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Friday, Jan 04, 2008
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Table Of Contents:
* East vs. West in the marketplace
* InfoWorld Daily Podcast
* Open source: a conservative force?
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EAST VS. WEST IN THE MARKETPLACE
Outsourcing: The rumor mill was rampant in 2007 with speculation that
one of the top three Indian services organizations -- Tata, Infosys, or
Wipro -- would buy French-owned Capgemini. Ephraim Schwartz takes a
Reality Check and decides Capgemini is not a likely acquisition by those
three for a number of reasons. "Indian companies want to complement and
penetrate into spaces where they currently don't have the expertise but
they are acquiring very selectively." Frances Karamouzis of Gartner
concurs, observing "they are leery ...
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/east_vs_west_in.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-04
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INFOWORLD DAILY PODCAST
Researchers say a Wi-Fi virus outbreak is possible, Intel resigns from
the One Laptop Per Child Project, Apple appears to be working on an
ultramobile PC, Hitachi develops a 500GB hard drive for laptops, and
more
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OPEN SOURCE: A CONSERVATIVE FORCE?
Open source: Is open source automatically the best path to creativity
and innovation? Savio Rodrigues takes exception with a recent article in
Discover Magazine that concludes "that claim is not borne out by the
facts. ... Even though the open-source movement has a stinging
countercultural rhetoric, it has in practice been a conservative force."
In his Open Sources blog Rodrigues writes "the conclusion is not that
OSS projects don't innovate. Rather, that projects that are truly
innovative are developed by vendors whose ...
More of this blog at:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/daily/archives/2008/01/open_source_a_c.html?source=NLC-DAILY&cgd=2008-01-04
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