Project Management

The Royal Bank of Canada is walking away from a US$30 million investment it made in The SCO Group Inc., in a move that may presage further legal and financial difficulties for the troubled Unix vendor, according to one financial analyst.

Retailers have shed their reputation for being technology laggards and are funneling IT dollars to nearly all areas of their businesses, according to one Gartner Inc. analyst.

Microsoft Corp. next month will institute a new product lifecycle policy that extends support for Microsoft products to a minimum of 10 years from the current seven years, the vendor said Tuesday.

IBM Corp. has filed new documents in its legal dispute with Unix vendor The SCO Group Inc., accusing SCO of having no evidence to back up its copyright infringement claims, and asking the judge to throw a major component of the case out of court.

In every career there are both milestones and plateaus, which are alike in that they take effort and new skills to hurdle. The single biggest challenge, however, is letting go of what I call the transactional level of leadership.

A small number of companies, including Novell Inc. and FedEx Corp., have elevated responsibility for IT governance to their boards of directors in an...

You can't throw a rock in technology circles these days without hitting some soul sounding off about the importance of running IT like a business. But what does it mean to "run IT like a business"? It sounds logical. It sounds beneficial. And for many, it sounds like just another in the long line of ill-defined catchphrases that the IT community latches onto to no avail.

An embarrassingly high percentage of IT initiatives fail to deliver. Expectations are not met; opportunities are not realized. That