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PRIVATE CLOUDS--where companies use their own infrastructure and provision virtualized services to end users via automated tools--are gaining ground among IT leaders who want to deliver advanced services at lower […]

IT'S A CASE where perception doesn't match reality. The phenomenal success of NetSuite Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc., two high-profile public companies with Silicon Valley roots that offer CRM suites, has […]

TREND NO. 1 Tightfisted Budgets Loosen a Bit Yet the economy continues to cast a shadow of uncertainty over the best-laid tech spending plans. WHEN Bogdan Butoi-Teodorescu, chief technology officer […]

With so many versions of XML being promoted by different groups, it's no surprise that a standardized method of implementing the would-be technical standard was proposed last week. The Business […]

Las Vegas In sharp contrast to the uninhibited hawking of cutting-edge technology on the Comdex show floor, Staples Inc. CIO Brian Light cautioned IT users here to 'get back to […]

After Capitol One Financial Corp. in Falls Church, Va., recently decided to scrap its experiment with co-CIOs, Computerworld's Mark Hall thought it would be worthwhile to check on how a […]

If IBM gets its way, users will soon be thinking about operating systems the way investors view pork bellies: as mere commodities. The instrument the company will use to make […]

August 1998: IBM announces that its WebSphere e-business software will be based on the open-source Apache Web server application. October 1998: Scientists at IBM's Academy of Technology recommend that top […]

Instant messaging isn't just for kids anymore. With the release of new tools from start-ups like Ikimbo Inc., IT can enhance instant messaging's collaborative capabilities with the ability to share […]

Instant messaging is becoming all the rage in the business world because enhanced collaboration features such as those from Ikimbo and others make it a useful communications tool, according to […]

500A Huntmar Park Drive Herndon, Va. 20170 (703) 904-4160 Web: www.ikimbo.com Niche: Ikimbo's collaborative communications product includes instant messaging and file sharing for workgroups with support for mobile devices. Company […]

How open-source developers view IBM's role in Linux and other open-source projects: 'I would say that the open-source community is fundamentally skeptical. But one of the properties of a good […]

The utter quiet told Bob Ciurylo that something was terribly wrong. 'Tuesday morning is normally a pretty busy day in the call center,' said the manager for information security at […]

401 Park Drive, 3 West Boston, Mass. 02215 (617) 236-0442 Web: www.ximian.com Niche: Ximian offers an open-source graphical environment and application suite and management tools for Linux desktops. Company officers: […]

In July, on Utah's Pioneer Day, Kerry Cox told his wife that he felt like one of the Mormon settlers in 1847, blazing trails in new territory. 'Of course, I […]

The Eazel Effect Open-source advocates suffered a setback in May when Ximian competitor and GNOME developer Eazel Inc. went belly up. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company had burned through $11 […]

David Stavetski, midrange systems manager at Saks Inc., was dropping his kids off for the first day of school when another parent told him about Hewlett-Packard Co.'s plan to acquire […]

One key problem ASPs create is that because their services are inexpensive and don't require a capital investment, they can bring critical IT resources into an organization without the approval […]

Sometimes, when you take a risk on a new service or technology, you get more than you paid for. Rodric O'Connor discovered that his customer relationship management (CRM) application service […]

Wow. You're smokin'! No, I'm not talking about your data center after the air conditioning quit during last week's crushing heat wave. I'm referring to the latest report on how […]

* Population of the world: 4.529B * Population of U.S.: 229,465,714 * U.S. gross domestic product: $3.1 trillion * U.S. unemployment: 7.1% * Minimum wage: $3.10 per hr. * First […]

With the politics of online privacy escalating ever higher, IT managers are being forced to weave public policy into corporate data management processes. Ironically, the latest privacy regulations may actually […]

Listening to Microsoft executives react to the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling late last month, you'd think Scott McNealy had just embraced Windows and announced that the only java offered […]

Cargill Inc.'s IT team this week is being trained on a new catalog management application for company employees who purchase products online. The $48 billion Minnetonka, Minn.-based conglomerate has added […]

Interviewee: Ted Michaels, acting CIO Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), which was founded in 1952 as part of the national security effort. Its mission is to apply science and […]

Although eRoom Technology Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., pulled its IPO last fall, CEO Jeffrey Beir isn't overly concerned. The company has a $23 million nest egg and is continuing to […]

The U.S. economy, particularly the high-tech sector, has put a nasty beating on some once-promising start-ups, including many of those on Computerworld's list of Emerging Companies to Watch in 2001. […]

E-business service provider Xuma Inc. axed almost two-thirds of its staff last week after failing to secure more venture capital. The San Francisco-based company, founded in April 1998, said it […]

Keric Shanahan will have a few new tools to analyze customer data with this week when his application service provider (ASP), Instantis Inc., upgrades its SiteWand software. The technology strategist […]

To Alan Anderson, it doesn't matter where his managed service provider's data center is located. In the virtual world of the Internet, the geography of computing isn't important, according to […]

Like you, I'm spending more of my time checking out start-ups and emerging companies. These new vendors can offer the best solutions for tough IT problems because young companies with […]

Microsoft Corp.'s announcement earlier this month that it has restructured its volume licensing and upgrade policies has sent IT managers scrambling to review their current contracts. While the changes are […]

Mark Rolson is a vice president at Frogdesign Inc., the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company that designed the physical appearance of the original Macintosh computer and most recently helped hone the look […]

Keeping an accurate tally of Web site traffic remains elusive, but marketing-driven companies are adopting tools to improve their precision in counting who's visiting, where they go and, most important, […]

A good friend of mine works as a consultant in a multinational IT professional services company in Germany. Despite exceptional technical knowledge, excellent people skills and solid organizational prowess, his […]

Location: 10500 NE 8th Street, 13th Floor, Bellevue, Wash. 98004 Telephone: (425) 216-1700 Web: www.digimine.com The technology: Data warehousing, data mining and business intelligence services for Web-based data Why it's […]

The data warehousing and data mining applications market, which Framingham, Mass.-based IDC lumps together with data management tools and information access software, grew 26% last year to $5.3 billion. Traditionally […]

Building a data warehouse is a major strategic initiative that can cost millions of dollars and consume enormous amounts of IT resources. Yet the demand for data warehouses has never […]

Umatilla, Ore. IT managers at Two Rivers Correctional Institution here last month celebrated their first anniversary of running one of the most technologically advanced medium-security prisons in the country. But […]

Not every IT manager has been affected by the economic travails that have ravaged the dot-com world, but the threat of a full-blown recession has everyone looking carefully at technology […]

Invest in technology projects that generate revenue. Boeing's Web-based Boeing Parts Page has generated $400 million for the company in the past year. Speed deployment of technology that saves money. […]

Permanence isn't the first thing that pops into your head when you think about information technology. If anything, just the opposite comes to mind - change, flux, chaos, upheaval. Those […]

A year ago, Gerhard Pohl fretted a great deal about taking The World Bank Group to an open-source computing model. Back then, he spent a lot of time trying to […]

Managed service providers (MSP) hit a market milestone, and several MSPs escalated their offerings last week as IT continues to use them to fill operational holes. The MSP Association in […]

Bob Dylan's views on love could be summed up in his song title 'Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine.' While a questionable approach to romance, it's […]

The new Windows XP operating system that Microsoft Corp. showed in Seattle last week targets consumers. The upgrade is Microsoft's first operating system geared toward consumers that uses the same […]

When FMC Corp. recently sold 40 boxcars of soda ash, one customer used a browser to enter confidential order information directly into the company's SAP system - or so he […]

Grand visions in computing require simplistic explanations. Pity they don't work that well. In the 1980s, IBM's majestic breadth of operating environments was supposed to be unified under its famed […]

Like many other young men at the time, David Cooper was enthralled by the Sputnik space capsule, which the Russians launched in 1957, when he was a high school student […]

After paying a $20 million settlement to Sun Microsystems, doling out millions more in legal fees and walking away with nothing last week after a more than three-year courtroom battle […]