Baseline articles from January 2004

Baseline archives from January 2004

Bottom Line Per...Gap CIO Ken Harris.
January 13, 2004... Ken Harris has been chief information officer of apparel retailer The Gap since 1999, overseeing a $400-million technology department with 1,500 employees. He's also held the CIO job at PepsiCo Inc. Q: What metrics do you use to evaluate...

Triumphs & Trip-Ups In 2003.
January 13, 2004... Regardless of a project's success or failure, there is usually some slice of the government involved. That's the common theme in 2003's triumphs and breakdowns, as four out of the six projects below involve government in some way--energy...

A Fort Knox for Data.
January 16, 2004... An international flight en route to the United States is delayed after a five-year-old passenger's name matches a name on a terrorism watch list. The Department of Agriculture euthanizes a herd of 450 cattle because it can't track the...

Capital Ideas.
January 16, 2004... After three years of reluctance to invest in new technology companies, venture capitalists have begun to emerge from their Sand Hill Road bunkers--and enterprise software is what they've set their sights on. Companies offering...

Amazon.com at LinuxWorld: All Linux, All the Time.
January 21, 2004... NEW YORK--Like the floor wax that is also a dessert topping, Amazon.com wants to be more than just a retailer. "Amazon is a retailer, a development platform and an outsourcing solution," said Tom Killalea, the company's vice president of...