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W. Schatz Suffolk law, new studies reinvigorate
VDT debate (health aspects) . . . . . . 39--41
E. F. Codd Fatal flaws in SQL. 1 . . . . . . . . . 45--48
S. Caniano All TP1s are not created equal
(transaction processing benchmark) . . . 51--53
D. R. Brousell The new era of DBMS integration . . . . 57--58
M. J. Foley The traveling programmer's popular show
(third party programmers) . . . . . . . 63--65
R. Emmett Carlyle RISC and Unix: the signs of transitional
times (IS industry) . . . . . . . . . . 38--44
N. Alster The Japan 10 market close-up: yen drives
growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48/1--10
R. Tomlin A European IS culture for the 1990s . . 48/14--20
J. Moad Can Unisys juggle open systems, too? . . 50--54
C. Libersat Weaving seamless computing systems . . . 59--66
E. F. Codd Fatal flaws in SQL. 2 . . . . . . . . . 71--74
M. Mehler VDTs soup up to meet the PC challenge 79--82
P. Hodges The new maturity of computer science . . 37--40
R. A. Zawacki and
D. Kubert Scott and
P. A. Zawacki How college students choose IS careers 40--48
S. Kerr The politics of network management . . . 50--54
J. D. Cougher Motivating IS personnel . . . . . . . . 59--64
D. Mankin and
T. Bikson and
B. Gutek and
C. Stasz Managing technological change: the
process is key . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--80
E. J. Joyce Reusable software: passage to
productivity? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--102
Anonymous Shifts in global IS trade . . . . . . . 44/1--10
J. Etheridge EDI in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44/15--18
S. Kerr IS trims down (IS budgets) . . . . . . . 46--49
Anonymous What are you worth in '88? (salary
survey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--66
M. Miron and
J. Cecil and
K. Bradicich and
G. Hall The myths and realities of competitive
advantage (information technology) . . . 71--82
D. Stamps Department computing. III. Who's in
charge? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--92
M. Goldstein and
J. Hagel Systems discontinuity: roadblock to
strategic change . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--37, 42
H. Fosdick and
L. Garcia-Rose DB2 users stand up to be counted . . . . 45, 48, 54, 58
R. S. Ellinger A head start down the MAP\slash TOP 3.0
road . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64, 68
D. Blankenhorn Pursuing one peripheral
(printer/copier/scanner/fax) . . . . . . 71, 74, 76
E. J. Joyce Innovative in-house development . . . . 81--83
P. J. Rothstein Up and running: how to ensure disaster
recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88, 92, 94, 96
R. Emmett Carlyle Advanced technology groups (IS
management) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18--24
J. Moad The plight of the Brazilian user (IS
users) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--44
J. Buse Chargeback systems come of age (finance
management) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--57
R. Goslin Eight steps to applications engineering 59--62, 66
J. Moad The push is on for data center
automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--72
B. Schultz Users await fruitful DEC\slash Apple
yield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--81
E. Gregory Database machines: the least-cost route? 85--86, 90
S. Kerr Can IBM revive the RT PC? . . . . . . . 95--98
B. Musgrave Users colonize ISDN islands . . . . . . 101--108
J. Norton Private networks: the end of an era? . . 111--117
C. Keene and
P. Jessel and
J. Hagel Solving the systems puzzle. 3 (systems
integrators) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119--125
J. Ferreira and
M. E. Treacy It's more than just laptops (sales
automation management) . . . . . . . . . 127--131
G. McWilliams Oracle's olympian challenge . . . . . . 31--45
J. Moad CSP: the weak link in SAA? (Systems
Application Architecture) . . . . . . . 49--52
M. Halper Portables get raves on the road . . . . 55--58
S. C. McCready Top drug firms to digitize documentation 63--66
J. Rypdal What's ahead for IBM's on-line systems 69--70, 74--75
G. McWilliams Banks, network providers eye EDI
(electronic document interchange) . . . 77--78
S. Kerr Document interchange reigns at DOD . . . 81--84
M. Fleischer and
S. Patel Shaping up your data center . . . . . . 89--99
M. J. Foley Post-MRP II: what comes next? . . . . . 24, 32, 36
R. Emmett Carlyle Where methodology falls short (CASE) . . 43--44, 46--47
R. O. Peterson Data center depopulation . . . . . . . . 49--51, 53, 55, 57
M. Bryan With high speed, new applications
(modems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--60, 66, 72
J. Ruhl How to survive post-implementation
aftershock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77, 80, 82--83
J. Martin Computing for art's sake . . . . . . . . 86/9, 86/12--13
K. Rothschild The age of influence (user groups) . . . 18--21, 24
Anonymous The DATAMATION international user group
directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25--48
D. R. O'Connell A matter of semantics (DBMS) . . . . . . 51--54
B. Francis PC back-up's optical understudy . . . . 57--60
M. Ridgway Curriculum shortfall (personnel) . . . . 77
R. E. Carlyle and
J. Moad The rise of an information utility (IBM) 26--31, 34
G. McWilliams and
S. Kerr IBM redefines the competition . . . . . 37--40
B. Francis and
W. Schatz IBM mends third-party fences . . . . . . 41--42, 44
E. J. Joyce Dialing for help. As the PC software
field narrows, customer support is
becoming more competitive as users
demand better, faster, and more service
than ever before . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--55
S. Kerr IBM's NFS alternative . . . . . . . . . 63--65
A. F. Farhoomand and
M. Murphy Managing computer security . . . . . . . 67--68
L. Runyan Hot technologies for 1989 . . . . . . . 18--22, 24
J. Martin The long road to DB2 migration
(relational databases) . . . . . . . . . 29, 32
G. McWilliams Soft landings for RISC systems . . . . . 35--36
B. Schultz Take a letter, Mr. Postman (electronic
mail) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37, 40--42
S. Kerr Telecom pros evolve . . . . . . . . . . 45, 48
E. Rivard and
K. Kaiser The benefit of quality IS . . . . . . . 53--55, 58
J. Moad The second wave (management of PC
applications) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14--20
D. Beech New life for SQL . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--31, 33, 35--36
R. E. Carlyle Fighting corporate amnesia (programming
management) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--44
O. Serlin Toward an equitable benchmark
(DebitCredit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47, 50--51, 54
S. Kerr New CICS out of IBM . . . . . . . . . . 59--60, 62
M. L. Gibson Implementing the promise (computer-aided
software engineering) . . . . . . . . . 65--67
B. Francis Desktop tug of war: OS/2 versus Unix . . 18--21, 24--25
J. McAfee The virus cure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29--40
D. Beech The future of SQL . . . . . . . . . . . 45--48
J. Joyce Is error-free software achievable? . . . 53, 56
J. Moad Unix goes upscale . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 63, 65, 68, 70
B. Francis Frito lays a new IS bet (DSS) . . . . . 75, 78
A. Emmett The dual-protocol modem duel (CCITT
V.42) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82, 86--88
T. M. Lodahl and
K. L. Redditt Aiming IS at business targets . . . . . 93, 95, 97, 99--100
P. Tate With Europe's market unity comes IS
urgency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
D. Stamps Spanning the DEC-IBM worlds . . . . . . 45--48
L. Davis Retailers go shopping for EDI . . . . . 53--54, 56
S. Kerr Tl's middle ground gets filled . . . . . 61--62, 66, 68
J. Moad Navigating cross-functional IS waters
(IS integration) . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--75
P. Tate Europe's IS execs predict the future . . 76/1--2
G. Ross Planning for change (European single
market) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76/5--8
P. Purton Europe's electronic trading bloc . . . . 76/13--14
T. Esh Beyond the borders of the new Europe . . 76/25--26
J. Etheridge Interest rate on the rise (European 1992
market, impact on banking) . . . . . . . 76/15, 26
J. Martin Adaptation drives IS integration
(European single market) . . . . . . . . 76/18, 20
P. Trautman Can they practice what they preach?
(European single market and government
DP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76/19, 20
E. Grill and
J. Flittner and
W. Rausch A CAX success story (CAD\slash CAM\slash
CAE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16--23
M. Bryan Shopping for a PC DBMS . . . . . . . . . 25--35
B. Francis The IS push for 386 power . . . . . . . 39--44
M. Bryan Help is on the way (consultants and
capacity planning) . . . . . . . . . . . 45--51
S. Kerr A tide of change in the Pacific
(telecommunications) . . . . . . . . . . 55--62
L. Davis Can education meet IS career demands? 65--72
P. Hodges IS budget growth slides . . . . . . . . 18--22
W. Humphrey Improving the software development
process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28--30, 52
N. Statland Payoffs down the pike: a CASE study . . 32--33, 52
H. Weber From CASE to software factories . . . . 34--36, 52
G. Tillmann Prototyping for the right results . . . 42, 45
J. Bradley An educational experience at Aetna . . . 46--47
J. Keyes Systems design with the user in mind . . 48--50, 55, 56
S. Kerr IBM's fixed price pitch (maintenance) 59--64
L. Davis Phone mail gets stamp of approval (voice
messaging) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--78
H. Brookman Testing for the best programmer . . . . 83--86
K. Grindley Cutting through the CASE hype . . . . . 88--89, 88--10
M. J. Fisher Digging out with image technology . . . 18--21, 24, 26--27
P. Hodges LAN growth surges . . . . . . . . . . . 32--34, 36
J. J. Popolizio and
W. S. Cappelli New shells for old iron (expert systems) 41--43, 45, 47--48
J. Moad It's DASD time again . . . . . . . . . . 50, 52
S. Kerr Legal laissez-faire (electronic data
interchange) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54, 56
R. E. Carlyle Computer Associates: at a crossroads . . 61--63, 65, 67, 69
G. McWilliams Integrated computing environments . . . 18--21
Anonymous Workstations and networks are prime-time
hits startup companies . . . . . . . . . 24--28, 30
D. G. Bobrow The object of desire object-oriented
programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--38, 41
D. Stamps The AS\slash 400's surprise role . . . . 49--50, 52
B. Francis Who's on deck with OS/2? . . . . . . . . 54--56
W. Schatz Programming is the problem parallel
processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 60--61
L. Davis From LANs to WANs . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
B. Francis Climbing the PC ladder career paths . . 77--78
S. M. Dambrot Japan prepares for software crisis . . . 80/13--14, 16
A. Mehta The fifth generation goes soft . . . . . 80/5, 9
J. Moad Contracting with integrators . . . . . . 18--22
L. Runyan The open opportunity (open systems) . . 26--28
R. Rashid A catalyst for open systems (Mach
kernel) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--33
R. Martin The standards test for portability (open
systems) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--40
D. Stamps Taking an objective look
(object-oriented programming) . . . . . 45--48
E. J. Joyce A system for the 21st century (NASA
system development) . . . . . . . . . . 51--54
J. Moad The database dimension (RDA protocol) 59--63
J. Kirkley No magic, just hard work (DP management) 67--73
S. Kerr What's developing in large systems?
(User spending survey) . . . . . . . . . 18--26
J. M. Carey and
J. D. Currey The prototyping conundrum . . . . . . . 29--33
J. Moad Son of SAA (FAA for banks) . . . . . . . 39--40
B. Francis Not just the MacMaverick anymore? (Apple
Macintosh) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--47
W. Schatz Where's the beef? (Systems development
at the Department of Agriculture) . . . 49--53
S. Kerr Playing in concert (corporate LANs) . . 55--57
A. L. Lederer and
V. Sethi Pitfalls in planning (strategic
information systems) . . . . . . . . . . 59--62
O. Gadacz Steel giant pioneers Korean IS . . . . . 64g--h
P. Tate Europe's VM knight woos the Blue dragon
(IBM user group) . . . . . . . . . . . . 64a--b
J. Kelly Three markets shape one industry (DP
industry) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7--29
Anonymous At the top of the IS peak (DP industry) 35--148
Anonymous Inside the markets DP industry . . . . . 149--162
T. McCusker Tracking the wild data base (DB2) . . . 3--8
R. E. Carlyle The selling of IS . . . . . . . . . . . 22--24, 26
M. Loh and
R. R. Nelson Reaping CASE harvests . . . . . . . . . 31--32, 34
S. G. Davis Can stand-alone EISs stand up? . . . . . 41--42, 44
D. Stamps Loyalties under fire (Control Data Corp.
mainframe users) . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
S. Kerr A secret no more (security and
encryption) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--55
G. McWilliams Back to the drawing board (Digital and
OLTP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 59, 61
J. W. Owen Working at home . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--65
W. Schatz Who's winning the supercomputer race? 18--21
R. E. Carlyle IBM's VSE: a victory for the techies? 25--27
B. Francis Muddy waters (PC spreadsheets) . . . . . 31--32
L. Davis Point of access (online services) . . . 35--37
R. C. Johnson That fuzzy feeling . . . . . . . . . . . 39, 42--43
A. Emmett Serving two masters (modems) . . . . . . 47--48, 52
B. Francis Competitiveness: a new standard . . . . 53--55
S. Kerr The new IS force (corporate cultures) 18--23
J. Moad Next stop, world markets (Fujitsu) . . . 28--32
J. Martin Pursuing pirates (unauthorized software
copying) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--42
M. Waller Cures for noise problems (power
protection) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48, 50
L. Stevens The open data center (operations) . . . 55--56
A. Jenkins The longer reach of AppleTalk . . . . . 59--60
L. Haber Balancing network options
(communications security) . . . . . . . 63--64
R. H. Reck The shock of going global (management
organization) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68, 70
J. Moad Out of the glass house (business
training for IS professionals) . . . . . 71--72
R. E. Carlyle What are you worth? (DATAMATION salary
survey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--25, 28--30
J. Moad Workstations win a Big Blue CASE . . . . 37--38, 40
C. Sivula Cooperative processing. 3. The
client-server perspective . . . . . . . 47--48
R. E. Carlyle The new Unisys approach . . . . . . . . 53, 56
A. Jenkins A network puzzle (IBM systems network
architecture) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
D. Stamps The grooming of IS interns . . . . . . . 67--68
J. J. Bloombecker Short-circuiting computer crime . . . . 71--72
P. Trautman Systems solution to pollution . . . . . 72/1--2
T. Healy Impressive performance (Australian data
centres) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72/9--10
J. Martin Synergy at Fininvest . . . . . . . . . . 72/15--16
J. Majkiewicz A test for SAA? . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--38, 40
T. McCusker Project planning made easy . . . . . . . 49--50
M. J. Foley The high-volume printer option . . . . . 59--60
C. Sivula A test-bed for IBM's strategy . . . . . 67--68, 70
M. W. Doll and
W. J. Doll A productive PC operation . . . . . . . 77--78
L. Davis Initiating systems projects. l. Managing
your vendor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81--82, 84
J. J. Bloombecker Malpractice in IS? . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86
R. H. Reck and
V. P. Reck Steering IS committees straight . . . . 89--92
B. Francis The desktop dimension . . . . . . . . . 28--31, 34--35, 38, 40
P. Hodges A relational successor? (databases) . . 47--48, 50
B. Francis A wary reception to new PC bus? . . . . 57--58, 60
M. Waller Planning data center design . . . . . . 73--74
D. Stamps A bridge too far (networking) . . . . . 83--84, 86
J. Moad Asking users to judge IS . . . . . . . . 93--94, 98, 100
B. Francis and
J. McMullen New demands on PC support . . . . . . . 101--102
P. Hodges Manufacturing automation's problem . . . 32--35, 38
D. Davis U.S. giants run a US\$50 billion {IS}
tab (industry-by-industry spending
survey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--80
J. Moad Cultural barriers slow reusability
(programming) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87--92
C. Sivula Georgia-Pacific's MRP II test . . . . . 95--101
S. Kerr The coming global directory for E-mail 105--108
B. Floyd and
B. Ronen Where best to system invest (office
automation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111, 114
R. Carlyle Leaping ahead in software productivity
(programming languages) . . . . . . . . 22--24, 31, 32
J. McMullen Spreadsheet consolidation . . . . . . . 35--36
J. McMullen End users create PC applications . . . . 41--43
W. Schatz US computer research's basic dilemma . . 44--47
C. Sivula A new rival to Ethernet and token ring?
(ARCnet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--58
L. Runyan Global IS strategies . . . . . . . . . . 71--72, 78
D. Hebditch To Russia with software . . . . . . . . 78/3--4
K. Rothschild International user group directory . . . 81--106
J. Moad and
S. Kerr How customers help the new IBM . . . . . 20--24
J. Moad and
S. Kerr How line managers run the new IBM . . . 28--30, 32
J. Moad and
S. Kerr How allies fit with the new IBM . . . . 34--35, 38--39
R. Carlyle Is your data ready for the repository?
(IBM AD/cycle CASE environment) . . . . 43--44, 46, 48
J. Majkiewicz Will desktop video play in business? . . 53--54, 56
L. Davis On-line applications grow up . . . . . . 61--63
C. Sivula The promise and problems of fractional
T1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--71
C. Sivula A call for distributed computing (RPC) 75--76, 78, 80
W. Schatz Washington's IS leadership gap . . . . . 81--83
J. Kaye Feeding Europe's info appetite . . . . . 85--86
J. Etheridge Peugeot drives integration . . . . . . . 88--81, 88--84
P. Hodges The application decade begins . . . . . 22--25, 28--30
Won Kim A new database for new times . . . . . . 35--36, 40, 42
J. McMullen A clear view for windows . . . . . . . . 47--48
C. Sivula The white-collar productivity push OA 52--54, 56
B. Francis What's taking the risk out of RISC . . . 61--62, 64
B. Francis A corporate vision for publishing . . . 65--67
S. Kerr Virtual net battle yields user savings 71--73
W. B. Foss Early wins are key to system success
management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--82
M. Healey A power play for workstations . . . . . 83--85
R. Carlyle The tomorrow organization . . . . . . . 22--25, 28--29
Won Kim Defining object databases anew . . . . . 33--34, 36
C. T. Hughes and
J. D. Clark The stages of CASE usage . . . . . . . . 41--44
L. Davis Peering at the LU 6.2 choice . . . . . . 49--50, 52
S. Kerr Using AI to improve security . . . . . . 57--58, 60
S. Kerr The applications wave behind ISDN . . . 64--66
G. H. Cox Technology's rewards without the risks 69--70, 72, 75
P. Judge UNIX ports in Europe . . . . . . . . . . 78--80
J. Lamb Europe's grand IS alliances . . . . . . 81, 83
J. Moad The software revolution . . . . . . . . 22--25, 28--30
B. Francis Client/server: the model for the 1990s 34--36, 38, 40
E. H. Lonsford UNIX security: fact not fiction . . . . 44--46, 48
J. Moad Maintaining the competitive edge . . . . 61--62, 64, 66
I. Gershkoff The make or buy game (software
applications) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--77
J. Kelly Automated storage draws interest . . . . 81--82, 86
C. Sivula The IS engine driving Infiniti . . . . . 89--90, 92
E. Leinfuss Making terminal access dynamic (IBM's
Virtual Telecommunications Access
Method) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--100, 102, 104
H. C. Steyer, Jr. The World Bank's open network . . . . . 109--110, 114
J. R. Johnson Hallmark's formula for quality (software
quality assurance) . . . . . . . . . . . 119--120, 122
L. Ostroff Spinning systems in the Pacific (Rohm
and Haas chemical manufacturing company) 129--131
C. Sivula Duking it out on the high end (DEC's new
marketing strategies) . . . . . . . . . 22--28
C. Sivula Ducking the competition on the desktop
(Digital and the PC market) . . . . . . 36--39
J. McMullen New allies: IS and service suppliers . . 42--51
E. Dyson Why groupware is gaining ground . . . . 52--56
V. Merlyn and
G. Boone The ins and outs of AD/Cycle . . . . . . 59--64
D. A. Armstrong How Rockwell launched its EIS . . . . . 69--72
C. D. Snapp EDI aims high for global growth . . . . 77--80
C. D. Snapp Support for a complex network . . . . . 85--88
T. Huggins 1993 holds promise but few guarantees 91--93
T. Huggins 1993 forges vendor links . . . . . . . . 95--96
R. Boult CIM in the pipeline . . . . . . . . . . 96--95
L. J. Best Building software skyscrapers . . . . . 67--74
L. Garcia-Rose and
H. Fosdick The maturation of DB2 . . . . . . . . . 75--82
J. Williams and
J. A. Nelson Striking oil in decision support . . . . 83--87
J.-M. Halvorsen What to look for in leasing . . . . . . 88--94
L. Davis A logical way to distribute computing
(communications packages) . . . . . . . 95--102
A. Pantages The new order at Johnson Wax . . . . . . 103--108
H. Bookman Training for a key transition . . . . . 109--113
B. Sedacca Systems in store for Harrods . . . . . . 114--116
J. Moad The new agenda for open systems
(standards) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--27, 30
R. Carlyle Recovery! (IS spending) . . . . . . . . 34--39, 42, 44, 48
H. P. Newquist, III Experts at retail (expert systems) . . . 53--54, 56
E. Dyson Shearson's image of groupware
(electronic imaging) . . . . . . . . . . 61
J. McMullen The latest desktop contender
(X-terminals) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64, 66
B. Francis A new vision of quality control . . . . 70--72
D. Armstrong The people factor in EIS success . . . . 73--75, 78--79
T. McCusker A broader view of networking . . . . . . 83--84, 86
B. Henry Measuring IS for business value . . . . 89--91
R. E. Wasson Organizing for future technologies . . . 93--95
P. Judge IT delivers at Securicor . . . . . . . . 100/1--3
M. Healey Diversity at the low end (PC/workstation
market) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100/7--8
R. Carlyle Why consolidation makes sense . . . . . 24--27, 30--31
D. Stamps The IS eye on insider trading . . . . . 35--36, 38, 43
B. Francis UNIX checks in at Four Seasons . . . . . 47--49
L. Davis Staying on top of network control . . . 53--56
P. Trautman Midsized steps toward automation . . . . 73--74
T. May Justifying the image (image processing) 82--84
N. H. Black Escape from the paper pit (image
processing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86--88
J. Kniskern Engineering a visionary solution (image
processing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90--91
J. Baronas A guide to quality scanning . . . . . . 96--97
M. Balban OCR: what's needed next . . . . . . . . 98--99
J. Moda Why you should be making IS allies . . . 26--34
J. McMullen Microsoft in the age of networks . . . . 36--39
T. McCusker Where open systems are making headway 55--60
W. J. Keller Has the mini met its match? . . . . . . 62--66
C. Sivula GTE's new line on customer service . . . 68--70
S. A. Caswell A new LAN standard lights the way . . . 75--80
R. Van Loon Working the information channels . . . . 85--88
E. Leinfuss R and D without the fee
(business/academia relationships) . . . 93--95
M. Johnston Betting on a transaction network (horse
racing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99--101
J. Etheridge A proprietary faith for midrange users
(operating systems) . . . . . . . . . . 102--104
W. Madsen African nations emphasizing security . . 104/2--8
J. Moad Large systems are hot! (Buying trends) 24--29, 32
D. Barron Ease of use coming to PC graphics . . . 37--38, 40, 42
D. Hamilton Can leasing software save you money 2Q 47--50
B. Francis Kimberly-Clark sees profits in IS . . . 53--54
C. Sivula How open system suppliers differ (UNIX) 57--58, 60, 62
E. Leinfuss USAA's image of success (image
processing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78, 80, 82
E. Arnum PC power drives demand for token nets 84--89
D. Williams New technology for coordinating work . . 92--96
G. L. Hershey and
J. L. Eatman Why IS execs feel left out of big
decisions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97--99
P. Trautman Integrating text for TV databases . . . 102--103
M. R. Leibowitz UNIX workstations arrive! . . . . . . . 24--27, 30
J. Tibbetts and
B. Bernstein Why SAA will play on local area networks 37--42
D. Stamps Human resources: a strategic partner or
IS burden? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47--48, 50
J. McMullen Have PCs buried the graphics terminals
market? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70, 72
B. Belitos Client/server systems attract retail
bankers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--78, 80
L. Davis The dawn of MAN: a promising way to
connect LANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--86, 88, 90
C. Winkler Better project management in uncertain
times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--98
D. Hebditch Opening up CIM opportunities . . . . . . 111--113
B. Sedacca Lloyd's ups the ante for claims
processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115--116
J. Kelly Information technology sales soar to
US\$256{B} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22--28, 32--35
R. Carlyle What's right with the US market (for
information systems) . . . . . . . . . . 40--46, 53--56, 58, 60, 64, 66--69, 72, 74, 76, 78--81, 84, 86
C. Barnat European unity creates new superpowers
(in the computer industry) . . . . . . . 118--123, 127--128, 130, 132, 134, 136, 138, 140, 143--146
M. Johnston Why Japan isn't the hottest IT spot in
Asia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148--153, 157--161, 163, 165, 167, 170--171, 174, 176
J. Moad The standards process breaks down . . . 24--27, 30, 32
J. McMullen Ashton-Tate gets back to dBASEics . . . 38--40
Anonymous Desktop systems in the 1990s. The
strategic role of the client . . . . . . 41--56
R. Carlyle CA user group sells its software
(Computer Associates) . . . . . . . . . 57--58, 60
B. Francis Oil firms seek UNIX standards . . . . . 63--64
G. Schussel The promise and the reality of AD/Cycle
(CASE tool) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70, 72
C. Sivula What's cookin' in Campbell's CIM lab . . 79--80, 82
S. Wallace Rx for faster image transmission . . . . 95--96, 98
J. Kelly Outsourcing: who pulls the strings? (DP
cost control) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--104, 106
F. C. Weston, Jr. Why IS must be a partner in CIM . . . . 111--112
D. Darst Balancing productivity and quality (IS
management) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117--119
K. Herbst A more open market for supercomputers 123--125
E. San Juan Systematizing Spanish Semantics (IBM's
Technological Centre for Languages) . . 127
J. Moad Windows 3.0: the corporate standard . . 30--32, 36
J. McMullen What's wrong with network licensing . . 43--44
J. McMullen How to get the most out of DOS . . . . . 51--52
E. Leinfuss Digital's EDI remedy . . . . . . . . . . 63--73
S. Wallace A new look for optical networks . . . . 79--82
D. Stamps Finding the right fixes for DB2 . . . . 89--90, 92, 96
R. Carlyle Software AG leaps into server systems 99, 101
A. Brody The new power of the HP LaserJet III . . 103--104
M. Ricciuti Sun's office contender (SPARCstation
SLC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111--112
D. Worhach A do-it-yourself guide to PC repair . . 39--40
S. A. Caswell Mail messages that cut red tape . . . . 47--48, 50
T. McCusker Now playing: compact disks on LANs . . . 55--56
E. F. Codd Mastering the art of database fusion . . 61--62, 64
T. McCusker Users now hail expert systems upgrade 69--70
C. G. Bell and
G. Miranker Shopping for supercomputers . . . . . . 76--78, 80
B. Francis System PRO revs up networks . . . . . . 30--32, 34, 38
A. Pantages Salaries rise 5.6% in soft market . . . 42--44
J. McMullen Tools of the trade: utility software
comes of age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
D. Hamilton A united approach to PC purchasing . . . 59--60, 62
S. Taylor T1 muxes meet the networking challenge 67--68, 70
S. Clark How to recruit trading partners . . . . 75--76
E. F. Codd Mastering the art of database fusion. II 81--82
J. Moad Disaster-proof your data . . . . . . . . 87--88, 90, 93
J. Martin Software that spans the globe . . . . . 96--95--96, 96--98
M. Ricciuti IBM entry spans midrange gap . . . . . . 101--102
W. Bernacki and
M. Freely Modems: performance at a better price 107--108, 110--111
J. W. Semich CASE power for OS\slash 2 . . . . . . . 34--37, 40
P. Pinella Organizational computing arrives . . . . 42--44, 46, 48
B. Francis A secure future for diskless
workstations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--54, 56
B. Francis OS/2's multiuser migration . . . . . . . 63--64
M. Schlack Macs get a VAX connection . . . . . . . 69--70, 72
R. Carlyle Financial systems that bust borders . . 77--78, 80, 82
J. Moad Which database for Digital's customers? 87--90
D. B. Davis IS automates for data center survival 95--96, 98
M. Ricciuti Apple plays up a low-cost Mac . . . . . 101--102
J. Mann and
M. Freely LAN-based e-mail takes off . . . . . . . 105--106
Anonymous Suppliers of e-mail . . . . . . . . . . 108--111
Anonymous A GRiD lock on the top spot (product
reviews) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
J. Moad NCR's 486 strategy . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36, 38
B. Francis Will multimedia get down to business? 43--44
T. McCusker How to decode 150 protocols . . . . . . 47--48
T. McCusker LAN manager grows up . . . . . . . . . . 53--54
H. Fosdick Ten steps to AD/Cycle . . . . . . . . . 59--60, 64
L. Davis Software's big 50 (top independent
software vendors) . . . . . . . . . . . 67--71
J. McMullen The new breed of Mac databases . . . . . 75--76
D. Stamps Survival software for manufacturing . . 81--82
T. Bunker IBM fiber breaks data center barrier . . 85--86
M. Ricciuti AT and T's network Star (StarGROUP
server) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
J. McMullen Borland's spreadsheet contender (Quattro
Pro 2.0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34--36, 38
P. Pinella CD-ROM takes on dial-up data . . . . . . 43--44
J. McMullen ToolBook's easy approach to Windows . . 47--48
T. Bunker What's slowing fast token ring . . . . . 51--52
K. Rothschild Timeplex girds for data deluge . . . . . 57
P. J. Gill Finally, a binary UNIX PC standard . . . 59--60
E. L. Appleton DEC, Sun users eye minisupers . . . . . 64
J. Moad Why are HP users angry? . . . . . . . . 69--71
M. Ricciuti NaviGate through system slowdowns . . . 75--76
J. Caron and
M. Freely The highs and lows of word processing 79--81
R. O'Connor Vendors slash laptop prices . . . . . . 64/4--5
C. Graham Decentralizing HR software . . . . . . . 71--73
N. Snell Zenith's comeback portable . . . . . . . 28--30
B. Francis OCR comes down to the desktop . . . . . 44, 46
R. G. Childs Seven steps to successful E-mail . . . . 56, 58
L. Davis On the fast track to HR integration . . 61--63, 65
J. Moad Can IBM realize its S/390 vision? . . . 30--34
R. Cook The rise of the superfloppy . . . . . . 39--42
B. Francis Pen-based notebooks find their niche . . 44, 46
N. Snell Fast network lasers break new ground . . 79--80
J. Caron Tracking project management . . . . . . 95--97
L. Wood Dial 1-800 for PC support . . . . . . . 69--70
S. Paul New 386 muscle for 286 PCs . . . . . . . 83
M. Schlack How to keep viruses off your LAN . . . . 87--88, 90
B. Francis Make way for modular PCs . . . . . . . . 43--44
S. H. Lindsey A database publishing recipe . . . . . . 83--84
N. Snell Leasing smart . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73--74
J. Mann An image of document management . . . . 81--82
R. Abramson Bulletproof your software contracts . . 61
L. The MIS buys into mail order . . . . . . . . 27--29
S. H. Lindsey Color laptop saves power . . . . . . . . 43--44
T. Jenson From telephone to database (interactive
voice response systems) . . . . . . . . 46--48
Anonymous AS\slash 400 Application Opportunities S-18--S
Anonymous Andrew Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-5--S
Anonymous The AS\slash 400 In An Open Environment S-26--S
Anonymous AS\slash 400 Product Directory . . . . . S-37--S
Anonymous Amalgamated Software of North America S-25--S
Anonymous Business Computer Design . . . . . . . . S-10--S
Anonymous Blue Rainbow Software International Corp S-8--S
Anonymous Bancom Systems, Inc . . . . . . . . . . S-24--S
Anonymous CODA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-4--S
Anonymous Decision Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-18--S
Anonymous Downsizing and Midrange Systems . . . . S-4--S
Anonymous Daly and Wolcott . . . . . . . . . . . . S-11--S
Anonymous Ease of Use and The GUIs . . . . . . . . S-25--S
Anonymous Group 1 Software . . . . . . . . . . . . S-46--S
Anonymous Help/Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-35--S
Anonymous IBM Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-28--S
Anonymous IBS Conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . S-38--S
Anonymous J. D. Edwards . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-21--S
Anonymous JBA International . . . . . . . . . . . S-14--S
Anonymous Managing AS\slash 400 Systems . . . . . S-21--S
Anonymous Premenos Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-40--S
Anonymous Perle Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-16--S
Anonymous Quixx Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-48--S
Anonymous Software Development In a Downsized
World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-12--S
Anonymous Software 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-45--S
Anonymous System Software Associates . . . . . . . S-12--S
Anonymous SoftLanding Systems . . . . . . . . . . S-37--S
Anonymous Tangent Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-26--S
Anonymous XL\slash Datacomp . . . . . . . . . . . S-42--S
Anonymous Compaq Nets a Printer . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Dell's Lighter, Leaner Notebook . . . . 8
Anonymous UnixWare: UNIX For The Masses . . . . . 10
Anonymous The Traveling Desktop . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous DEC's Upgrade Xpress . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Simultaneous Sessions . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Austin Pushes 486 Price Point . . . . . 15
Anonymous Management WizDOM . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Five-Platform COBOL . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Putting a Good Face on DBMS . . . . . . 17
Anonymous A Shared Source For Color Output . . . . 19
Anonymous Double Data Security . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous Windows-Tweaking Utilities . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous It's In The Cards . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Developers See Wider Windows Apps . . . 24
Anonymous Windows Keeps Coming On Strong . . . . . 26
Anonymous The Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . 27
Anonymous Buttoned-Up Data Collection . . . . . . 31
T. McClusker Low-cost messaging, the LAN fax way . . 46, 48
L. Davis How to automate EPA reports . . . . . . 57--58
E. Lindholm CAD on the desktop . . . . . . . . . . . 68, 69
E. L. Appleton Smart document retrieval . . . . . . . . 20--23
M. Ricciuti Connect manufacturing to the enterprise
(software) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42, 44
S. H. Lindsey VAX 6000 gets high marks . . . . . . . . 55--56
L. The PCs tool up for hypertext . . . . . . . 35--36
R. Cook Cutting through the 486 confusion
(microprocessors) . . . . . . . . . . . 43--45
M. Taber Can OfficeVision take off with Notes? 65--68
D. Davis Add color to your volume printing . . . 69--71
B. Francis How to secure a portable PC . . . . . . 43--44
L. Davis New uses for optical storage . . . . . . 78--81
M. Ricciuti Excel 4.0 ups spreadsheet ante . . . . . 81--82
L. Davis A Window into document management . . . 90--92
N. Snell Multimedia goes global . . . . . . . . . 88/8--9
K. Mantel Go figure with a pen (pen-based
spreadsheet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91--92
J. J. Alexander, Jr. The value of desktop gear . . . . . . . 117--118, 120
L. The AST fields a Windows machine . . . . . . 22--26
N. Snell Top accountants rate accounting software 80--82
D. P. Dern Who's using your LAN? (security software
buyer's guide) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104--106
L. Marion World IT sales stagger 4.1% to US\$290
billion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12--17, 20, 22, 26--27, 30--31
R. Cook What's ahead for PC\slash fax . . . . . 27--29
R. G. Childs How LTV mail-enabled its applications 33--35
M. Ricciuti Here come the HR client/server systems! 37--38, 40
M. Taber Tracking the data center's weak link . . 45--46, 48
A. Radding When non-IS managers take control . . . 55--56, 58
Anonymous Gupta's Double Impact . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Terabytes of Data --- How To Get At
Them? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Borland's Triple Crown: Paradox, DBase,
InterBase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Anonymous Sybase Takes New Route with NLM . . . . 51
Anonymous The New Improved Version of DB2 . . . . 57
Anonymous Oracle's Parallel Punch For OLTP . . . . 67
Anonymous Oracle's Ellison: The Promise of
Parallelism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous How To Make Millions With Database
Marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
E. H. Schell How to make millions with database
marketing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77--79
Anonymous IBM Serves Up Speed . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous A Different Kind Of Server . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous A DBMS For Every User . . . . . . . . . 84--89
Anonymous Uniting IBM/DEC Net Management . . . . . 28
Anonymous Salaries Scale Up 5.5% In 1992 . . . . . 38
Anonymous HP's Comeback PCs . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Biz Viz: The Latest Analytical Tool For
Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Anonymous What MIS Should Know About
Videoconferencing . . . . . . . . . . . 60
L. A. Hindus What MIS should know about
videoconferencing . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62, 64
Anonymous Bandwidth Demands Revive I-Muxes . . . . 67
Anonymous A Stronger CASE For UNIX . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous The Strategy Behind The New Control Data 79
Anonymous Save Storage Dollars With Helical Scan 83
Anonymous IBM Legitimizes FDDI? . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous The AcerPAC-kage . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Multimedia Tools For Development Pros 90
Anonymous The Best of DATAMATION . . . . . . . . . 113
Anonymous Does Your IS Shop Measure Up? . . . . . 26
Anonymous Stress Tests For GUI Programs . . . . . 37
Anonymous A Smart Look For Dumb Terminals . . . . 45
Anonymous Time To Join The FTAM Team? . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Where To Find Expert Help For Downsizing 61
B. Sharp Where to find expert help for downsizing 61--62, 64
Anonymous Making The Best Mainframe Deal . . . . . 73
N. Snell Making the best mainframe deal . . . . . 73--74, 76
Anonymous Asia's IT Profits Tumble, Despite
Revenue Rise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Fujitsu's Sekizawa: Dealing With
Changing User Requirements . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous The Asian 25 Profiles . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous A RAID For Every App . . . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous Smoothing The Jaggies . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Users Want The Bare Fax . . . . . . . . 116
B. Snell Users want the bare fax . . . . . . . . 116--119
Anonymous Stratus Spreads RISC Bet . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Software's Big 50: The Magic Is Stronger 40
Anonymous Software's Big 50: The Sorcerer's
Apprentices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Anonymous What PC Managers Say About Client/Server 54
Anonymous Novell Bids To Buoy Storage Management 63
Anonymous Low-Cost Mainframe Storage For LANs . . 73
Anonymous Go Totally RAD And Build Apps Faster . . 79
Anonymous Print (Almost) Anything Anywhere . . . . 83
N. Snell Print (almost) anything anywhere . . . . 83--84
Anonymous PostScript Printing Gets a Boost . . . . 89
N. Snell PostScript printing gets a boost . . . . 89
Anonymous Channeling The Flood Of Stored Corporate
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
J. Parker Channeling the flood of stored corporate
data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--94, 96
Anonymous Cultivating The Smooth Operator . . . . 98
Anonymous Chart Your App's Performance . . . . . . 105
Anonymous A RAID on UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous X Terminals X-Plore New Territory . . . 108
Anonymous How IBM Is Rebuilding SNA . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous IBM's Hancock: a Vision Of Networks In
The 21st Century . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Why TCP \slash IP Still Has The Edge . . 38
Anonymous Who Will Support APPN? . . . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous A Client \slash Server 4GL With Mix And
Match GUIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Multimedia Moves To The Motherboard . . 57
Anonymous Can Compression Get You Out Of a
Squeeze? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous Here's An Ethernet That's Always a 10 73
Anonymous Get a Grip On DB2 Data Structure Changes 83
Anonymous IM Shores Up The AS\slash 400 . . . . . 91
Anonymous Twin Mainframes Power Lufthansa's
Reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
F. V. Guterl Twin mainframes power Lufthansa's
reservations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95--96
Anonymous Quality Is Job #1 . . . . . . . . . . . 98
A. Radding Quality is job Hash 1 . . . . . . . . . 98--100
Anonymous Manufacturing Open Systems . . . . . . . 105
E. Lindholm Manufacturing open systems . . . . . . . 105--106
Anonymous Mainframe DBMS Power Unleashed! . . . . 26
Anonymous 1992 Products Of The Year Contest . . . 33
Anonymous Downsize Your Database With UNIX . . . . 65
Anonymous Apple's DAL Takes On New AS\slash 400
Roles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Are You Ready For Cutting Edge COBOL? 77
Anonymous Managing The Move From Midrange To
Client/Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Real-Time Will Get Real Standards . . . 97
Anonymous DoD's Strassmann: The Politics Of
Downsizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous An Accounting Masterpiece? . . . . . . . 115
K. Mantel An accounting Masterpiece? . . . . . . . 115--116
Anonymous Geographic Databases Go Relational . . . 116
Anonymous Gateway To An Enterprise Future . . . . 120
Anonymous Can IBM Resurge In PCs? . . . . . . . . 28
P. Pinella Can IBM resurge in PCs? . . . . . . . . 28--32, 34, 36
Anonymous RDBMS Vendors Face An Object Future . . 40
Anonymous Windows Drives OOP On The Desktop . . . 50
Anonymous Unifying The Relational And Object
Models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous PC Security Grows Up . . . . . . . . . . 61
B. Francis PC security grows up . . . . . . . . . . 61--62, 64
Anonymous Color Printers Paint a New Path . . . . 65
Anonymous Stop Squawks With Modem Management . . . 71
Anonymous Now Your PC Can ``Read'' Your Fax . . . 79
L. Stevens Now your PC can `read' your fax . . . . 79--80
Anonymous Develop Applications On Time, Every Time 85
Anonymous The Legent/Goal Merger: What It Means To
Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Avoid Distributed Disasters . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Sidestepping User Support Traps . . . . 102
Anonymous Software To Keep The Customer Satisfied 109
Anonymous Mainframe Accounting Moves Down . . . . 112
Anonymous Client/Server Management Arrives . . . . 28
Anonymous Downsizing: The Application Migration 36
Anonymous Paving The Way For End-User SQL Tools 53
Anonymous Windows Gets Down To BASICs . . . . . . 59
Anonymous New Utilities Make LAN Management Easier 69
D. Connor New utilities make LAN management easier 69--72
Anonymous Mark Your Calendars With LAN Software 77
S. D. Palmer Mark your calendars with LAN software 77--78, 80
Anonymous Microsoft's Walker On How Microsoft Will
Roll Out Windows NT . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Can Windows Really Make The AS\slash 400
Friendly? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Outsourcing: Look Beyond The Price Tag 93
D. Livingston Outsourcing: look beyond the price tag 93, 96--97
Anonymous The Platt Agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Microsoft Unlocks Database Power . . . . 107
Anonymous Controls For PC Development . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Are Notebooks Noteworthy? . . . . . . . 110
N. Snell Are notebooks noteworthy? . . . . . . . 110--112
Anonymous Novell Casts a Wider Net . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous The PC Big 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous The OS\slash 2 Apps Are Here At Last . . 43
Anonymous Double Your Drives With Data Compression 49
Anonymous What Does Frame Relay Really Cost? . . . 55
M. Ricciuti Publishing software gets serious . . . . 65--66, 68--69
Anonymous Coming Soon: GUIs With Smarts . . . . . 71
Anonymous Supercomputers Knock At IS Doors . . . . 79
Anonymous Publishing Software Gets Serious . . . . 85
Anonymous Fast Track For Supercomputer Data . . . 87
Anonymous How AMEX Leverages Technology Assets . . 95
S. Ditlea How AMEX leverages technology assets . . 95--96
Anonymous Easing AS/400 Development . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Roaming The LANscape . . . . . . . . . . 98
Anonymous Old Apps Get a New Image . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous D and B's Big Play In Client/Server . . 28
Anonymous IBM's Big Changes Going Slowly . . . . . 39
E. L. Appleton IBM's big changes going slowly . . . . . 39--43
Anonymous Desktop Publishing Goes On Line . . . . 45
L. Wood Desktop publishing goes on line . . . . 45--47
Anonymous Mastering E-Mail Management . . . . . . 51
L. Stevens Mastering E-mail management . . . . . . 51--53
Anonymous Reengineer To Boost Software
Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous Benchmarks Get Real . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Xerox's CIO: Beyond Command And Control 67
Anonymous User Groups Grow Independent . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Datamation's 1993 International User
Group Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Compaq Flexes Its Server Muscle . . . . 81
Anonymous CONTROL More Manufacturing . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous System Management By Remote Control . . 84
Anonymous CLEO Communications: UNIX-to-IBM
Connectivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-22--S
Anonymous Chase Research: Excellence in UNIX I/O
Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-6--S
Anonymous 4th Dimension Software: Enterprise-wide
Automation from a Workstation . . . . . S-28--S
Anonymous Developing UNIX Applications . . . . . . S-23--S
Anonymous ECCS, Inc.: System Integration for Mass
Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-8--S
Anonymous Emulex: Performance, Integrity and Low
Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-3--S
Anonymous EMASS Storage System Solutions: Leading
the Way in Mass Data Storage . . . . . . S-27--S
Anonymous FourGen Software: FourGen Customers
Focus on Performance. pp S-4 . . . . . . ??
Anonymous How UNIX Can Manage Systems and Networks S-16--S
Anonymous Information Foundation: The Open Systems
Migration Experts . . . . . . . . . . . S-30--S
Anonymous Insoft: Revolutionizing Business with
Desktop Conferencing . . . . . . . . . . S-13--S
Anonymous Landmark Systems: Performance Management
Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-18--S
Anonymous LAGO Systems: Quality Storage Solutions S-16--S
Anonymous Making UNIX Work . . . . . . . . . . . . S-20--S
Anonymous Non Standard Logics: Development Tools
for X and Motif . . . . . . . . . . . . S-33--S
Anonymous Operating System Evolution: From One To
Several . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-2--S
Anonymous Premenos Corp.: EDI\slash e: a
Competitive Maneuver . . . . . . . . . . S-44--S
Anonymous RISCy Business: Today's UNIX Players . . S-8--S
Anonymous Relational Considerations: Meeting
Demand For Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . S-20--S
Anonymous The Software Group: Adding Reliability
to UNIX Internetworking . . . . . . . . S-14--S
Anonymous Syncsort: High Performance UNIX Sorting S-36--S
Anonymous Software Moguls: Data Protection ---
Across the Network. . . . . . . . . . . S-11--S
Anonymous Of Standards and Protocols . . . . . . . S-4--S
Anonymous Six Sigma CASE: Real Software
Engineering Answers. . . . . . . . . . . S-34--S
Anonymous Securing The Unix Future . . . . . . . . S-24--S
Anonymous UNIX Connectivity: Opening Client/Server
Computing Opportunities . . . . . . . . S-12--S
Anonymous UNIX Product Directory . . . . . . . . . S-28--S
Anonymous UniForum: UniForum '94: Exploring UNIX
and Open Systems. pp S-40 . . . . . . . ??
Anonymous When UNIX Makes a Difference: IS Success
Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-3--S
Anonymous XPM Partners: XPM: How to Do More with
Less . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . S-24--S
Anonymous Can CA Manage Open Systems? . . . . . . 18
Anonymous Special Report: 1993 Industry Outlook;
IS Meets Business Challenges Head On . . 26
Anonymous Project Management . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Lee The Project management for the rest of us 41--42, 44
Anonymous Shopping for a Superior Superserver . . 49
Anonymous Can Kerberos Really Make UNIX Secure? 59
Anonymous Mainframe Power For 80% Less . . . . . . 67
Anonymous A Plan That Cured Chaos . . . . . . . . 77
S. D. Palmer A plan that cured chaos . . . . . . . . 77--78
Anonymous HP's Latest Workstation Leap . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Audio For Windows . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Smart Hubs: Head of the Class? . . . . . 86
Anonymous Hard Demand For Soft Skills . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Making C++ More Approachable . . . . . . 37
Anonymous The Battle Shifts To PC Services . . . . 47
Anonymous Get Smart Management For Your Smart Hubs 53
Anonymous The Database Way To Integrate E-Mail . . 61
T. McCusker The database way to integrate e-mail . . 61--62, 64
Anonymous New GUI Builders Make CICS Programming
Fun! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous KnowledgeWare Revs Up Its OS/2 CASE
Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Tools Keep Pace With Virtual Data
Centers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous North American CIOs Feel The Pressure 86
Anonymous Client/Server Comes To The Enterprise 101
Anonymous Enfin, Take 2.0 . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous The Low-End Workstation Race . . . . . . 104
B. Sharp The low-end workstation race . . . . . . 104--107
Anonymous The Best of COMDEX Fall '92 . . . . . . 109
T. McCusker How to get from 80 to 100% in EDI . . . 45--48
P. Korzeniowski Moving business abroad? Take a VAN! . . 80/13--15
J. Moad Inside an outsourcing deal . . . . . . . 20--23, 26--27
B. Francis CD-ROMs drive toward new standards . . . 57--58, 60
L. A. Hindus Tardy fax choice can waste cash . . . . 94, 96, 98
M. Ricciuti Spy proof your data! (LAN security) . . 101--102, 104, 107
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Media Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous SAP's Client/Server Battle Plan . . . . 26
Anonymous Preparing The Way For Pentium . . . . . 36
B. Sharp Preparing the way for Pentium
(microprocessor) . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Anonymous Xbase: Standard Or Stopgap? An
ANSI-supported group hopes to anoint a
standard Xbase language within 18 to 36
months. That should be relatively easy
to achieve, but getting vendors and
users to bless a number of
object-oriented extensions will be more
of a challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Should IS Ride The Local Bus? . . . . . 47
Anonymous Shotgun Marriage For Battling Networks 52
Anonymous New Tools Ease The Move To AS/400s . . . 59
Anonymous CA's Search For a New Pricing Paradigm 65
Anonymous Your Next LAN Storage Could Be a
Mainframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous A Capacity Planning Primer . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Technology Trends . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Economic Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Indigo Goes To Extremes . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Multimedia Full Of Bravado . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous 4GLs Reclaim The Limelight . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Honey, I Shrunk NetView! . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous And Now, A DB2 For The LAN . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous ATM: Ultimate Network, Or Ultimate Hype? 30
Anonymous FDDI: Not Fastest But Still Fit . . . . 31
Anonymous Client/Server Tools Revive CASE . . . . 38
Anonymous POSIX Cracks The Lock On MVS . . . . . . 47
Anonymous The People Rollout: Key To Change . . . 55
S. Cusack The people rollout: key to change . . . 55--56
Anonymous Help For The Help Desk . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Link Corporate Data And Documents . . . 65
E. L. Appleton Link corporate data and documents . . . 65, 67--70
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Scaling E-Mail For The Enterprise . . . 20
L. The Scaling e-mail for the enterprise . . . 20--24
Anonymous Turn Your E-Mail Into Groupware . . . . 28
L. The Turn your e-mail into groupware . . . . 28--30, 32
Anonymous Make Way For The 32-Bit Heavy Hitters 34
Anonymous MS-DOS 6.0: Good But Not a Must . . . . 42
Anonymous Big-LAN Backup Without Backaches . . . . 48
Anonymous Distributed DBMSs Move Into The Trenches 59
Anonymous AS/400 Gets Client/Server Facelift . . . 67
Anonymous Reengineering Tops CIO Menu . . . . . . 73
Anonymous It's a Phone! It's a Fax! It's a Pen
Computer! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
M. J. Foley It's a phone! It's a fax! It's a pen
computer! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79--80
Anonymous Fast 486s: Features Plus Speed . . . . . 82
N. Snell Fast 486 PCs: features plus speed . . . 82--87
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Tight Budgets: It's How You Cut 'Em . . 30
Anonymous The Search For Client/Server Security 39
B. Francis The search for client/server security 39--40, 43
Anonymous Business Profits From Bulletin Boards 45
L. Wood Business profits from bulletin boards 45--46, 48
Anonymous How To Kill a Mutant Virus . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Novell Beefs Up Its IBM Connection . . . 59
Anonymous Take Control of Your AS/400 Systems! . . 63
Anonymous Avoid The Pitfalls Of Distributed
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous A Faster, Roomier AS/400 . . . . . . . . 89
I. Krepchin A faster, roomier AS/400 . . . . . . . . 89--90
Anonymous A Windows-AS/400 Router . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Buyer's Guide: One-Size-Fits-All GUI
Tools? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Media Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous NT: Is It Ready For Critical Apps? . . . 28
Anonymous NT: Power Tools Are Still ``Not There.'' 34
Anonymous NT: Hardware To Spare At High End . . . 38
Anonymous Our Secret Shopper Buys Mail Order PCs 41
B. Francis Our secret shopper buys mail order PCs 41--43
Anonymous Prefab Programming: Apps Without Coding 46
Anonymous Wireless WANs Have a Ways To Go . . . . 52
Anonymous Building a Global Network On a
Shoestring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
D. B. Davis Building a global network on a
shoestring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--63
Anonymous Take Control Of Application Performance 67
Anonymous Six Ways To Improve Mainframe
Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Distributed Applications Without
Bottlenecks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Why ATM Fascinates Network Chiefs . . . 82
Anonymous Technology Trends . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Economic Trends . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Jobs' NeXTSTEP In Onto Intel PCs . . . . 97
Anonymous Buyer's Guide: Users Rethink Life Cycle
CASE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 114
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Media Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Will Sun Also Rise In The Data Center? 28
Anonymous The Network Server Takes Off . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Automate Your Asset Management! . . . . 47
B. Francis Automate your asset management! . . . . 47--48, 50
Anonymous Diagnostic Software Comes To The Rescue 55--57
Anonymous The Heavy Burden Of Lan Costs . . . . . 60
Anonymous Battling BLOBs To Build Image Networks 65
Anonymous Build Custom Apps At Packaged Prices . . 71
Anonymous Tools For Fast, Easy Access To Legacy
Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Multiprocessor Software Plays Catch-Up 77
Anonymous Proprietary Mini Users Plan Escape
Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Life After The Merger At BankAmerica . . 85
Anonymous IBM Speeds Up OS/2 . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Notes Adds Workflow . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Service For The Server . . . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous Growth Rate Highest Since 1988 . . . . . 12
Anonymous The New IT Industry Takes Shape . . . . 12
M. Schlack The new IT industry takes shape . . . . 12--136
Anonymous The Datamation 100 . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Software, Services Soar . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Hot Growth Companies . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous In The Loss Column . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous The Datamation North American 100 . . . 18
Anonymous Global Leaders In Nine Product
Categories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous IT Revenues By Product: a Five-Year
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous The Datamation 100 Information Bank . . 136
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Sybase Steps Up To The Enterprise . . . 18
Anonymous DBMS Vendors Chase Sybase For
Client/Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous The New Palmtops: Tools Or Toys? . . . . 35
L. The The new palmtops: tools or toys? . . . . 35--37
Anonymous Managing The Document Management
Explosion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Imaging: Start Small, Think Big . . . . 47
I. Krepchin Imaging: start small, think big . . . . 47--48
Anonymous Object Tools For OS/2 . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous PowerBuilding Enterprise Applications 18
Anonymous Client/Server Integrators --- Is Bigger
Better? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous MIS Meets Multimedia On The Network . . 32
B. Francis MIS meets multimedia on the network . . 32, 34
Anonymous Remote LANs Get Outsourcing Option . . . 36
N. Radding Now you can outsource remote LANs . . . 36, 38, 42
Anonymous Full-Strength UNIX Finally Comes To PCs 47
Anonymous Put Usability To The Test . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous When Offshore Programming Works . . . . 61
Anonymous Two Computers In One . . . . . . . . . . 67
E. Lindholm Two computers in one (DUET) . . . . . . 67--68
Anonymous Smoothing The Flow Of Forms . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Easing the LAN Fax Burden . . . . . . . 73
T. McCusker Easing the LAN fax burden . . . . . . . 73--74, 76
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Does Reengineering Really Work? . . . . 22
J. Moad Does reengineering really work? . . . . 22--24, 28
Anonymous RDBMS Prices Are In For a Fall . . . . . 30
Anonymous Visual C++: a More Approachable C . . . 36
Anonymous Modern Macros Gain Programming Power . . 40
Anonymous These Hubs Ease LAN Changes . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Cobol Workbenches Get Down To Business 53
Anonymous IS Seeks Security In UNIX . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous How ISO 9000 Quality Programs Affect IS 65
J. Moad How ISO 9000 quality programs affect IS 65--66
Anonymous AViiON Serves More For Less . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Visual Basic Gets a Database Engine . . 70
Anonymous Making The SQL Link To Data . . . . . . 71
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Virtual LANs Pave The Way To ATM . . . . 20
Anonymous Top Salaries Soar, Ranks Remain Flat . . 28
Anonymous PCs Break Into The OLTP Ranks . . . . . 32
Anonymous Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Replacing SNA 38
Anonymous Get Control Of Cross-Platform
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Anonymous How To Clean Up Your Dirty Data . . . . 51
Anonymous UNIX Server Power Grows In Clusters . . 57
Anonymous HDS Delivers Improved Drives . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Bravo For Inexpensive Multimedia . . . . 62
Anonymous Credit Card Modems Now Do Fax, Too . . . 65
T. McCusker Credit card modems now do fax, too . . . 65--67
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 78
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Hot Companies To Watch . . . . . . . . . 20--22, 26, 28
Anonymous Making Multimedia Work . . . . . . . . . 30
M. Ricciuti Making multimedia work . . . . . . . . . 30--31
Anonymous Paper-Free Publishing Gets Real . . . . 39
L. The Paper-free publishing gets real
(electronic publishing) . . . . . . . . 39--41
Anonymous Wireless Nets Not Yet Unplug and Play 47
Anonymous New Life For Old General Ledgers . . . . 55
L. The New life for old general ledgers . . . . 55--56
Anonymous RAID Raises UNIX Reliability . . . . . . 61
Anonymous How To Certify That Training Works . . . 67
J. Moad How to certify that training works . . . 67--68
Anonymous A Two-Pentium PC Matches Workstations 73
Anonymous Pre-ATM Plus Savings . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Network Security: Is Your LAN A Sieve? 79
E. L. Appleton Network security: is your LAN a sieve? 79--81
Anonymous 85 New Products: Show Report . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Look Ahead: Reengineering at Levi
Strauss has created a tight fit with IT 19
Anonymous The Struggle For Global Networks . . . . 26
Anonymous Software's Big 100 . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Memory Management Smartens Up . . . . . 48
Anonymous New Life For Old PS/2s . . . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Object Databases Find Their Niche . . . 56
Anonymous Vendors Scramble To Support Open OLTP 67
Anonymous Is It Time To Insource Your Financial
Apps? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
B. Sharp Is it time to insource your financial
apps? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75--77
Anonymous Client/Server For CICS Finally Arrives 79
Anonymous SQL Testing In Pictures . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Routers Take On The Branch Office . . . 83
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 107
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Compaq Takes On The Enterprise . . . . . 18
M. Ricciuti Compaq takes on the enterprise . . . . . 18--21, 24
Anonymous TCP/IP Winning The Backbone Battle . . . 26
Anonymous Pen Computing: First, Pick An OS . . . . 36
Anonymous Win32s: Now One Code Fits All . . . . . 40
Anonymous Tune In To Cheap Videoconferencing . . . 48
B. Francis Tune in to cheaper videoconferencing . . 48--50, 51
Anonymous Project Management Software That's IS
Friendly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Anonymous Will Cheaper Mainframes Slow Downsizing? 63
I. Krepchin Will cheaper mainframes slow downsizing? 63--65
Anonymous PC Managers Speak Out About NT . . . . . 68
Anonymous IS Satisfies The Customer . . . . . . . 79
J. Moad IS satisfies the customer . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Make Workflow Changes On The Fly . . . . 81
Anonymous Link Your LAN To Your AS/400 . . . . . . 85
T. McCusker Link your LAN to your AS/400 (telephone
company) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85--88
Anonymous New Products: Show Report . . . . . . . 93
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous LAN Storage Gets Serious . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous X Windows Takes Hold In Commercial IS 50
Anonymous Open Management Platforms Tackle NetWare 56
Anonymous Digital Yields To IBM In Net Management 59
Anonymous OLE 2.0: Stronger Glue, Stickier To Use 65
Anonymous Users Praise SMP Price/Performance . . . 73
Anonymous Finding Less Fault With UNIX . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Unisys' Unruh: We're Never Going To Be
Done . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Recasting The Mainframe . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Stretch Server Storage . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Multimedia Tools Are Enterprise Ready 92
J. W. Semich Multimedia tools are enterprise ready 92, 94
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 105
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Does IS Want The PowerPC? . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous Does IS want the PowerPC? . . . . . . . 28--30, 35--36
Anonymous How To Get Started On The OOP Trail . . 40
Anonymous Prices Slashed For UNIX Workbenches . . 51
Anonymous LAN Tools Start Working Together . . . . 61
Anonymous Bonding With Customers Through Better
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous UNIX Storage Management: It's Here Now! 77
Anonymous New Rules, New Ratings As IS Reengineers 85
Anonymous A Souped Up Storage Server . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous A Database GUI Builder . . . . . . . . . 98
Anonymous Network Laser Printers Tackle High-End
Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
T. McCusker Network laser printers tackle high-end
jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103--105
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Anonymous International New Products . . . . . . . 117
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 118
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous UNIX Superserver Shoot-Out! . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Net Management Forges Stronger
Enterprise Links . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous LAN Boom Paves The Way For Client/Server 40
Anonymous Visual Tools Give COBOL A New Look . . . 53
Anonymous Synchronize Your E-Mail Directories . . 61
Anonymous Customers Drive New Manufacturing
Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Optical Shines For Near Line Storage . . 79
Anonymous Not Just a Spreadsheet Anymore . . . . . 83
C. Staiti Excel 5.0: not just a spreadsheet
anymore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous Big Screens Come To Color Notebooks . . 89
B. Sharp Big screens come to color notebooks . . 89--93
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 108
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 112
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Control Thousands of Desktop Apps! . . . 18
Anonymous CIOs Put the T Back in IT . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous The PC50: Our ranking of the leading PC
companies reveals that the young turks
of the PC world rose last year on the
tide of plummeting prices.
Ever-more-attractive prices continue to
drive up sales of PCs this year . . . . 36
M. Ricciuti The PC 50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--38
Anonymous Is Smart Software The Answer for Help
Desks? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Secure E-Mail Cheaply With Software
Encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
P. Strauss Secure E-mail cheaply with software
encryption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous IBM/HP AnyLAN Is No SuperLAN . . . . . . 55
Anonymous Tackle Client/Server Apps With
Born-Again 4GLs . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous CA Closes Hole in Client/Server
Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Recover From Distributed Disasters . . . 73
B. Francis Recover from distributed disasters . . . 73--74
Anonymous SynOptics Hub Has ATM Horsepower . . . . 81
Anonymous Workflow Takes On the Enterprise . . . . 88
T. McCusker Workflow takes on the enterprise . . . . 88, 90--92
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard:
Lotus-1-2-3 is top-selling spreadsheet
package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 118
Anonymous Inside . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Turmoil in Pen Operating Systems . . . . 20
D. B. Davis Turmoil in pen operating systems . . . . 20--22, 26
Anonymous Pen Hardware: Get Practical . . . . . . 30
L. The Pen hardware: get practical . . . . . . 30--31, 34--35
Anonymous Mixing SNA and TCP/IP? Not So Fast! . . 36
Anonymous This Data Center Software Does
Client/Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Anonymous Digital Moves NT Beyond the Workgroup 53
Anonymous Enterprise Technology at PC Prices . . . 56
Anonymous Hierarchical Storage Reaches the LAN . . 73
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous IS Rises To The Competitiveness
Challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Can Suites Fill Groupware Needs? . . . . 27
Anonymous NT Advanced Server: Not A NetWare Killer 30
Anonymous Distribute Data Without Choking The Net 35
Anonymous SMP Soars With Some More Pentiums . . . 41
Anonymous Here's How To Quantify IT Investment
Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
J. W. Semich Here's how to quantify IT investment
benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Anonymous Computer: Take a Memo . . . . . . . . . 51
W. Pickering Computer: take a memo . . . . . . . . . 51--52
Anonymous LAN Hub's Future Is In Switching . . . . 55
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous ATM WANs: Rocket Science Or Lost In
Space? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous Where Do C/S Apps Go Wrong? . . . . . . 30
Anonymous When Will PCMCIA Be Plug And Play? . . . 39
Anonymous Get It Together With Visual Basic . . . 45
Anonymous The Cheap, Easy Way To Harness Imaging's
Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Anonymous Access Your Data Through Pictures . . . 61
Anonymous Take Control Of Support . . . . . . . . 62
Anonymous Build Links To Multiple Databases . . . 65
T. McCusker Build links to multiple databases . . . 65--67
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Commentary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous C/S Apps Without the Heavy Lifting . . . 22
Anonymous Welcome To The Virtual IS Organization 32
Anonymous TO: \path|mis@corporate.com| RE:
Internet E-Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous Windows NT: Where Are The Tools? . . . . 45
Anonymous Successful Benchmarking With The Team
Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Anonymous Button Up Your LAN Security . . . . . . 59
E. Lindholm Button up your LAN security . . . . . . 59--60
Anonymous Workflow Through Notes . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous Snap-On Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Multidimensional Analysis: Winning The
Competitive Game . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
M. Ricciuti Multidimensional analysis: winning the
competitive game . . . . . . . . . . . . 21--23
Anonymous Datamation's 1993 Products Of The Year
Winners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Client/Server Costs: Don't Get Taken For
a Ride . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Get Your CICS On Anyone's UNIX? . . . . 45
Anonymous Frame Relay Eases SNA Integration . . . 52
Anonymous CD-ROM Puts a Spin On Software
Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous Standard UNIX Management: What's The
Holdup? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Multimedia For The Masses . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Real-Time Data Under Windows . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Pick The RAID That's Right For You . . . 79
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Media Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous The Best In Client/Server Computing . . 26
M. Ricciuti The best in client/server computing . . 26--30, 33--35
Anonymous Outfitting The Ultimate Road Warrior . . 37
W. Pickering Outfitting the ultimate road warrior . . 37--39
Anonymous Hub/Router Combos: Don't Overwork Them 42
Anonymous Wedding Bells Sound For Objects and
Relational Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous AS/400 Progresses Toward Client/Server
OLTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Anonymous CeBIT '94 Show Guide . . . . . . . . . . 65
Anonymous SMP Server For Windows NT . . . . . . . 105
Anonymous Project Management Goes Client/Server 109
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Anonymous Technology Trends . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Media Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous Uncertain Future: What's The Next Step
After Client/Server? . . . . . . . . . . 26
Jeff Moad Reengineering: Report From The Trenches 36
Anonymous WANs: Hot To Add Branches Without Going
Bankrupt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
M. Hurwicz WANs: how to add branches without going
bankrupt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--44
Anonymous Does Downsizing Add Up For Financials? 51
Anonymous It's 5:00 PM: Do You Know Where All Your
PCs Are? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Anonymous PCI: Server Bus For The Fast LANe . . . 61
Anonymous Project 4.0 Works In the Office . . . . 64
W. Pickering Project 4.0 works in the office . . . . 64
Anonymous Client/Server For The Warehouse . . . . 66
Anonymous Open Documents Across The Enterprise . . 70
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Media Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous Where's UNIX Headed? . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Global LAN Directories: The Pain, The
Payoff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous Frame Relay Or Leased Lines --- Which Is
Cheaper? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Anonymous Low-Cost CD-ROMs --- Make Them Yourself! 45
Anonymous How Much Help Is Enough? . . . . . . . . 49
Anonymous Third NetView Not The Charm . . . . . . 55
Anonymous UNIX Takes To The Road . . . . . . . . . 59
Anonymous Take Control Of Remote Access . . . . . 62
Anonymous Tools For Remote Access . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Technology Trends . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Media Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Developing Serious Apps With Notes . . . 28
Anonymous Wanted: The Multithreaded CIO . . . . . 34
Anonymous Surprise! OS/2 Is Taking Off . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Outsourcing As a Survival Tactic . . . . 48
M. Ricciuti Outsourcing as a survival tactic
(client/server) . . . . . . . . . . . . 48, 50--52
Anonymous NetWare Storage: Starting To Be
Manageable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Reality Check: Wireless, Pay More . . . 60
Anonymous Ethernet Gets 10 Times Faster For Under
US\$1,000} . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous Sequent Scales Up . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Look Ma, No Wires . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous System Management Across The Enterprise 74
E. Lindholm System management across the enterprise 74--76
Anonymous Show Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous New Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous Corporate Software Scorecard . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Look Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Media Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Desktop Videoconferencing: What's Wrong
With This Picture? . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous What's wrong with this picture?
(videoconferencing) . . . . . . . . . . 28--32
Anonymous The Virtual Reality Of Switched Networks 34
Anonymous Microsoft Tunes NT For Daytona . . . . . 39
Anonymous Want To Do Multimedia Apps? Here Are The
Tools: Multimedia development is no
longer an obscure craft practiced by
graphics arts specialists. Tools abound
for typical business use. One promising
application is performance support ---
just-in-time training for employees who
have to rapidly adopt new work methods
or learn about new products . . . . . . 45
Anonymous Turn Power Users Into Power Savers . . . 53
E. Ullman Turn power users into power savers . . . 53--55
Anonymous How to Get More Value From EDI . . . . . 56
T. McCusker How to get more value from EDI . . . . . 56, 58, 60
Anonymous Alpha Sizzles --- But Where's The Steak? 63
Anonymous UniTree Branches Out . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous A Tough Wireless Communicator . . . . . 67
Anonymous UPSs Get Smarter . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
W. Pickering UPSs get smarter . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--73
Anonymous New Products: SunSelect's SolarNet
network operating system alternative . . 76
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Technology Trends . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Future Vision . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous Services and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous LANscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Jeff Moad One True Operating System Out, Diversity
In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Donald Frazier and
Kris Herbst Get Ready To Profit from the InfoBahn 50
Mike Ricciuti The Mainframe as Server: Is IBM Totally
Bonkers --- Or Brillant? . . . . . . . . 61
J. William Semich You Mean NT Can't Really Run Windows . . 67
Michael Hurwicz Check Your Wallet Before Buying Pentium 71--72
David Baum Graphical 4GLs Get It in Gear . . . . . 75
Lee The Service Cinches Onsite Shootout . . . . 77
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous LANscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Ralph Kimball and
Kevin Strehlo Why Decision Support Fails and How To
Fix It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Paul Strauss Welcome to Client-Server PBX Computing 49--50, 52
Jeff Moad Shock Therapy Cures Fossilitis . . . . . 57--59
Larry Stevens Are You Ready for the Desktop of the
Future?? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--63
Michael Durr Managing the Switch to Virtual Networks 65
Mike Ricciuti Parallel Mainframe: Cheap Chips,
Moderate Upgrade, Expensive Solution . . 70
Barry D. Bowen MP Servers: Don't Buy by the Numbers . . 76
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
M. Riccuiti PC makers adapt to slim margins . . . . 55, 58
T. McCusker Maintenance contract bargains abound . . 64
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 20
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Jeff Moad Psych Tests for MIS Staff: Is this Nuts? 27
J. William Semich Hermes: Enterprise Manager It Ain't . . 31
Paul Strauss Get NetWare Storage Under Control . . . 36
Peter Varhol The Truth About Windows on Alternative
Platforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Tom McCusker and
Paul Strauss Disaster Proofing? Don't Forget the WAN 48
P. Strauss and
T. McCusker Disaster proofing? Don't forget the WAN 48--50
Mike Ricciuti DCE: Yesterday's Technology for
Tomorrow's Apps? . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Michael Watts and
Jeff Plewa CIOs Go with what Works . . . . . . . . 55
David Baum and
Kevin Strehlo Which RDBMS Can Handle Your Toughest
Jobs? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Lee The Big isn't always better (databases) . . 66--71
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
J. William Semich Information Replaces Inventory at the
Virtual Corp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37--39, 42
Paul Strauss ATM Backbones: Complex? And How! . . . . 44
Richard D. Hackathorn and
Mark Schlack How To Pick Client/Server Middleware . . 52--54, 56
Jeff Moad Toss Dispersed IS a Safety Net . . . . . 61
Mike Ricciuti UNIX Servers Approach PC Prices . . . . 65
Tom McCusker Manage Your LAN Fax Software . . . . . . 70--73, 76--78
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous LANscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Paul Strauss PLAN Your 2001 Network Now . . . . . . . 32--35
Paul Strauss Seize Control of Your 2001 Network . . . 35--37
J. William Semich The Long View from Microsoft: Component
DBMSs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Jeff Moad The Training Crisis: School's Out! . . . 46--48
David Baum Objects for the Mainframe . . . . . . . 49
Michael Hurwicz In Sight: Enterprise PC Management . . . 53--54
Tom McCusker The Network Is the Printer . . . . . . . 55
Elizabeth Lindholm Data Access Without Chaos . . . . . . . 59
Lee The Pick Tools with --- not for --- Your
Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Anonymous DATAMATION Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Quest contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
J. William Semich Can You Orchestrate Client/Server
Computing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36--37, 40, 43
Frederick V. Guterl IT Expands Despite Bargain Basement
Budgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46--48
Arnold Davis General Magic's Agents: a More flexible
EDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Tom Henderson Tough Questions to Ask a Client/Server
Integrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--61
Paul Korzeniowski Desperately Seeking Storage Solutions 62--64
Bill Sharp Pick Notebooks for Business on the Road 66--71
Anonymous DATAMATION Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous LanScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Larry Stevens Clusters Stay Up and Grow Huge . . . . . 39--40, 44
Steve Wilent Parallel DBMS Lets UNIX Challenge
Mainframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Michael Durr Remote Node or Remote Control? . . . . . 49--51
Michael Durr Tuning Remote Nodes in 10 Easy Steps . . 51
David Baum Welcome to the VisualAge . . . . . . . . 55
Glen B. Beckley TQM: Find the Red Flags Hiding in
Existing Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . 63--64
J. William Semich Client/Server Case: Oxymoron or
Essential? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
J. William Semich Big Development Jobs Need CASE . . . . . 72
Anonymous DATAMATION Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Michael Durr The Fastest, Cheapest Way To Link Remote
Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--46
Eric Merhoff and
Raj Bhela Overwhelmed by change? Manage it!
(client/server computing) . . . . . . . 49--50, 52, 54
Jeff Moad Does Your CEO Get It? . . . . . . . . . 59
John R. Vacca Sign On to Streamlined Security . . . . 65--67
Paul Strassmann CIOs Should Get Back to Basics . . . . . 70
Paul Strauss Write Your Own Wireless Apps . . . . . . 76
Tom McCusker Pen computing: vertical reality . . . . 80, 82--85
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Paul Strauss Beyond Talking Heads: Videoconferencing
Makes Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Dennis Hamilton Stop Throwing Hardware at Performance! 43
Dennis Hamilton Get a Handle on Client/Server
Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
David Bernstein Insulate Against Internet Intruders . . 49--50, 52
John Rymer The AppWare Answer to Object Chaos . . . 55
Jeff Moad At last! Standards that stick (standard
IT architecture) . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--62
Lee The Getting into the Workflow . . . . . . . 65
Lee The Workflow Makes the Grade . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous DATAMATION Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Jeff Moad After Reengineering: Taking Care of
Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40--42, 44
Ned Snell Client/Server Chaos Busters . . . . . . 45
N. Snell Client/server chaos busters . . . . . . 45--46, 50
Elaine L. Appleton Staffing Up? Here's What You'll Pay . . 53
Paul Strauss An ISDN Survival Guide . . . . . . . . . 59
Cordell Koland It's a Cinch To Synch Mobile User's
Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
David Baum Backing into Client/Server . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous Datamation picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Dennis Hamilton Don't Let Client/Server Performance
Gotchas Getcha . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Lynn Haber Get ready for easier PC support (plug
and play technology) . . . . . . . . . . 49--50
Peter Ruber How Redundant Is Your RAID? . . . . . . 54
Paul Delottinville Open OLTP: To Monitor or Not To Monitor 59
Paul Strauss Cheaper Client/Server Networking for
Mainframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
P. Strauss Cheaper client/server networking for
mainframes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69--70
Paul Strauss Just When You Thought IP Was Safe . . . 71
Lee The All Products Lead to the Help Desk . . . 73
Lee The Look for More than Just a Little Support 75
Anonymous Show Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Robert Orfali and
Dan Harkey and
Jeri Edwards Compound documents and component
programming are powerful tools, but
things could get messy if you try to
snap Legos into Tinker Toys. For early
experimentation, there's not much
choice: Microsoft's OLE 2.0 has already
come charging out to the gate with
shrink-wrapped products. But next year,
OpenDoc toolkits will become available,
followed by shrink wrap the following
year. It's time to start mapping out
your component strategy . . . . . . . . 38
Bill Sharp It's Official: UNIX Rules on the Server! 50
Paul Strauss NetWare: Higher Availability At Lower
Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Sigfrido Lichtenthal Connect Business and Technology . . . . 61--62, 64
Michael Alexander Mine for Gold with Parallel Systems . . 65
Peter Varhol What's Ahead In Hot Chips . . . . . . . 73
Bill Sharp Raid: Now You Can Take Your Pick . . . . 81
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 33
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Kevin Strehlo Smartsourcing: Getting the Most from
Service Vendors . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous Bass taverns reengineers Dog and Duck
with Unisys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39--40
Anonymous Clean slate equals reduced lead times
(outsourcing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Anonymous Union Pacific gets maintenance on track 42--43
Anonymous Three vendors help Ryder reengineer
refueling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43--44
Alan Radding From dBase to Client/Server: Now You Can
Get There . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
A. Radding From dBASE to client/server: now you can
get there . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--46
Dennis Hamilton Give Your Database Administrators More
Leverage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Mike Hurwicz How To Integrate UNIX Servers and
NetWare LANs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Alan Ryan Kick the Hard Disk Habit: Add
Hierarchical Storage . . . . . . . . . . 62
Lee The E-Forms Get Smarter . . . . . . . . . . 67--69
Lee The Cooking with forms (Kentucky Fried
Chicken: forms automation) . . . . . . . 69--73
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Press Watch, Remember where you were
when JFK was shot? You may be too old
for IS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Mark Schlack Do You Want The Phone Co. To Run Your
LAN? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Jeff Moad Outsourcing the Help Desk: First Aid or
Folly? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44--46
Michael Durr Remote Connectivity Making You Crazy?
Consolidate! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Michael Durr Fast Imaging on Slow Networks . . . . . 61
Debbie Asbrand Step Up to Scalable Servers . . . . . . 63
Paul Strauss Manage the Mess in Messaging . . . . . . 65
Datamation Staff More of the Same (and then some) at
COMDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
J. William Semich The World Wide Web: Internet Boomtown? 37--41
Jeff Moad When the Career Ladder Crumbles . . . . 44
David S. Bernstein Secure the virtual office . . . . . . . 49--51 (or 53)
Michael Hurwicz NetWare 4.1 Eases Global Directory
Tensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Peter D. Varhol Upsizing with SMP: Don't Ignore the OS 59
Lynn Haber Client/Server Financials: Take a Hard
Look at Soft Services . . . . . . . . . 64
Anonymous International . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64--1
L. Haber Client/server financials: take a hard
look at soft services . . . . . . . . . 64
Charles B. Darling Tap into a Rich Legacy of Data . . . . . 65
Charles B. Darling Building Links to Legacy Apps . . . . . 70
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box: It's impossible to idiot-proof a
system because idiots are so darned
ingenious! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Richard Hackathorn Data Warehousing Energizes Your
Enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--40, 43, 45
Elizabeth Lindholm Products of the Year . . . . . . . . . . 46
Emily Kay Surprise: Your Client Is Sinking Your
Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Paul Strauss Time To Terminate Your Trusted Token
Ring? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Jeff Moad Outsourcing? Go Out on the Limb Together 58--59, 61
Larry Stevens Safeguard Your Servers: Rack 'Em Up . . 63
Lee The Financial Software Does More Than Just
Crunch Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--70
Lee The Hands-On Testing Reveals the Truth . . . 69
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 33
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Larry Marion Who's Guarding the Till at the
CyberMall? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--41
Robert Orfali and
Dan Harkey Object Component Suites: The Whole Is
Greater Than the Parts . . . . . . . . . 44
Paul Strauss At Last: Net Managers that Distribute
the Load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50--51, 54, 56
Jeff Moad Time for a fresh approach to ROI (IT
infrastructure investment analysis) . . 57--59
Alan J. Ryan It's all in the Disc . . . . . . . . . . 61
Lynn Haber In Search of the Ideal App Server . . . 63
Charles B. Darling Unclog Your Local Backbone with ATM . . 67
Charles B. Darling The Ins and Outs of Testing Switches . . 69
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
David Baum The Right Tools for Coding Business
Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Dennis Sheldrick Start Becoming a Webmeister . . . . . . 40
J. William Semich Four Steps To Working Web Servers . . . 42
Jeff Moad Can High Performance Be Cloned? Should
It Be? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Cate T. Corcoran Does Plug And Play Really Mean Buy All
New Desktops? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--50, 52
Robert J. Melford Secure UNIX for Enterprise Computing . . 55
Lee The Now You Can Automate BPR . . . . . . . . 61--63
The Lee Behind Good Products Are Methods that
Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Lost in the Ozone . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Paul Strauss The Get Tough Guide to Telecom Contracts 38--39, 42--44
Emily Kay PowerBuilder: Power Enough for Complex
Apps? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Alan Radding Support Decision Makers with a Data
Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53--56
Elaine Appleton The Right Server for Your Data Warehouse 56
Cheryl Gerber Demand more from your outsourcer
(outsourcing vendor evaluation) . . . . 62
Charles B. Darling Mainframe RAID Must Match Your App Needs 65
Charles B. Darling One Size DASD Does Not Fit All . . . . . 67
Anonymous DATAMATION Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Jeff Moad Let Customers Have It Their Way . . . . 34
Rich Schreiber Middleware Demystified . . . . . . . . . 41
Peter Varhol Warp's Weakness: 32-Bit Windows Apps . . 47
Michael Durr Remote Site Management Tricks . . . . . 49
Mark Schlack The Key to Client/Server OLTP . . . . . 53
Lee The Building suiteware apps (evaluation) . . 59--61
Lee The Suite pricing seals the deal (Novell
PerfectOffice review) . . . . . . . . . 62--65
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Benchmarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
C. T. Corcoran PowerPC: close, but no cigar . . . . . . 36--38, 40
J. Moad Calculating the real benefit of training 45--47
D. A. Raynor Get the most from training dollars
(development team training) . . . . . . 47--49
C. B. Darling Reach out and touch your LAN (remote
access servers) . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59
C. B. Darling Leaping into remote access (server
acquisition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59--66
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Lost in the Ozone . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Emily Kay Selling Enters the Information Age . . . 38--42
David Baum Groupware: Is It Notes or Nothing? . . . 45
D. Baum Groupware: is it Notes or nothing? . . . 45--48
David S. Linthicum The Rugged Road to Totally Transportable
Apps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
David Linthicum Backing into Portability . . . . . . . . 54
W. D. Riley Get the legal desktop (software
licensing) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56--57, 59
Bill Sharp The Alpha Alternative to Mainframes . . 61--62
Lee The OLAP Answers Tough Business Questions 65
Lee The Keep Your Evaluation Open . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Framwork . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 30
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Paul Winsberg Legacy Code: Don't Bag It, Wrap It . . . 36
Jeff Moad Oject Methods Tame Reengineering Madness 43
Vance McCarthy Desktop Videoconferencing Still a Rough
Cut . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51--52, 54--55
Kris Neely Where the AS/400 Fits into Client/Server
Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--59
Ron Levine Surprise! Fax Servers Smarten Up . . . . 63--64
David Vins Borland's Delphi: The Object Is Control 67
Chris Amaru Digital Boosts AlphaServer Performance 69
Charles B. Darling Integrate Printing into IT Strategy . . 72
Charles B. Darling Two Evaluations, One Printer . . . . . . 75
Anonymous Datamation Picks . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Anonymous Datamation 100 Company Index ---
Alphabetical listing of profiles for top
100 North Amencan IT vendors . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Datamation 100 Company Index . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Framework --- What's the likelihood of
Microsoft pulling off its
enterprise-computing scheme? . . . . . . 7
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous In Box --- Is Notes ROI Getting Better? 9
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Maybe there aren't 50,
but we can give you five ways to leave
your mainframe . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Anonymous Lost in the Ozone . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Lost in the Ozone --- Jonesy builds
firewall to tee off his boss . . . . . . 24
Anonymous Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous Paradigm Shift --- You want proof that
OLE's for real? We got it . . . . . . . 29
Anonymous LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous LANScape --- Specialization is the enemy
of progress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Services and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 37
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues --- Sure, everyone
loves to hates Andersen Consulting It's
still the best . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Chris Staiti Users Give HP Top Ratings . . . . . . . 38
Chris Staiti Users Give HP Top Rating . . . . . . . . 38
Anonymous DATAMATION North American 100 . . . . . 44
Anonymous DATAMATION North American 100 . . . . . 44
Anonymous DATAMATION Global 100 . . . . . . . . . 45
Anonymous DATAMATION Global 100 . . . . . . . . . 45
J. William Semich The Rush to Objects Speeds Up . . . . . 47
J. William Semich THE RUSH TO OBJECTS SPEEDS UP . . . . . 47
Elaine L. Appleton Sales Surge as Mainframes Find a Role in
Client/Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Elaine L. Appleton Sales Surge as Mainframes Find a Role in
Client/Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
E. L. Appleton Sales surge as mainframes find a role in
client/server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Tom McCusker UNIX Systems Rule Now --- but Make Way
for SMP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Michael Alexander Another Stellar Year for Workstations 61
Michael Alexander Another Stellar Year for Workstations 61
Michael Alexander Spell PC Success with Two P's ---
Pentium and Power . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Michael Alexander Spell PC Success with Two P's ---
Pentium And Power . . . . . . . . . . . 62
M. Alexander Spell PC success with two P's-Pentium
and Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Mark Schlack Hello Bay Networks and Dial-Up LAN
Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Mark Schlack Hello Bay Networks and Dial-Up LAN
Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Jeff Moad The Services Sector Soared in 1994 . . . 65
Jeff Moad The Services Sector Soared in 1994 . . . 65
Steve Paul More To Store and Plenty To Print . . . 66
Steve Paul More to Store and Plenty To Print . . . 66
Anonymous Datamation 100 Product Index ---
Comprehensive listing of all products
mentioned in this issue . . . . . . . . 107
Anonymous Datamation 100 Product Index . . . . . . 107
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous Press Watch --- As a computing element,
DNA is slower than silicon, but much
more massively parallel . . . . . . . . 111
Anonymous ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Anonymous ThinkWrap --- IBM sets its sights on
client/server database market . . . . . 116
Anonymous FRAMEWORK --- Being late adopting ATM
may be as big a mistake as being late
adopting PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
K. Strehlo Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous In Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous In Box --- a shrink-wrapped alternative
to custom salesforce automation systems 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Believe it or not,
Microsoft has put its name on a product
created by Computer Associates and has
started selling it . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Cutting Edge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- George, who's been
out in the sun too long, begins to see a
resemblance between OLE and Mickey Mouse 24
S. Scrupski SerVices and Virtues . . . . . . . . . . 29
S. Scrupski SerVices and Virtues --- It's becoming
fashionable to outsource, so now IS can
concentrate on doing it intelligently 29
W. D. Riley LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
W. D. Riley LANScape --- It's no good having backup
if it's not in a safe place . . . . . . 33
Fred Guterl Mainframes Are Breaking Out of the Glass
House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Fred Guterl Mainframes Are Breaking Out of the Glass
House . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
J. William Semich Client/Server Unchained: Finally,
Hardware Independence . . . . . . . . . 40
J. William Semich Client/Server Unchained: Finally,
Hardware Independence . . . . . . . . . 40
Peter Cassidy Wholesale Success on the Web . . . . . . 48
Peter Cassidy Wholesale Success on the web . . . . . . 48
Peter Cassidy Keep the Barbarians at the Gateway . . . 51
Peter Cassidy Keep the Barbarians at the Gateway . . . 51
P. Cassidy Keep the barbarians at the gateway
(network security) . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Alan Kay The Business Case for Multimedia . . . . 55
Alan S. Kay The Business Case for Multimedia . . . . 55
A. S. Kay The business case for multimedia . . . . 55--56
Alan S. Kay Networked Multimedia Still a Challenge 56
Alan S. Kay Networked multimedia Still a Challenge 56
Anonymous INTERNATIONAL --- This follow-on feature
to our DATAMATION 100, focuses on the
European IT market and includes profiles
of the top 10 IT suppliers. (a special
supplement included in International
Edition issues, only.) . . . . . . . . . 60
Anonymous International . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60--1
Chris Amaru SQL Server Bundles Replication . . . . . 61
Chris Amaru SQL Server Bundles Replication . . . . . 61
Lee The Retool Human Resources . . . . . . . . . 66
Lee The Retool Human Resources . . . . . . . . . 66
L. The Retool human resources . . . . . . . . . 66, 68--69
Lee The HR App Meets Critical Needs . . . . . . 69
Lee The HR App Meets Critical Needs . . . . . . 69
Anonymous Press Watch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Press Watch --- Is the Pentagon
holdingback on the release of an
experimental missile that has a
cockroach at the controls? . . . . . . . 77
B. Rhodewalt ThinkWrap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
B. Rhodewalt ThinkWrap --- Original thought is a rare
and valuable thing . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Framework --- What happens when Vision
meets Reality head on? . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous In Box --- Readers want the real inside
dope about Bridge Ware . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Your enterprise ain't
up to speed without a centralized
directory of all your nodes and their
privileges, connections, and even
content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Paradigm Shift --- Our seers predicted
back in January that Lotus would be
acquired . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Anonymous SerVices and Virtues --- When no news is
bad news, bad news is good news. Make
sense? No, but this is ISSC . . . . . . 28
Anonymous LANScape --- Are your end-users making
up stupid passwords? Help is on the way 32
Dave Simpson Downsizing: pull the plug slowly
(mainframe to client/server migration) 34--37
Cate T. Corcoran and
Mark Schlack Internet servers for under US\$100?
Here's one! (Caldera Network Desktop) 41, 43
Vance McCarthy Are Virtual LANs Still Virtual Reality? 45--46, 48--49
Rob Mattison and
Michael J. Sipolt An object lesson in management
(object-oriented technology) . . . . . . 51, 53, 55
Richard Schreiber Getting Distributed Apps To Communicate:
Let's Talk Middleware . . . . . . . . . 57
Charles B. Darling Routers Can Save Your WAN Dollars . . . 64
Charles B. Darling Go with the (data) flow (bank regional
WAN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--68, 70--71, 73
Anonymous DATAMATION Picks --- Toshiba introduces
a 4.8-pound multimedia notebook based on
a 2.9V 90MHz Pentium chip; Micro Focus
unveils BridgeWare . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Anonymous Press Watch --- Novell has to expand
NetWare's support for apps or succumb to
Windows NTs attacks . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous ThinkWrap --- In reengineering, speed is
everything . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
K. Strehlo Framework-Another day in the life of a
reader . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous In Box --- What's the point about the
turn-of-the-century data calculation
problem? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Setting up and
maintaining World Wide Web sites for
corporate customers is a booming
business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
D. Sharna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Components should
describe the business, not some part of
a GUI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Network administrators can
get away with a lot of things. Losing
all the data on a file server ain't one
of'em . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Michael Alexander Focus The Real Security Threat: The Enemy
Within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
M. Alexander The real security threat: the enemy
within . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30--31, 33
Peter Ruber Take the Risk Out of Wireless
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35--36, 39
Fred Cohen Why 32-Bit Desktops Need Virus
Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41--43
Robert Zawacki and
Carol A. Norman and
Paul A. Zawacki and
Paul D. Applegate Reenergize Before You Reengineer . . . . 45
David S. Linthicum What UNIX Branding Means to You . . . . 53
Richard Schreiber Workflow imposes order on transaction
processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57, 59--60
Anonymous International --- Can virtual reality
help sell kitchen appliances? . . . . . 60
David Vins Visual Smalltalk: Team Objects for C/S
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Chris Amaru FSIOP Speeds AS/400 Data Access . . . . 62
Lee The Need Groupware? Think Functions, Not
Products . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--69
Lee The Beta Not Wait for Groupware . . . . . . 69--74
Anonymous Press Watch --- Some people really do
know how to get a C/S development team
to work right . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
S. J. Goldman ThinkWrap --- Technology is developing a
life of its own beyond the scope of the
typical user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Anonymous Framework --- Unicycles are cool. but
two-wheelers will take you where you
want to go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous In Box --- Should everyone run their
business the Andersen way? . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- IBM's new I/T Security
Consulting Practice features emergency
response to hacker intension . . . . . . 15
Anonymous Paradigm shift --- Encapsulation,
inheritance, and polymorphism are the
hobgoblins of small OO purists minds . . 25
Anonymous LanScape --- Sure you can lie with
statistics. But you can lie with surveys
even better . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Vivien Marsh Test Client/Server Apps Before They Bug
You to Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
V. Marsh Test client/server apps before they bug
you to death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32--35
Elaine L. Appleton Recruiting on the Internet . . . . . . . 39
Greg Garry Client/Server Hits the Road . . . . . . 43
G. Garry Client/server hits the road (middleware
for remote client/server apps) . . . . . 43--45
Vance McCarthy Can Ethernet unclog your WAN? . . . . . 47, 49, 51
David Simpson Does HSM pay? Be skeptical! . . . . . . 53, 55--56
Parmeet Sinch Chaddha Dancing with Data: Check Your
Choreography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Charles B. Darling Immortalize Your Apps . . . . . . . . . 65
Charles B. Darling Reinventing an Airine's IS . . . . . . . 67
C. B. Darling Reinventing an airline's IS (ATA
internal systems) . . . . . . . . . . . 67, 69--74
Anonymous Press Watch --- The Web is at least one
man's answer to alienation in this
society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Anonymous Advertisers Index/Sales masthead . . . . 83
Anonymous ThinkWrap --- Dealing with an
outsourcer? Here's what you need to put
in the contract . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
K. Strehlo Framework --- No matter where you go, IS
faces the same challenges . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous In Box --- More security is the order of
the day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Five years from now,
50% of all methodology gums will be
publishing books on objects . . . . . . 17
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- The world is awash in
OLE objects. It's a buyer's market, but
you should be wary . . . . . . . . . . . 29
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Want to hear a really bad
idea? Microsoft is eliminating
concurrent licensing for part-time users 33
David Baum Unify Dispersed Development Teams . . . 37
Richard Schreiber Glue Enterprisewide Apps Together . . . 41--43
David Simpson Can't Tolerate Server Downtime? Cluster
'Em! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--47
Vance McCarthy Living with SNA . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
Larry Stevens To CD or Not To CD? . . . . . . . . . . 53
L. Stevens To CD or not to CD? . . . . . . . . . . 53--55
Peter D. Varhol Three Routes to OLAP . . . . . . . . . . 57
Lee The Workflow Tackles the Productivity
Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Lee The Draino for Workstation Clogs . . . . . . 67
Anonymous Press Watch --- The Internet may run out
of room soon, unless the next-generation
Internet Protocol gets off the ground 75
D. Sarna ThinkWrap --- It may sell a lot of books
to say that we're all descending to the
level of a computer, but it just ain't
so . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Mark Schlack Cover Story --- Windows95 Migration
Survival Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . ??
K. Strehlo Framework --- After 13 years, Windows95
emerges from a cloud of barbecue potato
chip powder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous In Box --- Think you can breeze into the
Year 2000 unscathed? Read on . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- It will be business as
usual when Win95 hits the streets, at
least as far as virus infections go . . 15
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- If you think you
don't need T1 bandwidth to the desktop,
you're missing another looming paradigm
shift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Does your company own the
files you put on the network? Maybe.
Maybe not . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Emily Kay Control the Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
E. Kay Control the cost (Windows95) . . . . . . 38--41
Mark Schlack Facing the Future with Windows95 . . . . 43--44
David Simpson Windows95 Is No Desktop Management
Panacea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
D. Simpson Windows95 is no desktop management
panacea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49--51
Kevin Strehlo Why Develop for Win95? OLE! . . . . . . 53
Charles Bermant Windows95 Applications Are New and
Improved . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
C. Bermant Applications ARE new and improved
(Windows95) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57--58, 60
Vance McCarthy Going Network Live with Win95 . . . . . 63--65
Brian Livingston 10 Things Your Help Desk Better Know . . 67
Greg Garry Windows95 Refuseniks Just Say No! . . . 69
Charles B. Darling Is It Time To Change Your NOS? . . . . . 71
Charles B. Darling VINES makes the grade (in school
district) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74--77
Anonymous Press Watch --- Windows95 or Windows'NT?
It's Microsoft vs Microsoft . . . . . . 79
Anonymous ThinkWrap --- Why chose between
quick-and-dirty RAD and
slower-than-death CASE? Take the best of
both . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
K. Strehlo Framework --- Best-selling management
books about IT never mention the IT
wizardry that makes the magic happen . . 7
Anonymous In Box --- Protecting data is the real
value of hierarchical storage management 9
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Going off to visit the
engineer down the hall? Here's a handy
EngineerSpeak translation guide . . . . 15
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Surfing the Net is
one thing; developing for it is another.
Here's what you need to know to stay out
of trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Sure the Internet is a
great place to goof off But it's also a
great resource for the adults among us 32
Andrea Ovans Should You Take the Reengineering Risk? 38--39, 43--44
Philip J. Gill Needed: Integrated network and system
management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55, 57, 59, 61, 63
George Black Simplify End-User Computing: Outsource
It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67--69
Peter Varhol The P6: At Last, an Intel Heavy-Duty
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Vance McCarthy ATM on Trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish VB4: An Enterprise Tool Is Born . . . . 77
J. William Semich C/S Manufacturing: Build, Buy, or
Reengineer? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84--87
Lee The Bagging good manufacturing software . . 87, 89--93
Anonymous Press Watch --- Watch out all you
impulse buyers. LaserVend is
strategically placing software-vending
machines in your path. And soon you
won't even need exact change . . . . . . 97
C. Realini ThinkWrap --- IS must change the way it
approaches distributed system management
problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
M. Schlack Framework --- Cut costs and extinguish
that cigar at the same time . . . . . . 6
Anonymous In Box --- There are multitudes of
commercial class libraries that provide
solid application development frameworks 11
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Our reporter is still
scratching his head over the stock
market frenzy on Netscape's IPO . . . . 17
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Our intrepid
columnists tell you about their day job,
during which they're creating electronic
City Halls for the Big Apple . . . . . . 31
W. D. Riley LANScape --- What goes around comes
around, and none too soon, either . . . 36
David Simpson Cut Costs with Client/Server Computing?
Here's How! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38--39, 41
Susan Mael Want To Earn Big Money? Go West or
Become C10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Mike Hurwicz Lower the Net Management Burden Now . . 53
Cate T. Corcoran Consolidate computers and conquer
desktop costs (dual Pentium
PC/workstation systems) . . . . . . . . 61, 63--64
Ram Sudama Get Ready for Distributed Objects . . . 67
Kevin Strehlo Business Benefits from Distributed
Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Vance McCarthy IBM/Lotus: Notes Rules . . . . . . . . . 75
Charlotte MacGregor How Telecom Regulations Affect IS . . . 78
Charles B. Darling Control the PC shopping spree
(enterprise resource management) . . . . 82--85
Charles B. Darling Baxter finds partners for volume
purchases (Healthcare business PC
buying) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85, 87--88, 90--91
Anonymous Press Watch --- Putting monetary values
on person-hours in the IT department
helps when talking bottom-line with
upper management . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Simon Travaglia ThinkWrap --- Status is claiming your
body is racked with pain when you sit
down at your machine . . . . . . . . . . 100
K. Strehlo Framework --- Sometimes the truth hurts.
But face it: Even the best OLTP data can
create disaster in a data warehouse if
it's not cleaned up first . . . . . . . 8
Anonymous In Box --- Embattled Year 2000 letter
writer clarifies his position . . . . . 12
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Need a few tips on how
to negotiate a large-volume purchase of
Microsoft's Win95? . . . . . . . . . . . 21
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- George hosts DevDays
and sees some more real-world, big-time
Visual Basic app stuff . . . . . . . . . 37
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Windows NT may not be
perfect, but it's probably the pick of
the litter at the moment . . . . . . . . 40
Joe Celko and
Jackie McDonald Don't Warehouse Dirty Data . . . . . . . 42--44, 51, 53
Debra Bulkeley Where To Recruit Your Next Rising Star 56
David Simpson It's a Buyers Market for Mainframe RAID 59
Vance McCarthy Managing IP Nets: a Hitchhiker's Guide 63
Alan S. Kay Where Warp Fits . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Denis W. Haskin VisualWorks: Powerful --- but Smalltalk
Underneath . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
David Vins Obsydian: Model Your Way Through App Dev 85
Lee The SMP Servers for DSS: Go for the Package
Buy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Ralph Marshall USAir's Ralph Marshall says you have to
try different approaches to data
warehousing before it flies . . . . . . 93
Lee The Plug and play servers for DSS apps
(USAir) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93--98
Anonymous Press Watch --- Get your boards and get
ready to surf the fifth wave of
computers: public network computing . . 99
M. Alexander ThinkWrap --- Hackers and virus writers
are winning the battle . . . . . . . . . 106
K. Strehlo Framework --- BackOffice is probably no
threat to existing OLTP setups. It's
something a lot more important . . . . . 9
Anonymous In Box --- Eli Lilly has not just missed
the boat, it's hopped on a covered wagon
heading in the other direction . . . . . 13
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Pricing mistakes by
leading outsourcing companies have
resulted in good deals for the IS shops 15
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- The question is, Is
chicken soup the cure for a lack of
vision on IBM's part? . . . . . . . . . 29
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Should you be wearing a
suit? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
J. William Semich Bet Your Job on BackOffice? . . . . . . 38--42
Vance McCarthy WIN95: plan, plan, plan\ldots then
automate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45, 47--48
Emily Kay Should You Outsource Your Move to
Windows95? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55--56, 59
John C. Daily What It Takes To Be C10 - . . . . . . . 61
Elaine L. Appleton The Document Explosion: Take Control! 64--65, 67--68
David Simpson Does CMOS Save Money? . . . . . . . . . 69
Peter Ruber Color Printing --- Who Needs It? . . . . 73--74
Charles B. Darling Dig Deep To Strike Data Access Gold . . 76
Charles B. Darling Look Under the SQL Hood - . . . . . . . 79
Anonymous Press Watch --- At MIT, intelligent
software agents are becoming even
smarter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
R. Stalters ThinkWrap --- It takes teamwork to build
a Competency Aligned Organization . . . 94
K. Strehlo Framework --- The switch has been
thrown, and soon we'll be seeing a new
generation of computer architectures . . 9
Anonymous In Box --- Windows95 defenders fight
back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Looking for a good
place to hold ATM trials? Try Finland.
Really . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Does Windows do UNIX?
That's what the UNIX folks want to know 33
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Sure, your users want apps
that are the equivalent of Ferraris; but
sometimes, what's best for everyone is a
practical Chevy . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
David Simpson Switch On the New Computer . . . . . . . 40
David Baum New Technology Burnout? Here's How To
Cope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45--47
Mike Hurwicz NetWare and NT: When Servers Collide . . 51
Peter Ruber Drive a hard bargain with network
outsourcers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61, 63--64
David Simpson Win95 vs. NT Workstation . . . . . . . . 69
Richard Schreiber Unify Security to Speed Development . . 78
Eric Eldred Sun Opens Up the Bus Bottleneck . . . . 83
Lee The Can Frameworks Integrate System
Management Apps? . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Lee The Patrolling database backups (Associated
Grocers) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89--93
Anonymous Press Watch --- In a world of Windows
clients, NetWare departmental servers,
and the looming presence of NT, what's
the role of UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Peter Vogel ThinkWrap --- Now that Windows95 with
Remote OLE is here, you really can make
regular paper pushers productive . . . . 100
K. Strehlo Framework --- We're stepping up our
coverage of international connectivity
issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous In Box --- Think there's no such thing
as IT-savvy MBAs? Check out the
University of California at Irvine . . . 14
Anonymous Products of the Year --- What was the
best IS product of the year? Tell us.
Tell the world. Cast your ballot in
DATAMATION's 1995 Products of the Year
contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Cyber crooks are as
busy as ever, and their victims are
talking about it . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Is the computing
world moving toward fat servers and dumb
terminals (er, clients) or the other way
around? Only certain COMDEX visitors
know for sure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Okay, so Win95 was a little
late. Name one OS that hit the streets
on schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Vance McCarthy Global Networking: Easier? Sure!
Cheaper? Forget it! . . . . . . . . . . 36
David Simpson A UNIX Server Is No Mainframe . . . . . 40
Peter L. Katz and
Cynthia J. Katz Choose the Right Training Strategy . . . 45
Richard Schreiber Customer Service Demands New
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
George Black Get Your Data Back! . . . . . . . . . . 54
Stephen R. Quinn Test Your Client/Server Apps . . . . . . 60
Lee The Check Under the Hood for OS Muscle . . . 66
Lee The Service Sells an OS . . . . . . . . . . 68
Anonymous Press Watch --- Holography has been
around for years, but now it is being
considered for an extremely swift and
massive form of storage . . . . . . . . 81
Paul Henderson ThinkWrap --- If we don't watch out,
U.S.-made software is going to be about
as reliable as the Chevy Vega of the
'70s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
E. Lindholm Framework --- Finding and fixing all the
lurking date problems in your computer
systems is a big, expensive, messy
problem based on what appears to be a
trivial technical glitch . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous In Box --- Save the accolades of NUMA
for Dirk Pitt fans . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- The latest fix-it
feature for telecommuters is a service
that will let home users transfer their
voice mail messages to coworkers at the
office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Anyone can make
predictions. We go back and see how ours
came out last year before we do it again 29
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Whatever happened to Apple
Computer, anyway? . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Joe Celko Start Fixing Year 2000 Problems Now! . . 36
David Baum Union Pacific Stays on Track for 2000 39
Elaine L. Appleton Call in the Cavalry Before 2000 . . . . 42
David Baum Tool Up for 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Vance McCarthy Keep the Millennium Virus off Your Net 55
Emily Kay Make Your Help Desk Network-Aware . . . 61
Charles B. Darling Ethernet Backbone Switches: On the Road
to ATM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Charles B. Darling Ethernet Switches Help Unsnarl Boston
Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Anonymous Press Watch --- The National Science
Foundation and MCI are working on an
ultra high-speed backbone network
service for the Internet . . . . . . . . 73
P. de Jager ThinkWrap --- The general press needs to
shout about the Year 2000 problem in
banner headlines, so your idiot managers
will take you seriously . . . . . . . . 76
M. Alexander Framework --- No blue sky, no outlandish
promises --- just the hard facts that
you need . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Kevin Mitnick Cutting Edge --- Former fugitive Kevin
Mitnick confesses . . . . . . . . . . . 6
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- What do you get when
you combine sloppy object programmers
with Internet connectivity? . . . . . . 17
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Remote control of PCs may
be a network administrator's dream, but
it feels downright creepy to a lot of
end users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
David Simpson UNIX? NT? Time to Decide! For
enterprise-level servers, solving the
UNIX vs NT conundrum may be one of your
biggest decisions over the next three to 24
Peter D. Varhol NT/RISC: a Desktop Combo for The Future
--- Computing managers looking for an
alternative to UNIX on RISC systems may
finally have found a good one in Windows
NT. It can spread a single look and feel
across an enterprise, but for desktop
use more general-purpose business apps
need to be developed . . . . . . . . . . 27
Kevin Strehlo Data Warehousing: Avoid Planned
Obsolescence --- You've got to do more
than just make and maintain the data
warehouse. You have to sustain it,
nurture it, make it grow. Here's how . . 32
Kevin Strehlo 1995 Quest Awards --- Our second annual
Quest Awards highlight IS shops that've
made the most effective use of IT
services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Vance McCarthy Cut Costs! Pipe Voice and Data Together
--- If you'd like to cut line costs by
adding voice to your data traffic, but
you're not ready for full-blown ATM,
some new Frame Relay technologies may be
the answer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Lee The Morph Your Help Desk into Customer
Support --- Customer support and help
desks do just about the same thing. Now
they're coming together. The result? One
package that can handle both needs,
cutting your overall costs and improving
your product. Now you can make both your
customers and your users happy . . . . . 52
Lee The Al Automates a Help Desk --- Konica's
help desk already was an award winner,
but it needed to move up to the next
level so it could take on products that
were nearly impossible to support. The
answer? A help desk with smarts of its
own . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Anonymous Client/Server: Surf C/S Systems via the
Intranet --- Thanks to a whole series of
new tools-and with more on the
way-developers are now building Web
pages that include gee-whiz enhancements
such as 3-D virtual reality, animation,
and real-time interactivity based on the
user's profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Anonymous AS/400: Around the World of the AS/400
--- There's a vast amount of AS/400
information literally at your fingertips
if you know where to look. Recently, we
hopped on the World Wide Web to take a
look at the growing number of Web sites
offering AS/400 administrators
information on overseeing their systems 73
Anonymous ThinkWrap --- Client/server technology
is improving at a breakneck pace. Start
now, or be left out . . . . . . . . . . 78
K. Strehlo Framework --- Two years ago, we promised
a new and better magazine. We delivered.
Where do we go from here? . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous In Box --- An OLE Automation fan speaks 9
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- IBI steps into the
future with a new breed of middleware 14
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Java's hot, but only
part of the big picture . . . . . . . . 25
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Do you know who's fixing
your computers? You had better! . . . . 28
Vance McCarthy Jump Start Your I-Nets --- Hundreds of
corporations are taking what they've
learned from their Internet Web sites
and are building Intranets to make
internal documents, files, and even
important data more easily available to
their own employees. Here's a simple
guide to help you through the process, p
us a look at a new Internet version of
CA-Unicenter to help you manage it . . . 30
Emily Kay Should You Outsource Your Intranet?
Despite some hiccups, early adopters say
Network Notes and other private data
network services are helping control
cost and complexity for remote sites and
intraenterprise computing . . . . . . . 37
Charles B. Darling Find Your Enterprise Internet Connection
--- Everyone has an Internet product to
sell. Most are trash, but some of them
even work. Here's how to sort through
the dreck to find what you need to link
your enterprise to the future . . . . . 42
Charles B. Darling Wanted: One Reliable Internet Connection
--- MathWorks relies on the Internet as
a link to its customers. Switching ISPs
gave it the reliability and pricing it
needed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Michael Alexander Tools To Cross the UNIX/NT Divide ---
The smart money says UNIX and NT are
going to be the top contenders in the
enterprise operating-system arena. Which
should you choose? Why not both, at
least for now? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Mike Hurwicz Blue Notes: Is 4.0 Worth the Update
Hassle? Not so long ago, Notes was
pretty much the only game in town for
groupware. Now the Internet and the
World Wide Web have some users
questioning whether they should stick
with Notes. Here's how Lotus is meeting
the challenge . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
David Simpson Midrange RAID-The Innovators --- Thanks
to evolving technology, RAID subsystems
are providing enhanced management and
fault-tolerant features. DATAMATION
picks the best of today's RAID systems 62
Vance McCarthy ThinkWrap --- Are Microsoft's plans for
the Internet real or not? . . . . . . . 68
J. W. Semich Framework --- Look for more pages with
in-depth analyses of technology choices
for IS managers . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous In Box --- Where to spend time looking
for hard facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Internet stations may
make sense for kids, Web junkies, and
households, but they don't make sense in
the corporate arena . . . . . . . . . . 13
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Our favorite pair of
columnist's pick their favorite
object-oriented programming tools . . . 24
W. D. Riley LANScape It's an inept upgrade policy
that uses outdated software under the
guise of saving money . . . . . . . . . 27
Anonymous Top New Products for 1996 --- The best
new products for IS managers are the
type that not only help you do your job
but help you do it well: products you
can bet your business on or products
your can count on when your needs veer
away from the mainstream . . . . . . . . 30
Vance McCarthy Novell's Net2000: Superglue for Network
Apps? Forget App-Ware, Forget OpenDoc.
Novell's working on yet another new way
to let you use your current
object-oriented technologies to write
network-ready applications . . . . . . . 38
Emily Kay Desperately Seeking SAP Support --- Need
help with SAP? You're not alone. And
there aren't enough qualified
consultants to go around. Here's how to
avoid high rates and low levels of
experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
David Simpson Cluster AS/400s? If you're pushing the
capacity of your AS/400s, or you need
higher availability, you're a prime
candidate for clustering . . . . . . . . 47
Larry Stevens Consider Three-Tier Client/Server ---
Just when client/server systems are
needed to off-load some mainframe
functions, they, too, are stretched to
the limit. One solution is to move to a
three-tiered architecture . . . . . . . 61
Lee The How To Hire a Consultant --- IT research
and consulting firms sell information
sprinkled liberally with expertise,
experience, and contacts. They (usually)
know what technologies, vendors, and
products are hot and which are not But
how do you hire one? It doesn't have to
be a hit-or-miss proposition . . . . . . 66
Lee The Turn Research into Business Decisions
--- It's easy to get good IT information
from research service. It's not so easy
to turn research into recommendations.
Here's how one company does it . . . . . 68
R. Robinson ThinkWrap RAD is not simply about
replacing development tools. It's about
making fundamental changes in the system
development process itself . . . . . . . 80
J. William Semich Framework --- Sun's Java development
language is a lot more than just another
new toy for the Internet . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous In Fox --- The Year 2000 problem is only
the tip of the iceberg . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Get ready for the
latest step in WAN bandwidth, the cable
TV modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Some say Microsoft
ignored the Internet and is scrambling
to catch up. Well, you decide for
yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Offering choices is okay as
long as the number of choices can be
reduced, thereby creating a ``standard'' 27
J. William Semich and
David Fisco Java: Internet Toy or Enterprise Tool
--- Java's a whole lot more than just an
animation tool for the Web. Sun's
renaming it the ``Java Enterprise
Platform''. Better said, it's the Java
network-centric computing platform . . . 28
Vance McCarthy Gosling on Java --- A DATAMATION
exclusive interview with the creator of
Java, Sun Microsystems' James Gosling 30
Joel Scotkin Business Uses For Java --- Think
client\slash server computing and the
Internet have changed your life? Java's
going to be twice as important-it will
totally change the way you write
applications and distribute them to
clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Jim Flynn and
Bill Clarke How Java Makes Network-Centric Computing
Real --- Java is likely to have a
profound impact on the way businesses
manage application development by
bringing about an entirely new model ---
the network-centric model --- of C/S
computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42--43
Arthur van Hoff and
Sami Shaio and
Orca Starbuck What Is This Thing Called Java --- Java
is a lot of things to a lot of people.
Here are a dozen of its most important
features, according to the people . . . 45--46
Laura Lemay and
Charles Perkins Yes, Java is Secure. Here's Why ---
Secure transactions on the Internet?
Yup. Here, today, now. Just run
Java-compiled bytecode on a Java Virtual
Machine, and you can keep the cyberpunks
off the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Philip David Meese The One Hour Java Applet --- Everything
you need to know to build your first
Java applet. Using this tutorial, at the
end of one or two hours you will have a
working Java bar-chart applet and HTML
page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
David Simpson Go Slow with the Pentium Pro --- Intel's
Pentium Pro processor promises much
faster speeds than its Pentium
predecessor, but that doesn't mean you
should make the jump quickly . . . . . . 65
Michael Alexander Simulate Security on UNIX Networks ---
SATAN has popularized the notion of
using attack simulators to automatically
probe TCP/IP networks in search of . . . 69
Cheryl Ball UNIX and Windows NT Square Off --- The
fate of UNIX as the database
client/server operating environment of
choice is becoming increasingly clouded 75
Larry Greenfield Don't Let Data Warehousing Gotchas
Getcha --- Running a data warehouse
isn't a job for the faint of heart, but
avoiding these 10 pitfalls will make it
easier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Fred Guterl How To Manage Your Outsourcer --- When
you hire an outsourcer, you're inviting
a subcontractor to become an integral
part of your business. To get the most
value, you'll need to manage the
relationship. Here's how . . . . . . . . 79
Charles Darling Need an Integrator? Build a
Relationship! It used to be that when
you went outside to get a system built,
you looked for a firm that was good at
build ng systems. Today, an outsourcer
must develop a system that is thoroughly 84
Charles Darling A New Procurement Paradigm Builds
Revenue --- Partnering can be more than
just marketing hype. At California's
Franchise Tax Board, partnership is the
rocket that business, IS, and integrator
ride to effective, business-drive
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Anonymous The IT Dozen: Leading Tactical
Consulting Companies . . . . . . . . . . 90
Richard Stallman ThinkWrap --- Americans now face the
threat of two years in prison for
indecent network postings; it would be
helpful if they could access precise
rules for avoiding imprisonment . . . . 98
Mary Jo Foley Framework --- While Microsoft still has
a lot of growing up to do to fill the
enterprise shoes of its competitors, it
is on the right track . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous In Box --- Opinions offered on Internet
terminals, buzzwords, outsourcing IT
services, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- The technologies used
in IBM's Deep Blue may be coming to a
computer near you sooner than you think 13
D. Sarna and
Q. Febish Paradigm Shift --- While NT 4.0 will
sport the Windows-95 GUI, as well as
faster and networked OLE, Cairo it isn't 27
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Upgrades are a necessary
part of our lives, and in every case,
the same pitfalls await . . . . . . . . 33
Mary Jo Foley Ready Yet? Microsoft Grows Into the
Enterprise --- The kids from Redmond
have donned their tassel-topped loafers
and think they're ready to give you
mission-critical, enterprise-quality
systems and support. Sure, NT and
BackOffice are top notch. But what about
things like reliability, availability,
and serviceability? . . . . . . . . . . 34
Mary Jo Foley Can Server Suites Play in the
Enterprise? Microsoft's Back-Office,
IBM's Project Eagle, Oracle's
InterOffice, and others are all coming
on as bundled . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Lynda Radosevich Development Tools for the Enterprise?
Microsoft has great Windows app dev
tools, but its Enterprise tools still
have a long way to go . . . . . . . . . 54
Karen Watterson SQL Server 6.5: One for the Web ---
DATAMATION First Look: Microsoft's SQL
Server 6.5 is a solid database for data
warehousing with great support for
Internet applications . . . . . . . . . 57
Vance McCarthy Exchange Builds a Backbone for the
Enterprise. The much-delayed Microsoft
Exchange can be a messaging backbone for
your enterprise, and it can hook your
users up to the Internet, too . . . . . 64
Cate T. Corcoran SMS: a Desktop Manager for the
Enterprise? Microsoft's Systems
Management Server can't manage all the
systems across an enterprise, but it
talks to all the products that can . . . 71
Anne Knowles Microsoft Plays Internet Catch-Up ---
Microsoft has announced a bevy of tools
that, when released, will help users
build, deploy, and manage MS Internet
systems based on Microsoft apps . . . . 75
David Simpson Can NT Scale? Eager to deploy Windows NT
in enterprise-level applications?
There's one problem: NT doesn't always
scale very well . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Elaine L. Appleton Can Microsoft Support the Enterprise?
Microsoft would certainly want you to
think so. But if your IS shop manages
thousands of desktops, dozens of file
servers, and a fistful of operating
systems, you're probably thinking twice
about going mission critical with
Microsoft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Larry Stevens MSDN Cleans Out Code --- MSDN 1 and 2
have been a boon to developers who want
a repository of Microsoft products and
documentation. Microsoft Developer . . . 93
Cheryl Ball Time for New Blueprints --- Multitier
client/server environments provide a
more effective modularity for
development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Gordon E. J. Hoke LAN-to-As/400: a Trio of Connections ---
Both IBM and Microsoft have products to
link Windows desktops to the AS/400, as
do several third-parties, like . . . . . 98
Peter Vogel ThinkWrap --- If you think the
maintenance group eats up too much of
your department's budget, think again.
It's the development group that's
killing you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Sarah E. Varney Framework --- You will link your legacy
app to the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Fast Ethernet, OLAP on
the Web, datawarehousing one-upmanship,
and more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Anonymous Over the Edge --- PREMIERE! Only Kidding
--- DATAMATION's new humor section . . . 24
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- How do programmers
develop apps without code? Magic . . . . 28
W. D. Riley LANScape --- Too many networks means too
many duplicate applications. Take
control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Greg Beaulieu Perspective --- I became a dinosaur the
day I got a notebook PC running
Windows95 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Sarah E. Varney Datawebs! Link the Web to Your Legacy
Data and Apps --- Roll up your sleeves,
it's time to take a down-and-dirty look
at the new Web-enabled tools that . . . 38
Anonymous Case Study: The Internet Shopping
Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous OLAP for Datawebs . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Anonymous Dataweb Development Tools . . . . . . . 46
Peter D. Varhol and
Vance McCarthy Who Wins the Web Server Shootout? To
tell the truth, there is no winner in
the traditional sense. But DATAMATION's
evaluation of Web servers from
Microsoft, Netscape, and Process
Software highlights the factors to
consider when making a choice . . . . . 48
David Simpson IBM Launches OS/2 Warp Server 4 --- IBM
last month turned loose version 4 of
OS/2 Warp Server, with an impressive
array of integrated system and network 55
Emily Kay Pentium Pros on the Desktop? Not Yet ---
If you're thinking about putting PCs
powered with Intel's Pentium Pro on your
users' desktops, think about it a little
more . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
George Black Save Money Through Asset Management ---
OK, so you saved 10% on your PC hardware
by cutting a killer deal with your
vendor. But that's not going to mean
anything if you don't control PC
management costs. Here's how . . . . . . 62
Emily Kay How To Choose a Help Desk Outsourcer ---
Outsourcers, consultants, system
integrators, even computer vendors are
falling all over each other to offer you
help desk outsourcing services. That
makes it a dangerous place to shop . . . 65
Lar Kaufman Linux Opens Corporate IS Doors --- Most
corporate IS shops turn up their noses
at shareware, but Linux is good code for
free. Well, almost . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Lee The IS-Friendly Project Management --- You
can't manage IS projects with
general-purpose project management
software. Here's what you need to look
for and why . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Charles B. Darling Desktop Outsourcing: Pry Open the Black
Box --- If your methodologies for
acquiring, installing, and supporting
PCs are perfect, if your execution is
consistently flawless, if your desk-top
resources are in perfect control, then
skip this article-there's nothing in it
for you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Elaine L. Appleton Managed Care Outsourcing Offers
Flexibility --- When it went looking for
a desktop outsourcer, United Wisconsin
Services needed more than a single
service plan for its users. It found
three . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Rob McCool ThinkWrap --- Netscape's Rob McCool:
What's wrong with HTTPD? . . . . . . . . 94
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Object frameworks, more
server suites, say goodbye to 1.44MB
floppies, and more . . . . . . . . . . . 6
J. William Semich Framework --- What's Business Process
Management? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Anonymous Over the Edge --- Read the latest on
Internet cheapboxes and data moths (just
kidding) in DATAMATION's new humor
section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
I. D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- How Microsoft's
Internet strategy is different from all
the Internet strategies . . . . . . . . 25
W. D. Riley LANScape --- a virus protection system
make time to set up, but they'll save
you from wasting time later . . . . . . 31
J. William Semich and
Mary Jo Foley Run Your Business with Systems
Management Tools! Could you use a
trouble-ticketing system to tell you
when to replenish the inventory in your
warehouse? A scheduling tool to monitor
and refill bank ATMs? Some systems
management vendors are building the
Business Process Management tools you'll
need to do that and more . . . . . . . . 32
Anonymous Manage Factory Production with
CA-Unicenter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Tools to Control Business Processes . . 40
Mark Halper Universal Databases Are Still on the
Bleeding Edge --- If you can digitize
it, you can retrieve it, claim the
database leaders. But users say marrying
video, audio, image, and other data
types with traditional bits and bytes is
not going to be a snap . . . . . . . . . 48
Vance McCarthy The IP Address Time Bomb --- ``The
Internet's backbone networks are
clogged. The ISPs have a plan to open
them up, but their solution may explode
in your face'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
David Simpson It's Time to Reevaluate Your Tape
Options --- Tape prices are falling
fast, so now's a good time to take stock
of your backup situation. Tape arrays
are coming on strong, and new giants in
both the DLT and QIC arena will arrive
by fall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Lori Valigra XTerminals: Cheap and Easy --- Okay, so
it's not exactly on the cutting edge.
But if you're looking for cheap, secure,
and easy to administer Inter and . . . . 65
Lynn Haber Computer Telephony: Big Help for
Customer Support --- If your company is
trying to distinguish itself through
improved customer service, you should
probably look into the next generation
of telephone response-computer telephony
integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Martin Taylor Port Your UNIX apps to OS/400 --- Think
it's a strange idea to port your UNIX
apps to the AS/400? Considering the cost
is a lot lower, maybe you should be
asking yourself why you're not . . . . . 77
Charles B. Darling Build an App Dev Framework for DSS ---
It's a three-ring circus out there as
vendors make outrageous claims about
bogus issues and expect customers to
cheer about their Decision Support
System Products. Ignore them . . . . . . 82
Charles B. Darling A DSS Trilogy: Part I --- Think Outside
the OLAP Box --- If you think OLAP is a
tool that let users play with data,
think again It's an application
development environment, and if you want
it to work, you'd better think of it
that way . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Elaine L. Appleton Data Warehouse with an OLAP View --- The
folks at PacifiCare were committed to
building a data warehouse. A good OLAP
tool would let them peek inside and
manipulate the data . . . . . . . . . . 94
Elizabeth Lindholm ThinkWrap --- Despite predictions of
imminent demise, Mainframes are proving
to be very adaptive technology . . . . . 102
J. William Semich FRAMEWORK --- Microsoft ``Embraces''
Netscape --- Netscape has a two-year
lead over Microsoft. Does it matter? . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Sequel Net Controls Web
Cruisers. Sun Guns for Hewlett--Packard,
IBM. Sagister Helps Bull Open Up. Hope
for American Programmers. Dig Ever
Deeper with Datamining. New Meaning to
``Star'' Topology. EDA/SQL Loses a
Little and Gains a Lot. Vision Uses
Rules to Build C/S Apps. Pilot . . . . . 9
Anonymous Over the Edge --- Telecom Complexity
Competition. High-tech ad debugger . . . 20
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Evaluating I-Net
Toolkits --- If you're taking the plunge
into the Internet, here are some toolkit
recommendations from our columnist duo 23
W. D. Riley LANSCAPE --- Encrypt This!! --- There
are a thousand reasons to use
encryption. Unfortunately, the current
state of technology does not lend itself
to e-mail platforms . . . . . . . . . . 27
Jim Flynn Battle for the INTERNET infrastructure
--- Microsoft and Netscape are fighting
for the hearts and minds of Internet
developers everywhere. The winner will
determine how you develop apps for the
Internet and your corporate intranet
into the future . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Anonymous How Microsoft's ActiveX Prevents
Internet Viruses . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Michael Drips Windows Development Tools that Work ---
Can a lowly Windows developer find
affordable tools that meet all his
stand-alone, client/server, and Internet
development needs? No problem, he says
--- but with some caveats . . . . . . . 36
Cheryl Gerber Excavate Your Data --- Datamining could
be your No. 1 strategic weapon --- and
source of profits --- in dissecting
archival information. But it takes time
to master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
David Simpson Say Goodbye to MVS, Say Hello to OS/390
--- OS/390 is bundled with more than 30
software packages and services.
Advantages for IS: reduced testing and
lower licensing costs . . . . . . . . . 44
Mary Jo Foley Stalking the Elusive Unified Directory
Service --- Don't expect IBM, Microsoft,
or Novell to make your life easier by
linking their e-mail, networking . . . . 48
Vance McCarthy ATM Backbones Tame Ethernet Traffic ---
No longer just for IS sites with
multimedia, ATM backbones can help you
get that huge upsurge in Ethernet
traffic under control . . . . . . . . . 58
Susan E. Fisher Get Ready for Plug and Play --- PnP
hardware and software are coming sooner
than you think, and the Universal Serial
Bus is going to help make it happen . . 62
Angie Pantages Enterprise Computing Drives IS Spending
--- While the desktop market has cooled,
IS managers are spending more on
building a client/server enterprise
infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Will Spencer Keep Your Password to Yourself --- Here
are some of the most useful software
packages for UNIX security . . . . . . . 76
Charles B. Darling Manage Your Reporting Environment ---
Beef up your data access physique with
intelligent viewers, data cupboards,
seamless report development, and-most 78
Elaine L. Appleton On-Site: Chase Scales Reporting to the
High End --- Most query- and-reporting
tools don't scale up very well. So Chase
Manhattan turned to Actuate when 3,000
of it users needed reports from a data
warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Charles B. Darling THINKWRAP --- Don't Write Off the
Metadata Coalition\ldots Yet --- Pundits
may dismiss the coalition, but users are
interested and guardedly optimistic . . 96
J. William Semich FRAMEWORK --- Technology Is the Weapon
--- Find a way to use data warehouse
technologies to put your company a giant
step ahead of the competition . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- NT To Run as AS/400
Guest?. The Cisco/StrataCom Deal. New
OLAP Benchmark. Web Content Under
Microscope. Merlin Takes Shape. Put Some
Luster on Your Clusters. A Clear Path
from Unisys. Intermezzo Searches Several
Servers. Cost-Management Hel . . . . . . 11
Anonymous Over the Edge --- The Museum of Bugs.
Marketing Ploy of the Month . . . . . . 23
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- The Business Reality
of VRML --- VRML will have a profound
impact on business . . . . . . . . . . . 27
W. D. Riley LANSCAPE --- Behind the Wall --- Before
you put up your firewall, there are a
few things you have to do . . . . . . . 33
Elaine L. Appleton Use Your Data Warehouse to Compete! The
IT managers at ReliaStar Financial knew
what technologies they needed to stay
competitive, but finding the data
warehouse system to make it happen was
another story . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Charles B. Darling How To Integrate Your Data Warehouse ---
Data warehousing is tricky enough
without worries over products that don't
cooperate. Keep a close eye on
integration to assemble a smooth,
efficient toolkit . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Anonymous Data Warehouse Tools . . . . . . . . . . 44
Mary Jo Foley Objects for Business Apps Are Coming!
Slowly --- As users and vendors continue
their quests for more tailorable
applications comprised of vertical
business objects, early implementations
are starting to debut . . . . . . . . . 52
Lynda Radosevich Internet Plumbing Comes to Groupware ---
Confused as to whether an intranet or
groupware package will enable your users
to better collaborate? It's no longer an
either/or choice, thanks to
next-generation groupware on tap . . . . 58
Sarah Varney Link Your Help Desk to the Web ---
Linking your help desk to the Web can
cut down on the number of support calls
and help you provide better customer
service. Read about five companies that
succeeded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
David Simpson How To Cross the NT, UNIX Divide ---
More IS shops are finding themselves
with a mix of UNIX and NT apps. Here are
some integration and migration options
you should consider . . . . . . . . . . 68
Vance McCarthy Building a Firewall --- Just about
everyone's in a rush to get on the
Internet. Slow down! Remember to look at
network security products first before
the world gets a chance to look at your
secure data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Sara E. Varney Calm Strategy Solves Year 2000 Problem
--- IS managers at Merle Norman are
spreading the word --- there's much to
be done in getting 2 million lines of
home-grown code converted in time for
the Year 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
David Simpson NT Workstation: Your Next Corporate
Desktop? Windows95 got the glory --- and
the hype --- but it isn't the corporate
world's only choice. Here are some
compelling reasons why NT Workstation
may be your next desktop standard . . . 89
David Simpson There Are Alternatives for AS/400
Storage --- When it comes to AS/400
storage, IBM rules the roost. But don't
ignore third parties if you need speed,
lower costs or extra connectivity . . . 96
Peter de Jager THINKWRAP --- Lock Up Your Year 2000
Staff The Year 2000 deadline is
different from the projects and
deadlines we're used to . . . . . . . . 102
David Simpson COVER STORY: UNIX . . . . . . . . . . . ??
J. William Semich FRAMEWORK --- The Promise of UNIX ---
Who could possibly need 16 Qbytes of
memory? Qbytes --- you know,
``Quintillions of Bytes.'' . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Use DMI To Reduce
Desktop Support Costs Summer School for
IS Professionals. Java, Java Everywhere.
First Plan 9, Now Inferno. Go Beyond
RAID-5. Downsizing of IS Slows in '96.
How To Link Relational and Object
Databases. Brace Yourself for a Price
Hike for ISDN Service . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Over the Edge --- The First Truly
Bug-Free Software. Top 10 Signs of IS
Project Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Intranets on the
Runway --- Lately, fashion slaves have
been mesmerized by the siren call of
intranet development . . . . . . . . . . 21
W. D. Riley LANSCAPE --- Dialing In --- Dialup is
the ultimate frustration engine . . . . 25
Peter D. Varhol The Future of UNIX: 64 Bits --- So far,
only Digital and SGI can give you the OS
you need to get the main benefit of
64-bit UNIX RISC machines: gazillions of
gigabytes of memory . . . . . . . . . . 26
Anonymous Sun's New Mainframe-Killing 64Bit
UltraSPARC Servers --- Sun's new
multi-CPU UltraSPARC Enterprise line of
servers shows what UNIX hardware vendors
have in store for the future: bigger,
better, faster, more . . . . . . . . . . 36
Sarah E. Varney Datamarts: Coming to an IT Mall Near
You! Chances are good that datamarts
will pop up at your IS site. But what
are they? For starters, they offer most
of the benefits of data warehousing
without a lot of the pain and agony . . 44
Mary Jo Foley Desktop Suites Moonlight as Development
Tools --- The latest releases of Office,
SmartSuite, and WordPerfect Suite are
32-bit, Internet-enabled app builders
and cool end-user office products, too 48
Elaine L. Appleton Crisis Outsourcing --- Under the gun?
Sometimes you just gotta do crisis
staffing. Here's how one Texas agency
got the help it needed when it faced an
unmovable deadline . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Kimberly Patch Here Come the Net PCs --- Net PCs are no
longer just a figment of Larry Ellison's
imagination. A handful of products are
readying to ship this year . . . . . . . 58
Jim Flynn Use the Web for Imaging! Web add-ons
from imaging vendors make basic document
viewing possible, but sophisticated
support is on hold until object
standards are settled . . . . . . . . . 62
Susan E. Fisher VPNs Use Tunneling To Build Business
Links --- If you just want to give
company insiders easy and relatively
secure remote access to company data via
the Internet, you can set up a virtual
private network . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Jack Maynard Break Down Manufacturing Barriers ---
The face of manufacturing is changing
rapidly, thanks to technologies that are
allowing everyone in the process to have
input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Charles B. Darling Want Fast Internet Access? Go ISDN ---
When it's time to accommodate digital
dialup in your enterprise, you'll find
there's more to evaluating ISDN devices
than just delving into their features
and technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Vance McCarthy Seven Steps to Rolling Out ISDN --- ISDN
is finally becoming a useful and
affordable tool for IS managers who want
to support users working from home or
screaming to hook up to the Internet.
But it's still not easy to install . . . 86
Philip J. Gill UNIX Vendors Get Server Fever --- As NT
moves in on the PC server market,
commercial UNIX vendors move upscale . . 90
Peter Vogel THINKWRAP --- When in Doubt\ldots ---
The fastest way to achieve higher
production is to eliminate tasks . . . . 96
J. William Semich FRAMEWORK --- DATAMATION Means Business:
Look to DATAMATION to explain how new
technologies can be used by your company
to stay competitive . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Plug-and-Play WANs.
Another Step Toward Electronic Commerce.
Firewalls to Offer Viral Protection.
Inso Unveils On-Line Query Refiner.
Amdahl First with Eight-Way NT Clusters.
Need 1TB on a 5.25-Inch Disk? . . . . . 11
Anonymous Over the Edge --- Documentation Mills on
the Rise. The MISfortune 500 . . . . . . 22
D. Sarna and
G. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Invisible Interfaces:
About Face is required reading for
anyone building an interface for others
to use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
W. D. Riley LANSCAPE --- No More Cows: What we want
from software vendors is a little bit of
this and a little bit of that, not the
whole cow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Susan Mael Bigger By Design --- You'd think
DATAMATION 100 companies just couldn't
get enough of each other last year ---
through acquisition, that is. Mergers,
solid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Alan S. Kay Land of Opportunity and Turmoil ---
Chances are good that datamarts will pop
up at your IS site. But what are they?
For starters, they offer most of the
benefits of data warehousing without a
lot of the pain and agony . . . . . . . 40
Jeffrey Henning Intel in Your Face --- With faster,
cheaper microprocessors coming from
Intel every three months, IS managers,
who once turned to RISC workstations for 44
Elaine L. Appleton High-End Storage Takes Off --- Direct
Access Storage Devices is where the data
lives, and with the growth of data
warehouses, everyone's data needs a
whole lotta elbow room . . . . . . . . . 48
Bronwyn Fryer Internet Mania --- Ask just about any
software company executive what the
biggest IT trend of 1997 will be, and
you'll get a single answer: corporate
intranets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Philip J. Gill UNIX Takes the High Road --- While NT
looks to be a great success in the
low-end of the server market, more
UNIX-based enterprise servers are being
used as IS managers turn away from
mainframes and legacy applications . . . 58
Peter Cassidy The Network Revolution --- The melting
of boundaries between LAN, WAN, and
Internet technologies, plus
consolidation of key industry players,
are combining to remake the networked
landscape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Angie Pantages Big Iron Is Back --- IS managers are
choosing bigger systems to satisfy
exponential increases in transaction
volumes and in numbers of users on line 66
Anonymous DATAMATION 100 Section Breakout ---
Includes each company's total IT revenue
and percentage of revenue by
section-from large-scale systems to
peripherals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Ronald C. Aronica and
Donald E. Rimel, Jr. Wrapper Your Legacy Systems --- You may
be tempted to just bulldoze your legacy
apps. Don't. You can integrate them into
your next-generation systems
architecture using object-wrapping
techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
David Simpson Put Your AS/400 on the Web! OK. So it's
not the obvious choice. But the AS/400
may still have some advantages over
other platforms as a Web server. More
important, enabling software is finally
becoming available . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Angie Pantages THINKWRAP --- a Score of Scorecards:
Look back over a score of years and
you'll see --- yep, a lot of things are
different. And a lot of things are the
same . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Mary Jo Foley Starting Point --- Should you give IBM a
second chance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Business Advantage:
Fruit of the Loom helps distributors
sell on line. NatWest Bank Slashing app
dev costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Over the Edge: Scott Adams
on how to deal with stupid managers . . 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- News Analysis:
Microsoft and Siemens Nixdorf to build
object framework. Reader survey: Net PCs 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- Products: Compatibility
Server enables docs to be shipped . . . 10
James H. Knowles Competing Effectively: Build an IT
architecture on a business foundation 25
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift --- Is there life after
death? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
W. D. Riley Network Management: The best-laid plans 32
Mary Jo Foley Second chance for IBM? IBM's delivering
great hardware, operating systems, ools,
and killer middleware. So why are all
its long-term customers going . . . . . 34
David Simpson CMOS saves big bucks --- Next-generation
CMOS mainframes are due by the end of
the year. Here's how you can take
advantage of them . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Alden M. Hayashi Will IBM lose the PC price war? IBM's
adherence to IBM-developed hardware and
software architectures has taken a toll 46
Sarah E. Varney IBM jumps into e-commerce --- IBM is
serious about selling new S/390
mainframes to host Web sites. For
interactive its Big Iron story makes
sense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Alden M. Hayashi When will VisualAge come of age? IBM's
application development product line
including the VisualAge family, has been
garnering rave reviews. So, why . . . . 58
Karen Watterson IBM does data --- The technology pioneer
is working double time to keep up in
data warehousing and OLAP, says our
database expert . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Vance McCarthy Tivoli to the rescue --- IBM's
acquisition of Tivoli Systems could mark
a watershed in the rush for more
integrated, intelligent management
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Cheryl Gerber Why is IBM first in services? IBM Global
Services has become the No. 1 systems
integrator by supporting multivendor
systems and translating its inhouse
development into experience for its
customers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Brook Manville and
Nathaniel Foote Harvest your workers' knowledge --- It's
a brave new world out there. Call it
post-modern reengineering, and to make
your organization perform you'll have to
build systems that support knowledge ---
not data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Peter Vogel Know your business: Build a
knowledgebase --- a knowledgebase won't
build itself. Here are five things to do
--- and three things not to do --- to
make sure it works . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Randy Dugger Managing Users: Selling the decision
maker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Lynda Radosevich Can you measure Web ROI? Well, sort of.
It's tough to measure what you can't
see, and Web projects are riddled with
hidden costs. Here's some advice from IS
managers that can help . . . . . . . . . 92
Charles B. Darling A new tool for a new IS mission ---
Piper Jaffray Cos. picked an enterprise
application development environment as
just one step in its strategic-retooling
effort to better exploit technology . . 98
Charles B. Darling Enterprise apps: Get a tough tool ---
``Enterprise'' is easy to say, hard to
do. You need a muscular tool to develop
mission-critical, $n$-tier applications
that span the enterprise. Here's what to
look for . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Anonymous Application development environments for
enterprise projects --- Datamation's
feature summary of enterprise app dev
environments from leading vendors . . . 106
Linda Hayes Testing distributed applications:
Unraveling the Web --- As Internet use
continues to surge, companies have been
furiously working on adding more and
more functionality to their Web sites.
Not many companies, however, know how 108
David Simpson Let the games begin! More than 80
AS/400s are the work horses behind IBM's
Atlanta Olympics infrastructure, and
they're connected to all of IBM's
client/server platforms . . . . . . . . 117
Michael Jay Tucker NFS servers soup up file I/O --- NFS
Servers boost performance by speeding
file operations, and the market has
boomed as NFS has become the de facto
file-sharing standard in PC networks . . 121
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: How enterprising is
Microsoft? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond --- NT versus UNIX?
No contest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
J. William Semich Starting Point --- Database technologies
race to meet business demands . . . . . 5
Anonymous Business Advantage --- Anna Jaques
Hospital automates its software testing.
Indiana U. uses ATM link . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Cutting Edge --- News Analysis --- Why
is Cisco gobbling up all those
networking firms? The honor system for
Live Object (OpenDoc) parts. SAP's R/3
for dummies? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Over the Edge --- Salary of underground
IS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Anonymous Products --- Hot switches heat up the
networking industry Compuware's
EcoCLlENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Randy Dugger Managing Users: How're your PR skills? 30
Jim Knowles Competing Effectively: Make the holes
bigger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift --- The Internet ain't no
WAN, yet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
W. D. Riley Network Management: Fire in the sky . . 43
Mary Jo Foley Hot New Database Technologies --- The
tide has shifted from getting data in to
getting data out of a database. The Big
Six database vendors are developing
major new technologies to help users
wring every bit of information out . . . 44
Sarah E. Varney Database marketing predicts customer
loyalty --- It costs more to find new
customers than it does to competitive
keep the ones you already have. Database
marketing lets you predict customer
loyalty and future buying patterns, as
well as prevent customer turnover from
churning away profits . . . . . . . . . 50
Karen Watterson Database replication explained --- There
are almost as many replication schemes
as there are databases that use the
technology. Our database consultant
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Dennis Hamilton Build a plan for database performance
--- Your company's databases have
evolved from mere data stores to profit
centers. How are you going to make sure 71
Rebecca Hirschfield Shared services save big money --- You
may soon be called on to support a new
trend in human resource administration
--- shared service centers. Or you may
even be asked to join one. Better know
what it is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Elaine L. Appleton Big time, big-league Web outsourcing ---
Egads! Your company is graduating from a
simple home page to a big-deal,
big-volume, big-bucks-generating Web
site. What to do? Outsource, of course 84
Vance McCarthy Performance tools kill the gremlins on
your net --- How'd you like to increase
the performance and capacity of your
network by at least 20%--without
spending a dime on hardware? New network
capacity-planning tools make it possible 88
Vance McCarthy New tools authenticate remote users ---
Do you really know who your remote users
are? Authentication tools tighten up
remote security, but costs can be . . . 92
Charles B. Darling Hook your legacy LAN to ATM --- Speed
your Ethernet traffic across your ATM
backbone? LANF, makes that a practical
reality --- practically . . . . . . . . 98
David Simpson Compaq tries for the 'prise --- Compaq
is betting on a number of technologies
to gain a foothold in the enterprise
midrange server market. Should you bet
on them too? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Peter De Jager How big is your Year 2000 mess? A
systems inventory will tell you which
systems have bad dates in them. An
impact analysis will tell you how big a
risk those systems are to your business
and get you started on developing a plan
to fix the problem . . . . . . . . . . . 109
David S. Linthicum App dev tackles the intranet --- As
client/server embraces the intranet,
tool vendors are recasting their
products for the Web while developers
have been busy learning new
technologies, such as Java and ActiveX 113
Charles B. Darling The twists and turns of client/server
migration --- The move from mainframes
to client/server is never an easy task,
and sometimes a workgroup project can
balloon into enterprisewide
significance. Just ask Banco
Internacional . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
David Simpson The early returns are in: SNA Server 3.0
is a winner --- Microsoft's upcoming SNA
Server 3.0 Is garnering rave reviews
from beta users. In fact, some sites are
planning to switch from NetWare For SAA 126
Ed Tittel and
Mary Madden and
David B. Smith Use NT for your Web server --- NT Server
integrates TCP/IP protocols and services
to bring the flexibility and
functionality of enterprise networking
and Internet interoperability to the
Windows environment . . . . . . . . . . 131
David N. Shamoon Who's the best at building
Microsoft-based systems? Of the 12,700
Microsoft Solution Provider firms, eight
were recently recognized for their work
in \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond --- My directory's
better than yours . . . . . . . . . . . 146
J. William Semich Starting Point: What's holding back
e-commerce? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Business Advantage:
Pioneer implements SAP R/3 with HP's
help. Database marketing at NYNEX . . . 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Over the Edge: An applet
for picking garbage. The Salem bench
trials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge: News Analysis: Here comes
your datamart in a box. Datamation
exclusive! Diary of an SAP R/3 project.
Intranets meet doc management . . . . . 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Products: Microsoft's new
app dev environment: Office 97. Oracle
ships cluster software . . . . . . . . . 10
Ed Tittel Let NT connect your intranet . . . . . . 12
Randy Dugger Managing Users: Close the IS-user gap 27
James H. Knowles Competing Effectively: Learn to bungee
jump . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Feel the passion . . . . 32
W. D. Riley Network Management: Anyone for
rent-an-app? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Sarah E. Varney and
Vance McCarthy e-commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Alden M. Hayashi Is corporate America ready for
e-commerce? Not quite. Cost, security
issues, and lack of mature software are
major concerns. Still, many IS managers
are plowing full-steam ahead with
e-commerce systems . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Eva Freeman How to move e-cash around the Internet 58
Henry P. Vigil and
Marianne Mueller Making the Internet safe for e-commerce 64
Andrea Ovans Improve IS-department relations!
Everybody talks about aligning IS with
business goals. Here's how one pretty
traditional IS organization actually did
it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Sarah E. Varney Arm your salesforce with the Web . . . . 72
Peter De Jager Take the Year 2000 test! Will your
computer systems function when the new
century begins? Test your systems now or
die the death of a thousand cuts . . . . 76
David Simpson NUMA busts the SMP bottleneck . . . . . 82
Betty Kight The smart way to build a data warehouse 91
David Simpson Who needs a Network Computer? Network
Computers are only blurry blips until
they start shipping in volume. But a
hybrid breed of machine is starting to
show up on IS managers' radar screens 96
Charles B. Darling Embrace change with workflow tools . . . 102
Eva Freeman Middleware: Link everything to anything 119
David Simpson Replicate your AS/400 data! Emerging
applications and IT requirements are
driving a renewed surge toward
AS/400-based data replication . . . . . 137
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: Microsoft's object
lock is rusting . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Alden M. Hayashi Starting Point: Why you should rethink
reengineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Business Advantage . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Over the Edge: What if they held an Expo
and nobody came? . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous News Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Products: SQL Anywhere lets you leave
your intranet (but not your data).
JWorks builds Web apps for Informix
databases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Randy Dugger Managing Users: Don't write off business
managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Jim Knowles Competing Effectively: Explore data
warehousing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Still out on a limb . . 33
W. D. Riley Network Management: Let's chat . . . . . 36
Vance McCarthy CTI lets you coddle customers at lower
cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Bradley Hecht The help desk market: disarray and
disrepair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Sarah E. Varney Will intranets lay waste to groupware? 72
Anne Knowles Second-wave Java tools tuned to perform 82
Vance McCarthy Use the fast lane on the Information
Superhighway . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Charles B. Darling Does your OO app need an OO database? 92
Eric Rosenfeld How to turn data into useful information 98
David Simpson Build your warehouse on MPP . . . . . . 102
David Simpson Win95 vs. NT Workstation: You make the
call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
Michael Jay Tucker Will DSM tools ever really work? . . . . 115
Charles B. Darling Partitions power enterprise
client/server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: NCs threaten
Windows PCs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Alden M. Hayashi Starting Point: If you haven't project
yet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Business Advantage . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Cutting Edge: News Analysis --- JavaMan.
ActiveXecutables. Are they friend or
foe? AS/400 shops tackle Year 2000
problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Over the Edge: Datamation's humor
section has moved to page 148 . . . . . 12
Anonymous Products: Web app dev made easier with
Microsoft's InterDev Pyramid pushes SMP
limits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Randy Dugger Managing Users: Lower the risk of
outsourcing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Jim Knowles Competing Effectively: Buy versus build
in six words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Hanging on the wall . . 33
W. D. Riley LANscape: Want to play Internet cop? . . 39
Leland G. Freeman and
C. Lawrence Meador So you've got your Year 2000 project
under control. But what about your
suppliers, partners, and the other
companies you depend on? If they don't
have their Y2K act together, they could
take you down with them . . . . . . . . 40
Leland G. Freeman Pick a portfolio and a partner . . . . . 46
Richard W. Warner Blue Cross/Blue Shield saves big bucks
in Year 2000 project . . . . . . . . . . 54
Elaine L. Appleton Who will pay for Year 2000 fixes? It's
an issue so cloaked in secrecy that
almost no one but attorneys --- who
stand to make money on the problem ---
will talk about it on the record . . . . 63
Peter De Jager Manage your own expectations . . . . . . 69
Linda Hayes The Year 2000 and the S&L crisis . . . . 75
Deborah Asbrand Why sales automation is now succeeding 80
Eva Freeman Turn your budgeting operation into a
profit center . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
David Simpson Big iron shops flex the 'plex . . . . . 94
David Simpson Cut desktop management costs! It's tough
to calculate desktop management costs,
but one thing is clear: They're steep.
Here's how some corporations are
tackling the problem . . . . . . . . . . 102
Michael Jay Tucker Managing your Web-to-database
performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Vance McCarthy Web security: How much is enough? A
group of Fortune 500 companies has
developed a road map to help you find a
balance between security and performance 112
Anonymous Choose the right platform and NOS for
your intranet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Vance McCarthy Use the Web to manage your network . . . 128
Anonymous ActiveX unmasked . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Anonymous Over the Edge: Interactive Web site
wants to pump you up . . . . . . . . . . 148
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: Beyond the Internet 150
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: Voodoo IT management and
productivity gods . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge: News Analysis: At SIM, an
educated IS manager is best. SAP opens
R/3 to the Net. Business Advantage:
Online Interactive uses Litlenet to
deliver Web commerce. Lotus launches
Approach 97. QMS delivers network
printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Randy Dugger Managing Users: Face to face with users 29
Jim Knowles Competing Effectively: Seeing through
the browser war . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
W. D. Riley LANscape: Audit more, suffer less . . . 33
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: The Web's true power . . 35
Peter de Jager Year 2000: a taste of testing . . . . . 39
Vance McCarthy Strike it rich! Thanks to new datamining
tools, companies are unearthing valuable
information about their customers. The
result? Closer customer relationships
and a healthier bottom line . . . . . . 44
Charles B. Darling Datamining for the masses . . . . . . . 52
Ellen C. Greenblatt Top New Products of 1997 . . . . . . . . 60
Anne Knowles Find out what your customers really want 68
Paul Strassmann Will big spending on computers guarantee
profitability? Maybe But maybe not. In
Paul Strassmann's new book The
Squandered Computer, he offers evidence
that the relationship between spending
and profitability is no simple formula 75
Vance McCarthy How to switch on your intranet . . . . . 86
Michael Jay Tucker Web servers tuned for e-commerce . . . . 92
Vance McCarthy Bringing video on line: It's more than
smiling for the camera . . . . . . . . . 100
David Simpson Do UNIX clusters pass muster? UNIX
clusters are three steps ahead of NT
clusters, but a few features are still
missing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
David Simpson Data sharing unites mainframes with open
systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Barbara H. Carson Ten vital steps to save your C/S system
from disaster . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: Java: To be or not
to be . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: Analog storage comes Full
Circle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: Another roadside
attraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Business Advantage: Bank
of Ireland uses data warehouse to
exploit regulatory changes . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Cutting Edge: News Analysis: How much
can NCs really save? . . . . . . . . . . 14
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Products: At CeBIT '97 the
Internet preps for the enterprise . . . 14
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Back to our roots . . . 25
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: The tyranny of The
Schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Peter de Jager Year 2000: a matter of honor . . . . . . 30
W. D. Riley LANScape . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Randy Dugger Managing Users: Supporting your support
people . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Jim Knowles Competing Effectively: Average doesn't
win customers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Dennis Eskow Harvest profits from Web farms . . . . . 44
Elaine L. Appleton How to survive ERP . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Bradley Hecht Choose the right ERP software . . . . . 56
Deborah Asbrand Squeeze out excess costs with
supply-chain solutions . . . . . . . . . 62
Michael Jay Tucker The DSM payback: a framework for profit 69
Eva Freeman Jackpot: How to win the migration game 76
Eva Freeman Is OO app dev worth the cost? True
object-oriented application development
has been difficult to master. Do the
results justify the steep learning
curve, or is component-based development
the better solution for your IS shop? 82
Capers Jones Year 2000: What's the real cost? U.S.
organizations will spend USD 71 billion
to make their applications Year 2000
compliant. And that figure doesn't\ldots 88
Charles B. Darling Ease implementation woes with packaged
datamarts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
W. H. Inmon Does your datamart vendor care about
your architecture? Your enterprise is
hungry for the benefits of a datamart,
but beware: Your datamart vendor might
be trying to sell you a seven-course
meal of Hershey bars . . . . . . . . . . 105
David Simpson Bust the I/O bottleneck . . . . . . . . 109
Michael Jay Tucker Bridge your legacy systems to the Web 114
Ben Rothke Want to encrypt data? Try Triple-DES . . 122
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: So you wanna be a CIO . . 128
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: Time to choose your
objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: Our new services are
just for you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge: News Analysis. Business
Advantage. Products . . . . . . . . . . 14
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: The OS pays off . . . . 27
Peter de Jager Year 2000: Walking on thin ice . . . . . 31
Jim Knowles Competing Effectively: Raising the
Internet ante . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Alden M. Hayashi Thinking It Through: The testosterone
test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Randy Dugger Managing Users: Guaranteed customer
satisfaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
W. D. Riley LANscape: I used to be really good at
this . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: The truth about automated
test tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
David Simpson Are mainframes cool again? . . . . . . . 46
Anonymous Wells Fargo's on-line customer banking
system is based on S/390 mainframes
connected to UNIX servers . . . . . . . 48
Anonymous Lee's new Web app, anchored on a
mainframe, provides wholesale
distributors with on-line product
information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
David Strom Web wars: Which are the most valuable
weapons? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Michael Jay Tucker EDI and the Net: a profitable partnering 62
Michael Jay Tucker The new money: Transactions pour across
the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Eva Freeman Birth of a terabyte data warehouse . . . 80
David Simpson Corral your storage management costs . . 88
W. H. Inmon Are multiple data warehouses too much of
a good thing? Certain types of data
warehouses go well together and certain
types don't. If you make the right
choice, you can achieve a symbiosis that
will give your organization a
competitive advantage . . . . . . . . . 94
Chris Devoney Enterprise Web development environments 98
Anonymous Dealing with the aftershock of a new SAP
implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Geoffrey James IT helps HR become strategic . . . . . . 110
Ed Yourdon Making death march projects pay off . . 116
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: Gartner Group gambles on
new research paradigm . . . . . . . . . 128
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: Tooling up for the
enterprise . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: The idiot's guide to
corporate IT leadership . . . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Business Advantage:
Siemens Nixdorf aims to bring the
European market up to U.S. speed . . . . 14
Anonymous Cutting Edge: News Analysis: The Big Six
face the Y2K problem. BEA Systems
strengthens its middleware hold . . . . 14
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Products: Engage releases
a suite to collect info on Web site
visitors. ESS Software updates
self-service HR app. InfoVista tracks
conformance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: To suite or not to suite 29
Peter de Jager Year 2000: The silver bullet solution 33
Jim Knowles Competing Effectively: Ready or not,
here come Net transactions . . . . . . . 38
Alden M. Hayashi Thinking It Through: The dangerous
secret of the Web . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Randy Dugger Managing Users: How to outsource
strategically . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
W. D. Riley LANscape: Get what you want . . . . . . 45
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: Boost your test team's
value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Michael J. Tucker Raising Dough from Data . . . . . . . . 50
Anonymous Raising Dough from Data: The decline and
fall of the average buyer . . . . . . . 52
Anonymous Raising Dough from Data: Why DO they do
it? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Deborah Asbrand Is your automated customer service
killing you? Too much automation in your
call center will send customers fleeing
to the competition. Here's how to . . . 62
David Simpson Who's taking to RISC and why? Mips and
PowerPCs are no longer in the Windows NT
arena. Yet some users continue to go for
RISC architectures. Where is the payoff? 70
Simon Eskow Pump more out of applications . . . . . 78
Paul Connolly Blood test: THE ROI of testing tools . . 86
Karen Watterson Parallel tracks . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
David Simpson Will NCs save you a bundle? Network
computers can indeed save big bucks, but
not as much as vendors originally
promised . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Michelle Schoenung Switching for dollars . . . . . . . . . 106
Anonymous Hang on to your travelling customers . . 111
N. Dean Meyer Leadership on the line . . . . . . . . . 119
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: Reap the rewards of
datamining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Anonymous Plugin: Make the Web work for you . . . 128
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: Sold on (or by)
support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: How am I doing? . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Business Advantage ---
E-payments for road-warrior expenses.
Sabre gets serious about scheduling . . 14
Anonymous Cutting Edge: News Analysis: IBM's
e-commerce server delivers for UPS.
Client/server susceptible to Y2K . . . . 14
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Products: Scan documents
directly to the Web Cross-platform Year
2000 conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Life without Microsoft 27
Peter de Jager Year 2000: a snake in the silicon . . . 31
Alden M. Hayashi Thinking It Through: Are you prepared to
embrace chaos? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: Testing: No easy way out 39
Anne Knowles Copy this! A USD 3.2 billion outsourcing
deal could have killed the career of
Xerox CIO Patricia Wallington. But
``team Xerox'' is so real, she had the
\ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Anonymous Working out the kinks in a megadeal . . 45
Anonymous IS by committee . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Deborah Asbrand Outsource your maintenance migraines . . 50
John Kador Ask the right questions . . . . . . . . 59
Michael Jay Tucker The hunt for red ink . . . . . . . . . . 66
Dennis Eskow and
Michelle Schoenung Snap-on datamarts end business chaos . . 72
David Simpson Untangle your tape storage costs . . . . 78
David Simpson Shoot this server . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Scott Wildemuth Bankers' beachhead . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Eva Freeman Eye on desktop reporting tools . . . . . 94
Anonymous When speed means profit, consider going
paperless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Angie Pantages I-nets spur IS spending . . . . . . . . 107
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: Tinkering with your IT
staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Eileen Roche The Hunt: How to choose your successor 116
Anonymous Plugin: Measure your worth . . . . . . . 122
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: Windows terminals
gain steam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Anonymous Editorial Masthead . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: Now Bill Gates changes
all the business rules . . . . . . . . . 5
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Whither Java . . . . . . 23
Peter de Jager Year 2000: Government in action . . . . 27
W. D. Riley LANscape: What about Bob? . . . . . . . 31
Alden M. Hayashi Thinking It Through: Why your boss says
``No'' . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: Don't let your business
processes regress . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Anonymous Mission Control . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Alden M. Hayashi Squeezing profits from IT . . . . . . . 42
David Simpson Big Iron roars . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
David Simpson New applications fuel server sales . . . 50
David Simpson PC management is No. 1 issue . . . . . . 55
David Simpson New storage for data downpour . . . . . 57
Michael Jay Tucker A juggling act between old and new . . . 61
Michelle Schoenung IT chokes on network constraints . . . . 71
Deborah Asbrand Outsourcing becomes strategic . . . . . 73
Anonymous The Datamation 100 is an annual listing
of the top IT vendors in the world,
ranked by revenue. This section lists
the vendors alphabetically, with
information on the breakdown of their IT
revenues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Eva Freeman Datamining unearths dollars from data 84
Michael Jay Tucker Super solutions from ordinary software 90
Scott Wildemuth Aim carefully for I-net profits . . . . 97
Dennis Eskow Are you pay scales right? . . . . . . . 102
Lynn Haber Building truck stops on the Web . . . . 110
Eileen Roche The Hunt: Find the right search firm . . 114
Anonymous Career Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . 115
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: In search of IT soft
skills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Anonymous Advertiser's Index, Sales Staff . . . . 121
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: The myth of
heterogeneity . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: S-Day minus 6.7 . . . . 5
Anonymous Business Advantage: F&D Reports offers
on-line credit information . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Talk of the Town:
Intellectual real estate: New, used, and
listed. New group to standardize system
availability terms . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Products: Build networks quickly with
Plug and Stor 100EX . . . . . . . . . . 10
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Bandwidth is (not yet)
free . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Peter de Jager Year 2000: Dear Mr. Gates . . . . . . . 27
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: Forget about ``quality'' 31
Alden M. Hayashi Thinking It Through: Of IT and
anesthesia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Jack M. Keen ROI: Aim high to get upper-level
management approval . . . . . . . . . . 34
Geoffrey James Cover Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Anonymous Cover Story . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Deborah Asbrand A rising tide . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Anne Knowles Where the rubber meets the road . . . . 49
Dennis Eskow Our all-stars make money the new way . . 56
Eva Freeman Manufacturing applications: What's the
right recipe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Scott Wildemuth Employ the Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Michael Jay Tucker MQSeries tools take flight . . . . . . . 70
Eileen Roche The Hunt: Money isn't everything . . . . 76
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: Outsourcing: Don't get
thrown out with the bathwater . . . . . 82
Anonymous Plugin: Web-based training . . . . . . . 84
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: Waiting for Active
Directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: Counting on technology 5
Anonymous Business Advantage: Hilton guests zip
from airport to their rooms. The World
Cup meets the WWW . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Talk of the Town: Database
tool makes sense of ``The tribes of
TV''. The sound of money on the Web . . 12
Anonymous Products: Data Views' dynamic data.
Mobile workers stay in touch . . . . . . 12
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Past is Prolog? . . . . 22
Peter de Jager Year 2000: Cellateral benefits . . . . . 27
W. D. Riley LANscape: Cheap help for pack rats . . . 30
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: The three faces of
testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Alden M. Hayashi Thinking It Through: a mercenary
mentality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Jack M. Keen ROI: Turn ``soft'' benefits into hard
savings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Karen D. Schwartz Countdown to Scalability . . . . . . . . 48
Steve Jefferson When your system's gushing data . . . . 56
Anonymous Stalking your data . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Anne Knowles A database with a head for business . . 62
Michael Jay Tucker Lords of the jungle . . . . . . . . . . 70
Anne Knowles Can we talk? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Anne Knowles Dump your dirty data for added profits 80
Lauren Gibbons Paul AS/400 is a life saver . . . . . . . . . 90
Lauren Gibbons Paul The right formula for training Train
your employees too early and they forget
everything. Train them too late and they
hammer the help desk . . . . . . . . . . 96
Scott Wildemuth Still waiting by the phone? . . . . . . 103
Alan S. Kay High speed Internet access: What's the
payoff? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Nigel Pendse Virtual OLAP: getting real . . . . . . . 115
Eileen Roche The Hunt: Cast a wide net for talent . . 120
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: When the operation's a
success, but the patient dies . . . . . 126
Anonymous Plugin: Help for the R13 blues . . . . . 128
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: The end of cheap
software? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: Welcome, Mr. Jones . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Business Advantage: Mobil
uses IT to speed past competition. This
is not your father's insurance agent . . 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Products: Tandem's NT
clustered server. IBM brings its servers
to the Web. Analyze network resources
automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Talk of the Town: a
minister for the millennium. The Wiz
that was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Remote COM and the
secret of life . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Pat D. Delohery and
Jack Bucsko Year 2000: a blessing in disguise . . . 29
Jack M. Keen ROI: Turn setbacks into successes . . . 32
Alden M. Hayashi Thinking It Through: An IT Rashomon . . 34
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: The high cost of low
investment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: a shrink-wrapped
enterprise? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Laton McCartney Safe Computing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Karen D. Schwartz Manage your bandwidth . . . . . . . . . 48
Steve Jefferson Vital signs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Karen D. Schwartz Network speed takes off . . . . . . . . 58
Eva Freeman Supply chain: Modeling makes the
difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Anne Knowles Get the complete picture . . . . . . . . 74
Paul A. Strassmann Forty years of IT history . . . . . . . 80
Michael Jay Tucker Unmask its power . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Steve Jefferson Filling up fiber . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Steve Jefferson Cut and paste your way to a powerful
prototype . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Scott Wildemuth I-commerce is in the cards . . . . . . . 109
Steve Jefferson Connect your telecommuters . . . . . . . 112
Eileen Roche The Hunt: Staffing for the millennium 118
Anonymous Plugin: Have you ever wondered . . . . . 126
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: Calling the plays when
you're on the road . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Dennis H. Jones Overnight Success: Four targets for
success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: Do the math . . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Talk of the Town: a pride
of puzzles. Business Land O'Lakes
spreads OLAP around. Amoco improves
accounts payable system . . . . . . . . 14
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: Process of perish . . . . 29
Peter de Jager Year 2000: Year 2000's silver lining . . 31
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Integration now . . . . 35
Jack M. Keen ROI: The six faces of business cases . . 40
Alden M. Hayashi Thinking It Through . . . . . . . . . . 42
Dwight B. Davis Letter From Redmond: Developers first?
Or Active X? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Michael Jay Tucker Can NT handle the big numbers? If your
corporation has thousands of users and
assorted platforms, NT must come under
some kind of enterprise management. Some
users believe NT can be managed by a
framework right now, but most . . . . . 54
David Strom Road map to the extranet . . . . . . . . 60
Deborah Asbrand Is datamining ready for the masses?
Forget the hokey headlines about
``nuggets.'' Opening data warehouses to
new users has real business value, but
the \ldots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Diane Frank The new ROI in point of sale . . . . . . 73
Anne Knowles Euro: Creation of a new currency . . . . 80
Geoffrey James IT fiascos\ldots and how to avoid them 84
Renee Munshi Web servers by the bundle . . . . . . . 90
Scott Wildemuth A simple case of supply and demand . . . 99
Jolyon Hallows The politics of projects . . . . . . . . 105
Anonymous Plugin: Bigger is better on the Web . . 111
Eileen Roche The Hunt: The hunt stops here: End
personnel churn . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: Extension 911: The
effective help desk . . . . . . . . . . 122
Dennis H. Jones Overnight Success: The 21st Century work
force . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: Proof of prom . . . . . 5
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Talk of the Town: The man
who gets gotchas Fleer/Skybox takes
trading-card production to the Net.
Maestro helps . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
C. Matthew Snow Bridging intranet profit and value . . . 20
David E. Y. Sarna and
George J. Febish Paradigm Shift: Again out on a limb . . 31
Peter de Jager Year 2000: Entering The Black Zone . . . 39
Dwight B. Dallis Letter From Redmond: Hydra: beast or
hero? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Jack M. Keen ROI: Fallow Sherlock's lead to a better
ROI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Alden M. Hayashi Thinking It Through . . . . . . . . . . 46
Linda Hayes Quality Quest: The big lie . . . . . . . 48
Deborah Asbrand The NT service factory . . . . . . . . . 66
Robert J. Benson Building profitable IT . . . . . . . . . 74
Michael Jay Tucker Enterprise software development: Cooking
up a sweet deal . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Lauren Gibbons Paul What price ownership? CheckFree finds
total cost of ownership pays off in its
efficient new datacenter . . . . . . . . 88
Deborah Etsten TCO finds the strike zone . . . . . . . 97
Karen Watterson When it comes to choosing a database,
the object is value . . . . . . . . . . 100
Steve Jefferson Selling on the run . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Scott Wildemuth Web investment pays off . . . . . . . . 115
Anonymous Plugin: Find the right candidate on line 125
Eileen Roche The Hunt: Leading by example . . . . . . 126
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: The IT spin doctor . . . 136
Dennis H. Jones Overnight Success: Best wishes for 1998 140
Dennis Eskow Starting Point: RIP, papermate . . . . . 5
Anonymous Business Advantage: Applix's Enterprise
Anyware eases customers' angst . . . . . 12
Anonymous Cutting Edge: Talk of the Town: Food in
the Net . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Anonymous Products: See applications better with
LabVIEW 5.0. Ordering office supplies
just get easier . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Peter de Jager Year 2000: Revisiting V2K certification 25
Jack M. Keen ROI: Benefit's biggest hits . . . . . . 30
Rochelle Garner Strategic outsourcing: It's your move 32
Michael Jay Tucker Strange bedfellows: NT, UNIX, and the
integration option . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Karen D. Schwartz Benchmarking for dollars . . . . . . . . 50
Emily Kay Flexed pricing . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Deborah Asbrand Thoroughly modern manufacturing . . . . 64
Eva Freeman Get out of your office! . . . . . . . . 72
Nicholas Wray Negotiate better phone rates . . . . . . 79
Gerald Lazar Dash from the desktop . . . . . . . . . 82
Eva Freeman New tools help server farms blossom . . 86
Anonymous Plugin: Datamation on the e-frontier . . 93
Eileen Roche The Hunt: Send your staff home . . . . . 94
Chris Miksanek Over the Edge: The executive guide to
benchmarking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Anonymous A Final Farewell . . . . . . . . . . . . 104