Friday | 9 January, 2009

Stories by: Don Tennant

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    Standing on principle 12/08/2008 10:55:25

    I'm not above engaging in a little shameless name-dropping, especially when I know the dropped name will spark a reaction. So while chatting with attendees at the LinuxWorld conference in San Francisco last week, I made no secret of the fact that I had interviewed Richard Stallman a few days earlier. I marveled at the awe and admiration on the faces of many of my listeners.
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    The bigger question: why do women and men leave IT 24/06/2008 15:41:19

    Kathleen Melymuka's Q&A with researcher Sylvia Ann Hewlett created quite a stir. Titled "Why Women Quit Technology Careers," the interview, posted on our Web site last week, has elicited well over 250 reader comments, many of them faulting Hewlett's statistics and conclusions.
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    Anne Mulcahy on getting the color back into Xerox 17/06/2008 08:21:01

    When Anne Mulcahy took over as CEO of Xerox in August 2001, the outlook for the company to which she had devoted 25 years of her life could hardly have been bleaker. Xerox was over $17 billion in debt, bankruptcy appeared inevitable, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating alleged accounting irregularities.
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    Our strengths and weaknesses are often the same 27/05/2008 08:16:27

    There's a fine line between commitment and focus on one hand, and obstinance and myopia on the other. Or perhaps there's no line at all. Maybe they only differ when the context differs.
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    The untold story of illegal peer-to-peer network activity on campus 05/05/2008 12:40:55

    A student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the US has written an article about an otherwise unpublicised case of a band of students that kept a peer-to-peer file sharing network running on campus so that users of the network could illegally obtain copyrighted material. The story needs to be told, so I'm running it here.
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    Bringing humor to IT life 22/04/2008 11:58:01

    When I wrote last week about the question of whether we have enough young people graduating from technology-related university programs, I did so in a way that was meant to convey the seriousness of the issue. But there's a not-so-serious dimension to the discussion that warrants equal attention.
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    Pro or parasite? 21/04/2008 12:24:26

    There are a lot of CIOs around who dismiss the idea of hiring graduates fresh out of college. I know, because I've spoken with many of them. They clearly have their reasons, and it would be foolish to claim that none of them are legitimate. But it seems like an awfully shortsighted approach to skills management.
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    Q&A: CA's John Swainson talks up software-as-a-service, green-IT strategies 09/04/2008 11:14:11

    At a CA-sponsored gathering of CIOs last week, the company's CEO, John Swainson, spoke about a range of issues, including the company's software-as-a-service, green-IT and H-1B program strategies. Excerpts from the interview follow:
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    Who are IT's substance abusers? 08/04/2008 08:25:56

    One of the reasons I enjoy covering the IT profession so much is that if you put five IT pros in a room to discuss a particular topic, you're likely to get at least six different opinions about it. So when I raised the issue of substance abuse within the IT industry in my blog last week, I fully expected to get the full gamut of reader comments. I wasn't disappointed.
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    Dell exec addresses service woes in run-up to IT-as-a-service launch 17/03/2008 10:19:37

    Steve Schuckenbrock, president of global services and CIO at Dell, outlined his company's plan to deliver a hosted remote-management offering that it calls "IT as a service." In the following interview, Schuckenbrock spoke about the plan and what Dell is doing to polish its tarnished customer-service reputation.
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    Emasculating Windows 10/03/2008 10:01:07

    If you Google the phrase "Microsoft's worst nightmare," the range of hits you get is entertaining for its breadth. Various pundits have proclaimed that the software giant's very worst nightmare is everything from Linux, Google and Firefox to software as a service, Cisco's digital home business and the Sony PlayStation.
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