Projects: Outsourcing

Open Source: The Price of Freedom

Call it the democratization of software. But in this election contest, open-source operating systems come down to two leading candidates with similar platforms.

Outsourcing: What CIOs Need to Know

Is information-technology outsourcing on the wane? No, says The Hackett Group's Scott Holland—who claims "world-class" companies farm out about half their I.T. infrastructure operations and will continue to find new areas to outsource.

Outsourcing: Kraft Signs $1.7B Deal With EDS

The $23 billion food company will outsource management of its information-technology infrastructure under a seven-year contract. Are outsourcing "megadeals" back in fashion?

Grid Computing: Buying Computing Power, by the Hour

When biotech company Applied Biosystems "bought" 36,000 hours of computing time on 1,000 machines, it figured it could quickly translate data from a genetic project. But how much more quicker than doing it inhouse?

 

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