A Chat with the CTO

Scott Robinson (PPS Chief Technology Officer - CTO) met up with Lynne George, Jennifer Frentress, and Jim Frentress to discuss all this communication and collaboration stuff. We met at VQ on 8/2/04 (hey... it's sunny in Portland and we're not gonna pass that up by sittin' inside!) Lynne did what I thought was a great job of relaying the status of the project, and Scott appeared to be a quick study on the matter. Scott talked about security issues related to some of the system capabilities we want to implement, but at the same time agreed that these are the capabilities that organizations with good communication are using. Recently there were some virus problems on the PPS networks that resulted in shutting down the chat system. Scott said that his organization had already setup a sand box server ("a big box" he called it) for testing out new technologies. He said that half of the sand box was accessible to the outside world, and half of it was accessible only from inside the PPS network. Lots of IT's time has been taken up with upgrading non-switched 10MB networks, and migrating websites and other servers to the centralized data center, but the worst of that infrastructural stuff is completed now so that strategic initiatives can be addressed (such as data warehousing, content management systems, and collaboration systems.) Scott said that he would attend our next meeting and demonstrate some tools available within IT to address communication and collaboration needs.

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