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Executive Update
Realizing the Benefits of Offshore Outsourcing
Successfully managing IT expenditure and ensuring successful delivery of IT projects and levels of service continue to be foremost in the minds of corporate executives, particularly in light of today's tight economy and struggles within the technology sector.
Domain
IT Industry
Assertion #81Declining stock market valuations have created an incentive to acquire new systems by acquiring the companies that own them. The challenge of integrating these secondhand systems will be substantial and will force us to reexamine and rethink our enterprise system architecture (ESA).
The subject of risk seems to come up often at Cutter Consortium, either voiced by our subscribers or discussed by our Senior Consultants. But one has the feeling that, as Mark Twain intoned about the weather, "Everyone talks about it, but no one does anything about it." So, risk endures as part of the messiness of life: not as part of the richness or the challenges -- just the muck.
Executive Report
Commercializing Corporate IT Software Assets
As we will discuss, there have been a number of recent improvements in patent protection for software and business models. These improvements make it easier to gain and maintain stronger control of many forms of software assets, thereby making it easier to license them more profitably and effectively.
As the accompanying Executive Report discusses, there have been a number of recent improvements in patent protection for both software and business models. These improvements make it easier to gain and maintain stronger control of many forms of software assets and therefore make it easier to license them more profitably and effectively.
Late last year, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced guidelines that would have allowed software patent owners to charge "reasonable and non-discriminatory" (RAND) royalties on patented software that W3C might choose to embed in its Web services standards. This predictably raised a hailstorm of protest from the Internet and "open source" communities that form much of the W3C's constituency.