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Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Amid lackluster IT spending, CIOs say ERP back en vogue Posted in: General IT Management Software Infrastructure Hardware Infrastructure Security Linux Microsoft SaaS SAP IBM Oracle Business Intelligence VMware virtualization Salesforce.com ERP Enterprise 2.0 CIOs are expected to increase their technology spending by 2.7 percent in 2008, but the more notable change is the number of executives citing ERP software as their main priority. That's the takeaway from a quarterly survey put out by UBS. According to UBS, 69 percent of more than 120 respondents said they expect their IT budgets to rise. That's down from 74 percent in 2007. More importantly: 60 percent of respondents said that a slowing economy wouldn't hamper their spending plans.
Man charged with selling fake IDs
Manuel Acevedo went to area flea markets and drummed up business like any legitimate businessman would. He passed out business cards and talked up his services. But an investigation revealed what he was selling was anything but legitimate, according to Manatee County Sheriff's Office reports. Acevedo is facing numerous charges of identity theft and forgery of Social Security cards, Florida driver's licenses, registration and resident alien cards, sheriff's reports say. Detectives say Acevedo passed out business cards at several local flea markets offering illegal immigrants forged documents. In June, he gave a business card to an informant working for sheriff's detectives and Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents. The informant called a phone number on the card and got Acevedo.
Despite violence, Iraqi art gallery perseveres
The gallery's cafe — once a noisy meeting ground for Baghdad's intelligentsia — now sees just a few hardy regulars. The owner's balance sheet shows losses of up to $400 a month — a sum considered a good monthly wage. On the plus side: three sheep that were a gift from a friend in his native Anbar province to the west. They grazed on weeds and hedges outside the gallery in north Baghdad's Waziriyah neighborhood. But something keeps Qassim Sabti from locking the doors for good. It's part stubbornness, part nostalgia and a dash of belief that, just maybe, better times are ahead — the same recipe that kept a handful of other cultural guardians, such as book sellers, poets and theater troupes, from abandoning Baghdad during the years of fighting and upheaval. Now, with violence on the wane, the city's struggling artist community looks for signs that their patrons could someday return and the discussions in the coffeehouses could again be about their latest works rather than the latest troubles.
Mochaccino spill in aisle six
I'm getting off the Starbucks bandwagon. Of course, it's not as if I was ever on it all that securely anyway. Sure I've tried a latte grande and the venti whatever a time or two, but for the most part, I have a hard time with coffee that costs more than beer. .
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