Wal-Mart CIO speaks about RFID and asset tracking

In an interview with CIO Today Magazine, Wal-Mart CIO Linda Dillman, confirmed just how important RFID technology was for her company. She was quoted as saying that "the impact of electronic product code is significant." Even more interesting was her comment that "we’ll be using RFID in the future for asset tracking on laptops and other mobile devices." And when someone wants to know "where" those assets are located, what technology do you think they will use to understand just how much proximity and location affects their business decisions. RFID will be integrated with location technology on a huge scale and the results will have the same impact that location technology is now having on search engine in the consumer marketplace. In the case of the retail business, cost control will be a significant objective for technology integration. And since Wal-Mart stated that they develop most of their IT systems in house, one logical conclusion to this is that open source technology may be leveraged substantially.