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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
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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
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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