 CSC Consultant Wins Oracle Magazine Award
Dennis Alley has been chosen RFID Architect of the Year by Oracle Magazine for its fifth annual Editors Choice awards. He was chosen for his work on a CSC team that recently architected, developed, and implemented an RFID application for a major Department of Defense supplier. He was nominated by an Oracle representative and selected for the award by the Oracle Magazine staff.
Source: David A. Kelly, “Five Years of Editors’ Choice Awards: Honoring Leaders and Innovators of 2006,” Oracle Magazine November-December 2006
What Is Web 2.0?
Is it a technology? A business model? Or is it just one of those buzzwords that means whatever you want it to mean? If you don’t know, you have lots of company. A few months back, The Register did a typically snarky piece with the same title and got a huge response from readers who were sure that Web 2.0 was no more than marketing hype. Tim O’Reilly, who coined the term with Dale Dougherty, has tried more than once to explain what he means by it, so far without quelling the confusion.
Judging by the profusion of startups calling themselves Web 2.0 companies, though, the lack of a clear definition hasn’t quelled business interest. In August, TechCrunch decided to get an inside look at the phenomenon by interviewing some of the (mostly) young entrepreneurs who have founded some of those companies. (By the way, they don’t agree on what the term means, either.)
Source: “Web 2.0. The 24-Minute Documentary,” TechCrunch, August 8, 2006
IT Staffers Gloomy Over Growing Role of IT Users
In August, CIO Insight asked IT professionals whether they agreed with this statement: “Our IT department’s morale is so low that it impedes our company’s productivity and effectiveness in achieving our business goals.” Just over one-fifth of all respondents — 21 percent — agreed. But more than one-third — 35 percent — of respondents in big companies agreed. Most of the reasons given for low morale are familiar: understaffing, rapid change, the low status of IT departments. But one of the newer reasons, cited by 56 percent of those who said low morale was hurting their company, was that “most of the new ideas for using technology come from business users, not the IT staff.” That is, IT professionals are not happy about a trend that we’ve been saying is going to get even bigger: The consumerization of IT is producing a new generation of IT-savvy end users who will have their own ideas about how to use technology.
Source: “IT Departments Are Going Through Unprecedented Change,” CIO Insight, August 22, 2006 |
