eWEEK EDITORS

Almost all the mail about my last column discussing how to evaluate a job offer was from people wishing they had an offer to evaluate. While theres no guaranteed method of getting a job offer, I thought it might be worthwhile to examine the process I just went through recently to recruit for a new […]

Why spend thousands on special “pay and pass” certification study courses when the Web is full of free practice tests? Search below for links to free tests organized by skill set and certification. (Note: Weve tried to exclude so-called “brain dump” sites that appropriate tests directly from official cert tests. Please drop us a note […]

An alliance of tape media vendors hopes to raise awareness of the 50-year-old technologys merits and to help users determine the best fitting solutions. Officials of the Tape Technology Council, who began forming last year, on Tuesday launched the group and the Web site, tapecouncil.org, hoping to reach users who are considering converting to disk […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday announced that IBMs popular DB2 database software will be ported to the chipmakers upcoming 64-bit Opteron processor, set for release in the first half of next year. Tying the upcoming server chip to one of the leading database-management applications should give AMDs new product greater credibility among enterprise users, […]

Advanced Micro Devices chipped away at the costs of its PC processors last week, lowering official prices up to 20 percent, although buyers could acquire the chips at even lower prices from various resellers on the Internet. AMDs desktop processors accounted for the largest cuts posted late Friday, although the chipmakers fastest processor, the Athlon […]

Upper-level IT managers are more used to giving lessons than getting them, but if theyre like Bill Chestnutt, thats about to change. In August, Chestnutt, director of information management at Good Samaritan Society, a nonprofit, continuing health care organization in Edmonton, Alberta, will return to school as part of his quest to earn a CIO […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. last week said the company is going to stop selling printers, scanners, handhelds and other supplies to Dell Computer Corp. after apparently confirming rumors that the PC maker plans to launch its own brand of printer products. The move surprised Dell officials, who have publicly expressed an interest in tapping potential profits from […]

As journalists, were card-carrying skeptics. so when theres a new bit of conventional wisdom in the land, we instinctively want to investigate. Right now, the lemmings are legion when it comes to e-business. The new economy was an illusion, were told; there is no worthwhile business involving the Internet; and promises of profits from IT […]

Intel Corp. will slash processor prices by up to 63 percent and move up the release of faster Pentium 4 chips, including 2.8GHz and 3GHz versions, in a bid to reduce rising inventories and rekindle sales, according to sources close to the company. The chip maker will take the actions after reporting relatively weak sales […]

High-end server makers Unisys Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. are rolling out faster 64-bit systems this month as competition intensifies among manufacturers of computers designed to run business-critical applications. Unisys, seeking to expand the appeal of its top-of-the-line ES7000 server, unveiled two product lines based on the system: the Orion series, touted as an alternative to […]

Veritas Software Corp. plans to announce this week Linux versions of its clustering and NAS software. At the same time, the company will submit Linux kernel changes to partner Red Hat Inc. According to sources close to the Mountain View, Calif., company, Veritas will unveil ServPoint NAS for Linux and Cluster Server for Linux at […]

Bush Launches Adoption Site About 134,000 children in the United States are on adoption lists. A Web site launched by President Bush last week might cut that number. At the site (www. AdoptUSKids.org), families can search for children, and social workers can search for families for the children. The site includes photos of children awaiting […]