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Tough is being willing to risk your job It's easy to come to the conclusion that 'cio' should stand for Categorically Impossible Occupation. You know the drill: The CEO refuses […]

You wouldn't build a gas station on a deserted cul-de-sac, would you? The key to success in electronic commerce is not much different from that in any other business: Take […]

Behold, the Renaissance people of the Information Age. As skilled in business as in technology, this new breed of CIOs are thinkers as much as they are doers; as effective […]

Let's say you're in the market for a new pair of shoes. You could go down to the Shoe Warehouse and search through every brand of footwear ever made. Or […]

United Parcel Service CIO Frank Erbrick, convinced that his 88-year-old, $17 billion package distribution company was in danger of falling further behind arch-rival Federal Express, needed to attack what at […]

Paul Zawacki reached for the next rung on the corporate ladder, and it wasn't there. Surprise. Three years ago, his 11-year career with GTE Government Systems in Colorado Springs hit […]

CONGRATULATIONS. You and the rest of the business process reengineering team have finally completed your company's first major project. It was more hard work than you ever imagined. There were […]

IT'S BEEN THE GOSPEL from the major vendors for years: a unified operating environment built around Unix or Windows NT or OS/2 or Netware or Whateverware can be easier to […]

Start your pilot projects now, but wait until prices, networking and standards improve before you make the big investment. Picture this: You're an IS manager at an international aircraft company. […]

So you want to become a CIO? These days, a good CIO is all things to all people. Back when he was a college student planning his future, Bob Rubin […]

'Thank you for insulting us so directly,', Esther Stearns says. She s an IS manager who's just been challenged by a marketing person who wants to know just what, if […]

The initial price of a client/server installation is usually a bargain, but as much as 80% of the cost comes after you sign the purchase orders. I magine you've just […]

Analyze, advise and decentralize--those are the watchwords of the new IT organizations that are succeeding with client/server computing. The joke used to be that the central MIS organization had to […]

Robert Knepp doesn't pretend to know everything about distributed client/server computing. But the IS manager says he does know one thing: the tools that are available today for performing key […]

In recent years, chief information officers have been talking more about business skills than technical skills. But has the business trend gotten out of hand? CIOs that we spoke with […]

When Pyramid Technology Corp.'s chairman and chief executive officer Richard H. Lussier talks about his company's major contract win at Boston-based brokerage giant Fidelity Investments Inc., he sounds a lot […]

Reengineering projects are neither simple nor intuitive. But for IS managers, not getting involved when their companies plunge forward is no longer a viable option. At its core, business process […]

Nature, they say, abhors a vacuum. And MIS managers seem to feel the same way. The vacuum MIS wants to fill today has been created by the rush away from […]

IBM's announcement of a moderately parallel future for the S/390 architecture was greeted with moderate enthusiasm and lots of questions. IS managers wondering whether IBM would phase out its current […]

Our annual survey shows that the squeeze is stiff on, forcing IS managers to concentrate on doing more with less. Shared sacrifice. It may be the hot new concept among […]

First Fidelity went where no major bank had gone before when it outsourced its data center to EDS. Three years later, we look at why the pact was such a […]

That's only part of the attraction of microprocessor-based multiprocessors that can handle mainframe apps. You wouldn't call Carlos Miro one of those impetuous, try-anything-once IS executives. In fact, Miro, the […]

Lewis E. Platt, the new president and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Co., talks candidly about his goals for HP, problems he faces and his own skills as an executive. Q: […]

Todd Brady thinks he knows what would happen if he told IS managers at Pacific Bell Co. how many extra database and system administrators they'd need to care for a […]

The bubble economy in Asia has burst. And IT profits have gone with it. Vendors are scrambling for business in a demanding economic climate. In at least one important respect, […]

A strange thing happened to Fujitsu Ltd. on its way to becoming a global information technology supplier: it was waylaid by the worldwide recession, which slowed even the largest and […]

Cooperative Solutions has client/server OLTP software that promises big-box security and integrity. But is Ellipse ready for a heavyweight bout? Want to see an IS manager cringe? Demand to know […]

Going to client/server? Gupta Technologies has a two-fer--a new object-oriented SQLWindows development tool and a powerful, low-cost SQLBase database server. Gupta Technologies Inc. has always had something of a split […]

Levi Strauss & Co. is among the best at delegating authority and responsibility through IS systems. CIO Bill Eaton makes it happen. 'Empowerment' is the mantra of the 1990s. Government […]

You can't accuse Kamran Kheirolomoom of shrinking from a challenge. When 37-year old Kheirolomoom founded tiny ViewStar Corp. in Berkeley, Calif., six years ago, he decided he would sell his […]

By now, everyone knows about the potential advantages of cooperative processing. By splitting up existing monolithic applications to run on networked clients and servers linked through some form of peer-to-peer […]

Five years ago, officials at Tandem Computers Inc. recognized that, come the 1990s, they were going to have to start pedaling a lot faster just to keep up. A decade […]

When the academics get around to writing the book on how not to handle a major product transition, they'll probably spend at least a chapter on the new IBM System/390 […]

You might expect Robert J. LaBant to be satisfied with the success of the AS/400. In the three years since IBM introduced its principal midrange system, LaBant, who heads Big […]

The latest DATAMATION/Cowen & Co. IS buying survey reveals a growing need for more mainframe MIPS and storage capacity, even as downsizing proceeds. But purchasing is being delayed. The mainframe […]

Relational technology's coming to OLTP applications by way of massively parallel and loosely coupled systems. The payoff could be unprecedented performance. But are there sufficient tools to manage all that […]

Budget Growth Skids To 3.4% To those information systems executives who were still clinging to the idea that IS budgets in the 1990s could retain their immunity from the economic […]

Forty years of commercial computing have certainly spawned many technological advancements, but contrary to what some believe, the industry is by no means mature in a technological sense. In fact, […]

Corporate America has a new slogan: 'Don't leave the office without it.' The slogan does not refer to a credit card, but to the portable PC, now taking on the […]

A Kinder, Gentler EDS? Call it outsourcing. Call it facilities management or systems management. Whatever you call it, it's one of the few rapidly growing segments of the IT industry […]

It's difficult to pinpoint exactly when IBM officials and industry observers stopped referring to mainframes as hosts and started calling them large network servers. Maybe it was soon after the […]

Who cares if major independent software vendors keep' switching their allegiance between MS-DOS and OS/2 more often than Sinead O'Connor gets a haircut? Most is executives and their users have […]

NCR's 486 Strategy The first hint that NCR Corp, was serious about the Intel 80486 microprocessor came in May. That was when the company surprised the industry by introducing one […]

Which Database For Digital's Customers? When you talk to Chuck Rozwat, product manager for Digital Equipment Corp.'s database systems, the company's database strategy seems crystal clear. 'We beleive that DEC […]

Disaster-Proof Your Data You can't blame Sherri Anderson for looking for a new and better way to protect her company's critical data--not after what she went through after last October's […]

X3, the primary U.S. body for computer industry standards, has become overwhelmed and inefficient. Is X3 giving way to more effective standards bodies or is the standards-making process itself getting […]

For years, most system architectures have suffered from a common affliction: while CPU performance has increased dramatically, disk storage performance has not kept up. In an attempt to mask this […]

New technologies and applications require new skills. But where will they come from? Veteran IS workers who don't retrain may be replaced by new talent. When Harvey Shrednick took over […]

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