Baseline articles from July 2003

Baseline archives from July 2003

Who's Minding the Storage?
July 1, 2003... Remember when you didn't worry about managing data storage? That was before e-commerce, e-mail and applications such as customer relationship management software created an explosion in servers, disks and data. For many today, investing in...

Voice of Experience: Rich Guetzloff, R.R. Donnelley.
July 1, 2003... Rich Guetzloff R.R. Donnelley Senior Director, Enterprise Operations Chicago www.rrdonnelley.com Manager's Profile: Guetzloff oversees enterprise infrastructure for the $4.8 billion printing-services company. That includes keeping...

Veritas: The Price of Independence.
July 1, 2003... Veritas 350 Ellis St., Mountain View, CA 94043 (650) 527-8000 / www.veritas.com Ticker: VRTS Exchange: Nasdaq Employees: 5,647 Gary Bloom Chairman, President, CEO In 2000, joined Veritas from Oracle, where he led the company's core database...

EMC: A Packaged Deal.
July 1, 2003... EMC Corp. 176 South St., Hopkinton, MA 01748 (508) 435-1000 www.emc.com/products/software.jsp Ticker: EMC Exchange: NYSE Employees: 17,400 Mark S. Lewis Executive Vice President, Open Software Operations Oversees all storage management...

Legato: A Familiar Face.
July 1, 2003... Legato Systems 2350 W. El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040 (650) 210-7000 www.legato.com Ticker: LGTO Exchange: Nasdaq Employees: 1,500 David B. Wright Chairman/CEO Became Legato's top executive in 2000 and chairman in 2001....

'Something Special in the Air'? No More.
July 1, 2003... This was going to be a complicated set of itineraries. *A round-trip N.Y. to Chicago for my son, Zachary, leaving in June and coming back at the end of July. *A round-trip to Chicago for myself, leaving in late July and returning on...

Outsmarting Outsourcers.
July 1, 2003... When it comes to technology outsourcing deals, Kellwood Chief Information Officer Don Riley has seen just about everything. Kellwood, a St. Louis apparel and textile company that averages roughly two to three acquisitions a year, outsources...

Consolidation Daze.
July 1, 2003... Toyota's Mike Elsesser is a big believer in best-of-breed software. Elsesser, Toyota's national technology manager of enterprise data management, says his software infrastructure features Oracle, IBM and Microsoft databases, business...

The Bottom Line Per... Richard Jones.
July 1, 2003... The CIO of the $12 billion financial services company says information technology gives his company a competitive advantage. For example, Countrywide Financial reduced the time to process a home mortgage--from application to approval--to 10...

Your Company's Perfect. Now Change.
July 1, 2003... I've deployed lots of what would be considered "traditional" technology projects--to eliminate waste, save money, drive out costs. But any truly successful technology project is really a successful business project first--with a technology...

The Wave of the Future Is at Hand.
July 1, 2003... Back in 1981, Princeton University professor Gerard K. O'Neill predicted in his book, 2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future (Simon & Schuster), that people would one day wear bracelets identifying them by radio waves, so they could buy...

Spin Unspun: July 2003.
July 1, 2003... "Our board of directors rejected the Oracle bid citing a wide range of reasons, including the concern of the likelihood of antitrust scrutiny."--PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway on a June 12 conference call. "The PeopleSoft board says they have...

Dillard's: The Big Fix.
July 1, 2003... Jerry Blaker, a senior consultant in IBM's Houston supply-chain practice, felt like he'd gotten off on the wrong floor when he took up his post at department store giant Dillard's in February 2002. Blaker was brought in to take on the role...

American Airlines: Hitting Turbulence.
July 1, 2003... Captain Doug Pinion has many ideas for ways that American Airlines could save money. As scheduling chairman for the Allied Pilots Association--American's pilots' union--Pinion regularly discusses with management how the airline could use...

Mohegan Sun: Play for Keeps.
July 1, 2003... Sue Vanwiggeren is 76 but looks two decades younger with her black hair and sharp white suit. For the past year, she has taken the two-hour bus ride from Fall River, Mass., to Uncasville, Conn., to visit the Mohegan Sun. She comes three or four...

Calculating Costs: The Hidden Costs of Owning Software.
July 1, 2003... When it comes to evaluating soft- ware purchases, the cost of the program itself is only the tip of the iceberg. Most budgets realistically account for license fees, but they often downplay or even ignore the real money drainers--deployment and...

Primer: LAMP.
July 1, 2003... *What is it? Shorthand for Linux-Apache-MySQL-and (your choice of) Perl, Python or PHP. In effect, it's a "stack" of basic business software that is freely available to corporations. *What's in it? The LAMP stack consists of...

Managing Projects: The Right Level of Specificity.
July 1, 2003... Where are projects going wrong? For all the fancy new tools, portfolios of best practices and strict testing regimens, delays and failures still plague corporate software development projects. It's possible that as many as 70% of all...

Yellow Corp. Acquires Tech-Savvy Roadway.
July 8, 2003... Trucking company Yellow Corp. said Tuesday that it will acquire rival Roadway in a cash and stock deal valued at about $966 million. The deal links two of the largest trucking companies in the transportation industry. The combined company, to...