April
2001 News
- How
to make dot-com succeed
- Unbreakable
encryption
- E-mail
overkill is corporate illness
- Mainframes
strike back ....
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How
to make dot-com succeed
Some guaranteed ways
to make the dot-com succeed:
- Spread web functions
all over the company. If they get too many hits say its over-hyped
- Give the leadership
role to an experienced veteran with limited internet experience. We
don't want another Napster
- Only use tried
and tested software. No risks and saves wasted costs
- Use as many technology
suppliers as possible. Get value for money for their ideas
- Make sure that
online and offline is the same experience
- Make sure that
the developers are kept under control so they don't spend time innovating
- Let users manage
their own content and design. Give them different tools from the developers.
Competition is healthy, chaos is better
- Don't worry about
performance or content just make sure the pages are colourful and easy
to use
- Communicate via
pages on the intranet. If people want to know they will have to look
Unbreakable
encryption
A Harvard professor
has claimed to have found a 100% uncrackable code that cannot be deciphered
even by unlimited computer power. The term being used is unlimited security.
Others are calling it snake oil.
E-mail
overkill is corporate illness
Studies show that e-mail
overload is causing undue strain on managers. The amount of e-mail and the
reliance upon it is causing security concerns. Survey results are:
- 25% of managers
receive > 30 e-mails a day
- 40% users receive
11-30 e-mails a day
- 50% of directors
receive > 20 e-mails a day
Mainframes
strike back ....
The mainframes and mainframe-like
servers are enjoying a renaissance as consolidation and e-business are needing
99.999 availability. Some wag has also said that PC's, workstations and
servers get stolen - who wants to steal a mainframe !!!!!
Shorties
- The promise of
solving storage and search problems by using Peer-to-peer networking
stumbles over the NAT. Like many other good ideas they are stopped when
some of the foundational services are missing. There is a definite need
for a universal secure directory. Without this all of these good ideas
will have a long and difficult gestation period.
- Ariba and CommerceOne
are hit by the general downturn in the e-business industry. Ariba are
planning cut up to 50% of their workforce.
- Microsoft plan
to charge .Net users for accessing online data using Hailstorm technology.
- eGovernment projects
will lead to e-Identity cards so that they users can be authenticated.
Without it the benefits cannot be achieved or even paid !!
- Oracle and Compaq
suffer from the slowdown. This could mean that there are some interesting
deals out there. Anybody want to buy some Oracle licences with a big,
once-off, never to be repeated, discount?
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