By now, everyone in the computer field (if not the entire human race) has heard about the acquisition of Netscape by America On Line (AOL), together with the licensing arrangement with Sun Microsystems.

Dateline: Kathmandu, Nepal. Feeling extremely foolish, Nate Hardman, leader of the 1998 Florida Mountaineering Expedition to Annapurna, launched into the press conference about his team's experience. "We just managed to get off course.

A good way to reliably determine the speed at which your organization can tackle Y2000 remediation is to generate a chart showing the speed of other software-related conversion pro

A critical success factor for an IT organization is its ability to communicate its performance to business management in a manner that provides a focus on key business concerns in a concise and reliable manner.

With all investments in information technology (IT), the objective is to make the "right" investments and avoid the ones that will not sustain a viable strategy.

With all investments in information technology (IT), the objective is to make the "right" investments and avoid the ones that will not sustain a viable strategy.

You've spent a fortune on databases, data analyses, and data warehouses -- all that stuff -- and what do you have to show for all that cash? Chances are you've been spending without a clear plan. There are a number of decisions you have to make going forward -- decisions that can cost you a little or a lot.

You've spent a fortune on databases, data analyses, and data warehouses -- all that stuff -- and what do you have to show for all that cash? Chances are you've been spending without a clear plan. There are a number of decisions you have to make going forward -- decisions that can cost you a little or a lot.

The key to the way most companies think about distributed systems today is a ULect result of the current interest in the Internet.

The practice of programmers' dragging and dropping GUI applications together, using component technologies such as ActiveX or JavaBeans controls, is increasingly commonplace.

In 1995, in a unanimous vote, the Object Management Group endorsed a specification for interoperability between OMG's Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and Microsoft's Common Object

Does anybody really need a Mustang Card? Probably not.

United Airlines Deploys Broadbase Server for Aircraft Scheduling and Profitability Analysis

The key to the way most companies think about distributed systems today is a ULect result of the current interest in the Internet. The Internet had been around for several decades without having much commercial impact. But the immense popularity of the World Wide Web in the late 1990s has forced everyone to rethink how companies should manage distributing information.

The advent of distributed object computing (DOC) has been hailed as the harbinger of a vast market for plug-in components that represent the entities, processes, rules, and events that occur in the real-world business environment.