What to do when you’ve been outsourced

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Sep 19, 20051 min

Best of the blogs: Bob Lewis offers advice on how to act when your unit gets outsourced. Allegiance is key, but only if it’s aimed appropriately. Dave Rosenberg, meanwhile, recently got so fed up with his laptop that he migrated his loyalty to a PowerBook, and sent Windows back to Hell.

Columnists’ Corner: Can open source companies innovate? Not surprising, but Bill Gates thinks not. Even Marc Fleury, the CEO of open source provider JBoss, agrees that the quest for quality software requires dedicated developers. Neil McAllister wonders whether Mr. Gates just might be right and, if so, is that really so bad?

Security: Victor Garza looks at a new Internet Security Threat Report from Symantec that shows a steady increase in cybercrime. Watch out for even more attacks against wireless and VoIP networks. Symantec also projected that the U.K bandwidth boom is spawning zombie armies.

Hot review: Parasoft’s Jtest passes with honors as a “one-stop-shopping Java testing supercenter,” writes Rick Grehan.