W3C releases encryption recommendations
THE XML ENCRYPTION Working Group within the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has released two revised candidate recommendations, one entitled XML Encryption Syntax and Processing, and the other entitled Decryption Transform, W3C said on Friday. According to the W3C, the…
Financial weight
Members of the CTO Network look outside their own company when setting staff compensation levels In setting compensation for direct and indirect reports, CTOs balance staff salary history and outside market research. Source: www.infoworld.com
WorldCom woes
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…
Road to managed code
.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…
Next Stop Greenwich Village
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 ”…
SKUs me, Mr. Chief Software Architect
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…
The bully is back
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…
Take it for a test drive
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…
News you can use
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…
CTO ethics 101
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…
