Drew Robb

For many years, India has been the poster child of the offshore software development industry. Many of the Fortune 500 have been quietly beating a path to Indian vendors to reduce software development costs and speed up time to market. As well as their much-publicized work on Y2K and mainframe maintenance, these companies also take […]

In these days of constant mergers and acquisitions, it’s quite common for companies to find themselves operating two or more mission-critical relational databases. Though you struggle along running these database management systems (DBMS) side by side, it ties up IT time, adds unnecessary expense and slows down standard reporting functions. But which database to chose? […]

Medieval kings knew exactly how to ensure security. Just build a big stone wall around the city, surround that with a moat and make everyone enter over a guarded drawbridge. It used to be that simple for IT managers as well. Only a select few had access to the data center and intruders were unlikely […]

Having conquered the consumer desktop space, Microsoft has spent the last decade trying to muscle in on the enterprise market. With the release of Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, Redmond hoped to have finally evolved a server operating system that could mount a serious challenge to the dominance of the big UNIX vendors. Yet after its […]

While many major software vendors embrace a specific platform, Computer Associates, Inc. has focused on the middle ground — breaking down the barriers between different platforms, managing the heterogeneous enterprise or acting as middleware between complex systems. Its products currently support everything from IBM mainframes running zOS and OS/390 down to PDAs running Windows CE. […]