Monthly Archives: March 2002
Welcome Steps Toward Openness
Hear that rumble? Thats the noise of customers demanding that IT providers support open standards. In the past few weeks, weve seen user demands...
Acquisitions Offer Translation Services
Convera Technologies Inc. and Globetech Ventures Corp. are adding new multilingual translation capabilities to their respective software offerings, thanks to recent acquisitions each has...
HP-Compaq Brace for Change
Whatever the outcome of this weeks shareholder votes on Hewlett-Packard Co.s proposed buyout of Compaq Computer Corp., both companies will have to heal strained...
Fighting the Disorder of Magnitude
We amateur astronomers have a particular fondness for the phrase "order of magnitude." For us, merely agreeing on the number of digits in a...
Its a Good Time to Shop for Bargains
Want a good deal on 1,000 desktop PCs? Or how about a big Internet router? Or, for that matter, an entire new IT infrastructure?...
Internet Insight: Java: Potent Security
Java, once the latest cool thing, has matured into a key enterprise building block. That solid status should only increase, even with Microsoft Corp.s...
Identity Management Is Good Business
Managing passwords is a good first step in taking control of end-user maintenance costs because it shifts some of the work from IT to...
Taking on IT Security
The Federal Governments top information security officials are finalizing a strategy that they hope will provide immediate and long-term solutions to the security problems...
NAI to Buy Back Complete Control of McAfee.com
Continuing his effort to refocus Network Associates Inc. and do away with any unnecessary management layers, CEO George Samenuk announced late Sunday that NAI...
States Outline Case Against Microsoft
WASHINGTON—In the opening salvo of what could be an eight-week court-room battle, the lead lawyer for the states that had not signed onto the...