The economy surely will affect the way we all do business for the next six months or more. You still may have some discretionary IT budget left in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2008, but I serio

Nearly two decades ago, on Christmas Day 1990, Tim Berners-Lee "invented" the World Wide Web when he connected two computers using HTTP via the Internet. I am not quite sure where Al Gore was that day

Cloud computing. If you haven't heard of it yet, you don't read any of the popular IT trade publications. Good for you. Cloud computing is most certainly a hot topic these days. It even has worked its

At the end of the day (or in the beginning, for that matter), the business of business is making money. And not just generating revenue, but generating enough revenue so that not only will EBITDA look

Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web-oriented architecture (WOA), Web services, Web application programming interfaces (APIs)--why are we so concerned with these things? Why do we keep defining new

This announcement, coming hard on the heels of Microsoft's bid to acquire Yahoo, may be significant. It is possible the acquisition of Yahoo would be beneficial not just to provide direct competition

I remember pulling into the parking lot at work and wondering why so many vehicles were in the public parking area. We had an employee parking lot that was controlled by an automatic gate--and the gate

Microsoft released Service Pack 1 for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS 3.0) and Microsoft Office server systems in December 2007. At the same time, it published new guidelines for recommended hard