Developments in It - 2000-2008

Developments in It - 2000-2008

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  • Date Submitted: 01/19/2009 8:15 AM
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DEVELOPMENT IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 2000-2008 The epochs in the sphere of Information Technology for this past decade are notable to say the least. While some of them where ground breaking and changed the very direction of technological evolution, others are ticking along like time bombs, showing promise for future revolutions. This is a peripheral study into some of the technologies that created a stir during this period. 2000 The Millennium change that crashed the myth of Y2K established ERP as the new way of managing business. An internet company developed a well-grounded solution to mint money over the net : GOOGLE Internet as the be-all of business took a huge hit as tech stocks plummeted and sites like pets.com and chipshot.com disappeared. 2001 WEB LOGS : Internet diaries were always there, but the “era of blogs” had major implications to the field of IT connectivity. Conventional measurements of networks count nodes and bandwidth, but connectivity has at least a third dimension: adaptedness. Every object in a network has a trajectory of enhancements that allow it to work better and do more in a networked environment. One of the several ways in which connectivity is self-extending is that it provides an environment that selects for greater adaptivity to networking. As objects move down this path, as they mature, connectivity surges, even if nodes and bandwidth stay the same...which, of course, they never do. 2002 SOX : Though merely a legislation that has nothing to do directly with IT, the SOX law had major implications to the field of IT. It put data management and change management at the forefront of businesses and thereby, IT at the heart of business. VOIP : Internet was so much in demand that VOIP hit the markets with a revenge as numerous countries took up on internet telephony, VC etc 2003 Say, there are two IT objects : servers, routers, applications, operating systems, caches, etc, which needs to be interconnected. But they are...

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