Monthly Archives: November 2001
IT Spending News Is a Reality Check
Contrary to popular opinion, IT is not in a meltdown. There are fewer companies out there to do IT buying and all of our...
Give Us XP Professional for Professionals
The thrilling reign of Windows XP is barely a month old, so why am I spending all my time fiddling with a desktop box...
Id Rather Not Do It Myself
Sci-fi author John Brunner once listed the things that came into our lives between 1910 and 1960—including telephones, radios, TV sets, plastics, washing machines,...
SAP-Microsoft Alliance on the Rocks
While SAP chairman Hasso Plattner was busy rebutting reports that SAP would drop .Net support in favor of Java, El Gato was hearing rumblings...
Managing Mounting Data
Aiming to help storage administrators manage their daily data chaos, Precise Software Solutions Ltd.s W. Quinn Inc. division launched a new version of its...
Could Values Sink HP-Compaq?
Hewlett-Packards and Compaqs boards are largely made up of present or past chief executives. As a result, their backing of the HP-Compaq merger comes...
Deal Denunciation Puts Fiorina in Hot Seat
Support for Hewlett-Packard Co.s proposed buyout of Compaq Computer Corp., as well as for HPs chairman and CEO, Carly Fiorina, appears to be wavering...
Read the Dot-Com Ashes to Build Better Biz
Heres some advice. Before you embark on an e-commerce project or an upgrade to your e-mail system or corporate Web portal, wait a few...
pcAnywhere Is XP-compatible
Symantecs pcAnywhere Version 10.5 is now compatible with Windows XP and has added some valuable security refinements. Although Version 10.0 worked with XP, there...
5 Steps to Enterprise Security – Step 2: Prevention
In part 2 of eWeek Labs Special Series on enterprise security, we examine prevention—how to structure IT systems to minimize the risk of security...