Anne Chen

You may think LDAP was yesterdays news, but the spotlight is hitting it again as vendors work to tie it to the UDDI standard. Developed in 2000 by Ariba Inc., IBM, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp. and SAP AG, the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration specification describes Web-based services and the interface required so that businesses […]

Over the three years Ive been with eWEEK, Ive come to realize that when it comes to discussing Linux, some people become temporarily insane. A journalist covering Linux-based OSes will always be accused of being in cahoots with Microsoft, regardless of how they try to spin a story. Take the gentle reader who responded to […]

In the National Basketball Association, every successful team has what is known as a “go-to guy.” Thats the player who, when the game is tight and the clock is ticking down, can be counted on to score and send the fans home happy. With their season tipping off next week, the Portland Trail Blazers are […]

An old hand at using Linux in the server room, Steve OBrien, director of IT operations for Jefferson County, Colo., spent the last five years eagerly waiting for Linux to make the leap to the corporate desktop. First, however, Linux would have to satisfy OBriens checklist of requirements: It had to provide access to his […]

If this is the year of the Linux desktop, as Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president for software at Sun Microsystems Inc., has claimed, then someone should probably alert the major desktop hardware OEMs. Although Sun, in Santa Clara, Calif., recently announced plans to offer a Linux-based desktop product tied to a Sun back end, none […]

If Irving Tyler had known two years ago that the economic recovery would go AWOL and his company, like most, would need to trim expenses, he might never have launched a multimillion-dollar global enterprise resource planning system rollout. But he did, and when hard times hit, it was too late to turn back. Now, having […]

For most it buyers and vendors, making sense of the various 2003 IT spending reports has been about as easy as reading tea leaves. Depending on which research company you ask, IT spending budgets for next year are everywhere from modestly positive to downright flat or even gloomy. As a result, it can be tricky […]

How does a 20-person online gaming company deliver without going broke when giant Fortune 500 clients ask for customized training tools that integrate seamlessly with the clients CRM and other enterprise applications? For Kevin Rivard and James Clarke, chief technology officer and chief operating officer, respectively, at Los Angeles-based YaYa LLC, the answer was to […]

As CIOs prepare their 2003 budgets for review by their CEOs this month, it seems that theyre all running into the same conundrum: Should a company invest in technology and innovation during belt-tightening times in preparation for an elusive economic recovery? After all, the bad news just seems to keep on coming. As corporation after […]

This past week, Ive gotten so much reader mail responding to a special report on spam that eWeek Labs published last week that its become obvious Im not the only one inundated by bogus medical offers and promises of lower mortgage rates. The message from these readers was certainly loud and clear: Enterprises are drowning […]