Julia King

Legions of dot-coms have collapsed, companies are laying off workers, and the economy remains in a sinkhole. It's against that backdrop that some sanity appears to be returning to IT project management.

Despite the economic downturn and layoffs at the big IT research firms, a recent online and telephone survey of more than 50 CIOs suggests that most user companies have yet to significantly cut back on their IT research spending.

IT managers looking to cut labour costs during the ongoing recession might want to think twice before laying off any of their workers who have mainframe or data centre skills.

IT managers looking to cut labour costs during the ongoing recession might want to think twice before laying off any of their workers who have mainframe or data centre skills.

Just as Unix did in the early 1990s, the Linux operating system is bound to take on multiple personalities and come in various vendor flavors, at least for the next few years

Starting today, thousands of sportscasters, international racing officials and other users at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games will tap into a one-of-a-kind, never-before-production-tested computer system that has taken a consortium of 16 technology providers more than three years to develop and deploy.

A growing awareness of the collateral costs of laying off employees has companies searching for creative alternatives to handing out pink slips at the first sign of financial distress.

The Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and continued fears of cyberterrorism are pushing many companies to include more money for security technologies in their 2002 IT budgets, according to the results of a survey conducted last month by Computerworld US and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.