Author: Tom Steinert Threlkeld

Sun’s McNealy Gets Cropped

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—With companies’ information-technology budgets getting a haircut, so did Scott McNealy. The chairman and chief executive of server maker Sun Microsystems came

Gartner Upbeat on IT Spending

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—The growth rate in worldwide spending on information technology will double next year, research and consulting firm Gartner Inc. said Monday morning.

Mercury Initiative Aims to Hone IT Budgets

In the latest extension of Mercury Interactive’s evolving strategy to provide large enterprises with tools for improving their technology-infrastructure operations, the company announced a new

Time for the Next Manhattan Project

Haven’t we seen enough? Two towers could still be standing, if our intelligence-gathering agencies were able to share what they know with each other, instantly;

The Birth of CompStat

They just wanted to go home. And they had to figure out what to name the file, before they could close down the computer and

CompStat: From Humble Beginnings

The snow was falling, heavily. Gene Whyte, John Brancato, Richard Mehia and John Yohe wanted to go home, before the weather turned impenetrable. But Brancato,