Computerworld articles from January 2000

Computerworld archives from January 2000

Career Adviser.(Questions and Answers)
January 3, 2000... Dear Career Adviser: I currently work as a PC/LAN specialist at my company and have been asked to become our webmaster. I am trying to figure out where to start. I have some basic programming skills (Visual Basic 6.0) and have worked with...

Knowledge management is not an oxymoron.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... The evidence about corporate knowledge-management programs keeps rolling in, and it isn't pretty. Companies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on computer hardware and software, on hiring knowledge-management experts and on...

The CEO's plate for '00 .(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... The new year will present CEOs with a set of contradictory conditions and confounding challenges. The global economy will stay strong. Corporate profits will rise. But at the same time, competition will intensify and the rate of business change...

Apple's iBook: Flashy, Powerful, Inexpensive; Boasts long battery life and wireless links.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
January 3, 2000... Apple Computer Inc. touts the iBook, its new consumer-class Macintosh notebook computer, as an "iMac to go." It certainly looks the part: Its clamshell case sports colored panels in either a bright peacock blue ("blueberry") or an incandescent...

Tech - Features.(News Briefs)(Product Announcement)
January 3, 2000... Nortel to PartnerWith Software.com Nortel Networks in Brampton, Ontario, announced late last month that it would partner with Santa Barbara, Calif.-based Software.com Inc. to provide the messaging platform for Nortel's application service...

Lawyer Advises Gearing Up Now for Y2K Suits ; Timing and documentation are keys to survival -- for plaintiffs and defendants .(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... From a legal standpoint, the most important Y2K activity over the next month is to get ready to initiate or respond to a year 2000 lawsuit. The federal Year 2000 Readiness and Responsibility Act, which supersedes most state legislation,...

Biz - Advice.(Company Business and Marketing)(News Briefs)
January 3, 2000... Smartship.com Launches New Site SmartShip.com, a Web-based company in Irvine, Calif., that provides personalized shipping information, launched its new Web site late last month. The site allows consumers and businesses to compare the...

WebifyingMainframe AppsLessons from the Field; Watch out for hidden costs, both in tools and people.(Technology Information)
January 3, 2000... Not everyone loves reworking Cobol applications. Angelo Serra certainly doesn't. "It was hell," says the systems supervisor at the Ohio Department of Transportation, as he describes his work adding a Java interface to a Cobol time-management...

Allen Systems GetsCA Buyout Spoils ; Feds allow vendor to buy mainframemanagement tools acquired from Platinum .(Government Activity)
January 3, 2000... Three years after turning down a similar bid, the Department of Justice has given Allen Systems Group Inc. (ASG) in Naples, Fla., the right to buy and market mainframe management tools orphaned by a Computer Associates International Inc....

Are Online Banks Profitable? ; Web banks may be luring the wrong customers.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... Can banks make money online? It's a question that has been dogging the banking industry in the five years since Internet banking debuted. "It was -- and still is -- a legitimate question," said William B. Harrison, president and CEO of The...

Did IT miss an important Y2K lesson?(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... From 1993 to 1995, before the term Y2K was coined, I thought that year 2000 projects would make businesses smarter about managing their information assets and tackling tough infrastructure challenges. I was wrong. There have been some near-term...

Epson Photo Stylus 1200.(color ink jet printer)(Product Announcement)
January 3, 2000... Epson America Inc. (800) 463-7766 www.epson.com/printer/inkjet/styphoto1200/ List: $499 Online: $380 Epson's Photo Stylus 1200 is almost the perfect office photo shop; it prints up to banner-size photographs of...

New life for old cameras; Suggested: Dimage scanner extends your investment in film photography.(Minolta's Mino Dimage Scan Dual's)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
January 3, 2000... Going digital ain't all it's cracked up to be, especially if you're managing photographic assets. Digital cameras are almost synonymous with the online world. Corporations use them for product shots in e-commerce catalogs, personnel...

Web Evangelists; In the continuously evolving world of the Internet, there are plenty of opportunities to create a role -- and a title -- of your own making.
January 3, 2000... Who: Tom Linde Company: Aquent, an information technology recruiting company in Boston Title: Web evangelist Previous title: Area manager at Aquent Reports to: Vice president of strategy Skills for job: As Web evangelist,...

Just the Facts.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... The title evangelist comes from the old days at Apple Computer Inc., where staffers carried unusual titles. Guy Kawasaki, a venture capitalist at Palo Alto, Calif.-based Garage.com, was formerly Apple's most vocal evangelist. A corporate...

Intellectual Property.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... As the pace of technological innovation increases, there are frequently conflicting claims over who "owns" new developments. Such disputes are resolved under the nation's intellectual property laws, which attorneys see as checks and balances...

Facts? Or Protected Data?(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... Intellectual property law is in a state of flux, and the big issue this year will be whether Congress votes to extend legal protection to factual information contained in databases, says Marc Pearl, general counsel and senior vice president of...

Asia-Pacific Users Were Set for Y2K; U.S. companies overseas used experiencesof typhoons, earthquakes to get ready .(Company Operations)
January 3, 2000... U.S.-based companies operating in distant and relatively isolated regions of the world were among the first to experience the new year and any year 2000 problems. But for some of these companies, with offices and plants in places such as...

Survey Reported Decrease In Planned Y2K Shutdowns; But quality an issue inY2K preparedness .(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... Reflecting higher confidence in their internal systems, fewer information technology leaders were considering pulling the plug during the New Year's weekend, according to Cap Gemini America Inc.'s final Y2K preparedness survey. In the...

The Big Deal About Directories.(Technology Information)
January 3, 2000... A directory is just a specialized form of a database, so you might wonder why there's all the fuss about updating directories. Changing the information stored in a database is simple. But the prob-lem isn't so much changing data as it is...

NetVision Gets Directories Talking; Start-up's Synchronicity software helpsease multiplatform problems.(Product Information)
January 3, 2000... Users and network security procedures aren't exactly a match made in heaven. That's one reason directory synchronization and start-ups that provide it, like NetVision Technologies Inc., are such hot commodities. Consider the situation at...

Eyes on the ITWallet; As Y2K worries fade, IT execs plan to boost spending on strategic projects while cutting costs overall in the new year. One key target for the chopping block: consultants and contractors .(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... CIOs sometimes feel that they've been given a "mission impossible:" to do more for their companies while spending less. But some information technology executives are promising to do just that this year, saying they'll step up investments in...

News - Other.(News Briefs)
January 3, 2000... BIG RETAIL OUTFIT. IT director calls a major department meeting for 8 a.m. All the nervous worker bees gather. And wait for the boss. Who rolls into the parking lot at 8:20. Takes his own sweet time getting coffee. "First words out of his...

Advocates:Sites Still Don't Protect Privacy; Merchants opposecalls for legislation .(a report by Electronic Privacy Information Center)
January 3, 2000... Few of the 100 most popular shopping Web sites provide adequate privacy protection for consumers, and many track shoppers' purchases and online habits, according to a new report by Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a...

Tariff Apps Aim to Ease Overseas Sales; But ensuring data accuracy won't be easy .(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... As the big package carriers start testing new software to calculate the full cost of shipping goods overseas, the key question isn't whether the applications can crunch the numbers they're fed. It's whether the oft-changing international...

Tech - QuickStudy.(Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
January 3, 2000... Definition Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a high-speed networking technology that supports voice, data and video. Used to ensure quality data transmission, an ATM network prioritizes traffic, guarantees business-quality voice and...

Unglamorous Internet.(Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin, co-authors of NetSlaves: True Tales of Working the Web)(Industry Trend or Event)(Interview)
January 3, 2000... They're rich. They're glamorous. Internet workers are the envy of their friends and poster children of the new economy. Right? Not so, say Bill Lessard and Steve Baldwin, co-authors of NetSlaves: True Tales of Working the Web [McGraw-Hill,...

Specs.
January 3, 2000... product dimage Scan dual Film Scanner Minolta Corp. (800) 528-4767 www.minoltausa.com/mainframe.asp?productID=61&whichProductSection=1&whichSection=2 cost $495 List, $365 Online, $112 for the Advanced Photo System...

Consulting'sNextBig Thing; With Y2K finally come, what can IT consultants expect to be the next big areas of opportunity? Actually there are lots of them, but only big thinkers need apply.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... Liska Johnson, hired last June as an IBM consultant, has her eyes on the prize. Armed with an MBA with an emphasis in information systems management from the University of Minnesota, Johnson's goal is to become a practice leader in IBM's...

shippers decry new rail merger ; Owners: Common IT makes delays unlikely .(Canadian National Railway Co. and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp.)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2000... Still stinging from two recent disastrous railroad mergers, rail shippers and federal officials say they fear the proposed merger and subsequent integration of the information technology systems of Canadian National Railway Co. and Burlington...

Agenda item No. 1.(management information systems in the year 2000)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... While reading the articles in this week's IT Agenda 2000 special report, I was struck by a recurring item that should be at the top of your to-do list this year: Know your business. No, not the business of IT. Rather, the one that assures ...

Are companies banking too much on stock prices?(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... There will be all sorts of important stories in the new year -- the Microsoft antitrust case, the growth of Linux, the acceleration of wireless and PDA technology, the ongoing e-commerce boom and many others. But as someone who spends a lot of...

Apple IBook.(Hardware Review)(Brief Article)
January 3, 2000... Apple iBook CPU: 300-MHz G3 RAM: 64M bytes Hard disk: 3.2G bytes CD, DVD: CD Screen: 12.1 in. Weight: 6.6 lb. Price: $1,729 Overall grade: B Pros: Long battery life; wireless capability looks promising...

Laptops: treat this as an overline to labelThe Princes and the Paupers.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
January 3, 2000... Spend a little. Spend a lot. Sometimes you don't have any leeway for how much you can afford to pay for your laptops. But whether this year's budget has room for the latest portable power tool or a merely serviceable model, you have plenty of...

The E-lusive Staff.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... ust how desperate are IT managers to get good e-commerce professionals on board? Just ask Eric Kidd. The chief technology officer and vice president of engineering at start-up Petsmart.com in Pasadena, Calif., is spending 40 hours per week --...

Auto Show to Display Instant Survey Results; Net will carry datafrom kiosk to screen .(the North American International Auto Show)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... When hordes of car buffs, dealers and automotive reporters converge for the big Detroit auto show next week, technology will be in place to capture their impressions of the new car models and futuristic "concept" cars. The on-site network...

e-retailers learn delivery lesson ; Setting expectations key; delays singe Toys R Us .(holiday season, 1999)(Company Operations)
January 3, 2000... Toys R Us Inc. was one of many retailers this holiday season that learned heavy Web site traffic can make high expectations hard to fulfill all the time. On Dec. 22, the company found itself e-mailing "a small percentage" of its mammoth...

News - Early.(Y2K costs)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... n The first printed mention of Y2K was made by Paul Gillin in Computerworld on Feb. 13, 1984; the first printed warning about Y2K was issued by Peter de Jager in the pages of Computerworld on Sept. 6, 1993. n Y2K costs will reach $75...

Online Holiday Traffic Peaked Early Due to Shipping Concerns; Fulfillment lessons will carry into Christmas 2000.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 3, 2000... Holiday shoppers in 1999 weren't procrastinators. Online holiday shopping peaked Dec. 12 -- three days earlier than observers expected -- amid consumers' concerns that their orders wouldn't get filled in time, according to Nielsen...

Feds Give Some States Bad Y2K Grades; Suggested: Eight states and D.C. may see Y2Kproblems in systems that serve poor .(Government Activity)
January 3, 2000... A federal Y2K report card on the repair status of state-administered federal programs found that eight states and the District of Columbia were behind in fixing some of their systems. The quarterly report, released Dec. 13, was the 11th,...

Briefs.(News Briefs)
January 3, 2000... Seven More Suits Against Microsoft Seven more federal class-action antitrust cases were filed against Microsoft Corp. the week of Dec. 20. All of the plaintiffs claim Microsoft hurt them by routinely overcharging for Windows software....

ERPProblems Put BrakesOn Volkswagen Parts Shipments; German warehouse having trouble with modified version of SAPR/3 .(Company Operations)
January 3, 2000... Another painful ERPinstallation has surfaced, this time in Germany. Volkswagen AG is having trouble delivering spare parts to some car dealers there after turning on SAPAG's R/3 software in its central parts warehouse. An SAP spokesman in...

Carpet Maker Drops Groupe Bull for IBM; Shaw Industries cites lack of skills,few U.S. installs of French mainframe.(Product Information)
January 3, 2000... Shaw Industries Inc., the world's largest carpeting manufacturer, is consolidating its core information technology systems onto the IBM System 390 platform, moving off the Groupe Bull mainframe it has used for its core systems since the 1980s....

Drug Giants' Merger to BringSystems Integration Hurdles ; Monsanto's ERPplans anticipated growth.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2000... When Monsanto Co. implemented SAP AG R/3 more than three years ago, IT staffers strived to design a global system that would be flexible enough to handle any potential mergers or acquisitions in the future. But even that insightful planning...

NetVision.(Company Business and Marketing)
January 3, 2000... Location: 563 East 770 NorthOrem, Utah 84097 Telephone: (801) 764-0400 Web: www.netvision.com Niche: Network directory synchronization and security. Why it's worth watching: One point of administration for multiple directory...

Software shakedown.(mainframe software vendors)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... Your market is mature, your competition mostly gone, and new customers are hard to come by. So what better way to do business than to shake down your old customers? After all, they're trapped. You've got them wedged between the rock of their...

Electronic Procurement Catching on Among Businesses ; kicker here and here and here .(The Boston Consulting Group study)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... Business-to-business e-commerce will reach a whopping $2.8 trillion by 2003, according to a new study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). That figure includes transactions via traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) networks, which...

Experience Helps: E-Shopping Rises 270%.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... Problems caused by a reported 270% surge in online purchases during this past holiday shopping season came mostly at electronic retailers whose Web sites -- but not warehouses -- were ready. There were some fulfillment problems. "A lot of...

Biz - Advice.(News Briefs)
January 10, 2000... New CTO at 1-800-Flowers.com1-800-Flowers.com Inc. in Westbury, N.Y., has appointed Jeffry A. Borror as chief technology officer. Borror has more than 20 years of experience in the information technology field. He joins the company from Daiwa...

Shell Protects Brand via Net; Global system used to guard image standards.(Company Operations)
January 10, 2000... Two years ago, oil giant Shell started seeing inconsistencies in how its valued seashell logo and other images were being used in different advertising promotions and Web sites around the world. In some instances, Shell field offices had...

Growth Seen in Free Net Access This Year ; Suggested: One of its many predictions for this year.(International Data's Fifth Annual Predictions report)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... Internet stock corrections, the death of pure-play dot-coms and an explosion of free Internet access services are the main predictions for 2000 made by International Data Corp. (IDC) Senior Vice President Frank Gens in the market research...

The Y2K'ransom'.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
January 10, 2000... PAUL A. STRASSMANNThe U.S., in my own estimation, spent more than $300 billion to secure a smooth computer transition into 2000. My numbers are based on comparisons between Y2K fix-it costs that public corporations filed with the Securities and...

One person's e-commercehorror show; BILLLABERIS.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
January 10, 2000... Provoked by a cavalcade of magazine cover stories touting unbridled e-commerce potential, executives are pushing with full force on IT to create their own companies' next Web wonders of the world. If you're among the many who feel your boss...

A critical time for dot-coms, feds to don white hats; ALEXTORRALBAS.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
January 10, 2000... ALEXTORRALBAS This past holiday season put the spotlight on e-commerce as never before. We'll see whatthe numbers tell us when the counting stops. One thing is certain: All of this business is taking place in a largelyhacker-friendly,...

But What About Me?(IT worker's strategy)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... In the event your company is pondering the big step of moving the whole operation, what's the good news and the bad news for you, the IT worker? Consider the following:Gather information. Find out what's involved -- the where and when. What...

Keep corporate changes in mind ; JOE AUER/DRIVING THE DEAL.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... Often we see an organization going through significant organizational or operational changes -- a merger, an acquisition or divestiture, a major restructuring, a reorganization of data centers or an IT outsourcing. Such changes hold...

Cycle Time.(amount of time it takes to complete a process)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... Whatever it is your business sells, you need to deliver it better, faster, cheaper. Or else. Cycle-time reduction is a vital tool in doing so. And these days, information technology goes hand-in-hand with cycle-time reduction. Cycle time...

Internet Intuition; CEO Meg Whitman powers eBay on instinct and experience and gains an education in technology By Kathleen Melymuka.(Company Operations)
January 10, 2000... This is in trouble. You'd better get down here. The guys aren't moving fast enough." The call was from eBay Inc. CEO Meg Whitman to her new president of eBay Technologies, Maynard Webb. Not only had Whitman spotted impending trouble while...

Application Programming Interface.(Technology Information)
January 10, 2000... You often have to rely on others to perform functions that you may not be able or permitted to do by yourself, such as opening a bank safety deposit box. Similarly, virtually all software has to request other software to do some things for it....

So, when do I start?; Job Fair Recruiters -- are they any good? Apparently so, our own Steve Ulfelder learned. He went undercover as an Oracle database administrator job applicant, and found that nobody was quite desperate enough to hire him .(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... Steve Magner looks around the ballroom. He's the worst-dressed guy in the joint. Under a grudging necktie, his top shirt button is open. His blazer would get him tossed out of a used-car salesmen's convention. His beat-up cargo pants puddle on...

Just the Facts.(qualifications for Internet technology strategists)(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... Driving forces: The U.S. economy is transforming into an Internet economy, says Ben Sabrin, technical recruiter at Pencom Systems Inc. in Atlanta. Large brick-and-mortar companies are trying to become "click and mortars," and dot-com start-ups...

Tech - QuickStudy.(application programming interface)(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2000... definition An application programming interface (API) is a description of the way one piece of software asks another program to perform a service. The service could be granting access to data or performing a specified function. APIs exist...

Overcoming Fears of New IT Neighbors; TK -- CASESTUDYSTORY.
January 10, 2000... High-tech firms are the hot economic news of the millennium. But having a new headquarters move into your hometown isn't all good news. Overloading an aging infrastructure and increasing traffic congestion can raise local tempers. When Sun...

Consulting Career Guides.(The SAP Consultant Handbook: Your Sourcebook to Lasting Success in an SAP Consulting Career)(Review)
January 10, 2000... The SAP Consultant Handbook: Your Sourcebook to Lasting Success in an SAP Consulting Career By Jon Reed and Michael Doane; Pine Hill Press, Freeman, S.D., 1999; paperback (The book isn't currently available in bookstores. It can be ordered...

Definitions.(Cycle time)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
January 10, 2000... Cycle time: The time that elapses from the beginning to the end of a process or subprocess. The process in question may be as extensive as conceptualizing, developing, testing and bringing to market a complex product -- or as simple as putting...

STC Updates Integration Tools ; Observers like the improvements but want a one-stop method to link applications .(Software Technologies' eGate 4.0)(Product Information)
January 10, 2000... Software Technologies Corp. (STC) has added high-level business logic tools and an open message architecture to its redesigned suite of enterprise application integration tools. Customers and industry analysts generally praised the new suite,...

And now, a big,nationwide Y2Kpat on the back.(Column)
January 10, 2000... In the Broadway musical My Fair Lady, there's a scene where Col. Pickering and Professor Higgins launch into a self-congratulatory ditty called "We Did It." In it, they extol their success in converting a common flower girl into a duchess who,...

Y2K's real lessons.(Technology Information)(Column)
January 10, 2000... I am reporter. Hear me crow. Not only was New Year's Eve a nonevent for hackers as I suggested it might be in my Dec. 13 column, "Evil-Code-Fix Myth" (www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/991213D0B2),but Y2K hacking activity was actually...

Tech - News.(News Briefs)
January 10, 2000... VA Linux Offers Free Open-Source SoftwareVA Linux Systems Inc. in Sunnyvale, Calif., last week launched a free online repository of open-source software projects, called SourceForge. According to the company, which owns the linux.com domain,...

FireWire Scanner Debuts for PCs, Macs.(Umax Technologies' PowerLook 1100 scanner)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 10, 2000... By Russell Kay Umax Technologies Inc. in Fremont, Calif., has announced the first professional-grade scanner that can connect to a Macintosh computer or a PC via a dedicated IEEE 1394/FireWire connection. The PowerLook 1100 scanner...

Powering Down Drives Is a Sticky Problem; Suggested: Powering down long-running hard-disk drives could have fulfilled prophecies of Y2K failure. The culprit: Stiction.(Technology Information)
January 10, 2000... Users who took the advice of Y2K doomsayers and powered down disk drives that usually run nonstop could regret doing so. The drives could fail on power-up due to a condition called "stiction," which has nothing to do with the Y2Krollover. ...

What Did Go Wrong: A Global Roundup of Y2K Glitches ; Mostly temporary inconveniences.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... The few glitches attributed to Y2K during the date rollover and afterward were just that -- glitches: printer failures, dates with five digits, decimal problems. Most caused little more than temporary inconvenience. The Federal Aviation...

European Air-Traffic Control Centers Roll Over With Ease; 65 centers report no service degradation .(Eurocontrol)(Government Activity)
January 10, 2000... BRUSSELS The Y2K team at Eurocontrol, the European air-traffic control organization that is the equivalent of the Federal Aviation Administration, spent an uneventful New Year's Eve and broke open the champagne at midnight. At 1:15...

Y2K: More Signs of the Time.(Y2K federal expenses)(News Briefs)
January 10, 2000... The Federal Reserve ordered extra money put into circulation in the event people made a run on banks and automated teller machines. That put $200 billion in government vaults, up from the $150 billion normally held in reserve.The Office of...

Have We Learned Nothing From the Y2K Episode? ; De Jager sees little cause for celebration .(Peter de Jager)(Industry Trend or Event)(Interview)
January 10, 2000... Peter de Jager, who wrote one of the first warnings about Y2K in Computerworld [Sept. 6, 1993], was confident enough that nothing would go wrong, that he spent New Year's Eve on a plane. Yet he laments that few companies learned the lessons Y2K...

Protecting Your Property in Cyberspace; The Web's rise as a platform for commerce and communications is driving many organizations to protect their images, sound and text as well as trade secrets and application code By Peter Wayner.(ensuring company Web site security)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 10, 2000... Elizabeth Osder designs Web sites for companies like the Financial Times in London, and she has a problem. A vice president at iXL Enterprises Inc. in New York, she knows that the sites she designs must deliver readers and revenue. Many readers...

Confusing Terminology.(digital rights management, content management, document management systems, knowledge management)(Technology Information)
January 10, 2000... n Digital rights management (DRM): The use of technology to prevent unauthorized use of digital files (in any format -- sound, images, text, documents or data) and/or to identify the source of such use.n Digital asset management (DAM):...

International Intrigue.(Rackspace.com)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 10, 2000... "Half our customers are outside the U.S.," says Rackspace.com CEO Graham Weston. Rapid global growth makes sense, as "high-bandwidth sites are expensive to host in Europe," according to Formula1.com CEO Nicky Morris. But it also opens the door...

Web Deployments Done Yesterday; Fast reactions, low pricing make Rackspace a viable alternative to internal Web pilots.(Rackspace.com services)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 10, 2000... A Fortune 50 business executive had a Web project going. Or rather, not going. His company's IT department didn't have time to hook up a Web server. The exec got exasperated, and called Rackspace.com. His project was online by close of...

02shorts1.(News Briefs)
January 10, 2000... SAP, Siebel IntegrationSoftware Technologies Corp. in Monrovia, Calif., this week plans to announce application integration software that links SAP AG's R/3 enterprise resource planning system to San Mateo, Calif.-based Siebel Systems Inc.'s...

Y2K legacy may last for years; New approaches to IT, managing will live on.(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... The legacy of the year 2000 problem may reverberate for years in companies and government agencies in the form of new management styles and outlooks. It has raised the visibility of information technology departments, fostered teamwork across...

Billing App Drains City Utility ; Ann Arbor claims$2.8 million loss.(Aquilium Software software)(Company Business and Marketing)
January 10, 2000... City officials in Ann Arbor, Mich., estimate that trouble with utility billing software caused the city's water department to underbill customers by $2.8 million. The city's Water Utilities Department implemented a software package from...

Lotus CEO Resigns ; Analysts: Executive changes likely to bring groupware maker closer into IBM fold .(CEO Jeffrey P. Papows)(Company Operations)
January 10, 2000... With almost 50 million e-mail messaging seats credited to his tenure at Lotus Development Corp., the company's president and CEO, Jeffrey P. Papows, surprised observers last week and announced his intention to resign effective Feb. 1. Papows...

execs back y2K spending all the way; Top brass, CIOs defend results of biggest ITmobilization ever, reject overspending charges .(Industry Trend or Event)
January 10, 2000... By Thomas Hoffman and Julia King Wall Street spent roughly $5 billion to tame the year 2000 problem, more than the gross domestic product of nations like Burundi. Yet even those who spent next to nothing, like Russia, rang in the new...