 Bob Evans
Editor-in-Chief, InformationWeek.
bevans@cmp.com
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Windows NT Pricing: Eye-Popping Details
Just when you thought it was safe to unequivocally determine that systems will be less
expensive than Unix-based systems, along comes reality to jangle that certainty and send you back for another round of cost-benefit and NT-Unix evaluations.
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 James I. Cash Jr.
The James E. Robison professor of business administration at Harvard University.
jcash@hbs.edu
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Management Agenda: IT And PR: Living In Spin
The evolution of Web tools and applications means that IT and public relations must work to redefine media relationships.
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 Stephen Manes
Co-author of
Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented An Industry
(Touchstone/Simon and Schuster).
2784258@mcimail.com
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Desktop Agenda: I'm Going To Microsoftland!
Here's one under-construction amusement product where all the bugs haven't quite been worked out yet.
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 Lawrence Magid
Author of
The Little PC Book
(Peachpit Press).
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You can reach him at
magid@latimes.com
or visit
his Web site
.
Management Agenda: Those Oldies But Goodies
Lotus and Corel have found there's still a spot in the market for application suites written for Windows 3.x operating systems.
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 Cheryl Currid
President of Currid & Co., a technology consulting firm in Houston.
cheryl@currid.com
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Building Bridges: Take Users To T
rade Shows
When end users see new technologies, you can both find solutions to problems you didn't even know about.
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 John Tibbetts and Barbara Bernstein
Partners in Kinexis, a San Francisco consulting firm.
kserver@kinexis.com
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Application Development: Wizards Work Woeful Ways
The fiction of a wizard's interface will break down if pushed too far. But be careful-you don't want to cross a wizard.
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 Herbert W. Lovelace
Chief info
rmation officer at a multibillion-dollar international company. Herb practices his day job under an alias, and frequently changes the names of colleagues mentioned in these columns in order to protect
the guilty.
He can be reached at
secret@cmp.com
. He promises to provide real answers (with whimsical comments) to your
E-mailed questions in
Ask The Secret CIO
.
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Secret CIO: The Art Of The Trade Show
Getting the best freebies in the least amount of time makes trekking to a big conference worthwhile.
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 Bernd Harzog
An Atlanta consultant specializing in software vendor product and m
arketing strategy.
He can be reached at
berndh@mindspring.com
.
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Between The Lines: Networking Unplugged
Big software vendors don't provide what's needed for portable network computing. What choices does that leave you?
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 William M. Ulrich
President of Tactical Strategy Group Inc., a Soquel, Calif., consulting firm specializing in architecture transition strategies, and is co-author of
The Year 2000 Software Crisis: Challenge of the Century
(Yourdon Press,
1997).
He can be reached at
tsginc@cruzio.com
.
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The
Millennium Crunch: Third-Party Time Bombs
Most industries focus on their internal conversion concerns. But they
should be aware of external risk factors as well.
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 In My Humble Opinion
In My Humble Opinion is an occasional column expressing the opinions of
InformationWeek
readers. Submissions can be sent to
IMHO@cmp.com
. Only writers being considered for publication will be contacted.
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Legacy Of Legacy Systems
By Dick Bellaver, associate director of the Center for Information and Communications Science at Ball State University in Indiana.
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