Computerworld articles from January 2009

Computerworld archives from January 2009

Won't, but should.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
January 1, 2009... WHAT WOULD our annual Forecast package be without my now-legendary annual cop-out? Yes, it's time once again for my shameless shirking of responsibility as I weasel out of my obligation to predict what's going to happen in the new year. As I...

The week ahead.(NEWS Digest)(Brief article)(Calendar)
January 1, 2009... JAN. 5: The annual Macworld Conference & Expo opens in San Francisco. Apple said last month that it won't exhibit at or send keynote speakers to Macworld after this year's show. JAM. 5: A one-day conference on the future of the Federal...

NYSE turns to appliances in BI consolidation effort.(New York Stock Exchange Inc.)(business intelligence)
January 1, 2009... NYSE EURONEXT Inc., which operates the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext and other stock markets, has turned to data warehousing appliances from Greenplum Inc. and Netezza Corp. as it consolidates its business intelligence systems. ...

Microsoft tells how it missed critical IE bug.(internet explorer)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... MICROSOFT CORP. developers overlooked a critical bug in the Internet Explorer browser because of a lack of adequate testing tools and training, a company official acknowledged last month. The flaw, which Microsoft patched last week with an...

Stimulus could create thousands of IT Jobs.(CAREERS)
January 1, 2009... A FEDERAL ECONOMIC stimulus package expected early this year from the administration of President-elect Barack Obama should boost the job prospects of IT professionals. Katherine McGuire, vice president of government relations at the...

Microsoft Corp.(internet explorer bug)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Just days after patching a critical flaw in its Internet Explorer browser, Microsoft Corp. warned users about a serious bug in older versions of its SQL Server database. The bug could be exploited to run unauthorized software on systems that...

Microsoft.(Microsoft Corp. to announce final orders of Windows XP)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Microsoft also announced that distributors and system builders can place final orders for Windows XP by the end of January but hold delivery until as late as May 30. The move virtually ensures that XP will be available until the scheduled...

Unisys Corp.(Unisys Corp. to plan to layoff their 1300 workers)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Unisys Corp. plans to lay off about 1,300 workers, implement salary freezes, slash 401(k) contributions and consolidate facilities in order to cut costs by about S225 million.

Indian outsourcer Wipro Ltd. Has agreed to acquire Citigroup Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... Indian outsourcer Wipro Ltd. has agreed to acquire Citigroup Inc.'s Citi Technology Services subsidiary in Mumbai and Chennai for about 3127 million in cash.

States hope feds will help replace legacy systems.(IT IN GOVERNMENT)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... WITH President-elect Barack Obaraa proposing to spend billions of dollars on road and bridge projects as part of his economic stimulus plan, some state CIOs are hoping that their aging IT infrastructures might also qualify for makeovers. ...

It in 2008: not business as usual: the recession dominated IT headlines. But Microsoft, HP and others also made notable tech news.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
January 1, 2009... WHAT first appeared to be a banking crisis became an economic mess for everyone, including IT professionals. The recession ensured that last year wasn't business as usual for IT departments and prompted tech analysts to slash their 2009...

Bracing for a sea change.(FORECAST 2009)(Michael Twohig of Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc.)(Cover story)
January 1, 2009... Early this past summer, well before the financial meltdown in mid-September, CIO Michael Twohig met with the executive leadership at Clean Harbors Environmental Services Inc. in Nor-well, Mass., to discuss the company's 2009 budget. It was the...

Slow growing green.
January 1, 2009... COULD SAVING the Earth--and your company's bottom line--be as simple as using fresh air to cool your data center? It's not quite that simple, but it can be one step toward those goals, because companies that use natural air to cool their...

Project priorities: bold moves in times tough.(FORECAST 2009)
January 1, 2009... 1 The Security Imperative Critical security projects escape the budget ax. BY STACY COLLETT Leslie LAMBERT, vice president and chief information security officer at Sun Microsystems Inc., returned from a three-week business trip to...

2 The big server push: virtualization keeps server projects hot in 2009.(FORECAST 2009)
January 1, 2009... DAMN the torpedoes! Full speed ahead! Admiral David Farragut's famous American Civil War exclamation could be the rallying cry of the IT executives behind server and virtualization efforts. Rather than cutting and running as they face deepening...

SaaS realities.(FORECAST 2009)
January 1, 2009... OUR forecast survey of nearly 300 IT executives revealed lukewarm interest in software as a service despite its budget-friendly, pay-as-you-go model. In fact, on a list of 24 possible IT project priorities for 2009, survey respondents ranked...

Your new-age workforce.(FORECAST 2009)
January 1, 2009... Some OF the best ideas come out of what seems like left field. Consider the phlebotomist at Sonora Quest Laboratories LLC who came up with an automated way to securely download patient billing information from hundreds of physicians'...

9 hottest skills For'09.
January 1, 2009... BY almost any measure, the U.S. economy is in its worst state since the Great Depression. Consumer spending is down, credit markets remain weak, and more than 10 million Americans are out of work. Yet despite the grim financial picture,...

Office bling for 09.(technological innovations)
January 1, 2009... NOTHING STAMDS still in business; needs, skills and opportunities change. When upgrading IT equipment, most enterprises squeeze every drop of utility from basic hardware to get the best possible return. That's sensible, but many companies...

Winners.(FORECAST 2009)
January 1, 2009... "Dell will make a comeback. Its stock has been over-punished by the stock market downturn. Michael Dell is back on the case, and they are re-engaging with the idea of customers helping to make the product. That should help Dell avoid lower...

After the fail.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
January 1, 2009... READY FOR 2009? At this time last year, we were wondering how far down the economy would go. Now we know: way, waaaaay down. And at the moment, it feels like there's no end in sight--so it's strange to think that this year IT will lead the way...

Unshared pain.(EDITOR'S NOTE)
January 12, 2009... LAST OCTOBER, there was an article on StarTribune.-com, the Web site of the Minneapolis-St. Paul daily, about Ameriprise Financial in Minneapolis having reported a loss of $70 million for its third quarter. Several readers who posted online...

Responses to: small laptops pose a big security threat.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
January 12, 2009... Dec. 22,2008 SSDD--same song, different deployment. We hear the same scary song every time a new form of technology is hot. It is time to get past this and actually do something. Train everyone that all technology regardless of form factor...

The week ahead.(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... MONDAY: Rebooting Computing, a three-day summit aimed at developing an action plan to "recover the magic and beauty of computer science," opens in Mountain View, Calif. TUESDAY: In its monthly software patch release, Microsoft plans to...

Microsoft unveils Windows 7 beta.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... AS ANTICIPATED, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer last week announced the first public beta version of Windows 7 at the International CES trade show. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The beta was scheduled to become available for download on...

IT gets tool to block IE8 download.(internet explorer)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... Microsoft Crop. last week made a tool kit available that IT staggers can use to block Internet Explorer 8 from automatically being installed on PCs when the borwser is released later this year. The tool kit is another hint that Microsoft is...

Satyam's future up in the air after scandal.(Satyam Computer Services Ltd.)
January 12, 2009... CUSTOMERS OF Satyam Computer Services Ltd. were left facing questions about its viability last week, after the India-based offshore outsourcing vendor's chairman admitted to orchestrating a fraudulent accounting scheme and resigned. Satyam...

Lenovo Group Ltd.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... Lenovo Group Ltd. plans to lay off 2,500 people, cut executive pay by 30% to 50% and restructure its Asian operations in the face of worldwide economic woes. The company hopes the moves can cut costs by S300 million in its fiscal year ending...

Dell Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... Dell Inc. announced that it will move its European PC manufacturing operation from Limerick, Ireland, to Lodz, Poland, and lay off 1,900 workers as part of its continuing belt-tightening efforts.

EMC Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... EMC Corp. announced a restructuring plan that includes layoffs of 2,400 employees and a consolidation of back-office functions and offices. At the same time, the company said it expects to hit its fourth-quarter 2008 sales and profit goals.

Sun Microsystems Inc.(Sun Microsystems Inc. to acquire Q-layer NV)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... Sun Microsystems Inc. has bought Q-layer NV, a Lochristi, Belgium-based supplier of software that automates the management of computing clouds. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Linkedln pages that promise prurient pics link to malware.(LinkedIn Corp. )(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... HACKERS LAST WEEK seeded Linkedln Corp.'s business networking site with bogus celebrity profiles that link to malicious Web sites, according to security researchers. Paul Ferguson, a researcher at Trend Micro Inc. in Cupertino, Calif.,...

Ruling near on state's plan to seize domain names.(LEGAL ISSUES)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... THE KENTUCKY Court of Appeals is expected to issue a ruling soon on whether a state court can order the seizure of Internet domain names that are registered in another state or country. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The three-judge appeals...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
January 12, 2009... IT SEEMS THAT THE TWITTER ACCOUNT WE OPENED FOR MARKETPURPOSES HAS BEEN HIJACKED. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HOW HIP IS THAT?

Barack Obama.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... President-elect Barack Obama detailed his economic stimulus plan, which includes new funding for broadband rollouts, school computers and an Internet-based smart energy grid.

VMware Inc.(VMware Inc. to hire Tod Nielsen)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... VMware Inc. hired Tod Nielsen, formerly Borland Software Corp.'s CEO, to be its chief operating officer. He and VMware CEO Paul Maritz worked at rival Microsoft Corp. in the past.

27 years ago: AT&T Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice settled.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... 27 YEARS AGO: AT&T Corp. and the U.S. Department of Justice settled an antitrust case against the company, leading to the breakup of the Bell System.

EDS settles U.K. tax system fiasco.(Electronic Data Systems Corp.)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... LONDON-Electronic Data Systems Corp. made the final payment toward the [pounds sterling]71 million ($108 million U.S.) settlement it reached with the British government over its failure to complete work on an [pounds sterling]8.5 billion ($12.9...

E-mailer threatens Indian IT firms.(information technology)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... BANGALORE, India - E-mails sent to six IT companies based here, including outsourcing vendors Infosys Technologies Ltd. and Wipro Ltd., included threats to blow up corporate facilities in the city. Police are tracking the author of the...

Briefly noted.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to contract with government of Abu Dhabi)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Committee on Foreign Investment approved Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s plan to jointly create a chip manufacturing company with the government of Abu Dhabi. AMD will own 34.2%, and a government-owned...

Hack forces Twitter into 'full security review': recent security woes could force IT to rethink how firms use the microblogging tool.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
January 12, 2009... TWITTER INC. has launched a comprehensive review of the defenses in its popular social network and microblogging service, after hackers last week hijacked the accounts of several high-profile users. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In interviews...

Open networks remain a distant nirvana for mobile users: Google and others are pushing for wireless freedom of choice. Don't hold your breath.(NEWS ANALYSIS)
January 12, 2009... THE PUSH for open wireless networks that can accommodate all manner of mobile devices and applications grabbed a lot of headlines last year. But true mobile openness remains a distant, and perhaps unachievable, nirvana. [ILLUSTRATION...

Christophe Louvion: the agile development advocate talks about how Scrum works, who's agile and who's not, and when a Post-it note might be the best development tool.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
January 12, 2009... Christophe Louvion joined online ad network Gorilla Nation last January from comparison-shopping Web site Shopzilla.com (formerly BizRate.com), where he was vice president of engineering. The 35-year-old native of France is a devotee of...

CIOs are entering a career ice age.(chief information officers)
January 12, 2009... MOST CIOs ARE DINOSAURS: out of place in the world that is taking shape, and headed for mass extinction. For most people, the phrase "mass extinction" evokes images of an asteroid slamming into the Earth 65 million years ago, forever...

Playing hard to get: the enterprise might want Apple, but does Apple want the enterprise?(COVER STORY)
January 12, 2009... EIGHTEEN MONTHS AGO, Serena Software Inc. began exploring the feasibility of supporting Apple MacBooks as, an option for its users, m most of whom are developers. It was interested in lowering its support costs and increasing satisfaction among...

Swift translation: videoconferencing technology enables on-demand, round-the-clock interpreting services for the hearing-impaired.(COMPUTERWORLD HONORS)
January 12, 2009... KAY CHIODO lays out a frightening scenario: A child is missing in an airport, and his mother, who is deaf, is frantically looking for him. When the mother rushes to an airline employee for help, there's a communication breakdown. The employee...

The covert PMO: how to produce great projects when you're outnumbered, outgunned and weary to the bone.(painful meaningless overhead)
January 12, 2009... YOUR POSITION has been overrun. Trapped behind enemy lines with hostiles lying in wait to expose you, your only option is to go to ground, become part of the crowd. Even allies from previous missions are attempting to thwart your every move....

Budget ax falls on disaster recovery; execs figure cutting DR for new projects will save half their cost. But to a security manager, it feels like living on the edge.(disaster recovery)
January 12, 2009... I JUST CAME BACK from an all-day bud getary bloodbath. Not unexpectedly, my capital budget for 2009 is basically zero. What I had not expected was the gutting of the disaster recovery budget. Until now, the cost of disaster recovery has...

Panic-and how to prevent it.(OPINION)
January 12, 2009... THE YEAR AHEAD isn't shaping up to be a good one for IT, to say the least. As we settle into the recession here in the U.S., budgets are increasingly going to reflect the worsening business conditions. That means a year or more of tough times...

It workers: last-born Pisces who love their jobs?(Career Watch)(Brief article)
January 12, 2009... OH, THE WAYS WE TRY to categorize society and explain career choices. Besides those old standby personality assessments Myers-Briggs and Keirsey Temperament Theory, there's the Dewey Color System, where you choose color preferences in a series...

The assistant professor of MIS in the college of business administration at Butler University discusses her study on telework and productivity.(Interview)
January 12, 2009... Is telecommuting necessarily bad for productivity? I'd like to broaden the perspective of the question a bit. Today, many organizations have team members who are not physically located together and where communication technology is used to...

True tales of it life as told to Sharky.(SharkTank)
January 12, 2009... Got a Problem? Turn to IT University IT department rolls out a new Web portal to simplify access to the school's various information systems, reports a pilot fish working on the project. "We marketed the heck out of the Web portal,...

Password fail.(FRANKLY SPEAKING)
January 12, 2009... PLEASE TELL ME this isn't happening in 2009: Last week, an 18-year-old student reportedly used a password-guessing program to get into the account of a Twitter employee (see story, page 8). From there, the teen cracker hijacked the accounts of...

The other casualty.(EDITOR'S NOTE)(Editorial)
January 19, 2009... AS EACH DAY PASSES, more lives are being forever changed. The economic downturn is claiming almost overwhelming numbers of human casualties, creating devastating losses for families all over the world. The toll in terms of livelihoods lost is...

Responses to: the 9 hottest skills for '09.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
January 19, 2009... Jan. 1,2009 I think the hot skills will be IT positions that require face-to-face contact, i.e., program managers, business analysts, help desk. SAP work is heavily outsourced right now, so it will be difficult to get into. SAP is a...

Responses to: won't, but should.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
January 19, 2009... Jan. 5, 2009 Another reason power consumption won't drop appreciably in the average data center is that the ROI isn't there soon enough to make it a priority in today's economy. As much as I want to consign it to the junk heap, my...

Responses to: IT execs losing ground on compensation, salary study says.(ONLINE CHATTER)(Letter to the editor)
January 19, 2009... Jan. 5, 2009 Of course they are. With the open-source movement, everyone expects IT to be free. You reap what you sow. * Submitted by: Anonymous JOIN THE CHATTER! You, too, can comment directly on our stories at computerworld.com....

The week ahead.(Brief article)(Calendar)
January 19, 2009... MONDAY: The Lotusphere 2009 conference, focusing on IBM's Lotus software products, opens in Orlando. TUESDAY: IBM plans to report its Q4 financial results. Also scheduled to file earnings reports this week are Apple on Wednesday and...

Nortel: bankruptcy move protects cash for support.(NETWORKING)
January 19, 2009... WHEN Nortel Networks Corp. filed for protection from creditors in the U.S. and other countries last week, one of the telecommunications equipment vendor's primary goals was to preserve a cash holding of $2.4 billion, which it plans to use to...

Judge allows web streaming in RIAA case.(INTERNET)(Nancy Gertner)(Recording Industry Association of America )(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Internet users will have the unusual opportunity on Thursday to view a federal-court hearing in a music piracy lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America against a Boston University graduate student. U.S. District Judge...

Microsoft issues patches for 'nasty' Windows bugs.(SECURITY)
January 19, 2009... MICROSOFT CORP. last week patched three vulnerabilities in the Server Message Block (SMB) file-sharing protocol in Windows, including two that could make "Swiss cheese" out of enterprise networks, according to one researcher. [ILLUSTRATION...

Dell Inc.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Dell Inc. has agreed to pay $3.85 million to 46 states to settle complaints that it used deceptive sales practices. The company did not admit wrong-doing but agreed to pay $1.5 million to customers. It will use the remaining $2.35 million to...

Seagate technology LLC.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Seagate Technology LLC announced that it is replacing CEO William Watkins with Chairman Stephen Luczo. Watkins, who had succeeded Luczo as CEO in July 2004, will remain at the company to help with the transition.

Intel Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... As expected, Intel Corp. reported that its fourth-quarter profit plunged 90% to $234 million. The Atom chip was a bright spot; its sales were up 50% over the third quarter, to $300 million.

Motorola Corp.(Short Takes)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Motorola Corp. said it plans to lay off 4,000 employees, mostly from its mobile device business, in addition to the 3,000 layoffs announced previously. The company also said that its fourth-quarter results will fall short of analysts'...

Jeweler cites SAP project in its bankruptcy filing.(SOFTWARE)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... AN ENGLEWOOD, Colo.-based jewelry retailer said that cost overruns and functionality issues related to an SAP software implementation were partially to blame for its move last week to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Shane Co....

Wipro preceded Satyam on World Bank's IT blacklist.(OUTSOURCING)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... IN 2000, IT services firm Wipro Technologies gave senior IT staffers at The World Bank Group a chance to buy stock in parent company Wipro Ltd. under a family-and-friends program, as part of an IPO in the U.S. Bank employees bought about 1,750...

Between the lines.(Cartoon)
January 19, 2009... The Next IT Business Breakthrough WE'LL BE GIVING AWAY THE OPERATING SYSTEM AND SELLING ALL THE PATCHES. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Apple Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs said he is taking a leave of absence through June to deal with health issues that are "more complex" than he initially thought. Jobs disclosed Jan. 5 that he has a "hormone imbalance."

Gartner Inc.(BENCHMARKS)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... Because of the recession, Gartner Inc. said it is canceling the spring editions of its Symposium/ITxpo that were scheduled for May in Las Vegas and Barcelona.

Two years ago: the TJX companies Inc.(BENCHMARKS LAST WEEK)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... TWO YEARS AGO: The TJX companies Inc. disclosed a security breach that it later said resulted in the theft of 45.6 million payment card numbers over 18 months.

Vietnam pushes open-source apps.(Global Dispatches)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... HANOI, Vietnam--The Vietnam Ministry of Information and Communications last week mandated that government agencies start installing open-source applications such as OpenOffice.org and the Firefox browser by the end of June. According to...

Barclays to cut 400 more IT jobs.(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... LONDON--Barclays PLC last week said it plans to trim more than 400 IT staffers in addition to the 1,800 layoffs announced last July. The financial services firm blamed a tough economy that continues to squeeze U.K. banks. The company said...

Briefly noted.(Infosys Technologies Ltd's revenue forecast)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... For the second time, Infosys Technologies Ltd. has lowered its revenue forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31. The Mumbai-based outsourcer is now projecting that fiscal 2009 revenue will range from $4.67 billion to $4.71 billion, for a...

Bartz looks to revive struggling Yahoo: analysts say that the new CEO could rekindle talks with Microsoft.(NEWS ANALYSIS)(chief executive officer Carol Bartz)
January 19, 2009... ALTHOUGH new Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz lacks consumer Internet experience, analysts say her forceful style should serve the struggling Internet pioneer well. "A lot of people have been surprised, but I think she's a tremendous choice,"...

Wall Street crisis forcing closer look at e-records: banks must implement strong data-retention systems as oversight increases.
January 19, 2009... THE FINANCIAL crisis on Wall Street has prompted numerous investigations into the lending practices of financial services firms, and they all have a similar focus: Who knew what, and when did they know it? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With...

Mary Lou Jepsen: Pixel Qi's CEO talks about One Laptop Per Child, the future of display technology and a target market of 7 billion.(THE GRILL)(Interview)
January 19, 2009... Dossier Name: Mary Lou Jepsen Title: CEO Organization: Pixel Qi Location: Taipei and San Bruno, Calif. Favorite technology: All things optical. Philosophy in a nutshell: "When people tell you something is impossible,...

Out with the old, in with the new.(OPINION)(Column)
January 19, 2009... LATE LAST YEAR, just when it seemed that every slimy rock on Wall Street had already been turned over, came news of the Mother of All Ponzi Schemes--the apparent disappearance of $50 billion at the hands of Bernard Madoff. The mind boggles...

Tough for talk hard times: nine ways to get more out of software vendors in 2009.(Cover story)
January 19, 2009... A FEW YEARS AGO, while sleuthing out underused, undermaintained or misaligned software assets at Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, David Cortese found that he was paying for 266 ERP licenses at a cost of $7,000 per seat when in fact he was...

Turning up the heat to save energy: Scottrade found that its overcooled data center was a resource drain.(DATA CENTERS)
January 19, 2009... THE temperature's rising in online brokerage Scottrade Inc.'s data center--and that's a good thing. The move has allowed the St. Louis-based company to reap enormous energy savings while increasing reliability. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Enterprise Linux? Not so fast.: some still find the business case dubious.(OPERATING SYSTEMS)
January 19, 2009... MIGRATING BUSINESS applications from high-end Unix-based systems such as Sparc/Solaris to commodity x86/Linux platforms has been a popular idea for the past few years, but not everyone thinks going full-on with Linux is the best solution--at...

Eyeing risks while cutting spending: how do you cut 15% of your budget while keeping the company secure? You assess the risks and keep your fingers crossed.(SECURITY MANAGER'S JOURNAL)
January 19, 2009... WE'RE STILL dealing with fallout from the weakening economy. Besides the massive layoff I wrote about last time, each department has been told to decrease spending by 15%. My job as a security officer is to ensure the confidentiality,...

Boutique bound?(OPINION)
January 19, 2009... AS A RESULT of the shaky economy, many IT professional have recently lost their jobs, and more layoffs lurk ahead. Many tech workers will consider joining or forming small boutique consulting firms with staffs ranging from one to 50 employees....

Steve King: the president and CEO of Virtela Communications Inc. has advice for any would-be entrepreneurs considering marketing their own high-tech gadget or launching an IT service.(Q&A)(Interview)(Brief article)
January 19, 2009... What mistakes do first-time tech CEOs commonly commit when launching a business? The No. 1 mistake is trying to do too much too soon early in the life cycle of a company. The customer's strategy must drive the company's strategy. You should...