Michael Pastore

The world’s largest name in software has been largely absent from the enterprise content management (ECM) game, but Microsoft presented a plan for ECM when it announced its Office 12 software in September. Now that analysts have had time to review and digest the strategy, they are starting to weigh in on what to expect. […]

At various times in the past four years, many IT professionals have suffered from job insecurity. And as we turn the calendar to 2005, a long-term cure for such a problem might be a job in security. Anything and everything related to high-tech security is a good place to be in the technology job market […]

Building inspectors in Largo, Fla., spend a lot of time out in the community. Over the past 10 years, the ever-expanding city of 70,000 built a central park and a cultural center. The downtown area is currently being redeveloped, and a new 93,000-square-foot library is scheduled to open next year. When all these projects started, […]

American consumers continue to surrender too much personal information over the phone or the Internet, leaving themselves vulnerable to identity theft, according to the 2004 Identity Management Survey. The survey, commissioned by EDS and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, found consumers are not practicing all security precautions […]

Back in 1998, few people probably remembered Edward Yourdon’s 1992 book Decline and Fall of the American Programmer, in which he predicted the American programmer would go the way of the Dodo bird by the end of that decade. Those who did remember the book were probably too busy cashing out stock options to even […]

About a year ago, a group of a dozen IT workers in Connecticut that met for lunch every six weeks or so noticed a disturbing trend: only two of the 12 were actually working in IT. Perhaps no part of the U.S. economy has felt the chill of the cool economy that came on the […]

It’s nice to read the local newspaper online from the road or while sipping a coffee-flavored beverage, but for many professionals it’s hardly the same as being behind a desk. After all, when you’re in the office, you do more than surf the Web: chances are you’re using some type of enterprise application. The availability […]

By the end of 2004, one out of every 10 jobs with U.S.-based IT vendors and IT service providers will move to emerging markets, according to Gartner Inc., as will one out of every 20 IT jobs within user enterprises. While the economic benefits of offshore outsourcing are well-known, Gartner is warning CIOs and other […]

In the beginning, software came in a box. It was installed, it ran, you bought upgrades, and it was good. The methods by which software is delivered have evolved since then, from downloadable to externally hosted. In an effort to broaden their appeal to customers of all sizes, an increasing number of software developers that […]

Researchers at Hewlett-Packard have announced three breakthroughs in the field of molecular electronics, which combine to give a glimpse of the future of memory. HP scientist R. Stanley Williams, an HP Fellow and director of Quantum Science Research at HP Labs and his group have: created the highest density electronically addressable memory reported to date. […]