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Dear CIO/IT managers,
This
CPTTM CIO newsletter is to bring useful news to you, CIO/IT managers in
Macau, for references without obligations, so that you can do your jobs
easier and better! Hope you like it. if you'd like to unsubscribe or
recommend your friends to subscribe, just email me at kent@cpttm.org.mo.
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Topics in this issue:
CIO Forum
In IT week 2007 there will be a CIO Forum titled "The Road to CIO: Opportunities and Challenges".
It will be held at 6:00pm on Dec 1, 2007 at the Catalpa Garden
Conference room in the Hotel Royal Macau. Speakers include: Dr.
Alex Lai, Vice Rector of University of Macau, Mr. Michael Leung, Senior
Vice President and CIO of the China Construction Bank (Asia), Dr. Liu
Jun Suo, Director of the E3 Institute of Huanan Information System Integration Limited. The topic outline is: - The strategic importance of the CIO in the organization
- How to become a CIO from an ordinary IT person
- The opportunities and challenges involved
For enquiry or registration, please email your name, job title, company name to the organizers.
Scoring apps to reduce maintenance cost
Does any of the following describe your organization? - New
development projects are always late, because your programmers can't
concentrate on them as they need to maintain old applications.
- Only a single person can modify that Fox Pro application.
- You have Fox Pro, Oracel, MS SQL and MySQL and no one knows them all
To
help with such situations, an excellent idea is to prioritize your
applications according to their business values and maintenance
efforts. For example, for those with low business values and high
maintenance efforts, try to negotiate with the business on a low
(or zero) level of support, while allocating your man power to
those with high business values and low maintenance efforts or to new
development. So, with the same resources you deliver much
more business values. Check out this very good article for more information.
Cheap Linux computers conquering the world?
WalMart has sold out 10,000 $200 green Linux PC. At the same time, the EeePC Linux sub-notebook from Asus is selling like hot cakes and now the America most wanted Christmas gift in the notebook category. If you consider the One Laptop Per Child project and Intel's Classmate PC, there seems to be a trend: - They
are cheap commodity products. They are designed to perform
lightweight tasks such as surfing the web, sending email, instant
messaging, listening to music, watching videos and writing office
documents. Therefore, cheap hardware will do just fine. They are bought
just like a iPod or DVD players.
- They all run Linux. On such
cheap hardware, Linux and OpenOffice are a perfect match. Using XP and
MS Office can easily double or triple the cost (Vista simply won't run
on such hardware). For lightweight tasks, they aren't needed anyway.
- They
are energy efficient. We will probably see more energy efficient
CPUs, solid state hard disks, 80 plus power supplies and etc.
If this trend continues, maybe in 2010 we'll all be running energy efficient applicances and gadgets powered by Linux?
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Any
questions, ideas or experiences to share? Contact me at
28781313 or kent@cpttm.org.mo. We also
have two other newsletters: Network
administrator newsletter and Software
developer newsletter, your staff may like to subscribe.
Until
next time,
Kent
Tong
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