Novice's guide to IT management sends you elsewhere
Manage IT by Joe Santana and Jim Donovan (Lahaska Publishing, $US14.95)
Stories by Anthony Doesburg
The legacy of Nicholas Carr
Executive confusion reigns, apparently, in regard to IT. Despite information technology having completely colonised organisations at this point in its history, there continues to be some kind of crisis in terms of harnessing computing power to business goals. Good connections between the IT department and chief executive are somehow not being made.
Herd record moove goes to plan
A major database and application migration effort at Livestock Improvement in Hamilton over Easter has been successful.
Livestock firm makes big moove
While most of the country was enjoying the Easter break, a team at Livestock Improvement in Hamilton was working to put the company’s Amdahl mainframe out to pasture.
Microsoft-Sun stunner gets backing
‘McNealy and Ballmer should be checking all their fingers are still there’
McNealy gives it away
It has to be good news that Sun’s Scott McNealy has buried the hatchet with Microsoft. That’s certainly the way buyers of the two companies’ products are viewing the rapprochement that came out of the blue 10 days ago. But I'm sure there's more to it than meets the eye.
NZTE to outline growth strategy
A key official in the government’s effort to boost the ICT sector will provide a progress report to software companies in Auckland this week.
Talking heads and helpful help
Within 10 years we’ll be talking to our computers. That’s Bill Gates’ latest prediction, made at a Gartner conference last week, where he allowed himself to be interviewed by Gartner head Michael Fleisher.
More sharing at Novell user meeting
The story of Novell over the past half-decade has been one of apparent changes of direction.
IT managers have judge's sympathy
AUCKLAND (03/23/2004) - If IT managers are bamboozled by the deluge of new laws affecting them, they have the understanding of the country's most ICT-savvy judge.
WebCentral deploys NZ net monitor
NetX analyser will keep tabs on traffic to 60,000 hosted sites and domains
Microsoft ‘sets record straight’ on open source
Execs produce figures purporting to give the lie to Linux advantages
College eager for FileMaker upgrade
New database release increases file size limit by 4000 times
US start-up specialists keen to help
Beachhead advisory board members want NZ firms to prosper
Sun's JDS turns heads
AUCKLAND (03/08/2004) - There was the usual stuff about how the share price is on the up and up (18 percent better than three months ago, but still about one-tenth of the level of March 2000), the billions of dollars in the bank and the huge commitment to R&D spending.