Editorial
Fifty-two agencies responding to a congressional order have managed to cough up lists of 320,000 jobs, a third of which could in theory be outsourced. They've forwarded the lists'or job inventories'to the Office of Management and Bud-
Interview: Steve Ballmer
After Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer is the person most closely associated with Microsoft Corp. in users' minds. A Harvard University graduate, Ballmer was an assistant product manager at Procter & Gamble Co. before joining Microsoft in 1980. He became president in 1998 after serving as executive vice president of sales and support.
Sybase prepares two products for Web portals
Sybase Inc. has tailored two of its database and middleware products for Web portal development.
Tape library company offers open SAN systems and services
Advanced Digital Information Corp., a maker of automated tape libraries, is taking what it calls an open-systems approach to storage area networks.
Beat the Clock
The El Ni'o of IT. In the hearts and minds of information technology managers as well as citizens, the year 2000 rollover will be the scapegoat for every systems failure. That's the prediction of Lee Freeman, IT strategist for the Cutter Consortium research group of Boston.
ENTERPRISE COMPUTING: New Products
Norton Speed Disk for Microsoft Windows NT optimizes hard drives without requiring a system reboot. The software from Symantec Corp. of Cupertino, Calif., defragments and optimizes NT directories, page files, metadata and master file tables.
Spot color is highlight of new printer
Xerox Corp.'s new DocuPrint 92C Enterprise Printing System, a high-speed, 600-dot-per-inch laser printer, can apply one-spot color as well as black toner in the same exposure.
NaturallySpeaking gets an upgrade for faster Athlon processors, Pentium IIIs
Dragon Systems Inc.'s NaturallySpeaking 4 voice recognition package will run on the new Athlon processor from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif., and can browse the Web with Microsoft Internet Explorer by voice commands.
Hot backup gets high marks
Hot, live LAN backup has a strong advocate in Larry Tyminski, deputy chief information officer at the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Power User
I made a recent Web search discovery that might help your office find things, no matter what they are. It also might serve as a wake-up call for
Filled with features, Word closes the simplicity gap
''This review is part of an occasional series about programs in the recently released major office suites: Corel WordPerfect Office 2000, Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.5 and Microsoft Office 2000.
Lab Notes
Bug hunt. Intel's 550-MHz Pentium III Xeon processor for servers and workstations has run into a slight snag. A bug reportedly causes a total system crash when the chip is run up to its performance limits.
Corel WordPerfect remains king, but its crown is starting to slip
''This review is part of an occasional series about programs in the recently released major office suites: Corel WordPerfect Office 2000, Lotus SmartSuite Millennium Edition 9.5 and Microsoft Office 2000.
Pocket-size scanners put data in hand
Let's face it. Most of us do not carry around tiny CIA cameras that can capture documents at high resolution. But sometimes we need to capture pages or portions of documents while away from the office.
N-tier architectures make for fast processing and easy management
N-tier architectures are the logical evolution of programming design.
FBI network prevails over early glitches
The FBI's National Crime Information Center 2000, a crime-fighting information network, weathered a few glitches during its integration with the National Instant Criminal Background Check system with help from the FBI and prime contractors for the operating systems.
PC Card personal digital assistant falls a little flat
The Rex Pro 5 deserves a big hand for packing into a Type II PC Card what is perhaps the smallest, most useful personal digital assistant available today.
GIS helps gather true census data
CHICAGO'Using geographic information systems to keep up-to-date census data can help local governments reap financial and legal benefits for themselves and their communities, according to a panel at an August conference of GIS professionals.
MCI-Sprint deal adds up to single FTS 2001 vendor
The year 2000 team at the Housing and Urban Development De-partment has left a permanent mark on how HUD monitors systems projects.
HUD gets a Y2K bonus: better systems monitoring
The year 2000 team at the Housing and Urban Development De-partment has left a permanent mark on how HUD monitors systems projects.
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