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Publishers too have joined the 21st century by jumping on to the all-digital workflow bandwagon. Except for a few challenges, these early adopters are having a relaxing time at work by managing the projects right from its conception to the very end, digitally.

In a recent commercial for Microsoft.Net, an eccentric British record company executive thinks he has hit upon the perfect sales pitch. Seated at his laptop, his younger employee (whom he [...]

Bobblehead of the Class The year 2001 saw some unusual trends take off in unexpected places. Who would have thought, for example, that bobbleheads--the strangely cute ceramic dolls with the [...]

Users increasingly rely on new applications with rapidly growing, sometimes unpredictable demands for server performance, such as Web commerce and data warehousing. Those users need servers that can scale as […]

Year 2000, Windows NT pricing, Java, supply-chain management, desktop-computing choices, knowledge management. These are just a few of the issues that have consumed IT professionals' time and energy over the […]

Just because the economy is on the upswing and the layoffs and cutbacks of the late '80s and early '90s are history doesn't mean that being a technology manager in […]

Wouldn't it be nice to get more life out of your PCs? According to Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's executive VP, it would be a lot more than nice. "Extending the life […]

Corporate America loves notebook computers. In fact, U.S. companies are buying them at record rates. Sales grew by nearly 50% in the first quarter of this year. By comparison, U.S. […]

Vendors of desktop systems are shooting for customers like you. But are they offering what you really need? Evaluating PC vendors involves more than just comparing speeds and feeds. Behind […]

Year In Review -- While some products were mere hype, many others made indelible marks on the way we use information technology Over the past 12 months, the IT landscape […]

Bill Gates may be the most optimistic man in America. "I think it's fun to surprise the world with how well you're going to do on things," he says. Gates, […]

The aisles were filled with huge storage arrays and news of continuing feature wars among the network operating systems. But probably the biggest testament to the growing importance of local […]

Some of the best ideas for computer products were dreamed up by someone garage, the brightest scrawled on paper napkins. Those are the stories from which corporate legends are born, […]

Late last year, aerospace and defense giant McDonnell Douglas Corp. did what was once unthinkable: it signed a 10-year, $3 billion outsourcing and systems integration agreement with Integrated Systems Solutions […]

For 486-based PCs, the price is right. Intel Corp's powerful 80486 chip has been dropping in price just as users are moving to power-hungry applications. It may be a match […]

LAS VEGAS--COMDEX is a huge trade show by any standard. Strung out between two convention centers in the Las Vegas desert and spilling out into the hotels and casinos are […]

Is the recession over? The answer is a cautious 'yes' if you look at the spending plans of IS managers over the next 12 months. According to the fall DATAMATION/Cowen […]

One year after the RS/6000 introduction, it's clear that Big Blue has finally scored big in workstations. But mixed signals regarding product positioning and SAA compatibility have some users confused. […]

Corporate America has a new slogan: 'Don't leave the office without it.' The slogan does not refer to a credit card, but to the portable PC, now taking on the […]

King of the stand-alone departmental local area network, Novell is working to make NetWare 386 more of a team player on large, mixed internetworks. It Citibank NA's New York City […]

The document titled "MAILBAG" contains a collection of letters from readers expressing their thoughts and opinions on various topics. The letters touch on subjects such as crime and punishment, the firing of employees at Cru, the use of NewsGuard as a digital arbiter of truth, moral reframing, blood sacrifices in the Old Testament, equal player salaries in the NBA and WNBA, and a review of the miniseries "Testament: The Story of Moses." The letters reflect a range of perspectives and opinions, providing insight into the thoughts and concerns of the readers. [Extracted from the article]

SystemPRO Revs Up Networks A vision of the future of network computing is taking shape at Texaco USA's gas department. The department is developing a distributed database on local area […]

Apple Breaks Through! It's been a long time since '1984,' the television commercial that virtually defined the individualistic personal-computing style of Apple Computer Inc. The commercial, with its then bold […]

IS Revenues: $60.81 Billion REGION WORLD 1 IBM 1 N. AMER. 43% EUROPE 35% ASIA 15% OTHER 7% INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP. Old Orchard Road Armonk, NY 10504 (914)-765-1900 Increased […]

CLIENT/SERVER: The Model for the '90s Could the man who sacrificed his parents' garage to build the Apple prototype be ready to bury the PC? Jobs is hardly ready to […]

An Emergent Manifesto of Hope, edited by Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones. Baker Books. Religious groups are continuously negotiating between what they perceive as fixed elements of their religious character [...]

3M's data warehouse rolls out the welcome mat to partners and customers When you ask Allen Messerli what motivated 3M Co. to embark on one of the most ambitious global […]

IT departments are moving back into the driver's seat to steer PC purchasing The Prudential Insurance Co. of America is not afraid to let its users take joy rides when […]

For a long time, Unix looked to be the most fertile ground for seeding Hydro-Agri North America's extensive ERP applications. Installed at the agricultural chemical and fertilizer distributor were two […]

Compaq's $9.6 billion deal to acquire Digital last week will catapult the company among the top three enterprise players. The appeal? A full-service supplier of scalable Wintel machines Compaq Computer's […]

Compaq Computer this week will unveil a server architecture and sales organization that lay the groundwork for the company's transition to major-player status in high-end enterprise servers-and for reaching president […]

PC vendors are set to crash through the $1,000 price barrier for fully functional corporate PCs, on the way to prices as low as $800 early next year. Vendors expect […]

Compaq Computer's agreement last week to acquire Tandem Computers Inc. gives the one-time PC box-mover control of technology that will enable it to set the direction for Windows NT-based clustered […]

Technology is becoming a buyer's market. The many channle choices have IT buyers asserting themselves in a big way. Never before have technology managers had so much choice in the […]

Service and support for corporate notebook users is not a new problem for IS managers, but it's suddenly a much bigger one. The percentage of business desktops populated by mobile […]

Like it or not, the Wintel platform created by Microsoft and Intel is the driving force behind most technology innovation and direction in the PC industry. But that twosome is […]

IS managers have an unprecedented number of choices for low-cost desktop computing The era of shoehorning expensive, overpowered PCs into every corner of the enterprise is coming to an end. […]

Users, vendors, even some research houses question estimates of total PC ownership costs The first cracks have begun to appear in the TCO facade. TCO (total cost of ownership) has […]

This will be a hot year for hardware. For the network computer, 1997 is probably do-or-die. Notebooks will gain wider screens, while souped-up PCs will give traditional workstations a run […]

Who's left to challenge Intel? One by one, its most formidable competitors slink away in the night like barroom tough-talkers who have finally sobered up. Cyrix Corp., the x86 clone […]

If you encounter disaster in your car, the American Automobile Association can be there within minutes. That's unless AAA's customer service computer networks have also fallen prey to a disaster. […]

And it's being put to use by IS managers looking to bring safe storagB to disributed serveres. For Texas Instruments Inc., a shift to client/server platforms has wrought significant changes […]

Corporations that once wrote off videoconferencing as a $50,000 frill may want to take a second look at the technology. The latest systems check in below $20,000, including some desktop […]

On-line transaction processing, one of the last bastions of mainframe computerdom, is about to march to a different drummer. With UNIX and the open systems movement in high gear, the […]

Most IS managers would jump at the chance to save 5% on their Pc software budget. And many Is departments could save that much, according to research done by the […]

PC vendors are making it easy to purchase equipment by phone. But what are IS managers getting for making the call? DATAMATION finds OUt. Need to buy some new PCs […]

Security alert! IS managers trying to provide client/server applications with mainframe-like security have a few options available. Here's what they are. It's a story most companies don't want to tell. […]

IBM'S Database Manager has always seemed a bit of a stopgap measure. First as a component of the old OS/2 Extended Edition, then on its own as Database Manager For […]