Eighty-nine percent of respondents to a recent Data Warehousing study expect better business intelligence for end users from their organization's data warehousing projects.

Companies thinking about upcoming changes in their corporate architectures are going to want to pay special attention to the evolving role of application servers. High-end application servers will increasingly serve as the heart of most new distributed Internet applications.

When I got into the software field, back in the Dark Ages, I couldn't believe that someone would actually pay me an above-average salary to have fun. I suppose there are other industries where people have fun -- baseball players seem to enjoy themselves, from what I can tell -- but it was hard for me to imagine that there was anything more intriguing, more challenging, more satisfying, and more exhilirating than developing and debugging a large complex software system.

When I got into the software field, back in the Dark Ages, I couldn't believe that someone would actually pay me an above-average salary to have fun.

When I got into the software field, back in the Dark Ages, I couldn't believe that someone would actually pay me an above-average salary to have fun.

I had lunch a couple weeks ago with George Schussel, the founder and CEO of Digital Consulting, Inc., one of the country's largest IT conference organizers. We compared notes on interesting trends and developments in the field, but he stunned me with the news that DCI's "Database World" conference has shut down. It was the company's flagship conference for over 15 years, and it enjoyed a monopoly for a year after the demise of its only competitor, the massive "DB Expo" conference.

I had lunch a couple weeks ago with George Schussel, the founder and CEO of Digital Consulting, Inc., one of the country's largest IT conference organizers.

I had lunch a couple weeks ago with George Schussel, the founder and CEO of Digital Consulting, Inc., one of the country's largest IT conference organizers.

According to survey results just released by the Cutter Consortium, between 75% and 80% of companies are either exploring or using object technology.

In this issue we feature our annual review of the award winning applications from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) Tenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-98).

The end game is pretty clear: make the most cost-effective investments in communications technology that you can in order to make your business the most competitive.

Every so often, a new idea arises. As usual, these ideas take time to find their way into and across organizations. What do you think of the following project management strategies?

Anyone who reads the daily newspapers is aware that the leading telecommunications companies are struggling to form global alliances.

When most people consider data warehouse management, they tend to think of managing the extraction, transformation, loading, and synchronization of data from operational source systems into target relational data warehouses and relational data marts.

In this issue we feature our annual review of the award winning applications from the American Association for Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) Tenth Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference (IAAI-98).