Michael MacMillan

Last month, J.N. Patterson Hume was inducted into the Canadian Information Productivity Awards (CIPA) Hall of Fame. Although born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Hume moved to Canada in the early 1950s to take a job as an assistant professor, where he continued to make a name for himself a the University of Toronto, eventually helping to found the school

Suppose a slick-talking salesperson suddenly appeared at your door promising you the solution of a lifetime. He claims it can turn your rapidly accumulating corporate data into profit. That it can make your employees actually use all those various in-house and out-of-the-box applications, willingly, and with a smile on their face. Back office tie-ins? No problem. Heck, he says it

Only weeks after leaving his post as British Columbia's chief information officer, Arthur Lee Denny said it's...

Here are some random observations on this week

Only weeks after leaving his post as British Columbia

Head's up, because I'm about to get all Alan Greenspan-y for a minute andndo my bit to inject a tiny bit of confidence into the IT economy.

In this industry, griping about hype is like shooting fish in a barrel. Still, whenever I hear the word

Forget the run-up to the Sept. 11 anniversary for a moment: in IT, at least, the amount of actual news has been very scant of late. But look again, and you might notice something rather odd.