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It makes perfect sense. If you have already adopted outsourcing as part of your IT strategy, why not use outside expertise to manage the outsourced elements?

Work longer hours to save jobs: that's the deal Patrick Starck, the chief executive officer of the French subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard Co. is offering workers there. He's surfing a wave of criticism of the country's 35-hour working week rule, which stands accused of imposing a "competitive disadvantage" on French industry. By linking working hours to the job cuts threatened by the company's restructuring plan, Starck is hinting at a way of implementing the plan that is better for the workers.

The position of IT architect has become increasingly important to the ever-changing IT industry, and is one that established corporations and startups are seeking. The job requires network professionals to acquire new skills, and it could provide additional career opportunities.

There really is an Uncertainty Principle for IT systems. Uncertainty arises from the fact that users will not know what they really need until they begin to work with a new system. The traditional waterfall approach to building systems (finish one phase before falling into the next) ignores this principle, and ignores the inevitable business changes that occur between freezing the specifications and delivering a system. But the waterfall methodology continues to be widely used.

Managing multiple IT vendors on a major project, like taking more than one date to the dance, can be an exhilarating success or your worst nightmare come true. Yet such arrangements are becoming a routine part of IT management.

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One month after closing its acquisition of Intranets.com, WebEx Communications Inc. is launching an updated, rebranded version of Intranets.com's hosted collaboration software suite, a move aimed at expanding WebEx's share of the SMB (small and medium business) market before Microsoft Corp. conquers the space.

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