"Alas, an embarrassingly large percentage of IT projects continue to fail -- and now that so many of them involve outsourcing contracts between vendors and customers who may be located on opposite sides of the world, the failures are even more likely to result in expensive litigation."
- Ed Yourdon, Guest Editor
Some debate can be had about the exact birth date of the open source software movement. Was it when computer enthusiasts and scientists began to exchange code? Was it at the time of the birth of the Internet when the infrastructure was made available to enable further collaboration?
| Vol. 18, No. 10, October 2005 | ||
| It's About Reducing Risk Failure to include IT in M&A due diligence activity puts unnecessary pressure not only on the IT organization, but also on the business. Technology due diligence defines business issues and needs that require IT support. It's About Increasing Value | ||
An article in the 31 March 2005 Economist, aptly titled "Power at Last," proclaimed that new information technologies and the Internet have finally tipped the balance of power in economic exchanges to the side of the buyer.
| Compliance Lemons | ||
