ROBERT L. MITCHELL

Robert Mitchell is a National Correspondent for Computerworld. He writes features and a monthly column and has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Computerworld he was the manager of business development for an IT services company. He has served in a variety of editorial roles at several IT publications, including BYTE Magazine and Network World. For several years he also served as a marketing manager, a truly thankless job, where he helped deploy IT to automate sales and marketing efforts.

You can reach him at robert_mitchell@computerworld.com.

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