Project Management

Every choice a CIO makes in today's painfully cost-constrained business environment is high risk. Rather than compromise a strategic IT project schedule because of a need to reduce costs, here's one firm that instead got creative and aggressive.

In 2004, retailers will aggressively use technology to sharpen their consumer value propositions and improve their net margins, predicts a Forrester Research document by analyst Kate Delhagen with Joshua Walker, Carrie A. Johnson and Esther H. Yuen.

I would like to commend John Pickett for his view that good programmers are an asset to be cherished, and are not simply another liability on a balance sheet like office supplies.

When you're churning out around 70 million tons of iron ore a year, maintenance hangups are not on the agenda. For Hamersley Iron Pty. Ltd., which produces 60 per cent of Australia's iron ore for global iron and steel industries, maintenance is part of its goal for world-class practices.

Real Software Inc. Wednesday released a new version of its Realbasic cross-platform product that allows developers to write applications for Linux using Windows or Macintosh systems.

A security vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could have allowed a hacker to gain control of the operating system on user machines has been patched by the open-source community and Linux vendors.

The reason no one does data backups is because it's ghastly. Normally I don't like to reveal my ineptitude, but when you add my uselessness to the utter crap we call backup software, you end up with, at best, a potential disaster.

It's 1985, and this computer room has a big, red panic button next to the door