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Public Council Teleconference: Application Rationalization — Hidden Costs and Smart Decisions
November 17 at 11:00 am US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Honorio Padrón, of The Hackett Group, who will share the drivers for companies to tackle application rationalization and the results of research that define the hidden cost of complexity. Additionally, we will discuss key decision milestones—to start or not, holding the course steady and fulfilling expectations.
Virtual Desktop Cost-Benefit Analysis — Michael Jacobs, Catlin Group
The analysis contained in this presentation measures the cost of everything from the machines and licenses to the infrastructure for virtual vs. traditional desktop environments.
Honor your best senior team members - Apply for the CIO Ones to Watch Award
Get well-earned public recognition for your top up-and-coming team members, your IT organization and your enterprise. Award winners will be announced, publicized and feted in May 2010, great timing to help attract new IT recruits to your company.
Learn more about the CIO Executive Council »July 01, 2006 — CIO —
Just because a piece of code a developer downloaded off SourceForge says it is released under the Mozilla Public License doesn’t mean that all that code wasn’t itself stolen from someplace else. (In the Linksys router case, for instance, Linksys reportedly bought chips from Broadcom, which in turn received firmware from overseas third parties—making it difficult to clearly define what Linksys should have known about its code.)
For that reason, experts say it’s worth trying to get the code you use from trusted sources. The people behind larger, more public open-source and free software projects often claim to be very careful about who they let contribute code and how thorough they are in determining the origins of that code. Some companies that deal in open-source code—including Red Hat and Hewlett-Packard—offer indemnification programs that could help protect your company should the code you’re using be found to infringe on someone else’s intellectual property rights.