Features & News


Performance Implications of the Year 2000 Problem

While most IT professionals are concerning themselves with preparing for the next year, an often unaddressed concern may be how well the applications will perform after their Y2K functionality has been repaired.

Disaster Recovery Using Real-Time Disk Data Copy

This article will examine the background of "mirroring," and the design challenges that accompanied the development of this remote copy solution.

Technology Trends: Xplor Directions Survey

Xplor International reports on the results of their recent "Technology Directions Survey," which reveals the impact of the Internet on today’s corporate business dealings.

Editorial: "When the Lit Comes Down"

The Legal Repercussions of Y2K

Round Table: Year 2000 Litigation

Think you’ve heard it all concerning Y2K? Think again. Representatives from the legal, technical and financial communities shine light on the still dark corner of Year 2000 litigation in this exclusive Round Table discussion.

The Year 2000 ... What Lies Beyond

What lies in the road ahead? This "look" travels from the beginning of the problem to include the growing concerns over cost and liability.

System Sort: A Powerful Weapon in Your Y2K Arsenal

Commercial sort packages can prove to be a formative tool in the Year 2000 fight with windowing, date field conversion, data mining and aging and program substitution.



Editorial: I’m Going to Disneyworld! Not!

"We’re caught in a firestorm of information; yet there’s barely enough knowledge to light a candle."

E-Commerce and the Mainframe

The "Big Iron" isn’t going to the computer graveyard just yet. With all the information stored there, the challenge is to make it remotely available to employees, vendors and customers in a managed fashion - without jeopardizing security.

IBM's Java: The Common Language of the Coming Era

IBM aims to win the Java Wars by creating a brand of Java that plays on all its platforms and, thus, offers customers an enterprise platform more open and appealing than the one controlled by Microsoft’s Win32 and COM APIs.

The Smart Choice for Token Ring Networks

With the majority of Token Ring users having designed a switched LAN environment that incorporates a mixture of Ethernet and Token Ring transport, network managers are focusing their efforts on how to move switching to the desktop, while ensuring the coexistence and interoperability of Token Ring and Ethernet workstations over the corporate backbone

Motorola Web Empowers Its Employees and Organization

Aonix helps Motorola deliver a Web-enabled version of its information training system that provide the same processing power and functionality of its current system, but accommodates modifications that come about due to customer requirements.

Pier 1 Weds VSAM with the World Wide Web to Launch Bridal Registry Site

Specialty retailer Pier 1 Imports’ Bridal Registry finds marital bliss as its host-based VSAM database is joined with the World Wide Web to produce a very attractive offspring: increased revenues.

Industry News

Driving the price of MIPS down, Centron and Cisco sign global agreement, Computer Associates acquires REALOGIC, Innovation Data Processing partners with St. Bernard, Attachmate and IBM announce host access industry standard.

Host-to-Web Creates Bridge for VWR

VWR Scientific Products leverages its existing programs to create an enhanced Web presence for online ordering.

Top Ten Tricky Year 2000 Problems

A down and dirty list of Year 2000 concerns.