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While the world has been in the economic doldrums and most IT companies have been reporting lousy earnings, IBM Software Division has been buying and innovating. It has been interesting to watch IBM execute this strategy, drawing on its deep cash reserves, while others simply hunker down and wait for the wind to fill their sails again.
For more on the real-time enterprise, see the February 2003 issue of Cutter Benchmark Review, available from Cutter Consortium at +1 781 641 9876, fax +1 781 648 1950, or e-mail
In early 2003, Cutter Consortium conducted a survey to help answer this question. The results are analyzed in this issue of CBR .
In this article, I will examine what our survey tells us about the adoption of Web services standards as well as the extent to which Web services are replacing other forms of middleware.
Based on replies from 240 respondents, the principal conclusions are as follows:
Executive Summary
Using Tools to Manage Sourcing
Executive Update
IT and Business Process Outsourcing on the Rise
According to a recent Cutter Consortium study, both IT outsourcing (ITO) and business process outsourcing (BPO) are growing segments of the outsourcing market, with BPO experiencing rapid growth.
Executive Update
IT Outsourcing Is Growing and Satisfying Most Customers
Executive Report