Stan Gibson

One of the most amazing sights of the many staggering images of Sept. 11 was the blizzard of paper that swirled amid the cloud of dust around the collapsing World Trade Center towers. At companies recovering from the catastrophe the question arose, which of those millions of documents were scanned and digitized and which were […]

A cruise ship pier may seem an unlikely spot to serve as the ad hoc nerve center of emergency command and control. But New York chose just such a site and for a number of reasons. The city moved its Office of Emergency Management to Pier 92 and its Family Assistance Center to the adjacent […]

NEW YORK–On Sept. 11, New Yorks Office of Emergency Management at 7 World Trade Center was obliterated at the very moment it was needed the most. To help the city get back on its feet after the most appalling disaster in the nations history, the agencys workers needed to get up and running in new […]

Reporters must travel. To report for eWEEK on recovery efforts stemming from the World Trade Center disaster, this week I made my second trip from Boston to New York since Sept. 11, but my maiden air voyage since the attacks. The Boston Logan Airport experience is decidedly different from what it was before Sept. 11. […]

The road to the disaster recoveries of the past two weeks was paved in the wake of another terrorist attack: the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Without that earlier attack, many say, the loss of life and economic damage from this months catastrophes in New York and Washington would have been far more devastating. Those […]

If last weeks terrorist attacks were intended to bring America and its information economy to its knees, the terrorists hit the wrong buildings. Many companies in the World Trade Centers Twin Towers, as well as the Department of Defense in the Pentagon, have some of the most thoroughly planned backup and recovery operations anywhere. Those […]

The issue of new internet sales taxes is moving slowly but steadily on a predictable trajectory that is likely to result in a completely new structure within several years. The next milestone for the issue is the probable extension of the current “moratorium on multiple and discriminatory taxes” on Internet commerce, which will expire Oct. […]

The bullet that Computer Associates International Inc.s senior management team dodged last week in a shareholders bitter proxy fight may have actually helped forge a new and more responsive CA. In an effort designed to elicit support from shareholders, CA Chairman Charles Wang and President and CEO Sanjay Kumar made several moves that many observers […]

Its a familiar scenario: Microsoft Corp. settles into an inauspicious market toehold as competitors pay no heed—only to wake a few years later to find themselves obscured by the Redmond, Wash., companys long shadow. It happened with Windows. It happened with Office. Now, the plan is to make it happen with Great Plains Software Inc.s […]

Sporting its first quarterly profit like a feather in its cap, Red Hat Inc. is marching forward with a new business plan that takes the Linux distributor far beyond its Linux-in-a-box roots. The company this week will lay out a road map for the future that is based largely on a software-by-subscription model wrapped around […]