AT&T fights to export software jobs

GripeLine: Ed Foster finds himself in the unusual position of actually rooting for Microsoft to win a lawsuit. In today's GripeLine he examines the implications of the Microsoft vs. AT&T lawsuit now before the Supreme Court and concludes that a win for AT&T is actually a win for offshoring, since "a ruling for AT&T could make it in every company's interest to be able to say the software components of their product were not made in the USA."

The news beat: The case for offshoring received another boost with Primavera's announcement that it is outsourcing agile development of its enterprise project management software. Conventional wisdom has previously maintained that agile development requires close interaction and communication between team members, making it ill-suited to offshoring. And Turbolinux is now shipping its Wizpy handheld, which contains a version of Linux so it can be used to boot a PC into the OS, enabling users to access their files in their own working environment on almost any PC.

Security: Worries about a possible DDoS attack on your enterprise keeping you up at night? Roger Grimes' primer in today's Security Adviser lays out the inner workings of botnets and DDoS attacks, and can help you formulate a defense or outline a strategy for outlasting an attack.

Posted by Caroline Craig on February 23, 2007 05:28 AM