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Fruehwald is this month's guest Premier 100 IT Leader, answering questions about balancing tech and soft skills, job satisfaction, resumes and youth vs. experience.

Ask CIOs what keeps them awake at night and legacy mainframes rate high on the priority list.

What, you were expecting that maybe Microsoft Corp. would be drawn and quartered? That wasn't going to happen. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly closed a few loopholes, but the settlement she OK'd on Nov. 1 was pretty much what Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Justice and nine states had agreed on. Judges like settlements. So do appeals courts. Unless something smells especially awful, settlements get OK'd so cases can be closed.

Unless you're already a customer, I'll bet one of the last places you'd think of checking for multi-vendor storage management tools is Unisys, best known as a server supplier. But it turns out that the company does play in this space, and it may be worth a look if you're in this market.

Hewlett-Packard shareholder Walter Hewlett Wednesday launched his latest offensive against the proposed merger between HP and Compaq Computer, saying large mergers between computing companies often fail. HP quickly countered with a statement that traced the benefits of some mega-mergers.

Hewlett-Packard shareholder Walter Hewlett Wednesday launched his latest offensive against the proposed merger between HP and Compaq Computer, saying large mergers between computing companies often fail. HP quickly countered with a statement that traced the benefits of some mega-mergers.

Hewlett-Packard Co. shareholder Walter Hewlett Wednesday launched his latest offensive against the proposed merger between HP and Compaq Computer Corp., saying large mergers between computing companies often fail. HP quickly countered with a statement that traced the benefits of some mega-mergers.

First we had virtual resellers - now meet the virtual distributor.

"Joe" wants to buy the equipment needed to become an Internet service provider. He has customers signed up and knows he'll have a predictable revenue stream. But Joe has no credit history and no track record.

War does funny things sometimes. today, we have the Internet-a redundant network of independent computers-because the federal government wanted to ensure communications even if one particular computer was wiped out by an atomic bomb. It started as the DARPAnet, a Department of Defense project, and today it's bolstering the global economy as never before. And since countries tend not to bomb their trading partners, this offshoot of war is a big contributor to peace.

Despite Linux's underdog appeal and expanding share of the server market, using the Unix clone as a desktop operating system has until now been strictly for geeks. Linux has never been able to match Windows 98's nearly hands-free installation, encyclopedic Plug and Play hardware support, and cadre of available applications. Until now