InfoWorld articles from January 2002

InfoWorld archives from January 2002

Keeping an eye on all your parts - Managing parts and services via support-chain collaboration helps reduce costs, downtime.
January 7, 2002... ALTHOUGH SCM (supply-chain management) and collaboration for finished goods has received much attention of late, management of service parts and content needed for maintenance and repair of goods already out in the market is moving to the...

Experience of youth - Bandwidth.com CTO got an early start learning to juggle demands placed on an IT executive's head.
January 7, 2002... HAVING THE GUTS and the savvy to say "No can do" to the boss when an assignment seems unrealistic might make even the most experienced executive feel uncomfortable, but it is the kind of courage Bandwidth.com Chief Technical Officer Matt Kramer...

Looking inside - Enterprise search offers companies several options to deal with data overload.
January 7, 2002... IT SOUNDS SO SIMPLE: Good, basic enterprise tools that allow search- weary workers to hunt for -- and actually find -- pertinent data lurking within their own corporate repositories. Yet the choices now available to improve search...

CTO CONNECTION: A tricky balancing act - CTOs must temper their gung ho belief in technology with a realistic view of its potential limitations.(Column)
January 7, 2002... AS I'VE WRITTEN in this column in the past, one of the defining characteristics of a CTO is his or her technology evangelism. CTOs believe passionately that technology drives business and makes the world a better place and that the constant...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Predictions, predictions.
January 7, 2002... THERE'S SOMETHING to be said for getting away from it all. Amber and I escaped off to the snow to celebrate the new year, and we feel much better for it despite the aching leg muscles. Crystal ball If all goes well, I'm thinking this...

FOR THE RECORD: Gearing up to glean the most from data assets.(Editorial)
January 7, 2002... If most CEOs were asked to list their company's core assets, information and information systems would probably fall somewhere toward the middle of the list. But in this economy in which people are focused on drawing revenue or...

WINDOW MANAGER: The next Windows - A leaner, faster operating system named Symbian poses a challenge to Microsoft's GUI.
January 7, 2002... AS THE CALENDAR turns to a new year, so do our minds turn to what lies ahead for us, the computer users of the world. I've been a contributing editor to InfoWorld for more than 10 years, so I've written first-hand about the shift to the...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: A botched case - The outcome of the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft gives the company license to operate with impunity.(Column)
January 7, 2002... NEXT TIME I get a traffic ticket, here's what I'll say in court: "Your honor, the court has found me guilty. I disagree. Also, I disagree in principle with the existence of speed limits on our nation's highways. Several theorists claim that...

THE OPEN SOURCE/CTO TEST CENTER: Future of open source - Another growth year is ahead as open source continues its march on corporate servers and desktops.(Column)
January 7, 2002... WELL, THIS IS the column where I get to put on my magician's hat and do my best to predict the future of open source in 2002. Although I have no psychic powers (real or imagined), I figure I have at least a better-than-even chance of beating...

WIRELESS WORLD/CTO TEST CENTER: On the wireless front - Mobile users lose as Microsoft, Sun, and other vendors rev up for a major war over standards.
January 7, 2002... NEVER BEFORE HAVE the battle lines been so clearly drawn between competing vendors. Still, the vendors continue to treat the corporate public like idiots who will actually believe one side or the other is interested in real standards or the...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES/CTO TEST CENTER: Dawn of disruption - Disruptive technology innovations needn't cause disarray; plan for change and keep your competitive edge.
January 7, 2002... WITH A FOCUS on core competencies, CIOs have been charged to get back to basics, squeeze maximum efficiency out of current infrastructures, and bring IT planning into closer alignment with shareholder expectations. At the same time, however,...

SECURITY ADVISER/CTO TEST CENTER: A race against the clock - A new encryption standard on the horizon will eventually fall victim to Moore's law as did its predecessors.
January 7, 2002... SOME OF YOU have wondered along with me if the U.S. government is ever going to get around to approving an updated encryption standard. Although the Commerce Department announced on Dec. 4 that AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) would be...

THE GRIPE LINE: The ongoing dilemma - UCITA debate heats up again as a standby draft committee reviews proposals from its opponents.
January 7, 2002... FORGIVE ME if you get the feeling this is a column I've written before. When you've been talking about UCITA (Uniform Computer Information Transaction Act) for more than five years, it's hard to avoid a sense of deja vu. When we last...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Man in the white suit - Remember this cautionary tale when disruptive technology that's in the pipeline seeks to change the rules for everyone.
January 7, 2002... "CHANGE IS HARD," said my friend Dave as 2001 wound down. "Yes, but not changing is harder," I replied as Dick Clark proved us both wrong on the TV screen behind us. Our Dorian Gray with a beat, Dick has been measuring time and whether or not...

ABOVE THE NOISE: Heroes in pursuit of elegant disruption - Those in IT who master the art of change will thrive even in the current economic climate.(Editorial)
January 7, 2002... JUST ABOUT ANY of my colleagues and a few of my former teachers can testify to the fact that I can be disruptive. The only difference in opinion we sometimes have is that I always tend to see that as a positive attribute because the opposite of...

To the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
January 7, 2002... On ontology I DON'T MEAN to nitpick, but "Cobol systems analysts" are not the only ones who know how to figure out "how to break down business systems into discrete, logical components" (see "Above the Noise," Dec. 17). Based on this...

E-BUSINESS PULSE: Count your blessings - Feel lucky to have a job, even though there's not much money in the bonus or salary coffers these days.
January 7, 2002... YOU ARE LUCKY to have a job. Have you heard this lately? I bet if you have, you don't feel particularly lucky. If you are working, chances are you're working harder than ever. Still, you probably also have friends, relatives, or neighbors who...

Security enters recovery maze.
January 7, 2002... JUST AS disaster recovery rockets up users' IT budget lists for 2002, more disaster recovery options such as merged security and disaster recovery offerings and hosting solutions are becoming available to enterprises. Although the disaster...

Gates to demo portable monitor.(from ViewSonic)
January 7, 2002... DURING HIS KEYNOTE at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week, Microsoft's Bill Gates will demonstrate the AirPanel 150, a flat- panel wireless monitor from ViewSonic that allows users to carry it from room to room. The...

Intel unwraps 2.2GHZ Pentium 4.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 7, 2002... Intel this week launched the first Pentium 4 desktop processors built to 0.13-micron architecture with its 2.2GHz chip that uses Intel's Northwood processor core. The smaller chip paves the way for generations of faster Pentium 4 chips; a 3GHz...

IBM jumps on J2EE 1.3 standard.(WebSphere application server and DB2 database software have been certified)(Brief Article)
January 7, 2002... IBM has announced that WebSphere application server and DB2 database software have been certified with the J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) 1.3 standard, which promises to give developers a robust platform on which to deploy Web services. IBM...

Business Objects scoops up Blue Edge Software.(Brief Article)
January 7, 2002... Business Objects kick-started the new year with an acquisition of information delivery vendor Blue Edge Software announced last week. Prior to the acquisition, Blue Edge, based in Leeds, England, was a privately held company that partnered with...

Verticalnet buys platform partner - Atlas acquisition promises new sourcing solution, supply-chain strength.
January 7, 2002... VERTICALNET IS SET to develop a new collaborative sourcing solution after announcing its acquisition of Atlas Commerce recently. According to analysts, the acquisition boosts the Horsham, Pa.-based company's bid to morph from its public...

Ask Jeeves solves search query.
January 7, 2002... SEARCH VENDOR Ask Jeeves plans to roll out new search technology designed to analyze Web page subject matter and unearth community relationships. The initiative comes as IBM plans to build on its own research to expand Web data mining. Ask...

Power line access reviewed - Growth expected this year for last-mile connectivity technology as vendors continue testing.
January 7, 2002... A HEALTHY PUBLIC appetite for broadband connectivity, coupled with the failure of incumbent telcos to meet that demand, could spur a rise in technology that uses existing power cables to transmit data over the last mile, industry experts said....

Security wish list for 2002 - Users shifting away from the edge of the enterprise to internal systems control.
January 7, 2002... IT SECURITY CONCERNS in 2002 will shift away from perimeter defenses to internal access control and authentication management in light of last year's string of virus and worm attacks, as well as the cyberterrorism threat posed by the Sept. 11...

AOL signs up broadband service providers.(Brief Article)
January 7, 2002... The U.S. Federal Trade Commission late last month approved AOL Time Warner's request to allow four ISPs to offer Internet services over the company's cable network. The four approved ISPs are New York Connect.Net, offering service in New York...

Hearing set on Microsoft delay request.(Brief Article)
January 7, 2002... The federal judge presiding over the government's antitrust case against Microsoft scheduled a hearing for Monday to consider a request by the software maker to delay a separate hearing on remedies in the case. Microsoft asked U.S. District...

Paradyne to purchase Elastic Networks.(Brief Article)
January 7, 2002... Paradyne Networks, which sells network access equipment to carriers and corporations, has agreed to acquire Elastic Networks in an all-stock transaction valued at about $28.8 million, the companies announced late last month. Paradyne said that...

Execs to hold tight on spending.
January 7, 2002... EXTREME CAUTION IS likely to pervade the corporate budgeting process for much of 2002 as executives weigh what is needed to bring enterprises out of the economic slump. Many CIOs and CTOs are looking "to understand where the leverage is...

How to snare an 800-pound gorilla - Stun him with a disruptive technology and watch as he stumbles to adapt.(Editorial)
January 7, 2002... IT MAY LOOK like the same old year outside, but inside the InfoWorld Test Center, we've been busy evaluating technologies that have the power to reshape enterprise computing in the new year. In other words, we're looking at "disruptive...

Web services - It's a brave new world for application integration.
January 7, 2002... DARING INNOVATION IS not the reason why Web services will disrupt the status quo. It is easy to exchange XML-formatted messages via the Internet -- and that, of course, is exactly the point. In Act One of the Web drama, HTML forever changed how...

Microsoft .Net and C# - A new development framework challenges enterprise Java.(.Net framework and C#)
January 7, 2002... AFTER BEING THRASHED in the enterprise software market by the likes of Sun, IBM, and Linux, Microsoft is pinning its comeback hopes on its new application framework, .Net. Although the freedom to use practically any programming language is key...

Peer-to-peer - P-to-P technologies create new models of knowledge sharing.
January 7, 2002... IF A TECHNOLOGY considered more disruptive to business than peer-to- peer file sharing exists -- as seen by the effort to ban corporate access to sites such as Gnutella and Napster -- then it has done an excellent job of covering its tracks....

Serial ATA and iSCSI - Storage networks fuel the distributed enterprise.
January 7, 2002... THE MARRIAGE OF networking and storage technologies is not only simplifying the way storage is managed, it also promises to revolutionize the way enterprise storage is used, allowing corporate data to be pushed to the edge of the network to...

Benevolent worms - Will virus technology be part of future software delivery systems?(Windows Update feature in Microsoft Windows XP)
January 7, 2002... ALTHOUGH THE PROSPECT of using virus technology to simplify the task of delivering patches and software updates is tempting, the dangers can outweigh the benefits when the process is too automated. For example, the improved Windows Update...

Instant messaging - Real-time collaboration takes corporate users by storm.
January 7, 2002... IM (INSTANT MESSAGING) is changing corporate communications, and it's doing so without the prodding or even the approval of executives and IT managers. Combining the real-time advantages of a phone call with the convenience of e-mail, IM is so...

802.11 wireless LANs - Emerging standards prepare wireless networks for prime time.
January 7, 2002... WIRELESS NETWORKS based on the 802.11 standard, also known as Wi-Fi, were all the rage last year and promise to be even more popular in 2002, as the growing use of Pocket PCs and other handheld devices in the enterprise make the cost and...

2G handhelds - The next wave of devices will yield potent benefits.
January 7, 2002... TODAY'S HANDHELD DEVICES might not seem like a disruptive technology, but the Palm, iPAQ, and Jornada are merely hints of what is just around the corner. Early prototypes of 2G (second-generation) handhelds -- the first real post-PC devices --...

Approaching the board - Managing the board of directors' expectations can be a tricky task for a CTO -- and one that requires some advance planning.
January 7, 2002... THESE ARE TOUGH times for chief technology officers trying to obtain IT investments from their boards of directors. As a result, the role of a good CTO is to try to influence how the board thinks -- or at least try to manage its...

Streamlining IT - Textron's chief technologist is transforming the conglomerate's operations with a tech infusion.
January 21, 2002... THE AMOUNT OF MONEY Textron Chief Technologist Phyllis Michaelides is helping the company save could easily total the annual operating budget of some smaller corporations. Last year she helped the company trim $50 million in indirect purchases...

Moving into real time - Enterprises can now do business with up-to-the- minute data feeds, but getting all the pieces in place may be challenging.
January 21, 2002... THE NOTION OF a real-time enterprise is no longer hype for Jon Ricker, president and CIO of The Limited's technology services group. The clothing retailer had long relied heavily on "rearview mirrors" of historical data, transferred in...

Dawn of the real-time enterprise - New technologies leverage straight- through processing and the Internet to deliver competitive advantage.
January 21, 2002... IN THE BEGINNING, there was batch processing: ERP and supply chain systems and data warehouses. Geared for monthly planning and analysis, these systems talked to one another, if at all, using proprietary interfaces and query-based messaging...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: Gabriel's trumpet - Let the events of this past holiday season mark the end of time for inferior systems integration.(Column)
January 21, 2002... IN THE EARLY fourth quarter of last year, I used this space to predict an improved online shopping climate for the 2001 holiday season and recommended ways to get your IT resources primed for the job (see "Fighting the Grinch,"...

WINDOW MANAGER: Is it secure? I mean IIS - A free program identifies Internet Information Server before you type in your credit card.(Column)
January 21, 2002... LAST WEEK I wrote about the latest security weakness found in the new Windows XP operating system. (See "Plug-and-prey fiasco," Jan. 14.) XP is selling in retail channels at a rate that's about one-third less than Windows 98 did at this stage,...

SECURITY ADVISER: Proof in the pudding - Instead of raisins, security admins find .Net Framework and Flash viruses give them something to chew on.(Column)
January 21, 2002... THE BAD NEWS is there are now two more things for security administrators to worry about: Macromedia Flash and Microsoft's .Net Framework. The good news is that you don't have to spend much time worrying about them... yet. In early...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Rewarding punishment - Giving Microsoft a foothold in American schools isn't even a slap on the wrist, it's a Swedish massage.(Column)
January 21, 2002... I'VE RECEIVED A number of requests to address the pending (as of this writing) settlement of the civil anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft. Under the pending agreement, Microsoft will be obligated to provide hardware and software to thousands...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Campfire wisdom - Before you redesign internal relationships, listen to tales that tell the truth about those relationships now.
January 21, 2002... MANAGEMENTSPEAK: I propose a series of "discussion meetings" to resolve this issue you have raised. TRANSLATION: By avoiding an agenda, the actual issue at hand will likely be lost in vagaries and territorial squabbles during the meeting....

WIRELESS WORLD: Under IT's radar - Is it irresponsible or good marketing to give end-users a way to slip past the firewall into the network?
January 21, 2002... THE LIGHT BULBS must have been going off at the same time in the marketing departments of two wireless industry players. It seems they both came up with the same bright idea. And there are probably more companies with the same idea on the way....

CTO CONNECTION: Selling outsourcing - Critical business initiatives are only as good as the around-the-clock technical support they get.(Column)
January 21, 2002... IF HAMLET HAD been a CTO, his famous monologue might have begun, "To outsource or not to outsource?" One of the greatest challenges for CTOs is where to draw the line between insourcing and outsourcing -- you can't get the job done by...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Palm readings and death by XP.
January 21, 2002... STUNNED BY THE show of e-mail support for her pro-Canadian sentiments last week, Amber wonders whether she should start a new crusade. "Political activism could be the distraction from IT that I've been looking for," she claimed. Palm's OS...

THE GRIPE LINE: Who'll replace @Home? With the demise of @Home, other broadband providers appear ready to keep customers guessing about their service.
January 21, 2002... SOON @HOME WILL be only a distant memory, but you can bet its spirit will live on in the hearts of other broadband providers. Unfortunately. As Excite@Home has gone through its death throes during the last few months, several wags have...

To the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
January 21, 2002... Move over Microsoft I LOVED Bob Lewis' "A botched case" (see Survival Guide, Jan. 7). My company, although not large, runs with no Microsoft or Linux products at all. We're growing and we are doing very well. The only problem we have is...

ABOVE THE NOISE: Making money without wasting time - Event-driven computing models are finally affordable and prepared to increase efficiency.
January 21, 2002... MOST OF THE time it takes to gather all the resources to manufacture something into a finished good is wasted. Most of the time the finished good spends traveling from the place where it was made to the place where it is ultimately sold is...

E-BUSINESS PULSE: A matter of trust - Trust strategies need to go beyond technology and handshakes to succeed in a global market.(Tutorial)
January 21, 2002... BUILDING TRUST IS a core requirement for establishing new relationships, especially in an online environment. Equating online trust solely with underlying security requirements -- authenticating users or Web sites and ensuring the...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Bosworth's second take - After being pushed around by Microsoft, a Web services champion seeks a comeback with his own development tools.
January 21, 2002... SECOND ACTS ARE rare. The exceptions prove the rule: Richard Nixon in politics, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis in music, Babe Ruth in sports. That's a stretch, except for Red Sox fans who remember the Babe as an all-star pitcher before the Yankees...

FOR THE RECORD: Sorting Web services hype from the buzz.(Column)
January 21, 2002... As hype builds around Web services, industry veterans are quick to inject reality into the discussion, noting that today's technologies are simply a resurfacing of well-established computer science practices. As Sun fellow James Gosling pointed...

Bush names federal CTO.(Norman Lorentz)(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... The Bush administration last week hired the first federal chief technology officer. Norman Lorentz, former CTO of IT industry portal Dice and the first CTO of the U.S. Postal Service, will be the chief of e-government architecture for the...

Microsoft Commerce Server 2002 enters beta.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Microsoft last week made the beta version of Commerce Server 2002 available to testers. The new multicurrency version focuses on multiple language support throughout the catalog system, profiling and targeting, and transactions, officials said....

FatWire goes for ease of use with new CM release.(UpdateEngine6 content management solution)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
January 21, 2002... Content management (CM) vendor FatWire Software last week rolled out UpdateEngine6, the new version of its CM and Web application assembly system. New features in UpdateEngine6 are designed to allow users and developers to easily control...

Compaq targets utility computing - New services advance computing-on- demand for IT environments.
January 21, 2002... COMPAQ IS PUSHING standardization and usage-measurement benefits as the next phase of its Computing on Demand initiative. Next week, Compaq will announce that its "pay-as-you-use" utility computing model will extend to new storage, server,...

Hyperion inks query deal - OEM accord clears path for OLAP provider to embed Crystal Decisions' wares.
January 21, 2002... BI (BUSINESS-INTELLIGENCE) vendor Hyperion will be grafting Web-based query, reporting, and information delivery solutions to its OLAP (online analytical processing) engine via a strategic OEM and reseller agreement with Crystal Decisions...

MSPs stress customer needs - Players such as Loudcloud, Cervalis push flexibility of services with new offerings.
January 21, 2002... MANAGED SERVICES providers Loudcloud, Cervalis, and Inforonics last week pushed the envelope with new services aimed at handling more sophisticated customer demands. Loudcloud released an upgraded version of its CDS (Code Deployment...

Oracle jolts E-Business Suite.
January 21, 2002... AT LAST WEEK'S AppsWorld conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Oracle officials took the wraps off an enterprise operations metrics feature as well as new modules for its E-Business Suite of enterprise applications. The new Oracle Daily...

Palm to unveil OS 5.
January 21, 2002... PALM'S NEXT-GENERATION operating system, OS 5, which uses the ARM- compliant Omap family of processors from Texas Instruments, will be unveiled at PalmSource the week of Feb. 4 in San Jose, Calif. Several InfoWorld sources in the...

StorageTek preps data backup.
January 21, 2002... GUNNING FOR ITS share of the growing market for disaster-recovery storage products and services, StorageTek is negotiating with a number of potential telco partners to deliver a complete IP disaster-recovery offering called StorageTek Lifeline....

BEA: Cajun eases development.
January 21, 2002... BEA SYSTEMS is working to make the development and deployment of Web services easier with its forthcoming application development framework, code-named Cajun. With Cajun, BEA embraces corporate developers who work in Microsoft and legacy...

New spec aimed at tripling cable capacity.(Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification)(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Cable modems could have triple the upstream capacity by the end of 2002, enabling videoconferencing and peer-to-peer applications over cable connections. CableLabs, a consortium of cable operators from North America and South America, has...

Oracle revamps pricing, details outsourcing.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Oracle announced simplified pricing for its 11i applications suite last week. Effective immediately, customers will pay $4,000 per power user and $400 per casual user for the software. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison also last week detailed the...

Intel names president.(Brief Article)
January 21, 2002... Intel has promoted Paul Otellini, former general manager of the Intel Architecture Group, to president and chief operating officer. Otellini becomes part of what Intel called its two-person executive office, along with CEO Craig Barrett....

IBM, VeriSign explore alliance.
January 21, 2002... IN A MAJOR endorsement of security across its wares, IBM is working with VeriSign on a joint product development and sales deal that would marry VeriSign's authentication and payment services technology to Big Blue's hardware and application...

Lotus links to Web services - Lotusphere will highlight integration of Domino andWebSphere.
January 21, 2002... DURING ITS ANNUAL gathering of partners and customers at Lotusphere in Orlando, Fla., next week, Lotus Software plans to further its Web services strategy with tighter links between Domino and WebSphere and to move to embed collaboration...

Commerce One, SAP revise plans - Duo to go separate ways over procurement offerings but denies larger split.
January 21, 2002... SAP AND COMMERCE ONE have decided to stop joint development and marketing of their procurement application and to focus instead on the integration and online marketplace arenas, company officials said last week. Commerce One's stock lost...

Messaging tools seek reliability.
January 21, 2002... AS PART OF an overall push to fortify Web services, vendors are bolstering the reliability of messaging infrastructures with new tools to allow enterprises to build applications that ensure delivery of XML documents. Asynchronous...

Burning up the wires - What do enterprises stand to gain by bringing Gigabit Ethernet capabilities to end-user desktops?
January 21, 2002... GIGABIT ETHERNET IS one of those technologies that sounds great on paper but ultimately is hard to justify, especially for desktop systems. Mention "gigabit" and "desktop" in the same sentence and the first application that comes to mind is...

Data protection - Applian PocketLock offers an easy way to shield sensitive files on Pocket PC devices from prying eyes.(Product Announcement)
January 21, 2002... AS MORE POCKET PC devices are plugged into the corporate network, companies should take security measures to ensure that any sensitive data on such devices is encrypted. After all, Pocket PC devices are small, so they are prime targets for...

PDAs in a pod - Design quirks hinder the Audiovox Maestro, near-twin to Toshiba's e570, in the fast-paced Pocket PC race.(Product Announcement)
January 21, 2002... WITH THE RELEASE of Microsoft's Pocket PC 2002 specification, which raised the bar for Windows PDA performance, Toshiba decided the time was right to break into the PDA market with a sleek device called the e570. Audiovox then rebranded...

A little security - Certicom's movianVPN plugs up security holes that mobile devices open in the corporate network.
January 21, 2002... MANY ORGANIZATIONS are deploying VPNs to secure remote access or to protect wireless networks, and handheld devices should not be excluded from these security measures. Certicom's movianVPN client allows Pocket PC and Palm users to connect...

Ease growing pains - As your company's capacity needs increase, Overland Data LXN2000 tape library ably stays in stride.
January 21, 2002... MANY COMPANIES FIND themselves in the difficult position of knowing they will eventually need greater backup capacity but not being able to quantify how much. Modular tape libraries such as Overland's LXN (Library Express Neo Series) -- and...

Cut the cables - Socket's 802.11b CompactFlash card allows Pocket PC users to roam the network untethered.
January 21, 2002... PDA USERS MAY fantasize about looking up inventory or browsing the corporate intranet via their handheld devices, but without a wired connection to a PC or a cell phone, such applications are impossible. Now, thanks to a CompactFlash card from...

Charting IT's costs - Managers ditch homegrown applications for professional services automation to track time and costs of IT projects and services.
January 21, 2002... AFTER BIG EXPENDITURES were made on ERP, Web servers, integration servers, and CRM, and now with downsized budgets, most IT executives are probably not out shopping for yet another piece of enterprise software. But some weary tech execs are...

Transforming the datacenter - Server blades' flexibility and low-cost nature is changing the architecture of the future.
January 28, 2002... THE LOOK OF COMPUTER datacenters will begin to change as a wave of server-blade products begin hitting the market during the next several months. Following the lead of startups such as RLX and Racemi, server manufacturers including Compaq,...

Gazing at the future.(Company Operations)
January 28, 2002... Youknowbest's CTO leans on Web services when building the company's shopping service YOUKNOWBEST.COM IS ONE of a number of startup companies that is betting heavily on Web services technology as a platform. As the CTO of the company, Dave...

Netting options for connectivity - High-speed optical links and Ethernet technologies give businesses more flexibility in their connectivity choices -- and a chance to avoid monolithic ILECs.
January 28, 2002... ON SEPT. 11, 2001, Thomas Kenney was glad he had gotten rid of his T1 line. As the director of IT at the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, a newspaper in Worcester, Mass., it was Kenney's job to make sure the news staff had enough bandwidth to...