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Enterprise software
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On the campaign with Big Bill
Bill Gates flew to San Francisco to launch the latest component of his Web services initiative earlier this month. Danny Bradbury... Continue Reading
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Memories of an e-mail inventor
Certain pivotal moments have been immortalised in communications history, such as Alexander Graham Bell's rather perfunctory... Continue Reading
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Users weigh options with new MS environment
Migration tools are available to help developers port their existing applications to Microsoft's new Visual Studio .net... Continue Reading
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Got .net yet?
The Visual Studio.net development tool offers value-added resellers, bespoke software developers and system integrators a way to... Continue Reading
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Internet security: don't panic yet says new ICANN security chief
The software that runs the Internet's addressing system is among the world's most vulnerable systems to hacker attack. Continue Reading
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We've got to rebuild trust, says Microsoft security chief
Microsoft UK's new chief security officer discusses how he will tackle polices, openness and feature creep. Continue Reading
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Easy guide to purchasing PCs
Desktop procurement has traditionally been a headache for IT managers - but a few simple tricks will save you trouble in the long... Continue Reading
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Speak up for services on the Web
Speech recognition technology is getting cleverer by the day and could prove ideal for tomorrow's interface with the Web. Already... Continue Reading
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The revolution is still some way off
Web services have won plenty of attention as the major IT suppliers declare strategies to enable the interoperability of... Continue Reading
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Council uses Bacs to take control
Castle Morpeth Council benefits from implementing its own Bacs payment system. Continue Reading
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Writing is on the wall for library's shelves
As a digital version of the oldest known English language Valentine's Day message goes up on its Web site, James Rogers looks at... Continue Reading
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Make sure you know what you're worth
If the prospect of conducting a software audit doesn't fill you with glee maybe knowing that it could slash your IT costs will... Continue Reading
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The search for a software super model
The problem for users is that there are as many models for software licensing as there are products. And it's going to get worse. Continue Reading
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Next generation Internet lands
After years in development, the next version of Internet Protocol (IP) is finally seeing its first live implementations. Continue Reading
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Winter Olympics IT chief wants a perfect 10
The Winter Olympics opens today, Friday (8 February), and will put to the test an IT system that has taken a consortium of 16... Continue Reading
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An ABC guide to data migration
To achieve an effective migration to a new system, first invest some time and effort in cleaning your data Continue Reading
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Monkey impressionist is IT's strongest link
Twelve years of IT knowledge was unlikely to help Ben Baskaran when he faced the formidable Anne Robinson on TV gameshow The... Continue Reading
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Working towards the paperless office
Cambridgeshire Council uses CRM to ease the burden of keeping paper files on 12,000 new students a year Continue Reading
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Microsoft on the spot
Lindsay Clark talks to Microsoft's UK managing director Neil Holloway about the impact of the company's licensing changes Continue Reading
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Linux still missing enterprise components
While suppliers are saying Linux is ready for big business, the reactions from potential customers are mixed. Continue Reading
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Can Red Hat win the Web for AOL?
Web services are the future. Talk to Gartner and its analysts will tell you that next year profits from Web services will race... Continue Reading
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Police dangle a smartcard
Met scheme rewards kids in Southwark with smartcard points for good behaviour. Continue Reading
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Shall we Gopher it again?
The alternative to the Web has been reborn as an open source project Continue Reading
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A one-stop shop for e-business?
Oracle claims its E-Business Suite provides 75% of the functionality to run e-business. Continue Reading
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Wireless companies seek corporate killer app
Three wireless infrastructure companies have announced different approaches to finding the killer applications that will drive... Continue Reading
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SOAP
It's nice to know those higher up the channel have such a positive opinion of their reseller partners. One distributor Soap was... Continue Reading
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Spaced out storage
Storage virtualisation promises to be the next IT boom, liberating users from complex data management and taking storage into a... Continue Reading
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Keeping an open mind
What are the benefits of using Linux - Karl Cushing unwraps a company that is reaping the rewards of an open source... Continue Reading
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Using the Web to change attitudes
The Scottish Executive is using a new Web site to raise awareness of domestic abuse. Continue Reading
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Think of XML as a four-in-one tool
Imam Hoque, head of technology, Rubus Continue Reading
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Linux shows off super powers
Last year open source operating system Linux rocketed in popularity. This year it has its sights set on conquering the... Continue Reading
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Ford puts XML in the driving seat
Analysts from Forrester Research recently spoke with John Stenlake, director of advanced IT at Ford Motor Company, about Ford's... Continue Reading
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Making XML a shared experience
Extensible mark-up language (XML) promised to be the universal language that would make interoperability across companies... Continue Reading
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Enterprise content management - is it anything new?
The phrase "enterprise content management" (ECM) has been appearing with increasing regularity this year. But is this a real... Continue Reading
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What's in the fortune cookie for 2002?
Forget the pundits' predictions. Emma Nash and Bruce Ackland ask IT industry leaders what their hopes are for the next 12 months Continue Reading
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Three peaks challenge
If you are looking for a reason to get fit in the wake of the excesses of the festive season, then how about climbing the three... Continue Reading
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Borland rises to .net challenge with new development suite
Borland is rising to Microsoft's Visual Studio .net challenge with a new software development suite based on Delphi, writes Eric... Continue Reading
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Microsoft pushes Office XP into Web services world
Microsoft is attempting to harness the desktop as a strategic element of its Web services platform with the delivery of its... Continue Reading
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IBM to re-enter the applications market?
IBM's e-Business on Demand strategy has encountered a big problem - the business applications are not yet there to support... Continue Reading
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Next move: Business analysis to Web design
I have a BSc in computer science and 13 years experience in IT, and have gained hands-on experience of the whole software... Continue Reading
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5 minute interview: Tony Anscombe, Northern European director, Stonesoft
Tony Anscombe, Northern European director, Stonesoft Continue Reading
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Tried and tested
Traditional data resellers need to dispel their irrational fears of being left behind as the voice application wave swells. The... Continue Reading
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Will the penguin take flight?
Linux on the S/390 mainframe is fluttering from theory to implementation, yet the take-up is still relatively low. Continue Reading
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Data networking: Off the straight and narrow
Modern business places heavy demands on data, and requires networks that have the width and capacity to cope. What are the latest... Continue Reading
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Keeping it up all hours
Times were when keeping the system up from nine till five was an achievement. Now it's expected 24 hours a day. Adding just one... Continue Reading
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Dropping a load off the Lan
The huge growth in online data storage that has come with the Internet age is changing the nature of backup operations. Continue Reading
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Databases: Tools of the trade
For years database tools have been provided by third-party vendors. Now, the likes of IBM and Oracle have started undercutting... Continue Reading
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The mythical man month
It is more than 20 years since Frederick Brooks first published The Mythical Man Month, his classic work on how software projects... Continue Reading
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The future role of the CIO
Ross Bentley talks to Metagroup boss Dale Kutnick about new challenges for IT chiefs Continue Reading
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Don't delay the move to fibre
As the cost of running increasing quantities of data along ageing copper networks spirals, migrating to optical technology may be... Continue Reading
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More power for mySAP Financials
SAP has added new functionality to its mySAP Financials software designed to enhance strategic enterprise and supply chain... Continue Reading
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What topped the news in 2001?
To say that 2001 was a turbulent year for the IT industry would be an understatement. IT managers battled incoming viruses on one... Continue Reading
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That was the year that was
People will always remember what they were doing when news broke of the September terrorist attacks in the US, but 2001 is... Continue Reading
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At the Margins, episode 111
When we left At the Margins last week, the ghost of Jeff Cantatos was planning to recruit Grant Hacker-Pryke to help get revenge... Continue Reading
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Do I hold out for a big player?
I am currently considering a career in CRM. A medium-sized company has shown an interest in my CV and wants to make me an offer.... Continue Reading
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Is Open Office a star?
Could an open source package genuinely be good enough to challenge Microsoft Office? Continue Reading
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Whey forward
With a dozen staff, it takes a huge effort to create new sales channels. When that also involves new technology, it meant The... Continue Reading
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Oracle chief spells out application strategy
Hot on the heels of the Oracle Openworld conference in the US, the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) headed to Birmingham to host its... Continue Reading
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Cops on the line
The emergency services have to respond to phone calls swiftly and accurately. Karl Cushing finds out how Thames Valley Police... Continue Reading
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Patchwork is not good enough
Security must be built into your business processes, not treated as an add-on, if it is to be effective, writes Mike Barwise Continue Reading
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The skills you need to succeed in 2002
Give yourself a break in 2002 by brushing up on the skills that will not only put you in pole position to survive the downturn,... Continue Reading
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Interview: Computer Associates embraces Web services
Web services dominate the agenda of Yogesh Gupta, the chief technology officer of Computer Associates (CA). Continue Reading
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DSP: the future of hosted services
If you are familiar with DSP standing for digital signal processing, chances are you'll be a little confused by the world of... Continue Reading
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Microsoft chief spells out solutions-based approach
Microsoft last month launched a solution for intranets and a solution for supplier enablement, the first two in a planned series... Continue Reading
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Pre-budget damp squib disappoints IT businesses
Enthusiasm for the chancellor's pre-budget promises was tempered last week by disappointment that he took no steps to encourage... Continue Reading
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Getting IT together
Research shows that integration - key to future success - is making slow progress Continue Reading
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Portals look set to replace Windows
The integration that makes portals work lies beneath the user interface as an iceberg's bulk lies beneath the water. Continue Reading
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Cracking the hackers
Hackers are the sworn enemies of e-commerce companies because they pose a very real threat to online business. E-business Review... Continue Reading
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A brave new online world
What are Internet business models and how are they different from traditional models? Are we seeing a sea change in business... Continue Reading
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Fancy a little flutter?
Online betting firm Flutter.com has found that person-to-person betting over the Internet is one of few regions of cyberspace... Continue Reading
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Are your skills the most wanted?
Client/server skills are gaining ground on Internet-related skills. Nicholas Enticknap reports Continue Reading
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Portal mania: behind the hype
Portals are heralded as the beginning of a new phase of corporate computing that promises to transform an organisation's access... Continue Reading
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Council chiefs hamper e-government plans
Local authority chief executives are hampering Tony Blair's e-government plans, and almost half of councils have no IT security... Continue Reading
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Can you access critical source code?
If it was reported that your mission-critical software supplier had called in the receivers would you break into a cold sweat?... Continue Reading
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Data directions
Technologies that deal with the problem of storing masses of data are available, James Rogers explains why San and NAS hold the... Continue Reading
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Store and deliver
Storage networking can be confusing, but in today's information-driven economy creating the right storage architecture can reap... Continue Reading
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Ownership is hallmark of new approach to public IT projects
Will the latest proposals from the Government and the IT industry lead to better management of publicly-funded IT projects? James... Continue Reading
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The new B2B marketplace: private, thin and fashionable
Do not be sidetracked by short-term budget-cutting considerations, especially in these belt-tightening days. Private and thin B2B... Continue Reading
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Beware the e-business budget burners
CRM and enterprise portals promise cost savings and a strong return on investment. But unless you take care at the planning... Continue Reading
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Walking the technology tightrope in e-business
Hardware and software costs soon mount up for any e-business implementation. The key is to make sure you don't pay for more than... Continue Reading
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Microsoft SQL Server steps up to the mark
Microsoft's next version of SQL Server, code-named Yukon, is aimed at pushing its way further into the enterprise realm. Continue Reading
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Wall Street pins integration hopes on XML
Wall Street banks and brokerages are stumbling over one another to install their own versions of XML to interconnect internal... Continue Reading
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Database giants battle with XML
With Oracle's annual OpenWorld conference looming, database vendors are preparing for battle once again. Continue Reading
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Bank's CRM is carrot and stick
Commerzbank hopes to boost sales through better customer relationship management, writes Hazel Ward Continue Reading
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The case for IT in the legal profession
Law firms are rapidly realising that if they don't latch onto the benefits IT can deliver, they will lose out to rivals with an... Continue Reading
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Web cannot replace integration
Growth in the use of Web services has highlighted their impact on enterprise application integration, but it would be a mistake... Continue Reading
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Training college creates virtual campus
Advanced technology centre gives students around the clock access to their work. Continue Reading
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Component object model: successful communication
Component object model got a head start from its distribution with Windows operating systems, giving it an instant edge over the... Continue Reading
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Problems still haunt 3G service
When DoCoMo launched Foma, the world's first 3G mobile service, on 1 October, the handsets were not ready and DoCoMo had almost... Continue Reading
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On the flip side
The computing world at large appears to be shifting inexorably to a state where vendors become nothing more than resellers of... Continue Reading
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Catching cyberspace crooks
Since the terrorist attacks on 11 September, online security has assumed a much higher importance and interagency co-operation is... Continue Reading
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Borland AppServer 4.5
Tim Jennings examines Borland's e-business application server offering. Continue Reading
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Make a difference
The field is wide open in the service provider market and which players will clean up depends on what they offer. The key is to... Continue Reading
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Is a reshuffle on the cards?
Now is the time to take stock of skills, says Lindsay Nicolle Continue Reading
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Sun offers Java for XP as a free download
Although Microsoft does not support Java in Windows XP, Sun Microsystems is offering its Java Virtual Machine (JVM) for XP as a... Continue Reading
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Not just for the boys
Chelsea FC IT director Elaine Clarke is the only woman on the team. She talks to Karl Cushing about her daily ups and downs Continue Reading
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Banks warned of truth behind crypto crack claims
An independent expert has backed two Cambridge University students' claims to have uncovered a flaw in a key IBM cryptographic... Continue Reading
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The truth about J2ME
The application of Java technology to wireless devices is, for many, a natural evolution. Java was, after all, designed to be a... Continue Reading
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Comdex 2001: Roundup from the security vendors
As enterprises re-evaluate their security needs, particularly in the wake of the 11 September terrorist attacks, a number of... Continue Reading
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Stress - what's the problem?
At times, even the IT industry can be a stressful place to work. So CW360.com invited a selection of key IT professionals to vent... Continue Reading