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2003 InfoWorld Innovator: Jean Paoli

The patience of Microsoft's XML evangelist pays off as Office 2003 brings rich XML support to the desktop

2003 InfoWorld Innovator: Kingsley Idehen

OpenLink Software's CEO followed his scientific instincts to build Virtuoso, a wildly innovative virtual database for SQL, XML, and Web services

Innovator Profile

Interview: Cell phone, PDA makers don boxing gloves

Mobile-device makers jostle for enterprise crowd

Carriers explore underlay exploitation

Policies form to coexist and co-opt, not quash

How we tested

If the glass slipper fits

Open source should get used to living happily ever after in the enterprise

Wireless strategies: Making the right move

Proliferating standards, technology complicate decision-making

Wi-Fi on the beat

Police officers find seamless switching with mobile routing system

How we tested

Interview: BEA invests in reliable delivery

Adam Bosworth discusses the need for standards-based messaging in Web services

How much monitoring is enough?

Take cost and practicality into account when monitoring employee Internet use

Super desktop

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a laptop in coach

The road ahead

Ethernet Timeline

What’s a Newisys?

Ethernet unbound

The inventor of Ethernet explains its success and looks to its future

Interview: Macromedia CEO discusses upcoming Royale tool

Rob Burgess tells how Macromedia survived the Internet blowout by making the Web usable

Intel throws IA-32 EL at Itanium

Execution Layer offers bridge to 64-bit computing

Big Guns Launch Utility Salvo

HP, IBM, Sun aim to usher in new era of computing

Dell chases datacenter kudos

HP's dark horse competitor builds momentum

HP charts enterprise course

Shane Robison, an architect of the HP-Compaq merger, explains business and technology decisions

The battle for decentralization

The Internet revolution represents only one front in the push toward decentralization, but will IT continue to resist?

HP’s Itanium gambit

A big blue shadow looms over HP's 64-bit bet

Microsoft looks to tie SUS, frameworks

Company targets CA, HP, Tivoli, but experts question plan's viability

Real-time intelligence rises to surface

Analytics comes into focus in quest to improve supply chain

Next year’s headlines

A group of CTOs ponder the future of technology and arrive at some intriguing forecasts

Beyond 10Gig: Superfast times four

Testing at Hawaii’s ANCL

The issue is still privacy; the outlook is still grim

Some issues are significant for their own sake, and privacy is one of them

Tales from the security trenches

Companies share their best practices for avoiding internal threats

Dynamic foresight of tomorrow’s development methods

Assembla's founder helps usher in a new era of global software development

Building apps on the fly

Are you ready to change the way you build software?

Parting thoughts

Linux? Thumbs up. Microsoft? Jury's still out. My conclusions on these and other controversies to mull over in days to come

Wagging the dogma

IT decision-making should be driven by particular needs, not personal preferences

Testing Centrino

Our tests of three notebooks illustrate advantages of Intel's Pentium M and wireless chipset  

WebSphere serves Web services

Dynamic development will require new tools and skills

Layoff debate continues

Readers respond to last week's column with questions and comments about layoff ethics

Microsoft reports a solid Q3

Growth is seen in nearly all division

Interview: Sonic sounds ESB tune

VP Gordon van Huizen discusses his vision for service-enabling apps

Communist tendencies?

IT centralization is more communist than you might think and carries the same risks of economic failure

Examining layoff ethics

Are employees 'valuable members of the family' or just disposable 'assets'?

Finding flexibility

In this age of integration, chief technologists are embracing sophisticated, dynamic platforms as a better way to more easily manage their operations

Does Microsoft deliver?

Office 2003 opens XML floodgates to the Windows masses, but InfoPath ships only with top tier and Macs get left out

Sun N1: Pioneering the dynamic enterprise

Radical approach liberates equipment by creating a pool of movable managed resources

SAP NetWeaver: Taking a stab at integration middleware

Packaged-apps vendor launches new framework for linking apps across enterprises

Tibco: Promoting flexibility through BPM and analytics

Like other integration vendors, Tibco is searching for its niche in serving the dynamic enterprise

Interview: HP looks to OpenView for software future

VP Peter Blackmore, CTO Shane Robison map out HP's software direction

Offshoring ethics

Deciding whether or not to move work offshore should be a management methodology, not morality, debate