John Pickett

Articles by John Pickett

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The 2004 CIO Canada Outsourcing Summit has just wrapped up.

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On my arrival in Canada from England some 30 years ago, I quickly learned to replace British terms with their Canadian equivalents.

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Oh, I know, "change is the only constant, et cetera, et cetera."

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The business climate that has been putting a clamp on corporate spending continues to improve according to all the surveys I've seen, and the vast majority of CIOs and IT vendors I've spoken with express a similarly optimistic view of 2004.

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During the last couple of weeks we've seen various incarnations of the Mydoom worm propagate themselves throughout the Internet.

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The movement to offshore outsourcing has been far more subdued here than in the U.S., where the trend has grown quickly, and opposing it has become a politically popular stance.

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It's been more than three years since the technology stock crash and the events - economic and tragic - that combined to reduce IT investments to a trickle. Tight budgets have meant that CIOs have been forced to squeeze more from what they have, and many IT vendors have fed largely on small-upgrade scraps between rare new-project banquets.

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