Anne Chen

If theres one person who may be able to unite the likes of Microsoft Corp., IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc. and other vendors fighting for control of the Web services space, its Ian Foster, the so-called guru of grid computing and the co-head of the Globus Project, a U.S. government- and industry-backed research initiative leading efforts […]

David Levines customers think playing video games on the Web with a million other people is cool. Whats not cool, however, is having your arrow miss its target during a dramatic battle sequence in the latest Braveheart game because the online gaming site youre using ran out of computing power. Levine, CEO of Butterfly.net Inc., […]

BOSTON—Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, opened The Open Group Conference here on Monday by asking his colleagues to preserve the universality and openness of the Web as they build Web services as the foundation for the future of the Internet. And, said Berners-Lee, a key to preserving openness on the Web […]

Once smuggled through back doors into the stolid world of corporate computing, open-source software is now beginning to get the full red carpet treatment at enterprises such as Visa International Inc. and Edmunds.com Inc. As open-source platforms including the Apache Web server and the Linux operating system make their way through the front doors of […]

How many times a day do I need to consider refinancing my mortgage at an astonishing low rate!, getting listed on the International Executive Guild CD-ROM, or losing weight instantly? If you look at my e-mail Inbox, apparently I need to do things multiple times an hour. According to Ferris Research Inc., 10 percent of […]

Just because his IT budget isnt growing much these days doesnt mean that Kent Morrisons need for more storage capacity is slacking off. As much as Morrison, IT director at the city of Steamboat Springs, Colo., has tried to keep storage growth under control, the demand for primary and backup capacity is increasing by about […]

In Craig Gorens book, the customer is king, even if that means his staff will be required to integrate with multiple Web-based frameworks. Thats one reason the president and chief technology officer of Centerpost Inc., in Chicago, said his company will support any identity management system customers want to use, even if that means his […]

Time may be money, but for Lance Braunstein, who is responsible for the care and feeding of the servers that run Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co.s Morgan Stanley Online Web site, data center space and server manageability are just as important. Thats because as the number of Web, application and other servers needed to […]

I dont know about you, but Im having trouble keeping pace with all the action at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Sure, abusing the corporate Internet usage policy by watching streaming replays (www.fifaworldcup.com) helps, but too many questions remain unanswered. Will Zinedine Zidane recover in time to save France from first-round elimination? Will David Beckham […]

At the world wide web conference in Honolulu last month, Richard DeMillo, Hewlett-Packards vice president of technology strategy and chief technology officer, announced HP will release a set of secure platforms to the open-source community. SPA (Secure Platform Architecture) is a set of software interfaces built on top of HPs Itanium-based product line and will […]

Gwen Alexander Moertel isnt the cheerleader type who jumps on every technology trend. But when the IT director for Wachovia Securities Inc.s Equity Capital Markets division heard about Web services last year, she quickly became a true believer. So sure was Moertel that Web services would be the best way to help the division speed […]

At the International World Wide Web Conference held here this month, Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium, reiterated his organizations obligation to preserve interoperability on the Web. The only way to do so, he said, was for the W3C to recommend specifications that would allow software to work together regardless of who […]