Project Management

A top Microsoft executive promoted the company's licensing of network security protocols at the Interop trade show on Wednesday, but not before taking time out during a keynote address to defend the company's patent licensing program for open-source software.

How many times have you heard that IT needs to be aligned with business? If there was a mantra of the past decade, surely this was it. And who can argue with the concept that IT and business need to be in alignment to ensure that IT investments pay off in the form of tangible business benefits?

Being green can save you a lot of green, is a message Big Blue is promoting heavily these days. IBM execs are emphasizing how deployment of green technologies, particularly in their data centre, can translate into hard dollar savings.

What will the IT organization of the future look like? We gathered experts for a virtual roundtable discussion about how CIOs are reorganizing their IT operations to improve customer service and gain a competitive advantage.

Dell will be unable to supply desktop PCs to NSW Government agencies for at least three years under the state's newly announced whole-of-government supplier panel.

There aren't a lot of valuable Internet assets on the market now that Google has snapped up Doubleclick, in a deal expected to close by the end of the year. So what is Microsoft - that waited too long to capitalize on the new business model of the Internet - to do now?

Spotlight on Anil Arora, director general of the census program at Statistics Canada. In conversation with senior writer Lisa Williams, Arora explains how good project management practices prop up the national census, what was behind the controversy surrounding the outsourcing deal with Lockheed Martin, and how StatsCan mobilized a powerhouse task force to address urgent questions on procurement.

I don't know when it started, but it became visible a couple of years ago -- ironically, at about the same time that the 'Net neutrality debate started to gain ground. Now it may be the thing that makes that much-more-publicized concept moot. What is it? The notion that perhaps we need to rethink completely the thing we call the Internet."