Bob Evans Editor-in-Chief, InformationWeek. bevans@cmp.com

A Matter Of Attitude This week's cover story looks at IBM's plans to dramatically revitalize the AS/400 line with ambitious new hardware and software, and also with more-aggressive marketing efforts.

James I. Cash Jr. The James E. Robison professor of business administration at Harvard University. He can be contacted at jcash@hbs.edu

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 relationship s.

Stephen Manes Stephen Manes has been writing about PCs and their frustrated users for 15 years. He is the co-author of Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented An Industry (Touchstone/Simon and Schuster). 2784258@mcimail.com

Desktop Agenda: Web Sites: Slow By Design? Meaningless graphics and other doodads are preventing Internet users from accessing information in a timely manner.

Lawrence Magid Author of The Little PC Book (Peachpit Press).

You can reach him at magid@latimes.com or visit his Web site . Management Agenda: Framework For Progress It's fashionable to knock everything in Washington, but we should support Clinton's current Internet initiative.

Cheryl Currid President of Currid & Co., a technology consulting firm in Houston. cheryl@currid.com

Pu sh, But Don't Shove Push technology can work--but too often, we end up with more information than we want. How do we kill the push monster?

John Tibbetts and Barbara Bernstein Partners in Kinexis, a San Francisco consulting firm. kserver@kinexis.com

Application Development: Consulting In The Badlands When you sign on for a project, here are 10 forces that are beyond your control and may hobble your best efforts.

Herbert W. Lovelace Chief information 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 .

Secret CIO: So Much For Helping Morale No one likes to be laid off, but some company policies can make it an unnecessarily humiliating experience.

Bernd Harzog An Atlanta consultant specializing in software vendor product and marketing strategy. He can be reached at berndh@mindspring.com .

Between The Lines: Networking Unplugged Big software vendors don't provide what's needed for portable network computing. What choices does that leave you?

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 .

The Millennium Crunch: Government's Time To Act The U.S. government must mandate research to prevent the collapse of critical systems in the year 2000.

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.

Legacy Of Legacy Systems By Dick Bellaver, associate director of the Cent er for Information and Communications Science at Ball State University in Indiana.   Top of the Page

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