Greg Enright

There may be a century separating the eras in which they single-handedly dominated the global corporate landscape, but the similarities between the careers of Bill Gates and John D. Rockefeller Sr. are too similar to ignore.

Reports that enrolments in computer science courses in Canadian universities are on the slide, and have been for five years, sends a variety of messages to those in the IT community who will be affected by such a trend.

After four years of branching out from its heritage as a storage hardware provider, EMC Corp. today "pretty much has the capability" to deliver on a wide variety of information management-related offerings, according to one of the company's senior executives.

If you are interested in getting a read on what your skills as an IT professional are worth these days, I urge you to check out a nifty little tool available over on our Web site at www.itworldcanada.com/calculator. Called the Salary Calculator

The numerous compliance regulations that have sprung up in the last few years have certainly complicated the lives of IT executives. Huge chunks of time, money and effort are having to be spent in order to ensure that companies

In many ways, we live in a world of micros: microwave ovens, microprocessors, and microseconds. More and more data is continually being packed into smaller and smaller packages and devices. Ours is a world of big ideas, but when it comes to personal computing, success is often measured by how small the resulting tools are when they hit the market.

Flipping through this issue of ComputerWorld Canada, you might notice a few changes

Dell Inc. launched two new notebook computers under its Latitude line in New York City last month, touting the machines