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  Timing Information Technology Investment series:
Part 1
Part 2

In an earlier Advisor (" Know When to Say When: The Difficulty in Discontinuing Failing and Failed IT Projects," 10 July 2002), I had briefly discussed the potential problems with capitalizing IT expenses. In light of recent happenings at WorldCom, what was a potential problem has become a reality.

There's nothing like an annual trip to the other side of the world to get a good perspective on one's life. It was almost exactly a year ago that I traveled to Bangalore to attend the annual shareholder's meeting of an Indian outsourcing firm that I'm involved with (http://www.mascotsystems.com), and I was curious to see what had changed when I returned again this year.