Journal of Systems Management articles from February 1994

Journal of Systems Management archives from February 1994

Career path development for the most wanted skills in the MIS job market. (Professional Development)
February 1, 1994... Job seekers and others interested in developing their job marketability peruse newspaper want ads for possible employment opportunities or career development purposes. This article presents a systematic survey of over a thousand want ads for MIS...

Benefits and barriers to client/server computing. (IS Management)
February 1, 1994... Client/server computing is generally used to describe distributed processing on microcomputer local area networks (LAN), although this computing approach can also be used with minicomputer and mainframe computer networks. While managers...

The emerging enterprise systems architecture. (includes related article on electronic archival) (Cutting Edge)
February 1, 1994... During the last decade, there has been an explosion in the types of networked IS architecture infrastructures. These architecture infrastructures integrate a firm's mission critical data bases and applications processing with its distributed...

The moving wave of technology. (Client/Server Strategies) (Column)
February 1, 1994... The Information Technology trade press -- Computerworld, Datamation, CIO Magazine and the others -- have been writing about "Client/Server" for a couple of years. First, they were full of "silver bullet" stories, usually based on reports from...

Is your computer system sub-critical? (Techniques)
February 1, 1994... When a catastrophe strikes a computer system, those involved usually blame an inadequate procedure, a forgotten trivial task, etc. However, how is it possible that a small event can cause massive damage How is it possible that a...

Countdown to systems disaster. (Commentary) (Column)
February 1, 1994... The IS community is heading towards a devastating event - the year 2000. We are heading towards a failure of our standard date format DD/MM/YY. This is a good news, bad news story . . . Have you ever been in a fender-bender? Time seems to...