-blown outsourcing, but managing multiple providers
can prove to be difficult.
The shift to selective in Australia, in large part, has been driven
by the perceived failure of classic everything-but-the-kitchen-sink
IT outsourcing, often favoured in corporates and government departments
through the late '90s, to deliver major savings or benefits.
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A
valuable proposition
Take a look at a lot of the sales material provided by IT vendors
and you would think the only criterion used by businesses for buying
products is cost, and that unless a return on investment (ROI) can
be shown in a matter of months, customers will not be interested in
a proposition, whatever it is.
Quocirca research shows that ROI is not the primary driver for most
IT purchases, but that businesses consider a number of factors. These
range from hard-edged financial objectives, such as revenue generation
and cost reduction, to softer ones such as reliability and customer
satisfaction.
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IT
Gets Organized: Introducing The Office of the CIO
ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE is one tool that CIOs wield in their perennial
effort to build a better IT group. Now a new structure, the Office
of the CIO, or OCIO, has gained favor in government and academic circles,
and is spreading to large companies in the private sector.
Simply put, an Office of the CIO structure is a team-oriented approach
to IT management in which the CIO delegates specialized IT roles-essentially,
the ideal IT org chart. An OCIO is born out of a desire for solid
IT governance processes-a vision of repeatable IT processes, clear
lines of project accountability and consistent communication of standards.
It's meant to leave CIOs time to rub elbows with their executive brethren.
Which is exactly what they should be doing.
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Depending on which side of the consumer-business equation you are
on, you might either expect to perform a transaction with another
machine or you might expect a person to be on the other end of the
transaction. When you run a business that requires legitimate user-accounts,
you may be surprised to find that some of your accounts may belong
to a single person—one using a skillfully-crafted script running on
his machine to create many "virtual" accounts with your business.
These accounts tie up your resources, bandwidth, and other time and
materials.
The process by which such scripts create accounts is called identity
spoofing, and—for most simple sites—can be accomplished rather easily.
All the spoofer needs to do is to create an HTML form that contains
fields identical to those in your login form and then "HTTP-POST"
the data to your server, where your user-account creation process
takes place. The problem is even worse if you allow your login forms
to be processed via "HTTP-GET". After successfully creating an account
once, there's nothing stopping the spoofer from automating the whole
process.
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