I found these lately:

• InformIT: Death March -
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Das ist der Grund warum Projekte wie Zimbra oder Etelos vor Google zu reihen sind: erstere können auf eigenen Servern oder vertrauenswürdigen ASPs gehostet werden.

futurezone.ORF.at IT-Chronik: “Als Grund wurde die Tatsache genannt, dass alle BlackBerry-Daten über Server in den USA und in Großbritannien laufen.”

Sounds a little like that old tune to me. Can anybody of the executives listen and support the daily work of their employees (not only) against the IT-staff that established their very own benefices.

Panelists say IT can’t stop Web 2.0 | InfoWorld | News: “IT may continue to try to prevent other [tag-tec]Web 2.0[/tag-tec] applications from getting into corporate users’ hands, but the effort will be equally as futile, according to Glotzbach, who said that workers are moving from individual productivity (t d f) to team productivity.

Web 2.0’s Future All Depends On IT’s Future: “What the LEF describes to me is IT developing into more of an interactive, bi-directional department that concentrates less on policing and more on supporting its employees.”
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Good article. But isn’t that what IBM is actually doing: from hardware to software and eventually to consulting.