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Does Outsourcing Deliver the Goods?

What is now referred to as Coase’s Law states that a company will purchase goods and services from suppliers (that is, outsource work) if the suppliers’ costs, plus the costs

Can Microsoft Make a Sieve Hold Water?

After shelling out to install a security system in your home, you find it mysteriously opens the front door in the middle of the night at least once a month.

March 2005 Online Extras

BASELINE ONLINE Calculating Costs of Installing a Workflow Management System Control workflow before it controls you. Download our interactive tool to cost out your own project. Roadblock: Reluctance What good

Gotcha!: Hack Attacks

Many of today’s computer security problems aren’t really new – just trickier, nastier and more pervasive. Problem: Forging or “spoofing” e-mail addresses, so that messages appear to come from your

N.Y. Stock Exchange: The Futures of Trading

Doreen Mogavero’s marching orders appear on a screen in her cramped booth on the New York Stock Exchange floor: Sell 50,000 shares of Bank of New York. No rush. Get

February 2005 Online Extras

BASELINE ONLINE Calculating Costs of Tracking Individual Items Estimate your own costs for tracking “individual items” all the way to the shelf. Adding Up the Cost of Spam and a

Profile: The Agobot

It’s not entirely clear which virus or worm corrupted the machines used in a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack against Akamai last June. But the attackers did follow a pattern consistent

Your Money Or Your Network

At 8:29 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 15, 2004, Microsoft.com, Apple.com, Google.com and Yahoo.com, along with almost 1,100 other Web sites, were chugging along nicely. Traffic was moving around

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