Seeing the bottom
Underlying currents run deep and clear through this year’s list of Technology of the Year winners ONE LOOK AT this year’s list of Technology of the Year winners tells all you need to know about the immediate future of enterprise…
Taking up the Web services challenge
Companies are finding innovative ways to fill new niches created by Web services ALTHOUGH MOST PEOPLE would probably rather forget about 2001, we think that once you look at our selections for InfoWorld’s Technology of the Year awards you might…
P.J.’s parting shot
Hostile code as a Technology of the Year? If Microsoft’s switch is any indication, there are worse candidates WELL, IT’S TECHNOLOGY of the Year time here in the InfoWorld Test Center, and I’m annoyed because one of my personal favorites…
Finding the culprits in Enron
Getting to the bottom of the scandal of the century You’d think that writing an ethics column about Enron would be easy, but it’s not. In fact, the jumble of ethical malfeasance is so overwhelming that it’s a lot like…
Insurance industry imposes unique burdens on its CTOs
WITH IT SYSTEMS commonly divided by product lines rather than by customer and agent needs, many insurance companies are finding they cannot meet end-users’ increasing expectations of having a single point of contact. Now these companies are turning to CTOs…
Google expands on its plans to filter out doorways
Tips for making your Web site stand out I wrote in last week’s E-Business Secrets that Google.com, one of the Web’s most popular search engines, is enhancing its ability to lower the ranking of so-called doorway pages and other tricks…
OASIS forms Web Services for Remote Portals group
XML STANDARDS BODY OASIS this week created a technical committee to build a standard for Web services to be used with portals, dubbed the Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) technical committee. The group is working on a standard that…
BEA exec discusses the Cajun Web services development tool
ADAM BOSWORTH HAS led the charge toward XML Web services, first as the chief architect of XML at Microsoft, then as the co-founder of CrossGain, and now as vice president of engineering at BEA Systems. In an interview with InfoWorld…
Transforming the datacenter
Server blades‘ flexibility and low-cost nature is changing the architecture of the future THE LOOK OF COMPUTER datacenters will begin to change as a wave of server-blade products begin hitting the market during the next several months. Following the lead…
LinuxWorld: Companies push open source up into enterprise
Software and hardware heavyweights plan raft of products, services at the show SEVERAL OF THE industry’s biggest companies will push Linux technologies closer to the data center by announcing a raft of enterprise-class products and Web-based services at this week’s…
