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The Organizational Implications of Offshore Outsourcing: Gartner has some words on offshore outsourcing. Application developers, screwed. System admins, less so. A reality check is warranted: Offshore outsourcing will not be applicable to all enterprises, all IS roles or all IS professionals. For now, offshore outsourcing tends to concentrate on application ...

SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market: Gartner has issued a stronger warning on using Linux in the enterprise. They've warned about this before, but this time they even advised a certain segment to pay off SCO: "Don't ignore the problem by hoping IBM will win or settle its lawsuit ...

Outsourcing not always a money saver: Outsourcing is apparently not the panacea big business thinks it is. Nearly 20 percent of companies that farmed out IT work did not achieve any cost reductions, while 9.2 percent experienced an increase in costs, according to a survey by people3, a Gartner company. ...

SCO actions prompt Linux warning | CNET News.com: This SCO thing is going to get worse before it gets better. "Analyst firm Gartner Group has recommended that customers minimize their use of Linux on important systems because of questions resulting from SCO Group's warnings about legal liability." Gartner is the ...

NYT: IBM putting its PC business on the block: Looks like that Gartner report was right on the money. IBM, now the No. 3 PC maker behind Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., is likely to include all of its desktop and laptop computers in the sale, which could earn it ...

Here's something that oughta tweak the nose of the Linux crowd; a cnet article reports that according to research and consulting gurus at Gartner, the reason so many machines loaded with Linux are being sold today is that when they hit the field the drives are wiped and they're loaded ...

Desktop Linux Could Be Costly: I believe this. I will probably always run Windows on the desktop, though I make an effort to use non-Microsoft applications. "Using a Linux operating system might save you money on your servers, but most enterprises shouldn't expect to see the same cost saving if ...

UK military: iPOD is security risk: Look, do we need anymore proof that Apple is evil? The pocket-sized digital music player, which can store thousands of songs, is one of a series of banned gadgets that the military will no longer allow into most sections of its headquarters in the ...

Computer makers face slowdown, firm predicts: Gartner is saying that three of the Top 10 computer manufacturers will be gone in two years. I pick Gateway as one of them, given that its workforce has been cut 92% in the last three years. Three of the nation's top 10 personal ...