Lee Copeland

Hewlett-Packard Co., struggling in the distressed marketplace and facing an uphill battle to acquire Compaq Computer Corp., today announced that it's discontinuing the decades-old HP e3000 server line.

With so many technology vendors struggling to keep pace in a sluggish economy, some savvy IT executives are adding new protection clauses into licensing and outsourcing agreements to ensure smooth operations should a key technology or service provider go belly-up.

With so many technology vendors struggling to keep pace in a sluggish economy, some savvy IT executives are adding new protection clauses into licensing and outsourcing agreements to ensure smooth operations should a key technology or service provider go belly-up.

The ongoing economic slump is prompting businesses to devote IT resources to projects aimed at keeping downsized enterprises humming in the face of across-the-board staff and budget cuts.

The ongoing economic slump is prompting businesses to devote IT resources to projects aimed at keeping downsized enterprises humming in the face of across-the-board staff and budget cuts.

Even in the midst of an economic downturn, corporations are still aggressively pursuing technology-driven business objectives. As a result, IT salaries are gaining a little ground this year.

Installing T-1 lines at remote offices is an expensive proposition. To reduce costs, a number of companies use Internet tunnelling to give satellite offices access to corporate systems.

For National City Corp., a bank with more than 1,500 corporate and retail chains, data conversion concerns didn't go away with year 2000.