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Submission + - SPAM: Thins to check when outsourcing

Submitted by TheAmit on Friday February 20, 2009 @12:03PM

TheAmit writes: The Article is a nice writeup about a small checklist of things any vendor should check before they outsource product development to a engineering consultant. The article details steps to follow when outsourcing FPGA development but i think these steps are valid for any technology project that gets outsourced. How many of the slashdot crowd goes through a defined process before they evaluate something should be outsourced or not The process outlined here goes along these lines 1. Can the effort be outsourced? 2. Are there clear requirements for the effort to be outsourced? 3. What is the definition of success? 4. Is there an established schedule? 5. What is the desired level of interaction during the effort? 6. Will the services company be involved with system integration or future modifications? 7. Do you own or want to own the intellectual property (IP) of your outsourced project? 8. Do you own or want to own the development tools? 9. Will the service provider need tools, equipment, or information from you? 10. Does it matter where the work is done?
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Submission + - IBM laidoff staff to relocate to cheaper countries (indiatimes.com)

Submitted by TheAmit on Friday February 06, 2009 @02:31PM

TheAmit writes: Armonk-based IBM which recently gave pinkslips to above 2000 employees in the US and Canada has an `innovative' offer for them: Re-locate to cheaper destinations. In a move to support the pinkslipped employees, the world's largest technology employer has asked its laid-off employees in US and Canada to join its projects in cheaper-wage destinations like India, China, Brazil and Eastern Europe. The company has asked the laid-off staff to join IBM's new Project Match programme, which would help ex-employees to relocate in IBM's low-cost operation countries. Under the programme, the company will also be offering financial assistance with moving costs and immigration help with visa issues.

D-Link DIR-655 Firmware 1.21 Hijacks Your Internet Connection 428

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 05, 2008 @06:45PM from the not-polite dept.

chronopunk writes "Normally when you think of firmware updates for a router you would expect security updates and bug fixes. Would you ever expect the company that makes the product to try and sell you a subscription for security software using its firmware as a salesperson? I recently ran into this myself when trying to troubleshoot my router. I noticed when trying to go to Google that my router was hijacking DNS and sent me to a website trying to sell me a software subscription. After upgrading your D-link DIR-655 router to the latest firmware you'll see that D-link does this, and calls the hijacking a 'feature.'"

Is Ubuntu Getting Slower? 544

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday October 27, 2008 @08:31AM from the slow-like-a-fox dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phoronix has a new article where they provide Ubuntu 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10 benchmarks and had ran many tests. In that article, when using an Intel notebook they witness major slowdowns in different areas and ask the question, Is Ubuntu getting slower? From the article: 'A number of significant kernel changes had went on between these Ubuntu Linux releases including the Completely Fair Scheduler, the SLUB allocator, tickless kernel support, etc. We had also repeated many of these tests to confirm we were not experiencing a performance fluke or other issue (even though the Phoronix Test Suite carries out each test in a completely automated and repeatable fashion) but nothing had changed. Ubuntu 7.04 was certainly the Feisty Fawn for performance, but based upon these results perhaps it would be better to call Ubuntu 7.10 the Gooey Gibbon, 8.04 the Hungover Heron, and 8.10 the Idling Ibex.'"

Google Opens Up Android Codebase 204

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @01:00PM from the now-even-more-open-sourced dept.

rsk writes "It's official: Google has Open Sourced Android. The source code can be downloaded from Android's Git repository. Bugs are handled at the Google Code Android project page with documentation being handled by a collection of Google Site pages. One of the more interesting aspects of Android seems to be the seemingly Eclipse Foundation-like organization of the project, welcoming both Individual and Commercial developers into the Android development pot. One of the benefits of this arrangement is securing the existence of the project by involving commercial interests and their money in the process ... this is also one of the downsides; having commercial entities charter and lead features of a platform that their own commercial offerings provide 'enhanced' versions of, sometimes leaving the free offering always lacking in one obvious way or another. It's hard to say at this point how involved Google will be in this process, or the Open Handset Alliance in general, with managing the health of sub-projects under the Android umbrella as time goes on."

Corporate Data Centers As Ethernet's Next Frontier 152

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 21, 2008 @11:26AM from the build-me-a-beowulf-cluster dept.

alphadogg writes with a story that's about the possibilities for the next generation(s) of Ethernet, stuff far beyond 10base-T: "Ethernet has conquered much of the network world and is now headed deep into the data center to handle everything from storage to LAN to high-performance computing applications. Cisco, IBM and other big names are behind standards efforts, and while there is some dispute over exactly what to call this technology, vendors seem to be moving ahead with it, and it's already showing up in pre-standard products. 'I don't see any show-stoppers here — it's just time,' says one network equipment-maker rep. 'This is just another evolutionary step. Ethernet worked great for mundane or typical applications — now we're getting to time-sensitive applications and we need to have a little bit more congestion control in there.'"

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