Datamation Staff

Sendmail continues to be the industry standard for e-mail, powering the majority of Internet mail servers and 80% of the Fortune 100 interfaces to the public Internet. That’s good news for pros with experience in Sendmail. But how about salaries and opportunity areas? Overall average salaries for Sendmail professionals are $97,000 and for contractors, the […]

Architects build buildings from specifications, so can IT management do the same? A new way of building applications, known as business rules processing, offers the prospect that IT might be able to do just that. In this article I want to show what business rules might look like in practice and highlight some of the […]

If you’re like us, you’ve been way too busy in your 24/7/365 job to shop for holiday gifts. You probably don’t even have time to search your favorite e-commerce-enabled site for ideas–you’re too busy looking for the technical information needed to keep those sites running. Good news: The EarthWeb staff is going to help you […]

Vital StatisticsName: Christopher BryantAge: 38Certifications Held: CCNP, Routing And Switching MCSE, NT 4.0 MCP + I CNE, Netware 5 CNE, Netware 4 CNA, Netware 3Location: VirginiaEmployer: Sycom TechnologiesFavorite Study Method: Reading and hands-on, with classes as requiredHobbies: Roller coasters and the Miami Dolphins NFL team Chris Bryant If you’re looking for certified network engineer Chris […]

Buy the report Online Telephone Cahners In-stat Group Information Service Some say this year could be the year of network storage. Don’t yawn. Network storage isn’t sexy, but it should be on your radar screen. And two fairly new network storage technologies, network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN), will have a major […]

Cliff Berg VP and CTO, Digital Focus, Inc.Herndon, Va. Title: VP / CTO Company: Digital Focus, Inc. Location: Herndon, Va. Industry: E-business strategy consulting and development Educational background: B.S., Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Years in IT: 20 Experience: 1995 – present, Cofounder and CTO, Digital Focus, Inc., Herndon, Va. 1995, senior engineer and graphic […]

Survey.com reveals top five enterprise portal vendors Survey.com has released preliminary results from a new syndicated survey of over 1,000 IT professionals asking their preferences in enterprise information portal (EIP) vendors. In order of preference, the Top 10 vendors are: Microsoft, IBM, Hummingbird Communications, SAP, PeopleSoft, Brio Technology, Netscape Communications, J.D. Edwards, Sybase, and BroadVision. […]

New Oracle tools bring BI to the front-office Oracle has introduced new business intelligence applications for analyzing customer and business information for front-office operations. As components of the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i, the new products include Oracle Sales Intelligence, Oracle Marketing Intelligence, Oracle Interaction Center Intelligence, and Oracle Customer Intelligence. Oracle Interaction Center Intelligence provides […]

Oracle app users decline Oracle show offer The Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG), the world’s largest independent Oracle applications users community, says it would not accept Oracle Corp.’s proposal to fold the two OAUG North American conferences into an Oracle-hosted, application-focused marketing event to be held in the spring. Jeremy Young, president of OAUG, made […]

Additional Resourcesregister online for an examPrometric’s test center locatorregistration phone numbersPrometric home page Many certification programs administer their exams through Prometric testing centers. This is because they have over 2900 offices serving more than 141 countries, making them the largest professional testing provider. Until recently they were pretty much the only such provider. Prometric used […]