Stan Gibson

Cisco is no Enron. It hit a bump in the road a couple of years ago, but who didnt? The reason it seemed like such a comeuppance was that Ciscos accomplishments, both financially and technologically, had been so extraordinary to that point. Now that Cisco has gathered itself, networking competitors beware. If you listen to […]

Some eWEEKs, a lot of things happen at once. In this issue, we launch a new format, and we feature our third annual eWEEK Excellence Awards. First, why change something that readers look forward to enthusiastically every week? You told us youd like eWEEK even more in magazine size, and we listened. The new eWEEK […]

I would have prepared a column for this issue, but I spent the whole week checking out online news sources for updates to the Iraq war. What a distraction! Then I noticed the issue that I was most involved with—procrastinating by checking out the progress of the war all the time—was itself getting plenty of […]

Its war. No, not that one. Last week, Meta Group declared war on Gartner. Apparently, Stamford, Conn., is not big enough for the two of them. Meta is set to launch a major marketing campaign targeting the titan among consulting companies and its neighbor, Gartner. Although the ad reads “Meta vs. Mega” and doesnt mention […]

Doug clark does not have problems with committing—eCommitting, to be precise. In fact, hes bullish on the software program for mortgage lenders, one of Fannie Maes Core applications that the secondary mortgage company has just rewritten as part of a massive two-year project. “From Day One, its exceeded expectations,” said Clark, who is chairman and […]

Think about the scope of systems needed to run the worlds largest credit union. Now add the complexity created by the fact that many of that institutions 2.2 million members can be away from home for months at a time. Its a combination that demands all manner of electronic banking, including electronic mortgages. So it […]

While most of the U.S. economy continues to inch its way through a prolonged recession, Fannie Mae, the federally chartered secondary mortgage market company, has been riding the home refinancing boom to new heights of transaction volumes. So its perhaps not surprising that, while many enterprises are focused intently on cutting IT costs and avoiding […]

A few years ago, as the dot-com bubble was still expanding, many an IT shop longed for the days of stability, when everyone wasnt leaving for the phony riches of stock options and workplace turnover was under control. Now were getting to see what less or, in some cases, no turnover is like. Gartner analyst […]

Theres a barely perceptible but significant thaw in the IT spending freeze, IT researchers are finding. “Theres unrelenting pressure on cost for the third year in a row. But now there is a requirement that companies innovate. People are becoming concerned that the future of companies is being put at risk,” said Ellen Kitzis, group […]

Now that China is gearing up its space program to put a robot on the moon, I wonder: Could the United States take its moonshot program out of mothballs and figure out what to do? Since we decided 30 years ago there was not enough ROI to warrant further trips, its certain that our skills […]