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Insight
With the winding down of Y2000-related efforts, IT groups must finally face the development backlog that has grown over the past 18 months. But with stiff resistance to further increasing staff, we cannot build all -- or even most -- of the systems requested. So, which projects? What should we build first?
WINDOWS 2000 VERSUS RED FLAG-LINUX 2 February 2000 by Paul Harmon
This Advisor will arrive right in the midst of Microsoft's introduction of Windows 2000 Professional.
WHICH PROJECTS? WHAT SHOULD WE BUILD FIRST? 2 February 2000 by Richard E. Zultner
With the winding down of Y2000-related efforts, IT groups must finally face the development backlog that has grown over the past 18 months.
Poorly integrated information architectures are destabilizing the business units that rely on them. Most IT environments evolved under isolated scenarios in which few systems were functionally integrated. Over the years, we have experienced a massive proliferation of redundant, inconsistent data and system functionality.
THE TELCORDIA TECHNOLOGIES ROAD TO QUALITY by Linda Ferrara and Cathy Timko
As we move into the new millennium, anticipating a host of new technological advancements in every aspect of our lives, there will be one constant that we will continue to expect -- quality.
Executive Update
An E-Business Paradox
Truth is often tautological; at least it seems that way once it is stated. Certainly that appears to be the case considering the theme of this month's Executive Update, that given any particular technology, different organizations will experience different results from using that technology. What keeps this tautology from becoming trite is that different organizations do not simply experience different results; they experience dramatically different results.
NOT EVERYONE IS WORLD CLASS: YOUR BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH by Ed Yourdon
Would you like to be part of a world-class IT organization?
Enterprise application integration (EAI) has emerged as the latest information management trend. Unfortunately, a typical EAI scenario is likely to focus on near-term integration tactics and ignore long-term integration strategies. As trends go, EAI is one of the better ones to emanate from software vendors and trade rags in recent years, because it is driven by real, immediate business requirements.