Opinion

Managing IT in the worst of times

Chief technologists honed skills in 2002 that will serve them well in the coming year

Commodity shuffle

Vendors face big challenges as software becomes easier to produce

Tying up loose ends

Those little things you forget to do before leaving for vacation can end up ruining your time off

The power of voice

Fast-Talk Communications brings full-text search to audio recordings

The secrets of the most successful e-mail publishers

Make content useful to your readers

Customizing our software worlds

Flexible medium holds promise of achievement

Some call it fair play

Some readers jump to the defense of vendors who put restrictions on reviews of their products

Ain’t over ’til it’s over

Some readers disagree with the notion that Microsoft stands to crush opposition in the handheld market

Security by numbers?

Aberdeen Group's conclusion that Windows is more secure than open source just doesn't add up

Downloads by nodes

Kontiki's grid could solve the crisis of massive Internet file transfers

Show me the model

In the wreckage of the Bubble, new business models and buying patterns are emerging

A matter of trust

Microsoft's latest security nightmare threatens most users and casts doubt on digital signatures

Stealing the show

SMT goes mainstream

Intel's new 'Simultaneous Multithreading' Pentium 4 CPU rewrites the rule book for desktop performance

Modest proposal II

Making vendors responsible for shoddy software sounds nice, but is it doable?

Leading with an eye on innovation

CTOs have the strategic vision and business savvy to move the enterprise forward

A story of strategies

EMC's past is popping up in the present, thanks to a lab called Diligent

Software goes extinct

These days, software isn't software, it's revocable, metered computing potential

Marketing your site with an e-mail newsletter

Some tricks to squeeze out a little more revenue

Script locally, publish globally

Groove Web Services holds promise

Challenges and choices lie ahead in technology

Government services CTOs will lead market growth

Extending support

WebEx Customer Support puts technicians' expertise to work on customers' PCs

Escaping Xbox fees

Microsoft launches a $50 service for multiplayer gaming, but you can network multiple boxes for free

Modeling biz docs in XML

Learning XML Schema won't be easy, but don't let that stop you

Alternative SANs

Not FC and not iSCSI — LeftHand Networks deserts both and opts for a third choice

Bits and snippets

'United we stand, divided we lose subscribers' would be a fitting mantra for the Open Mobile Alliance

A modest proposal

With apologies to Swift, P.J. devises a security plan to make you patch your PC — or else

Strange bedfellows

'United we stand, divided we lose subscribers' would be a fitting mantra for the Open Mobile Alliance

Let’s make a toast to this recession

With recovery under way, recognize those that made the most of a tough two years

Pay when it works

When outsourcing a major project, sometimes the most important person on your IT staff is your attorney

Is it time to punt the PBX?

Telephony in the business world means sticking with the status quo or plunging into the unknown

Going with the flow

Mounting Olympus to Apple

SIP is sneaking into the enterprise

New protocol works so deep in a telephony session, many IT managers may never know it's in use on their enterprise

Big brother nightmare

Knock, knock, who's there? Media mogols' dreams of mandatory TCPA security could make for a house of horrors

Wild horses

Content providers say stealing a horse and stealing a song are the same crime; John Perry Barlow begs to differ

The voice of opportunity

2003 may not yet be the Year of CTI, but it's ringing in some impressive innovations. Get ready for SIP, deeper voice and data integration, and clear-as-a-bell phones for PDAs

Stuff your kids hope you’re cool enough to buy them

Low-cost suggestion for holiday shopping

Multimodal user interfaces

Visual or audio alerts can trigger different responses

Database, heal thyself

IBM's latest DB2 release addresses administrative costs and downtime with helpful self-management capabilities

Mixed messaging from Big Blue

IBM touts an On-Demand vision that reduces IT staff, but still looks to consultants

Return to sender

One reader finds out the hard way that not all vendors are clear on what they mean by "compatible"

P-to-p’s next frontier?

Mobile, wireless apps may present a solid peer-to-peer opportunity for enterprises

Low-end servers live!

The entry through midrange server segments is coming around fast since IT shocked vendor R&D back to life

Mobile workers unite

'Time-saving' technology doesn't give employees more free time, it gives them more to do

It’s the OS, stupid

Operating systems with histories of security problems and multiple restarts aren't top platforms for Web services

The great divide

Content Addressed Storage, EMC touch off a debate: How to divvy up data storage?

Silent partnering

Microsoft and Dell

Winning the OS game

If you want to see what a workable enterprise operating system strategy looks like, look to IBM and Apple

So long, Wintel

If you still believe Windows on 32-bit Intel CPUs is the safest platform choice, take a fresh look at the market

The autonomic puzzle

IBM's autonomic enterprise is missing several important pieces