In Depth

In Depth

Operating systems software

• Are you being served?

  Just a few years ago, the idea of the AS/400 as a web server would have raised a few eyebrows. Not now.  Continue Reading

• IT support: better out or in?

  Can you afford to outsource your support? Can you afford not to? Mark Vernon puts both sides of the argument  Continue Reading

• Clustering for the AS/400: how it helps users

  I believe that AS/400 cluster support is available in OS/400 V4R4. What are the benefits of this option in terms of reducing, or...  Continue Reading

• Digital voice recording adds the personal touch

  
  
  On-line personal column TheRightChemistry.com has introduced digital voice recording to its site so that users can hear each others voices and read each...  Continue Reading

• Book Review: Inside TCP/IP

  This book admirably explains how the protocol works and should prove invaluable to both novice and experienced users  Continue Reading

• Backwards step to develop Linux standard

  The Free Standards Group is developing a specification designed to ensure that applications written for Linux run on all the...  Continue Reading

• Netscape fights back with Gecko

  One-time browser market-leader Netscape has seen its position undermined, leaving Web designers with a dilemma over whether to...  Continue Reading

• www.embarrassinghealthproblems.co.uk

  
  
  Martin Couzins

  Those of you who find it impossible to ask anyone - be it your friends, colleagues or doctor - about health issues you...

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• Microsoft puts mobile software centre-stage

  Exchange 2000 at hub of mobile strategy with portable HTML Web browser and data collection handhelds.  Continue Reading

• FTSE firms' Web failure

  Fifty-five per cent of the leading UK and US companies are not treating their Web sites as a serious communications channel,...  Continue Reading

• Will Microsoft's breakup affect me?

  How to assess whether the breakup of Microsoft will have a serious impact on an IT department's desktop strategy  Continue Reading

• IBM targets Unix dominance

  Having made the boast in September 1999 that it wanted to be Unix business market leader in a couple of years, IBM claims to be...  Continue Reading

• Business in the post-PC world

  Just how many Microsofts there will be in the world is unlikely to be clear for some time. But one thing is certain - that the...  Continue Reading

• Web marketing: affiliate to accumulate

  Stuart Lauchlan looks at how to set up online partnerships to bring more trade to your Web site  Continue Reading

• Distributed computing: a question of balance

  By solving the age-old dilemma of harnessing the potential power of distributed computing, a new software system could help you...  Continue Reading

• Implementing change: Windows 2000 roll-outs in the spotlight

  With Windows 2000 the proof of the pudding is in the eating. Liz Warren investigates what really happens when you implement...  Continue Reading

• Migration decisions: timing is everything

  When would be the best moment for an IT manager to migrate to the latest version of an operating system or other key system element? Alison Classe reports  Continue Reading

• Improved security with Windows 2000

  Windows 2000 offers significant security improvements over its ancestors, but still has to prove itself in the e-commerce world.  Continue Reading

• Making back-office systems Windows 2000 compliant

  Applications suppliers are being asked to jump through hoops to ensure that their back-office applications are Windows...  Continue Reading

• Ruling means more efficient development

  Users will benefit from more efficient development of Windows applications as a result of the US Department of Justice ruling...  Continue Reading

• Carry on packet switching

  X25 may be 24 years old but it still delivers good price performance, writes Nick Langley  Continue Reading

• Selling is easier if you gain permission

  You're more likely to hit the target if you aim for it. And you're more likely to sell to someone if you've convinced them to ask...  Continue Reading

• Telecoms suppliers slip up on service

  John Riley reports from the Technical Infrastructure Forum conference in Birmingham  Continue Reading

• What does the future hold for WAP?

  By adding basic web surfing capabilities to an otherwise conventional cellular phone, the Wireless Application Protocol brings...  Continue Reading

• Never forget that important date

  A new site promises to keep you out of hot water with timely reminders of birthdays and anniversaries  Continue Reading

• New $199 device to take on the PC

  Larry Ellison launches new assault on Microsoft with Net device. Caroline Davis reports  Continue Reading

• Love Bug: learning the lessons

  An integrated security strategy is the best defence  Continue Reading

• IBM's Unix roadmap

  IBM's takeover of Sequent last September presented the company with a problem: what to do with two very different Unix product...  Continue Reading

• RS/6000, serving and stats

  All IBM's servers are being promoted by the company as web servers.  Continue Reading

• Spring clean your IT systems

  To get from where your IT department is now to where it needs to be, the manager needs to get down to a good spring clean. Maya...  Continue Reading

• The protection racket

  IT security doesn't need to cost a bundle, but you certainly can't afford to be without it. Even the financially challenged can...  Continue Reading

• The New New Thing, Michael Lewis

  
  
  Price: £17.99 (hardback)

  Martin Couzins

  A boat, Silicon Valley and Jim Clarke. These are the main ingredients of The New New...

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• Novell pins hopes on directory model to halt downward slide

  As its position in the market slips, Novell changes direction with its Denim strategy. Cliff Saran reports  Continue Reading

• Microsoft should learn from its battle with Netscape

  Microsoft may rue the day it chose to hammer a company which, at the time, mirrored its own early days  Continue Reading

• Cox will top glitzy awards

  
  
  George Cox, the director-general of the Institute of Directors, will be guest speaker at the BCS IS Management Awards on 17 May.

  Cox was previously...

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• Tough technology: a matter of survival

  When the going gets tough, technology can mean a whole lot more than convenient communications - it equals survival. But how do...  Continue Reading

• Your desk:daffodils or old sarnies?

  Describe yourself as a shape. From this shape comes a personality profile of you and your deskspace. Sound far-fetched? Roisin...  Continue Reading

• A Wyse move switching to Windows 2000

  Wyse Technology shows how migrating to Windows 2000 could be an ideal opportunity to move large parts of the network onto a thin...  Continue Reading

• Council sites must improve

  A Socitm survey of local authority Web sites found delays in replies to enquiries and a lack of information  Continue Reading

• Audit is key to successful desktop management

  The secret of successful desktop management is a precise and focused audit of all installations. Mark Vernon reports  Continue Reading

• Case Study: SCO UnixWare and Barclays

  With the help of SCO UnixWare, Barclays' Retail Financial Services Group is modernising and streamlining its IT infrastructure  Continue Reading

• Strategy Clinic: Should I put ASPs on the desktop?

  Should I put ASPs on the desktop? How do I motivate and retain staff? Our experts answer your questions  Continue Reading

• Round up your information and get ahead of the herd

  Technology is an important aid to sharing knowledge, but you can't simply buy an off-the shelf package, plug it in and expect it...  Continue Reading

• Storage: back-up on the desktop

  The increasing demand for new, more flexible desktop storage is being met in a number of ways. Jane Dudman reports on new...  Continue Reading

• Windows 2000: look at how far we've come

  Lindsay Clark offers a brief guide to the evolution of Microsoft Windows  Continue Reading

• Creating social lepers

  
  
  David Tebbutt

  Soapbox

  Before long we will be able to download our favourite cartoons and much more, including films, music, CNN...

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• Implementing an e-policy

  
  
  Tim Ewbank

  Opinion

  "Car reg R883JGN has left lights on in car park B"; "come and say good-bye to Joyce in the Canteen at 2pm...

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• Drilling down

  
  
  When the British Geological Survey decided it needed a database management system it found that an intranet created a common look and feel across the...  Continue Reading

• Are ASPs a suitable solution for large enterprises?

  Although it is generally agreed that ASPs offer cost savings for SMEs, it is still debatable whether larger firms will need them....  Continue Reading

• Thin clients enter the space age

  From versatile desktop terminals to the next generation of mobile phones, today’s thin client technology promises improved...  Continue Reading

• E-Christmas shake-out begins

  E-commerce was a factor in seasonal retail figures for the first time in 1999, but as Toys 'R' Us shows, a company that is in trouble will not be rescued by an e-strategy alone  Continue Reading

• Unified messaging takes on new significance

  Nokia predicts over a billion mobile phones by 2001. With so much business conducted on Internet time, a transparent and unified...  Continue Reading

• White Paper: POP goes the email

  Modern email server protocols such as IMAP offer more features than established ones such as POP. But IMAP extensions can make...  Continue Reading

• Automating common administration tasks

  With a little ingenuity and some of the right software, you can automate those hated administration tasks  Continue Reading

• How to foil the spammers

  Spam or unsolicited bulk mail costs businesses in the UK millions every year. Nevertheless, there are ways to minimise what gets...  Continue Reading

• Case Study: Windows NT Terminal Server

  Texaco is a global enterprise with employees located all over the world. Some of these locations present considerable...  Continue Reading

• Understanding web technology

  You don’t need to be a genius to understand web technology, it’s simply a matter of understanding a few basic concepts  Continue Reading

• Case Study: Gordano's NTMail email server

  FreeNet’s phenomenal growth required a highly scalable email solution. NTMail provided for both administration and customer needs...  Continue Reading

• The value of email in marketing

  More and more companies are recognising the value of email in the marketing mix and are using it to develop customer...  Continue Reading

• Access is denied

  Combined with careful key management and data backup procedures, file encryption provides a very strong measure of protection...  Continue Reading

• Case Study: Adobe PageMaker 6.5

  Anticipating the boom in desktop publishing, Robert Scott, editor of EOS magazine, has been working with Adobe PageMaker since...  Continue Reading

• White Paper: Showing your true colours to the world!

  With the development of the Web, firms can choose from a wide palette of colours. It is more necessary than ever to understand...  Continue Reading

• The great TWAIN journey

  Over the past decade, TWAIN has established itself as an important standard in the desktop publishing industry. This white paper...  Continue Reading

• The little book of palm

  Desktop management doesn’t end in the office. This white paper details efforts to make Palmtops Desktop Management Interface...  Continue Reading

• Keeping contacts

  Contact management devices are increasingly important for anyone concerned with maintaining external contacts and not simply for...  Continue Reading

• White Paper: Thin Client computing via a PDA

  Thin client computing is not only being extended to low spec PCs but also PDAs. One example is Hewlett-Packard and Citrix’s...  Continue Reading

• White Paper: How to protect your NT system from viruses

  The Windows NT system has many features that both protect it from and make it susceptible to virus attack  Continue Reading