A bankruptcy doesn't occur in a vacuum, and there are distinct and important impacts a supplier's or service provider's misfortune can have on your business, whether you buy or sell IT products or services. This month I'll focus on the two types of business bankruptcies and explain the differences.
Cost cutting generally starts with the low-hanging fruit, i.e. costly inefficiencies that are easy to fix. But low-hanging fruit has a tendency to grow back, says Kathy Burkle, and sometimes the only solution is to cut down the tree and start over.
As I hope you've noticed, Enterprise Systems has a new, spruced-up look for 2002—we've redesigned to make it more open and easier to read, and to make information easier to find. In addition, in our first few issues of 2002, we're introducing new voices to the magazine.
Tight economy or not, the mania over Web portals continues to run rampant. Many major infrastructure vendors, including IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and Computer Associates, have announced new generations of enterprise portal products that incorporate more collaborative and business intelligence capabilities.
Innovation isn't a line item in the R&D budget. While we've been busily trimming costs to meet reduced revenues, too many of us seem to have cut innovation, too.
Hard to believe, but it's 10 years already since 21-year-old Linus Torvalds made public version 0.02 of the Linux kernel to a few eager usenet groupies. Today, there are an estimated 10 million users worldwide. IDC estimates that by 2004, Linux will be an accepted part of most markets' enterprise computing environments.
On its tenth anniversay, Linux continues to push into the enterprise
The good news: Administering stand-alone mainframe security is easy. The bad: Finding people skilled at securing a mainframe in a distributed environment is very hard.
In a truly creepy scene from the 1991 motion picture, "The Silence of the Lambs," newbie FBI Agent Clarice Starling visits Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a convicted serial killer so dangerous that he is incarcerated behind glass walls rather than prison bars in the basement of a hospital for the criminally insane. In the scene, Agent Starling offers Lecter a survey document used to collect information on the psychology of serial killers for the FBI's behavioral science database.
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