In wake of the WorldCom fiasco and the investigations in the ailing telecom industry, CTOs are making contingency plans THESE DAYS, EITHER Dayne Sampson, vice president of IT at Emeryville, Calif.-based Internet search company Ask Jeeves, or someone on his…

.Net stands to play an integral role as Microsoft servers begin to meld managed and unmanaged code ON JUNE 6, Microsoft posted security bulletin MS02-026, titled “Unchecked Buffer in ASP .Net Worker Process.” Tongues immediately began to wag. Wasn’t .Net…

There’s something going on — but you do know what it is, don’t you Mr. Allchin? THE CONSPIRACY CROWD always has plenty of material to work with, especially when Microsoft throws a party such as .Net Insecurity Day (see ”…

Multicolored golf shirts and the search for nirvana versus a search for solutions DEAR MR. CHIEF Software Architect of Microsoft: We at InfoWorld can appreciate that you are a busy man. Building the next generation of enterprise computing infrastructure is…

Microsoft’s server strategy is to make enemies suffer, fence-sitters choose sides, and customers pay up AT A BLEAK TIME when other vendors are pulling in, laying off, and riding out the recession, Microsoft is partying like it’s 1999. But not…

Some innovative Linux distributions let you take to the open-source road without hard-sell headaches WHEN IT COMES to buying cars, I hate test drives. Maybe I’ve encountered just one too many used-car salesmen with bad hair and a disingenuous smile…

Tips to make sure you will hear the bad news before it turns into a crisis you can’t control MANAGEMENTSPEAK: We are reworking our employee survey instrument to give more useful results. TRANSLATION: We’re going to keep rewriting the questions…

Technology leaders have a lot to teach the business world about accountability and honest dealing DURING THE PAST several weeks, it has been difficult to ignore the dark cloud of endless corporate scandals hanging over American business. As I write…

The DMCA helps the music, movie and software industries undermine traditional free speech and first-sale rights THE OTHER DAY I found a video of a kids’ movie I bought for my son years ago. Because my son has long outgrown…

BizAutomation marries basic CRM functionality with familiar Outlook PROBABLY THE MOST difficult question you can ask sales or marketing managers is to define what their companies’ CRM requirements are. No matter how differently sales professionals may perceive their companies’ business…