Stories by David Beynon

Fooled again

You must, at some stage, have nodded your head in agreement at something which seemed so obviously right, only to find out much later that some of the assumptions were slightly buggered? I know I have, especially with the confusion which is IT investment cost-benefits analysis.

Security awareness challenge

Symantec has launched the 2003 information security awareness challenge, an online competition with lucrative prizes for the entrants who submit the most correct answers in the shortest time.

Battle looms in application server market

The application server market will consolidate as IBM, BEA and Sun, in particular, are forced to go out and acquire the pieces missing from their product sets over the coming year, says Gartner research director Mark Driver.

Look at me, I'm small

Software sector profit results have been weaving a twisted tale of late. We're still in the midst of a meltdown; it's just that the molten flows of woe detour around tough little nuggets.

Trust me, I'm big

Integration. An innocuous word and an expensive label for IT pain.

Oracle demystifies software pricing?

As my search on September 2 failed to turn it up, I'll take it on faith that you can now find Oracle's new 40-page Software Investment Guide at www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing.

Spam killer needs development dollars

Stopping e-mail spam from clogging networks, forcing over-provisioning of mail servers and stealing end users' time is the challenge which has consumed Julian Ehrlich, director of Sydney company Pearl Communications for the past four years.

Big hole now, but future bright

Intel chief executive officer Craig Barrett said that the IT industry is now in the biggest recession he's seen in 30 years and he does not know when it is going to come out of it.

Supply chain pipeline hotting up

Day breaks a little brighter for SAP bosses after closing a couple of major local deals and registering strong customer-base interest in supply chain management and customer relationship management software modules.

EDITORIAL: Potting the black

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is strutting the .Net stage exuding all the confidence of old. He's giving a good impression of a man who believes that competitive threats such as Sun+Java, open source, the US Department of Justice et al have all been vanquished and continued Microsoft domination is assured.

Jobs by numbers

It goes without saying that the most important of the job statistics is whether or not you (and partner) have a job.

EDITORIAL: Swirling Web services

Web services confusion reigns. In the pea soup are rival visions of future collaborative software architectures churning along with current efforts in complex Internet and intranet applications.

EDITORIAL: Faster and self-aware

Somebody (I won't say who) asked what can you write about servers - they just get faster every year.
But vendors of server hardware, the CPUs that drive them, and of services based on servers aren't short of a few words on the matter.

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