The future of beleaguered WorldCom Inc. rests on its IP backbone, said Michael Capellas, CEO and chairman of WorldCom Inc., here Wednesday.

Ten weeks after taking the helm at the bankrupt telecommunications giant, Capellas said his strategy centers on using the IP backbone to offer network-centric services built using Web services and open standards. Capellas, formerly Compaq Computer Corp.'s CEO and Hewlett-Packard Co.'s president, was speaking to hundreds of IT managers here at the Gartner Symposium IT Expo.

"As I look at the next great wave of what's going to happen—the evolution of commoditization of the data center, and the emergence of Web services—we're all trying to figure out how to move to this utility model," Capellas said. "This takes a really open set of standards around an IP backbone, and the one capability I know we have is the world's best IP backbone."

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