Industrial integration
Manufacturing industry CTOs lead the line, creating business-side buy-in for and then delivering on large-scale integration project WHEN CTO PHYLLIS MICHAELIDES took the helm of megaconglomerate Textron two-and-a-half years ago, she stared across a sea of software with more tentacles…
Chasing Linux
FreeBSD 5.0 beta features enhancements and apps aplenty, but not a lot of hand-holding FREEBSD HAS LONG been known for stability, security, and good performance, as well as for its strong developer community. But this open-source operating system has been…
Summertime reflection
There’s value in stepping back and reassessing strategy in the slow days of summer AS SUMMER DRAWS to a close, I’m thinking about what I would present in a hypothetical “what I did on my summer vacation” spiel on the…
Why we hack
Curiosity is a natural instinct; let’s just find some more productive ways to channel it I’M TICKED OFF, because my idea for Animal House 2002 has become front-page news. Like many of you, I had to laugh when I heard…
Friends and enemies
As with the school bully, it’s best to play nice with MS or else risk getting hurt THE high-techindustry is heading for another painful round of consolidation. While researching our Microsoft .Next report (go to www.infoworld.com ), I developed some…
The death of e-mail
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, but Microsoft won’t kill the messenger any time soon EVERY FEW WEEKS InfoWorld Editor in Chief Michael Vizard broadcasts an e-mail suggesting one story or another on spam. Every few weeks I try…
The straight scoop
Getting clear information is a fine art that IT managers can master– if they don’t rely on technology alone MANAGEMENTSPEAK: Thank you for your insightful suggestion. TRANSLATION: There goes your next performance appraisal. — We thank this week’s anonymous source…
Open with caution
Readers report shrinkwrap agreements have migrated from software to books, complete with prohibitions on disclosure I SUPPOSE IT was inevitable. With sneakwrap terms showing up in everything from charity Web sites to pornographic spam, it was just a matter of…
You read my mind
NASA is working on innovative wireless UIs that draw on muscle movements and brain waves EVERY YEAR, IBM’S Almaden Research Center, in San Jose, Calif., hosts a day where scientists and technologists from various companies mix with the media and…
Altio builds rich apps that run on any browser
Founder and CTO Dave Levett talks about a new generation of XML-based collaborative apps CREATING A TRULY open graphical client that can interface with any system has been a long sought-after goal for the computer industry as whole. Although XML…
