Monthly Archives: October 2003
Noveon Standardizes To Cut Tech Costs
Noveon needed to boost its returns, fast. So the billion-dollar specialty chemicals company loaded up on low-cost standard computers.The Task: Create an almost entirely...
Where are All the Women IT Leaders?
It will come as no surprise to readers that, according to this months survey, men overwhelmingly outnumber women in IT leadership positions (86.1 percent...
Sarbanes-Oxley: Does Honesty Pay Off?
For Bob Travatello, the benefit of complying with Sarbanes-Oxley is calculated in prison time: "The ROI is keeping my CEO and CFO out of...
Google: Seek and Ye Shall Find
Need to find out which U.S. cities have the largest numbers of Korean-born residents for the launch of a new product? Google it. Want...
H-1B Visa Cap Falls to 65,000
With skyrocketing IT unemployment as a backdrop, the U.S. Congress let the H-1B visa limit drop back to 65,000 on Tuesday.The limit on H-1B...
Microsoft Makes More Speech Server Noise
NEW YORK—Microsoft Corp. is using this weeks SpeechTEK conference here to talk about the momentum behind another pending member of its Windows System Server...
SCO Sets its Sights on SGI in Linux Battle
Silicon Graphics Inc. is the latest vendor to become ensnarled in The SCO Groups battle over the use of Unix code in the Linux...
Zeroing In on Site and Security Flaws
Building software and systems that actually work is a battle that needs to be fought with rifles, not with shotguns. The targets of developer...
OpenOffice.org Launches Update, Defines Version 2.0
OpenOffice.org on Wednesday released the latest version of its open-source competitor to Microsoft Office as it heads toward a major architectural revamp by early...
Sun Inks Utility Computing Deal
Sun Microsystems Inc. is partnering with SchlumbergerSema to offer hosted utility computing capabilities to customers in the energy, finance, public sector and telecommunications industries.
Houston-based...