IT practitioners have been preoccupied for the last several years fixing what the media refers to as the Y2K bug, which was not a bug at all (remember what a gigabyte of DASD cost in 1972? Try $6 million!). While we are merrily "IV and V-ing" code and creating contingency plans, some interesting things are going on that will make the years after the millennium very interesting.

IT practitioners have been preoccupied for the last several years fixing what the media refers to as the Y2K bug, which was not a bug at all (remember what a gigabyte of DASD cost in 1972? Try $6 million!). While we are merrily "IV and V-ing" code and creating contingency plans, some interesting things are going on that will make the years after the millennium very interesting.

"And the times they are 'a-changin'," goes a Bob Dylan ballad from the 1960s.

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This report is about how you spend your IT dollars. If you're a big organization in a vertical industry such as insurance, you're probably still trying to support your lines of business with, for the most part, your inhouse IT professionals. If you're at a bank, you're probably in the same boat.

This report is about how you spend your IT dollars. If you're a big organization in a vertical industry such as insurance, you're probably still trying to support your lines of business with, for the most part, your inhouse IT professionals. If you're at a bank, you're probably in the same boat.

Either you've jumped on the outsourcing bandwagon or you haven't -- yet. If you haven't, you're no doubt sweating where you're going to find the right talent, at the right price, and how you're going to leverage IT onto your strategic business objectives.

Either you've jumped on the outsourcing bandwagon or you haven't -- yet. If you haven't, you're no doubt sweating where you're going to find the right talent, at the right price, and how you're going to leverage IT onto your strategic business objectives.

In the April 1999, No. 2 Executive Update, which focused on customer service management (CSM), we discussed the increasing pressure on IT distributed support services. Despite the fact that support personnel are working harder and longer, their efforts go largely unnoticed. The solution is to establish service levels and report on them so that customers and IT support can get on the same page.

We are all familiar with stories of companies that introduce breakthrough technologies in anticipation of major performance gains, only to see the new technologies falter almost before they get started. The reason is often a mystery.

"And the times they are 'a-changin'," goes a Bob Dylan ballad from the 1960s.

This issue gives an overview of some of the interesting results from a recent survey regarding how large organizations are using distributed component technologies.

In the May issue of CDS, I provided a broad overview of the visual modeling market and focused on the three leading vendors: Computer Associates (CA)/PLAT

This report is the third in a series of reports examining how companies should approach their enterprise-wide transition from "traditional" computing to component computing. So far, we have discussed the initiation and concept phases (Vol. 1, No. 1 and Vol. 2, No.

This is the third report by Michael Guttman and Jason Matthews that is focused on migrating to enterprise component computing. In Vol. 1, No. 1, they began describing the processes and best practices that companies routinely follow to make successful transitions.

In this Executive Update, Brad Kain, Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Distributed Computing Architecture/e-Business Service, talks about the challenges of incorporating legacy systems into distributed computing architectures.

James Odell, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium Distributed Computing Architecture Service, is also the cochair of the OMG’s Analysis and Design Task Force, the group responsible for the design and modification of the Unified Modeling Language.

In this Executive Update, Paul Harmon, Cutter Consortium Senior Consultant, discusses the implications of statistics from the recent Cutter Consortium Distributed Computing Architecture/e-Business survey.

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Informatica and Tobin IBS, Inc. have introduced a vertical data mart application called Land Datamart, targeted at the oil and gas industry.