Chris Conrath

A commonly heard complaint when real time IT implementations are being considered is the apparently prohibitive cost; that the return on investment (ROI) is too small to justify the hefty up-front costs. But for two companies speaking at a Conference Board of Canada series on building a real-time enterprise in Toronto on Thursday, this perception turned out to be untrue.

Creating a secure and safe computing environment is never an easy task especially when you are responsible for the diverse requirements needed at one of Canada's largest school boards.

The Bank of Montreal Financial Group had a close call after

Much like Muhammad Ali's fight with George Foreman in 1974, PeopleSoft Inc. has managed to use a rope-a-dope strategy to avoid a knockout punch from Oracle Corp., and this agility is paying off.

Creating a secure and safe computing environment is never an easy task especially when you are responsible for the diverse requirements needed at one of Canada

Ed Mugford is sold on leasing his company's computers and has been since 1996. It is just that now he is a little more particular who he leases from.

During her talk at the 13th Virus Bulletin international conference in Toronto late last month, Janette Jarvis, a security systems product manager with Boeing Corp. in Seattle, spoke about how the company runs its incident management program.

Matthew Williamson is a senior research scientist with the Biologically Inspired Complex Adaptive Systems group, part of Hewlett Packard labs in Bristol, England.