Features

IT for weary travelers

When it comes to maximizing even basic services, the travel industry lags behind

Driving decisions

The IT environment

The EPA's CTO helps her agency modernize, moving toward more integrated data sharing

Wi-Fi, virtualization drive network evolution

Linux ready for full-frontal IT assault

Web services drives disruption of application integration

CRM vendors make way for self-service

Microsoft: from research to reality

Senior VP Rick Rashid talks about wireless, natural language, and search research projects

Thomson Financial invests in Web services

VP Mark Barbagallo discusses the client trust relationship and debates around Web standards

Pressing issues of 2002

The top three choices affect your rights for the years to come

More than skin-deep

Why live in ignorance, when the deepest knowledge about a phenomenon can only enhance its beauty?

Let the resolutions roll

Focusing on strategy and keeping an eye on ROI, even in better days, top this executive's list

Year in review: Web services, virtualization, and edge computing

These three technologies helped ease information accessibility and made data more flexible in 2002

Who’s footing the outsourcer’s bill?

Dressed for success

An apparel company CTO moved his IT strategy to center stage, helping to manage growth

Unlocking internal intelligence

BI and BPM tools are helping give executives a near-real-time glimpse into corporate performance

2002 Year in review

The enterprise wireless explosion and effects of open technologies and standards on industry strategy will have long-lasting effects.

IBM looks for growth in storage

General Manager Michael Zisman discusses how IBM's strategies for autonomic, Linux relate to storage

The ethics of taking vendor’s gifts

Are you selling out for a T-shirt or a mug?

Runners up

Randy McCoy, CheckFree

Kevin Vasconi, Covisint

Tony Scott, General Motors

Rob Robless, United Air Lines Loyalty Services

Burden of leadership

Once you reach the executive suite, it won't always be clear how to make the most ethical decisions

Influencing innovation

CTOs can benefit from reviewing history's innovative periods as they craft day-to-day business strategy

Larry Biagini, General Electric

Peter Tippett, TruSecure

Dawn Meyerriecks, DISA

Jim Barton, TiVo

Norman Lorentz, Federal Government (OMB)

Terry Milholland, EDS

Gerhard Eschelbeck, Qualys

Dave Moellenhoff, Salesforce.com

Rodric O’Connor, Putnam Lovell

Mike Sayers, Reuters

Alex Zoghlin, Orbitz

Phyllis Michaelides, Textron

Phil Wiser, Sony Music Entertainment

This year’s top 25 CTOs

InfoWorld honors executives with the leadership and vision to find a path out of difficult times

Max Levchin, PayPal

Wade Hennessey, Kontiki

Gene Rogers, Boeing

Microsoft sounds OneNote

Group Program Manager Chris Pratley talks about the upcoming app for capturing, organizing data

John Rawls and the ‘lucky duckies’

Here's another rule of thumb for making sound ethical decisions

Shaking the mailbag

Readers weigh in on everything from elimination of the PTO to FDR and "emotional intelligence"

Mapping the future

XML co-creator looks to cartography design protocols to chart a user-friendly visual browse engine

Poised for the top spot

CTOs are well-positioned to become CEOs, but some may prefer to stay where they are

Turning to outside development

Redefining offshore outsourcing

CTOs increasingly look to outsourcers to improve management practices and mitigate project and geopolitical risks