CIOs face severe IT change by 2012
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| A second area of disruption will be software upheaval, caused by trends
| like open-source development, SOA (service-oriented architecture), the
| merger of Web-based and desktop services such as Google Inc.'s Toolbar,
| and composite applications like IBM Corp.'s WebSphere or software from
| SAP AG.
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| Microsoft Corp. has just made such an error by announcing that its
| pending Vista OS will allow system administrators to block users from
| copying data onto USB (Universal Serial Bus) memory sticks, Gantz said.
| While memory sticks do represent a security threat to networks, they
| are already an indispensable part of doing business today. Microsoft
| has reacted too slowly, and could see a backlash from users, he said.
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