The continuing stream of business announcements from small and large information technology companies pegged to the exploding Linux open-source software market offers a powerful testimony to the growing popularity of the operating system.
Death and taxes are recognized as the two absolute certainties in our modern world. Now it might be time to add a third: the explosive growth of data, which can double every year. And as the volume of data increases, so does the demand for data storage technology.
As high-tech businesses race to develop new Web-based solutions for their government customers, they are discovering that the Internet has made the universe of potential software applications as limitless as the problems governments must solve and the tasks they must perform.
As information technology companies adjust to the government's increased emphasis on past performance in awarding new business, the federal government is struggling to overhaul its own business processes and measure agency performance in order to tie budgets to results.
When researchers with the U.S. Antarctic Program at the U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station needed to improve their voice link with the outside world, they turned to Internet telephony, or voice over Internet protocol.
For more than a year, federal agencies have anticipated getting their hands on Windows 2000, Microsoft Corp.'s latest operating system. But despite a much-ballyhooed launch of the product in early February, few government organizations have rushed to adopt the new platform.
Two huge outsourcing efforts within the Navy and NASA could provide a window on how U.S. federal agencies will rely increasingly on the private sector to help them manage their information systems.
The market for data warehousing products and services in government is exploding, fueled by a growing need by government and citizens to access and analyze data for a variety of purposes, according to industry analysts.
John Chambers of Cisco Systems Inc. got people's attention at January's Comdex Trade Show in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he declared that education would be the next killer application over the Internet.
While not a torrid topic of everyday chat on the Internet, the subject of geographic information systems enjoys adevoted following among diverse professionals, from analysts mapping crime to environmental agency executives managing the map preparation of major cities to medical researchers seeking the causes of breast cancer.
Governments at all levels are embracing a brave, new electronic world that encompasses electronic commerce, better services to citizens, telecommuting, virtual private networks, online procurement and a plethora of other ideas.
Among the swirling sands bruising the foundation of public- and private-sector business practices, urged on by the Internet and propelled by the invasion of e-everything, there remains one constant: program management.
Without a doubt, the glut of information on e-business in print and on the World Wide Web would stop even the most voracious reader dead in his tracks. Picture that person standing before an infinite buffet that ranges all the way from steak tartar at one extreme to wilted lettuce at the other.
Like many other federal agencies trying to keep pace with the rapidly changing information technology landscape, the Department of Health and Human Services plans to leverage Internet technology in 2000 to deliver more information to the public and to improve communications among its operating divisions and headquarters.
Sit still for just a Web minute, idly pausing to refresh, and a subtle wave of change will pass over you. It is the rush of the Beta, the continual movement that masks itself as progress on the Internet. Nowhere is it more evident than network management.
The Internet, telecommunications and government information technology services are the fuel firing some of the fastest-growing companies in the Washington region.
Unlike the world-threatening confrontations captured on the silver screen in films like the Japanese-made "Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster," much of what passes on the computer monitor in the struggle to fit information technology to business processes is fine-tuning and tweaking.
Just like the products and services they sell, information technology distributors are in the middle of myriad changes as they scramble to keep pace with the constantly evolving government market.
In broad-based efforts that may portend a sign of what is ahead for mass customization in data warehousing, two major information technology players are fine-tuning intriguing wrinkles to gain a greater foothold in the federal market.
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