November 2000

IBM faces racism claim

Roisin Woolnough

A former research associate at IBM is taking the company to court claiming race discrimination.

Kevin Marsh...

Get ready for software licence changes

Daniel Thomas

Almost 90% of respondents to a Computer Weekly/Harvey Nash Big Question poll admit their businesses have not accounted...

Oracle integrates business data

Oracle has announced plans to combine specialised business technologies - previously separate applications - into a single infrastructure for business...  Continue Reading

Profit warnings hit confidence in services sector

Sema's profit warning last week was another unwelcome piece of news in the IT services market and has hit stock market confidence...  Continue Reading

HR perpetuates the myths of IT ageism

"Too old to work and too young to retire." That's what Geoffrey Williams, 55, says of his employment prospects in IT, despite having 15 years' experience in the industry. Not that Williams doesn't want to work - far from it.  Continue Reading

Agents are to blame for ageism

Jacqueline Straffon, a contract IT resource manager, gives an inside view on ageism in the IT industry  Continue Reading

Big boxes will have to make way for server appliances

Simon Moores

Tech talk

Sun Microsystems' recent acquisition of Cobalt Networks for a modest $2bn (£1.4bn) may be the first real...

Archiving for the digital age

As the quest for the paperless office continues, Philip Hunter reports on current thinking on digital archiving  Continue Reading

Absolute beginners: get selling online

Computer Weekly guided a retail micro-business through its first steps to online commerce. Paul Mason reports  Continue Reading

Law firm's life-line to start-up failures

Joy Macknight

Tarlo Lyons, a City-based technology and communications law firm, is launching a specialist Corporate Recovery Group to rescue...

N Ireland voices 'come home' plea

Bill Goodwin

Employers are urging thousands of IT workers who left Northern Ireland for jobs in the US and Europe to come back home to...

NHS minister backs XML

Antony Adshead

Health minister Gisela Stuart told the NHS Information Authority's first national conference this week that £1bn of...

Building a site for a better society

Setting up a Web site in the banking world isn't easy, and to do it without a hitch deserves praise indeed  Continue Reading

BT puts cash into broadband upgrade

Simon Craven

Soapbox

Recent articles in Computer Weekly have implied that BT's moves towards broadband are done without investment....

XML cracks TV banking service

Egg is to launch an interactive television service after an intensive six-month development project  Continue Reading

Will something good come from the dotcom debacle?

The bursting of the dotcom bubble created a boom for San Francisco's recycling vagrants.  Continue Reading

Sun auctions its server hardware

Eric Doyle

Sun Microsystems is trialling auction sales of its server hardware in the UK following successful tests in the US.

The...