Zachary Rodgers

Solaris professionals Sun Microsystems’ Solaris 8 software, touted as the dot-com grade operating system, has garnered a pile of hype in recent months. Part of the reason is that application service providers, the latest start-up wunderkinds and venture capital magnets, are frequently picking Solaris over Windows NT/2000 to support their applications. This is very good […]

Novell Inc.’s March 2000 update, from NetWare 5.0 to 5.1, added a number of interesting new features to an already established networking environment. Notable among the new bells and whistles are IBM’s WebSphere 3.0, Oracle 8i, Windows 2000 compatibility, and the NetWare Management Portal (allowing server administration through a browser). Added to existing NetWare features […]

There’s long been an acknowledged need for greater unification of the business and IT visions within organizations. Although the question of how to accomplish this is far from resolved, many are looking to IT management to facilitate the needed marriage. And more and more of those in IT management are hoping that continuing education will […]

There are plenty of excellent database programs out there that are sufficiently fast for 95% of business functions. Some of them even rival Oracle8i in certain areas. IBM’s DB2, for example, is a generally acknowledged leader in scalability. However Oracle is the de facto champion in high-powered database technology. Oracle8i‘s advanced features–including large database partitioning, […]

Certification has become a popular way for those who don’t yet have on-the-job experience in IT to get it. It’s also a favorite route for experienced IT pros desiring to stay relevant in their areas of expertise or to qualify for a higher level of responsibility. And with all the recent talk about certification–in discussion […]

So far, IT news in the year 2000 has been marked by an unprecedented attention to security issues in the business sector. March’s denial-of-service attacks and the much vaunted security features in Microsoft’s millennium OS are prominent examples. However, the media exposure they have garnered is only the most public manifestation of a new global […]

A business analyst’s job, which can cover IT specialties ranging from ERP to data warehousing, is to translate business requirements into systems deployments. Every business analyst’s role is different, depending on the particular interface a company has with its clientele. In the case of dot coms and high tech companies, as well as more traditional […]

There are a number of wrenches discombobulating the gears of the job market for database administrators with SQL skills. First, SQL is not fundamentally a standardized language. Even experienced SQL pros coming into a new database environment that uses it can feel like they’re flying blind. While it’s true that the American National Standards Institute […]

Sendmail professionals This week we look at Sendmail jobs, the last profile in a four-week series on the open source occupational outlook (see our previous open source charts on Apache server professionals, Linux professionals, and Perl professionals). Actually, the decision to present data on Sendmail has been a source of contention at Datamation this past […]

Perl professionals For the third installation in our four-week series on open source professionals (see Apache server professionals and Linux professionals, we take a look at Perl jobs. Though it doesn’t command the highest salaries, knowledge of the Perl scripting language–the mortar of countless Web sites–is by far the most sought after open source skill. […]