http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Information_TechnologyFind stories, videos, and photos about Information Technology from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Thu, 26 Nov 2009 04:41:24 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gifhttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Information_Technology14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Information Technology from CNN.com.http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/04/cloud.computing.hunt/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/04/cloud.computing.hunt/index.html#cnnSTCTextOne day, while uploading yet another text file to the Google Docs Web site, I started to wonder: When I save this file online, where does it actually go?Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:26:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/10/20/technology/sun_job_cuts/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/10/20/technology/sun_job_cuts/index.htmSun Microsystems said it will cut 3,000 jobs over the next year, citing delays in its pending acquisition by Oracle, according to a regulatory filing released on Tuesday.Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:05:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/10/08/technology/brocade_buyer_looking.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/10/08/technology/brocade_buyer_looking.fortune/index.htmLarry Ellison does not have a hankering to add Brocade Communication Systems to his long list of acquisitions.Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:08:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/21/markets/thebuzz/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/21/markets/thebuzz/index.htmTechnology stocks have outperformed the broader market during the past six months -- and with good reason.Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:05:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/16/technology/Oracle_earnings/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/16/technology/Oracle_earnings/index.htmOracle shares fell sharply in after-hours trading Wednesday after the database software maker reported quarterly sales that missed Wall Street forecasts.Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:16:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/08/technology/oracle_safra_catz.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/09/08/technology/oracle_safra_catz.fortune/index.htmAfter months of on-again-off-again negotiations to sell itself to IBM, Sun Microsystems this spring found a new, if unlikely, suitor. Oracle, the business-software giant, in many ways promised to be a better fit for Sun, the beleaguered maker of server computers.Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:07:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/08/20/technology/redhat_stock_open_source.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/08/20/technology/redhat_stock_open_source.fortune/index.htmRemember about five or six years ago when the open source software movement was going to beat the stuffing out of software giants like Microsoft, Oracle and Sun? That hasn't exactly happened.Fri, 21 Aug 2009 09:44:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/08/14/news/companies/highest_paid_ceos/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/08/14/news/companies/highest_paid_ceos/index.htmLast year was a bad one for most chief executives -- but not for the top 10 highest paid CEOs.Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:06:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/06/24/markets/markets_newyork/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/06/24/markets/markets_newyork/index.htmThe Nasdaq trimmed gains Wednesday and the Dow dipped after the Federal Reserve kept a key short-term interest rate near zero, but said nothing about expanding a program meant to keep long-term rates from spiking.Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:48:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/05/11/technology/ibm_sap_no_merger.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/05/11/technology/ibm_sap_no_merger.fortune/index.htmAt a table in Las Vegas, a town fueled by big bets, IBM software chief Steve Mills outlined one he doesn't want to make: Buying application provider SAP.Tue, 12 May 2009 09:58:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/05/05/technology/tech_mergers/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/05/05/technology/tech_mergers/index.htmMerger activity in the tech sector has dropped precipitously from a year earlier, but the landscape is quickly changing as confidence returns.Tue, 05 May 2009 16:14:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/30/technology/kowitt_no2.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/30/technology/kowitt_no2.fortune/index.htmLast year when Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed visible signs of illness at public speaking events, the company's stock began to gyrate unpredictably. When Jobs unexpectedly spoke on the company's fourth-quarter earnings call, the stock rose 12% in part because he simply showed up. When he canceled his MacWorld appearance, Apple shares plunged 7%. Investors worried that Jobs might step down. Could anyone replace him?Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/27/technology/oracle.sun.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/27/technology/oracle.sun.fortune/index.htmOracle pounced on Sun Microsystems a week ago, agreeing to buy the battered server maker for $5.6 billion, excluding Sun's cash. On the surface, the tech world responded relatively quietly to Oracle's bombshell by getting about the business of reporting earnings. Behind closed doors, however, the entire industry has been turned topsy-turvy. One bold and unexpected deal has changed everything, and the ramifications will play out increasingly dramatically for months. Consider how the move affects the mightiest in the industry.Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:45:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/technology/ibm_earnings/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/technology/ibm_earnings/index.htmInternational Business Machines posted first-quarter earnings per share Monday that rose more than expected from a year ago, even as sales slipped substantially.Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:14:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/markets/thebuzz/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/markets/thebuzz/index.htmIf the term "serial acquirer" were actually in the dictionary, it would probably be accompanied by a picture of Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison.Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:05:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/technology/sun_oracle_ibm/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/technology/sun_oracle_ibm/index.htmThe acquisition of Sun Microsystems by International Business Machines' rival Oracle on Monday came just weeks after Sun's negotiations with IBM failed.Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:57:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/technology/Oracle_Sun/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/04/20/technology/Oracle_Sun/index.htmBusiness software maker Oracle Corp. said Monday it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy server builder Sun Microsystems in a deal worth $7.4 billion.Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:22:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/04/13/cb.promising.jobs.2009/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/04/13/cb.promising.jobs.2009/index.html#cnnSTCTextThis summer, diplomas will be handed out, hats will be tossed in the air and college graduates will look to enter that elusive Real World they've heard so much about. It's all very exciting and nerve wracking, in a good way.Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:02:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/03/19/markets/thebuzz/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/03/19/markets/thebuzz/index.htmTo preserve cash, several big banks, including some healthy ones, have been forced to slash their dividends.Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:24:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/technology/oracle_earnings/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/03/18/technology/oracle_earnings/index.htmSoftware giant Oracle reported fiscal third quarter profits and sales that beat Wall Street's expectations, and also announced that it would be issuing a dividend to its shareholders. The company also reported "record operating margins."Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:22:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/03/03/technology/fortt_cisco.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/03/03/technology/fortt_cisco.fortune/index.htmIt is the buzz of the tech world: Cisco Systems may soon try selling servers, those heavy-duty computers that companies use to run critical back-office applications. The prospect of router giant Cisco's entering the already crowded $55-billion-a-year server market is intriguing (imagine if LeBron James decided to try his hand at football) but also has the potential to disappoint. (Remember Michael Jordan's ill-fated effort to play professional baseball?)Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:57:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/02/16/technology/hempel_salesforce.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/02/16/technology/hempel_salesforce.fortune/index.htmA decade ago Marc Benioff declared that software was dead. In 1999, while on leave from his job at Oracle, he convened a group of developers in his downtown San Francisco apartment building to build Salesforce.com. Soon thereafter he paid the quirky rockers the B-52's $250,000 to perform at a bash where he distributed buttons with the word "software" crossed out, Ghostbusters-style. And that was all before he had signed up a single customer.Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:22:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/19/google.gmail.iphone/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/19/google.gmail.iphone/index.html#cnnSTCTextShowing that its Web application priorities extend to the mobile world, Google on Wednesday demonstrated a version of Gmail for the iPhone that could be used even when the phone had no network connection.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:44:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/02/16/technology/copeland_oracle.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/02/16/technology/copeland_oracle.fortune/index.htmWith all the buzz about software served up over the Internet, you'd think old-guard enterprise software makers like Oracle and SAP would be panicking over the future of their businesses. You'd be wrong.Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:54:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/23/technology/wipro_ceo.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2009/01/23/technology/wipro_ceo.fortune/index.htmThe last few weeks have led to the startling revelation of large-scale lapses in corporate governance by a leading India-based IT company. The disclosures have indeed been a wake up call for all stakeholders ­-- companies, customers, governments and employees.Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/12/26/technology/investordaily_oracle.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/12/26/technology/investordaily_oracle.fortune/index.htmSay what you will about Larry Ellison's style, but the in-your-face founder of Oracle knows how to manage a company through a recession, at least so far.Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:57:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/12/18/technology/Oracle_earnings/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/12/18/technology/Oracle_earnings/index.htmSoftware vendor Oracle blamed the currency impact of a strengthening U.S. dollar for a decline in its second-quarter earnings, reported Thursday. While sales rose against the year-ago quarter, they came up short of analysts' expectations.Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:14:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/11/05/pf/warren_buffett.moneymag/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/11/05/pf/warren_buffett.moneymag/index.htmWarren Buffett has already told the world what he's doing in this frightful market. The Oracle of Omaha proudly proclaimed that he's "been buying American stocks" with his personal funds.Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:01:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/02/digitalbiz.rfid/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/11/02/digitalbiz.rfid/index.html#cnnSTCTextIt's called "The Internet of Things" -- at least for now. It refers to an imminent world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all live and interact with each other in the same space and time. In short, everything is interconnected.Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:45:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/10/28/technology/techbargains_copeland.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/10/28/technology/techbargains_copeland.fortune/index.htmThese are the days that bring out the power shopper in Larry Ellison. With so much chaos in the markets and panic in the boardrooms, the Oracle CEO sees right now as a fine time to stroll through Silicon Valley and buy pretty much whatever he wants.Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:14:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htmAfter taking one of the first Internet companies -- EarthWeb -- public in 1998, Nova Spivack joined some friends at a weedy airstrip deep inside the new Russia for a trip into Earth's stratosphere.Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:45:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/11/01/8391420/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/11/01/8391420/index.htmFrom almost every angle, it looked like one sweet deal.Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:22:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/10/17/technology/pluggedin_mehta_savvis.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/10/17/technology/pluggedin_mehta_savvis.fortune/index.htmBefore there was Goo-Tube, there was Googleplex.Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:19:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/08/01/technology/nextbigsysadmin0801.biz2/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/08/01/technology/nextbigsysadmin0801.biz2/index.htmNearly half of U.S. IT jobs involve the upkeep and maintenance of computers - a sector previously thought to be safe from offshoring. But technological change is sweeping the industry, and soon the servers that host your favorite websites or run your online banking could be run from halfway around the world.Tue, 01 Aug 2006 19:37:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/07/8382587/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/08/07/8382587/index.htmMargie Backaus is standing on a 17-acre plot outside Secaucus, N.J., shaking her head in disbelief. Garbage bags and broken glass litter the ground, and weeds have taken over the parts of the land ... Tue, 01 Aug 2006 16:22:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2006/07/26/magazines/fortune/futureoftech_serverfarm.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2006/07/26/magazines/fortune/futureoftech_serverfarm.fortune/index.htmMargie Backaus is standing on a 17-acre plot outside Secaucus, N.J., shaking her head in disbelief. Garbage bags and broken glass litter the ground, and weeds have taken over the parts of the land that aren't bald. At least the view is nice, if you like power lines, shipping containers, and the New Jersey Turnpike.Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:57:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/02/01/8368205/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fsb/fsb_archive/2006/02/01/8368205/index.htmEver since tech pundit Nicholas Carr published a provocative Harvard Business Review article titled "IT Doesn't Matter," business leaders have been debating Carr's thesis that information technolog... Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:58:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/09/09/technology/techinvestor/tech_biz/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/09/09/technology/techinvestor/tech_biz/index.htmOn the 10th floor of a New Orleans high-rise, Michael Barnett, crisis manager at DirectNic, is blogging (www.mgno.com) about his co-workers' efforts to keep the Internet service provider online through the hurricane and its aftermath.Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:16:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/eyeonchina.india/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/25/eyeonchina.india/index.htmlAfter years of competition, the world's two most populous countries -- China and India -- are starting to embrace cooperation.Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:10:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/11/01/8189378/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2004/11/01/8189378/index.htmBlake Ross is lounging at his parents' Florida Keys condo, thinking ahead to his first day back at Stanford. His goal for his sophomore year: nothing less than to "take back the Web" from Microsoft...Mon, 01 Nov 2004 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/09/20/technology/loyalty/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/09/20/technology/loyalty/index.htmExecutives at Cisco, Dell, Microsoft and IBM don't need to worry about losing a lot of corporate business any time soon -- at least according to a new report about customer loyalty in the tech sector.Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:29:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/09/india.eye.technology/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/09/09/india.eye.technology/index.htmlSome time between 2008 and 2010, annual export revenues from India's information technology (IT) sector are predicted to hit $50 billion, up from $16.3 billion this year.Fri, 10 Sep 2004 01:13:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/06/14/372637/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/06/14/372637/index.htmSam Palmisano has reason to feel good. Two years ago he took over one of the biggest jobs in American business and, along with it, the mantle that had been worn by now-legendary CEO Lou Gerstner. ...Mon, 14 Jun 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/03/368568/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/05/03/368568/index.htmBubble Madness Is Over (Hallelujah!) Mon, 03 May 2004 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/03/30/news/economy/outsourcing/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/03/30/news/economy/outsourcing/index.htmThe outsourcing of prized information technology jobs overseas has created tens of thousands of new jobs in the United States, according to a recent study commissioned by the information technology industry.Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:00:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/02/05/pf/college/lucrative_degrees/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/02/05/pf/college/lucrative_degrees/index.htmNEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The job market may not be booming. But for many in the college class of 2004, it won't be quite as dismal as it was for last year's grads.Thu, 05 Feb 2004 17:50:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/01/19/news/economy/jobs_offshore/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/01/19/news/economy/jobs_offshore/index.htmAs painful as the labor market has been lately, what's even more painful is that many of the 2.5 million jobs lost in the past few years are never coming back.Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:26:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/11/24/353778/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/11/24/353778/index.htmThe strength of the American economy over the next 20 years depends largely on our ability to keep our productivity growing. And productivity grows when a large set of novel technologies changes bu...Mon, 24 Nov 2003 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/11/01/351899/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/11/01/351899/index.htmMarc Andreessen is scribbling so furiously that he's about to tear through the paper into the table below. He whips off a few oblong shapes. "Somewhere in here is where we are now," Andreessen says...Sat, 01 Nov 2003 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/06/09/343965/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2003/06/09/343965/index.htmAndrew Tomkins, a British computer scientist, is pretty much your typical ivory-tower egghead. He's spent his entire adult life either in academia--he earned advanced degrees from MIT and Carnegie-...Mon, 09 Jun 2003 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/02/01/335980/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2003/02/01/335980/index.htmBehind every pitch for business software lies a kind of quiet extortion. If you don't buy this product, maybe your competitors will. Maybe they will then go on a sustained surge in productivity and...Sat, 01 Feb 2003 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2002/09/03/pf/investing/uic_wick/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2002/09/03/pf/investing/uic_wick/index.htmPaul Wick has run the Seligman Communications & Information fund since he was 25. The fund manager now oversees the biggest tech-centric mutual fund in the country, with $3.5 billion in assets, and his tenure is one of the longest in the tech fund business.Mon, 09 Sep 2002 22:17:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/12/10/314690/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/12/10/314690/index.htmPick up the latest FORTUNE, Forbes, or Fast Company--gosh, they're all thinner, aren't they?--and you'll know that knowledge management is what we all must do better, you value-added knowledge work...Mon, 10 Dec 2001 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/04/30/301951/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/04/30/301951/index.htmThe dilemma is so sharp, it almost hurts: Companies are desperate to cut costs as the economy slows--Wall Street will murder them if they don't--yet reducing Net-related spending could put them at ...Mon, 30 Apr 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/27/292403/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/11/27/292403/index.htmI know this may sound obscure but, dear reader, I simply must tell you about metadata! Metadata presents the biggest challenge the tech industry faces in delivering the ubiquitous, ever present, ne...Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/16/289613/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/10/16/289613/index.htmAs far as the information technology industry was concerned, the 1990s were "The Bill and Andy Show." The kingpins of Wintel not only dictated the bits, bytes, and business models of computing but ...Mon, 16 Oct 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/09/01/286107/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2000/09/01/286107/index.htmShares in Electronic Data Systems got clobbered in June after the company warned that its second-quarter sales wouldn't meet analysts' expectations. The stock shed a quarter of its value in a matte...Fri, 01 Sep 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/08/14/285557/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/08/14/285557/index.htmAs the mercury rises this summer, Jim Fitzmaurice will feel the pressure build. A 28-year veteran of Commonwealth Edison in Chicago, Fitzmaurice rose through the ranks of linemen inspecting overhea...Mon, 14 Aug 2000 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/12/06/269970/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/12/06/269970/index.htmThe Gartner Group has always billed itself as "the world's leading authority on information technology." That's a weighty claim, but it's nothing compared with what fans of Gartner's stock once sai...Mon, 06 Dec 1999 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/10/25/267824/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/10/25/267824/index.htmThe Internet changes everything. We've heard that phrase so often in the past couple of years that it has ceased to have any shock value. Of course the Internet changes everything. Why else are Web...Mon, 25 Oct 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/06/265328/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/06/265328/index.htmOutside, the building could not be more ordinary--it's indistinguishable from hundreds of other offices dotting Silicon Valley. You'd never suspect that inside are computers running services, like ...Mon, 06 Sep 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/08/16/264317/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/08/16/264317/index.htmData storage has always been a sideshow in information technology--the main action has been computers themselves. Now a storage-liberation movement is afoot. New technology and customer needs are g...Mon, 16 Aug 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/06/21/261686/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/06/21/261686/index.htmToday's Internet poster boys are retail Web companies like Yahoo, Amazon.com, and eBay. But another class of Net company--one that matters more to your business--is starting to get respect and win ...Mon, 21 Jun 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258763/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/26/258763/index.htmPat Zilvitis is chief information officer at Gillette in Boston and a huge IBM customer. But it's not the quality of Big Blue's PCs, servers, and mainframes that draws him. "I often don't know if I...Mon, 26 Apr 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/12/258104/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/04/12/258104/index.htmBill Gates has a lot on his plate. As Microsoft's chairman and CEO, he's managing a galloping company that sees no bounds to its growth. There's also the pesky distraction of the company's ongoing ...Mon, 12 Apr 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/04/29/211869/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1996/04/29/211869/index.htmLOUIS V. GERSTNER JR.'s ongoing makeover of International Business Machines Corp. has altered the $72-billion-a-year company--No. 6 on this year's FORTUNE 500 list--in all sorts of interesting ways...Mon, 29 Apr 1996 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/06/27/79459/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/06/27/79459/index.htmLOOKING BACK, weren't we naive to think we had only to drop nearly $1 trillion of computer hardware into the slot, wait a little while for the machinery to clank and grind, and, presto, a big produ...Mon, 27 Jun 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/06/27/79457/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/06/27/79457/index.htmIf Hollywood gave an Oscar for economics, the person who figured out how to measure productivity more accurately would be a sure winner. It's a tough role -- no one really knows what the new econom...Mon, 27 Jun 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/04/04/79153/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1994/04/04/79153/index.htmTechnophobes have long warned that computers would be the undoing of the American worker. And indeed, new research suggests that when companies invest in information technology (IT), their average ...Mon, 04 Apr 1994 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/01/78543/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/11/01/78543/index.htmSOON AFTER you switch on a new computer, it starts to sprout cables like branches and peripherals like leaves. Time-lapse photography would show how quickly the typical personal computer can strang...Mon, 01 Nov 1993 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/10/15/88385/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/1993/10/15/88385/index.htmAir-Vet ships drugs, medical instruments and other equipment worth $7 million to $8 million a year -- hundreds of packages a day -- to veterinarians all over the U.S. Yet you won't find any stock c...Fri, 15 Oct 1993 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/27/78386/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/27/78386/index.htm1994 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GUIDE Mon, 27 Sep 1993 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/27/78387/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/27/78387/index.htmTHE HONORABLE Chester Cadaver, a character in the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, once said that trying to figure out the complex world of the future is ''a little like having bees live in your hea...Mon, 27 Sep 1993 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/27/78384/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/09/27/78384/index.htmTHOUGH BARELY out of its infancy, information technology is already one of the most effective ways ever devised to squander corporate assets. Year after year, the typical large business invests as ...Mon, 27 Sep 1993 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/09/23/75507/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/09/23/75507/index.htmAT ITS HUGE manufacturing complex in Rochester, New York, Eastman Kodak operates its own steam, electricity, and water purification plants. Kodak firefighters stand on call at Kodak firehouses. Bri...Mon, 23 Sep 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/02/25/74711/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/02/25/74711/index.htmRECESSION and intensifying competition have put a ring akin to a hangman's noose around the white collar, menacing the fastest-growing segment of the work force with layoffs and hiring freezes. Bel...Mon, 25 Feb 1991 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71885/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1989/04/24/71885/index.htmIT WAS AN AWFUL MESS,'' recalls Gene Wirsig, a technical services manager for the western division of Potlatch Corp. The FORTUNE 500 forest products company ^ owns 600,000 acres of timberland in no...Mon, 24 Apr 1989 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/26/71058/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1988/09/26/71058/index.htmAMERICAN executives feel a sense of vast impending change, and they ought to. Take a look at what they can already foresee in the Nineties. Companies will be forced to develop products and make dec...Mon, 26 Sep 1988 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/07/08/66122/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/07/08/66122/index.htmWITH SOME KICKING and screaming along the way, the business managers of the Western world have long since adapted to computers. No sizable capitalist enterprise could be competitive nowadays withou...Mon, 08 Jul 1985 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/15/65798/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/15/65798/index.htm''WE'VE got the products,'' says John Sculley, Apple Computer's president, ''but the big question is, have we got the ability to sell them? Is Apple a credible enough name for large corporations? O...Mon, 15 Apr 1985 05:01:00 EST