Chris Gonsalves

When it comes to developing applications for the government, the return on investment can sometimes be life or death. Such was the sobering task facing application developer and systems integrator Science Applications International, or SAIC, as it went to upgrade the IBM Rational development tools used to support one of its most sensitive clients, the […]

Torrance, Calif., is a bright spot in Los Angeles Countys already-sunny South Bay. A short hop from surf-trendy Redondo Beach, the place is famous for many things, not the least of which is the sight of its unique high school facade on TV shows such as “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” Torrance […]

At its heart, predicting the supply of water is a math problem—an extremely complicated math problem. Algorithms are created to gauge the effects of melting snow, precipitation, daily temperatures and the flow of rivers and streams. The payoff for all these dry formulas is a set of predictive models that can help municipalities ensure that […]

If 2004 was the year of merger mania, then 2005 will be remembered as the year a great many things were rent asunder. Mired in a bogged-down technology economy, the industry continued to struggle for purchase, and so began the year with major executive shake-ups that would eventually rock the corner offices of Hewlett-Packard Co., […]

In the medley of things going wrong in New Orleans of late, the BellSouth hissy fit over municipal Wi-Fi service hardly rises above the din. But at the heart of the story, which, admittedly, is getting more traction in the blogosphere than it is in the mainstream press, lies a fundamental debate pitting business ethics […]

I was thumbing through the report card on President Bushs Management Agenda initiatives last week, wondering how much an administration racked with problems here and abroad really cares about e-government activities at places such as the U.S. Agency for International Development. Probably not much. Fact is, USAID isnt the only agency having trouble with the […]

Ill never forget where I was when I heard Windows 1.0 had been released. OK, thats a crock. I have no earthly idea where I was on Nov. 20, 1985. Most likely I was working the night shift at the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, swapping crypto cards for the war-game scenarios […]

It was nearly a year and a half ago in this very space that my colleague Scot Petersen declared blogs “simultaneously mainstream and subversive” and, most assuredly, here to stay. Though he wrote that “blogs have enabled the true democratization of the information age,” I doubt that even he could have imagined how prophetic those […]

It was a long week. But there are a few things you can do only by jumping into the fray, and getting a sense of how the myriad vendors we report on in eWEEK are feeling about us is one of those things. With that as the goal, a group of editors here hit the […]

Theres been no shortage of disturbing images coming out of the Gulf Coast, leaving many with a sense of helplessness and hopelessness in the wake of the Katrina disaster. But even as our sense of safety, our trust in government, even our faith in basic humanity have been shaken, there stirs in most of us […]

Its been more than a decade since the first breathless warnings were issued from Seoul: According to South Korean information security experts, the hard-line communists of North Korea in 1994 were busily training a cadre of superhackers at the totalitarian states Automated Warfare Institute. The South Koreans dubbed the school Mirim College, saying that techno-warfare […]

Theres always the chance that we put too much stock in the nuances of mergers and acquisitions. Like an NFL post-game breakdown, we examine every detail of the deal to assign meaning and foretell the future. It could be that sometimes a deal is just a deal for the sake of the bottom line. But […]