Return on investment goes beyond financial factors, CIO Council says
Agencies calculating the return on investment of information technology projects should look beyond a simple dollars-and-cents calculation, a new report from the Chief Information Officers Council says.
Thirteen Navy workers honored for systems implementation efforts
The Navy and GCN recently honored 13 employees for excellence in systems development management and implementation. The Navy employees received their awards at a GCN Forum luncheon in Washington.
Link research, practice to go digital, report says
New research models and strong links between research and practice are necessary to develop a digital government, according to a recent report funded by the National Science Foundation.
Treat Y2K fixes and security as one, expert says
Certain year 2000 fixes have the potential to compromise network security, according to Bill Keith, chief knowledge officer at Unisource Network Services Inc. of Annandale, Va.''
FDIC division builds system for storing bank data
The most critical job at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s Division of Research and Statistics is to maintain timely information about the 10,623 FDIC-insured banking institutions.
Rational touts its suite as the tool for app development
Rational Software Corp. officials said they expect the new Rational Suite to become the Microsoft Office of application development tools.
INTERNAUT
Is your agency taking advantage of all the processing power in its massively parallel supercomputer?
POWER USER
Spam, spam and more spam arrives daily in my e-mail in-boxes. No longer does the spam come mostly from complete strangers who troll the Internet talk groups for fresh targets for their free-money or sex scams. Lots of spam now is coming from shortsighted vendors on whose Web sites I have made an online purchase, registered a product or simply submitted a query.
THE BELTWAY AND BEYOND
Two developments in legal ethics and business could affect the frequency and tone of contract award protests and related activities.
Clustering extends scalability and reliability
One of the more interesting technologies in the enterprise server arena is clustering. Basically, the technology couples two or more symmetric multiprocessing systems or nodes into a single entity using specialized messaging and routing software.
Scalable NT Servers
Pentium III Xeon multiprocessor servers offer a potent argument for Windows NT scalability, but managers must also consider performance, reliability andserviceability
PROFESSIONAL CALENDAR
Excellence in Government '99Conference. Washington. Contact the National Partnership for Reinventing Government; phone: 800-868-9445; Web: www.excelgov.com.
THE VIEW FROM INSIDE
Peter Swire, the Clinton administration's new privacy counselor, has hit the ground running. ''On the job only a few weeks, he has written the Office of Management and Budget's new Web privacy policy. It was signed June 2 by Jacob Lew, OMB director, and promptly sent to federal agencies [GCN, June 14, Page 1].
Letters to the Editor
I just finished reading 'NT, Solaris present a study in contrast' [GCN, May 24, Page 29]. The title and your reputation collectively suggest a balanced approach. A few bones are thrown Microsoft Windows NT's way'for example you say, without further explanation, that the Windows model of running multiple applications is cheaper than that of Sunsoft Solaris. But the vast majority of the article espouses the superiority of the current Solaris version and of future versions of Solaris and, by comparison, damns NT.
GCN improves testing
In the very first GCN, in December 1982, a Page 1 story's headline read: 'The Impact of Microcomputers on Information Processing Management.' Under that cryptic head, the article stated that because so many people in large organi-zations, such as government agencies, were requesting PCs, managers were starting to study what effect those machines might have.
Ada helps churn out less-buggy code
S. Tucker Taft, who led the Ada 9X language design team from 1990 to 1995, is now president of the Ada Resource Association, organized last year to maintain the language standard after the Defense Department closed the Ada Joint Program Office.
Feds yearn for life in the PC fast lane
Federal PC users crave megahertz. The more they get, the more they want.
Army finalizes Oracle BPA
Capping six months of work, the Army last month signed a blanket purchasing agreement with Oracle Corp., the second such deal under the Defense Department's Enterprise Software Initiative.
Prepare for a new IP version
In a world of 18-month software lifecycles, the Internet Protocol is an anomaly. The IP Version 4 stack now running on your agency's desktop and server systems predates even networked PCs.
PTO wants no net downtime
Business losses caused by network outages worry senior government officials just as they do corporate executives, said Larry Cogut, director of the Office of System Architecture and Engineering at the Patent and Trademark Office.
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