Monthly Archives: May 2001
Insurer Considers Microsoft NT High-Risk
Microsofts server software is easy to install, loaded with features and fairly reliable. It may also be more costly to insure against hack attacks.J.S....
Is XP Worth the Wait?
Just when you thought it was safe to recommend that your clients plunge into Windows 2000, the operating system starts to look like yesterdays...
Users Weigh Cost and Benefits of Office XP
As Microsoft Corp. prepares for the launch this week of Office XP, the next version of its ubiquitous desktop suite, corporate users are weighing...
Meet the Wonk – 2
wonk (n): one who is well-versed in policy arcanaJeffrey EisenachPresident, Progress & Freedom FoundationAge: 43Home: Oakton, Va.Education: Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from...
Web Services: IBM Gets It
Its hard to get excited about middleware; harder still about a middleware architecture. So when IBM rolled out its Web services strategy earlier this...
Deep Fishing for New Partners
In a move to spur growth of its products in the service provider market, Hewlett-Packard has created a broad range of solutions, alliances and...
NASDAQ Considering Itanium Servers
As NASDAQs chief technology architect, Jim Richmann oversees a vast expanse of servers located at data centers in Trumbull, Conn.; New York; and Rockville,...
Pixie Dust Grows Drives
IBM last week touted a new disk capacity technology as magical, but at least one company owner and IBM competitors said its overhyped and...
A Take on Security in An Insecure World
The recent news stories of rising unemployment rates hit my family very hard a few weeks ago when PricewaterhouseCoopers laid me off. The Fed...
Expert Advice Only Helps If You Listen
Just as secure software relies on extensive testing throughout the development process to dig out bugs, glitches and interoperability issues, secure networks require regular...