CIO: IT Strategy Has a New Location--and RSS Feed (CIO)After several months of development, CIO has launched its updated blog site, at blogs.cio.com. There youll find the new home of this blog, along with old favorites such as Meridith Levinsons Movers and Shakers, Lorraine Cosgrove Wares The Numbers Never Lie, Christopher Lindquists Tech LinkLetter and Venture Watch by venture capitalist Michael Jung ... CIO: Can Vendors Control Open Source? (CIO)In the flurry of stories about Oracles purchase of Sleepycat last week, I was struck by a statement by MySQLsCEO Marten Mickos in an interview with Forbes: Forbes: Do open source firms that sell to large, proprietary software companies risk being dubbed sellouts by the community thats helped them develop their software? Mickos: Of course if someone ... CIO: Your Supply Chain and Your Stock Price (CIO)One of the things that gets overlooked when the pundits talk about ITs growing importance in business strategy is the scrutiny that will come with it. Today, IT is opaque in most companies and is mostly ignored by Wall Street analysts. (Ask Wall Street analysts a series of tough questions about IT and theyll punt more often than the Houston Texans.) F ... CIO: Does the Internet Make Software Better? (CIO)The enterprise software market is becoming a battle of "platforms," big, interwoven networks of applications that form the basis of CIOs architectures and attract smaller companies to build secondary applications that work with the big platforms. The leaders in the platform races are, of course, Microsoft (operating systems and desktop software), SAP ( ... CIO: Why You Arent Average (CIO)All the discussion weve had lately about averages got me thinking about the ways in which your company is not average. Here are some suggestions, courtesy of Forrester, Gartner and Aberdeen Group: 1. Technologys role in products and services--High concentration of IT in products (insurance and financial products, for example) means higher spending 2. ... CIO: The Really, Really Hard Software Architecture Strategy (CIO)"Im not saying its impossible, but itll be really, really hard to be successful." Thats how a Forrester Research analyst described the task Oracle faces in integrating all its recent enterprise software acquisitions in this BusinessWeek story. It got me thinking about how the traditional vendor strategy for enterprise applications--big, integrated s ... CIO: Enterprise Architecture vs. SOA: Pick the Winner (CIO)What do you do when the organizing strategy for IT youve been selling for years--enterprise architecture--is threatened by a new order--SOA? Do you invoke revisionist history and erase all references to enterprise architecture? Or do you risk eye-rolling the business by telling them you have to do both at once now? The research I did for a recent story ... CIO: A Damaging Metric (CIO)One of the most damaging metrics in IT today is spending as a percent of revenue. Its the only relatively easily obtainable benchmark on spending, yet it is hopelessly vague and compounds everything thats wrong with the word average. According to a survey by consulting company CSC done in conjunction with Financial Executives International, a professi ... Network Computing: Special Issue--IT Automation: Best Practices Automating infrastructure can free up money and IT staff. With the arrival of new, better-integrated tools, it makes sense to begin the decision making process for optimum ROI. Network Computing: Strategy Session: Transformations We're saying goodbye to the standalone print version of Network Computing. But worry not--we're not going gently into that good night. Art Wittmann explains NWC's bold, new initiative. Quidquid Latine Dictum Sit, Altum Videtur*

Network Computing Business Strategy Network Computing summaries and links to features, reviews, workshops, sneak previews, columns, and the like. View source archive --> Search this source --> ·Strategy Session: Transformations We're saying goodbye to the standalone print version of Network Computing. But worry not--we're not going gently into that good night. Art Wittmann explains NWC's bold, new initiative. ·Tech CEOs Play Presidential Politics The "Great Nation" report by advocacy group Technology CEO Council urges the United States to encourage more people to enter science, technology engineering and mathematical fields. ·Special Issue--IT Automation: Best Practices Automating infrastructure can free up money and IT staff. With the arrival of new, better-integrated tools, it makes sense to begin the decision making process for optimum ROI. ·Strategy Session: The Interop Hangover With attendence up and conference sessions covering everthing from virtualization to Web 2.0, Interop has morphed from a networking show to an event with industrywide appeal. ·Best of Interop Winners The stakes were high and the action hot this week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas when the 2007 Best of Interop Award Winners were announced. Find out who went home with the coveted prize. ·Interop Insider: Interoperability Is Still Job One With the demand for seamless access to corporate info--regardless of location or device--the Interop show has never been more vital. ·Quidquid Latine Dictum Sit, Altum Videtur* Managers who ask a lot from their charges but never take up their causes are rarely respected. ·Strategy Session: Judging Products What makes a product right for one industry could make it exactly wrong for another industry. By exposing our detailed evaluation process, you can more effectively assess products for your own shortlist. ·BuzzBite: Stinking Up the Web In less than 10 years, fragrance cartridges attached to computers will be able to create scents based on information sent over the Internet. ·IT/Business Alignment: Can't We All Just Get Along? Everyone loses when IT staffers refer to users as "lusers" and treat their customer base like the enemy, and when those same customers are often clueless about their role in project failures, and IT in general. Here's how to start reshaping attitudes and strengthen this critical relationship.

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