IT Management
ZDNet, 6/6/03: Study: E-mail woes worse than divorce
By Ron Coates
It's official, we all blow our tops if our e-mail fails--and if you're an IT manager, you feel your job is on the line if the e-mail system is down for more than an hour.
At least 75 percent of firms acknowledge that e-mail is a business-critical application. Dependency among staff probably hits close to 100 percent.
One in five staff blow up instantly if they can't use their e-mail, a third are irate after only five minutes' deprivation, according to a survey of the United States and Europe by researchers Dynamic Markets for storage software outfit Veritas.
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Microsoft
Infoworld, 6/6/03: Microsoft ships beta of Active Directory 'light'
Final code to be released by month end
By John Fontana
Microsoft late Wednesday night shipped the first public beta of its Active Directory "light" and will release the final code of the application-specific directory by the end of the month, according to company officials.
Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) is designed to be a stand-alone version of the directory dedicated to a single application and maintained separate from a corporation's core Active Directory. ADAM is based on the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and is an alternative to the standard full install of Active Directory, which is known as a network operating system (NOS) directory because of its tie-in with the Windows server operating system.
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c|net, 6/6/03: At Microsoft, all roads lead to Longhorn
By Martin LaMonica
DALLAS--Microsoft this week gave customers a look at forthcoming development and management tools that are part of the company's long-term plans for the product.
In interviews with CNET News.com at the company's TechEd customer conference here, Microsoft executives sketched out the company's product release plans for next year. Products designed to work with the next major release of the Windows desktop operating system, code-named Longhorn, were high on the agenda.
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Digital Lifestyle
The Wall Street Journal, 6/5/03: Executives Juggle Sun, Sand And Cellphones on Vacations
By KATHERINE MEYER
For busy executives, taking a vacation this summer won't mean getting away from the office.
Thanks to cellphones, e-mail, BlackBerrys and other gadgets, people are more connected to the office than ever. The rough economic environment has forced many workers -- and their bosses -- to feel compelled to keep in touch, even when it means cutting into valuable family time.
This has prompted many workers to search for creative balancing acts as the warm weather approaches. Some check in with the office once or twice a day. Others briefly separate from family activities to take care of business. A few brave souls even try to disconnect themselves from work completely. Nearly everyone agrees that the marvels of technology have been a double-edged sword when it comes to their personal lives.
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Relentless March of Consolidation
Computerworld, 6/6/03: Oracle to make $5.1 billion bid for PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft’s planned buy of J.D. Edwards is now uncertain
by Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service
Oracle Corp. is making a $5.1 billion bid for enterprise software provider PeopleSoft Inc. in a move to increase earnings and enhance future versions of its eBusiness Suite, the company said today.
The move comes just days after PeopleSoft announced that it plans to acquire Denver-based J.D. Edwards & Co. (see story). However, Oracle said in a statement that the J.D. Edwards buy will be subject to review once Oracle acquires Pleasanton, Calif.-based PeopleSoft.
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Gender / Technology
Business Week, 5/29/03: The Women of Tech
In Corporate America, the number of tech outfits run by women is small. But their influence is growing, as are their achievements
Quick -- name the most prominent women CEOs in the country. There's Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ ), Meg Whitman of eBay (EBAY ), Anne Mulcahy of Xerox (XRX ), Patricia Russo of Lucent (LU ). What do they have in common? All head high-tech corporations.
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Optimism
The Wall Street Journal, 6/6/03: Tech Manager Walter Price Talks About Rally, Stocks
Walter Price Jr. got his first job studying technology companies during the Nixon Administration. That puts Mr. Price, manager of the $230 million PIMCO RCM Global Technology Fund, in his third technology cycle.
In comparison, the average tech-fund manager has a three-year tenure, according to Chicago investment researcher Morningstar Inc., which ranks the fund as one of three "Analyst Picks" among the nation's 138 technology funds.
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