But for this CTO, it turned out that far too often, the models became fiendishly complex, no simpler than code.

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In an era of consumerized IT and packaged software solutions, increasingly delivered as a service from the cloud, it is tempting to think that vendors can be a good source for your IT strategy, relegating the CTO role to a sideshow.

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Stuart McGill, CTO, at Micro Focus, said that the Vanson Bourne study it commissioned, which includes responses from nearly 600 CIOs and IT directors across 10 countries, shows interesting trends with regards to beliefs about current application portfolio management, especially as it relates to mobility and Cloud Computing.

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Motorola's out in San Francisco today at GigaOM's Mobilize 09 event to finally dish the real story on its Android-flavored future -- and considering that T-Mobile's CTO Cole Brodman is co-keynoting with Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha, it's reasonable to think that T-Mobile will once again be leading the way for carrier adoption of the platform in the US (Verizon's rumored Sholes, on the other hand, might be a no-show).

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Since he understands the product better than anyone else in the company and he has expressed an interest in helping the company grow to the next level, you ask the CTO to take the lead on writing a proposal for the contract and making sure it gets delivered to the procurement officer in six weeks.

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Lightt is the brainchild of CEO Alex Mostoufi, who founded Me.com and sold it to Apple in 2007, President Pam Kramer, former consumer marketing VP at Twitter, and CTO Samuel Sutch, former lead iOS engineer at Yammer.

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