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IT Hardware: The Free Ride Is Over
Opinion by Lou Mazzucchelli; Responses by Tom DeMarco, Rob Austin, Mark Seiden, Christine Davis, and Ron Blitstein
Assertion: The decades-old trend of computing and datacom hardware becoming "faster and cheaper" is about to change to just "faster." This change will affect how users approach IT budgeting, the way vendors approach hardware and software product lifecycle planning, and could ultimately spark a renaissance of software engineers who actually care about the efficiency of their code.
Web 2.0 Revisited: From Wikis to Prediction Markets
by Mark Choate
The Internet is both a library and a laboratory. It is a place where existing knowledge is documented and new knowledge discovered. If there is one concept central to the idea of Web 2.0, it is the idea of "the wisdom of crowds," a phrase coined by James Surowiecki that serves as the title of his best-selling book in which he discusses the value of collective intelligence. Surowiecki says that "the premise is that under the right circumstances, the collective judgment of a large group of people will generally provide a better picture of what the future might look like than anything one expert or even a small group of experts will come up with.
Project Communities and the Future
by David Coleman
Over the last six months, I have interviewed a number of CIOs or IT people that work in large corporations (more than 5,000 people). What I have found is that there is not a rapid adoption of collaboration or Web 2.0 technologies in these organizations. Although several analyst firms have projected good levels of adoption over the next two years, I think enterprise-level adoption of social PM tools -- and all Collaboration 2.0 tools -- will be much slower than expected. On the other hand, I expect these tools to be much more rapidly adopted by small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) for several reasons ...
Web 2.0's Rich Internet Applications
Webinar by John Tibbetts
Join Cutter Senior Consultant John Tibbetts in an exploration rich internet applications (RIAs) that help you increase the "liveness" of a web-based application and combine the responsiveness of a desktop GUI with the zero-installation delivery of a Web application. You'll explore the three principle development approaches for Web 2.0 -- Ajax, Flex, and the Google Web Toolkit. John will share his impression of their strengths and weaknesses, show examples of rich clients developed using these approaches, and offer you a glimpse of what was involved in creating them.
