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7/4/2008 1:54:30 AM
The next time you have a project in need of a software solution, try an experiment. Go to open-source collaboration site SourceForge and spend five ...
Source Code Management Systems: Trends, Analysis and Best Features7/4/2008 1:54:30 AM
In the beginning, there was the spreadsheet, the white board and the release engineer. The release engineer ran from one cubicle to the next ...
Seven Financial Reasons Not to Use Windows7/3/2008 9:58:19 PM
Windows is often the most intuitive choice from the CIO's perspective. Just like in the old days, when "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM," ...
Remembering Grace Murray Hopper, Tim Berners-Lee7/3/2008 7:08:04 PM
1 Computer science pioneer Grace Murray Hopper dies in Arlington, Va., in 1992 at age 85. A Navy admiral, Hopper invented the first program ...
The Month of November in IT History: Punch Card Creator Dies7/3/2008 7:08:03 PM
Nov. 17, 1929 Dr. Herman Hollerith, the creator of the electric tabulating machine and founder of a company that would later become IBM, dies of a ...
Reader Feedback on Multitasking and Web Services7/3/2008 7:08:03 PM
InBox Reader Feedback. . The Sept. 15, 2003, Reality Bytes column ("Why More Is Less") really hit the nail on the head. What I am seeing is that ...
Orchid Cellmark Hires Lutz as Its New CIO7/3/2008 7:08:02 PM
William J. Lutz joined Orchid Cellmark today as its vice president of information technology. He comes to the Princeton, N.J.-based provider of ...
The Art of the New Deal7/3/2008 11:46:53 AM
The last time we sweated through an economy as harsh as today's environment-back around 2002-the technology market looked very different. . CIOs ...
7/3/2008 10:25:40 AM
Computerworld
Woe to the ever-shrinking brand. Not just in terms of customer loyalty or profit margins, but in name. . IBM once sold something called System 38 ...
IBM mainframe acquisition raises antitrust concerns7/2/2008 5:48:00 PM
Computerworld
IBM has acquired Platform Solutions, a vendor of mainframes and other computer hardware, in a move that raised antitrust concerns from one IT trade ...
Former HP VP charged with stealing IBM trade secrets7/2/2008 4:42:25 PM
Computerworld
A former Hewlett-Packard Co. vice president was indicted by a federal grand jury last week for allegedly stealing trade secrets from his former ...
Supercomputer seen helping to diagnose osteoporosis7/2/2008 2:42:44 PM
Computerworld
IBM and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology researchers are using an IBM BlueGene/L supercomputer to build intricate simulations of human bones ...