Vendors are fond of painting their customers into an IT corner.
Intel Corp. will announce Tuesday that they have crested the gigahertz plateau with their server microprocessor, the Xeon. If you're willing to turn over network management chores to an outside organization, there's probably someone to who's willing to do the job. While many industry observers remain skeptical about Linux on the desktop, IT professionals like Phillipe Welsh are equally skeptical about conventional fat-client implementations.