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Give General Motors Corp. credit for one thing: the worlds largest automaker is not afraid to break new ground. Now the company is seeking nothing less than to rewrite the rule book that outsourcers and their customers will follow for years to come. Group Vice President and CIO Ralph Szygenda calls it the “third wave” […]

To eavesdrop on this weeks eWEEK Corporate Partners roundtable on corporate networking is to get an earful about feverish activity—quite at odds with the perception that IT initiatives have been cryogenically frozen for the foreseeable future. The partners are tasked with building not only high-bandwidth networks but also networks that make bandwidth available 24-by-7—and that […]

Just when IT execs were beginning to get the idea of how to pitch their operations as profit rather than cost centers again, along comes the chore of retrofitting systems to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Its a task that, as Dennis Callaghan points out in his story, promises to bring about as much fun—and […]

How would you like to have an adaptive enterprise? Hewlett-Packard is betting that most customers will choose the obvious reply and answer yes. There is a dark side to the HP message, though, embodied in its choice of the name, Darwin Reference Architecture, for its framework for creating business-process-oriented IT. Adaptation was, of course, critical […]

Congratulations, spammers. Youve just superseded smokers as the most universally loathed social outcasts. Worse, you could soon be on the receiving end of more lawsuits than the tobacco companies. And if youre ever taken to court, you may have a hell of time finding a lawyer willing to take on your case. Its rare when […]

If you havent already, you should make your companys privacy policies your business. As Cameron Sturdevant reports in eWEEK Labs Special Report on privacy, you should get involved in privacy efforts and help mold them using your technology expertise. Adhering closely to strict policies can build a unique competitive advantage: trust. In a Face to […]

Cisco is no Enron. It hit a bump in the road a couple of years ago, but who didnt? The reason it seemed like such a comeuppance was that Ciscos accomplishments, both financially and technologically, had been so extraordinary to that point. Now that Cisco has gathered itself, networking competitors beware. If you listen to […]

Some eWEEKs, a lot of things happen at once. In this issue, we launch a new format, and we feature our third annual eWEEK Excellence Awards. First, why change something that readers look forward to enthusiastically every week? You told us youd like eWEEK even more in magazine size, and we listened. The new eWEEK […]

I would have prepared a column for this issue, but I spent the whole week checking out online news sources for updates to the Iraq war. What a distraction! Then I noticed the issue that I was most involved with—procrastinating by checking out the progress of the war all the time—was itself getting plenty of […]

Its war. No, not that one. Last week, Meta Group declared war on Gartner. Apparently, Stamford, Conn., is not big enough for the two of them. Meta is set to launch a major marketing campaign targeting the titan among consulting companies and its neighbor, Gartner. Although the ad reads “Meta vs. Mega” and doesnt mention […]

Doug clark does not have problems with committing—eCommitting, to be precise. In fact, hes bullish on the software program for mortgage lenders, one of Fannie Maes Core applications that the secondary mortgage company has just rewritten as part of a massive two-year project. “From Day One, its exceeded expectations,” said Clark, who is chairman and […]

Think about the scope of systems needed to run the worlds largest credit union. Now add the complexity created by the fact that many of that institutions 2.2 million members can be away from home for months at a time. Its a combination that demands all manner of electronic banking, including electronic mortgages. So it […]