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By the Numbers: April 2003

Linux Ascending Linux is proving to be the little engine that could. While the overall server market contracted by nearly $4 billion worldwide in 2002, revenue from the sale of

Voice of Experience: Charles Stahl

Charles StahlDuPontGlobal Project Manager and Manager of ReimbursementsWilmington, DeL.www.dupont.com Manager’s profile: Stahl oversees expense management worldwide, and the operation of a global network covering the roughly 42,000 employees (out of

Deadline Date: 04.14.03*

In your company’s alphabet soup of necessary abbreviations, you should already have reserved a spot for PHI—protected health information. Seven years after the passage of the Health Insurance Portability and

Deploying a Silver Lining

The economy sucks. Revenue is falling. Uncertainty about the outcome of war covers everything like a wet blanket. What better time to change the enterprise resource planning software you use?

Get the Nation Back on Track

It was the Monday evening before America launched its first pre-emptive war. In front of me was a conference table where a half-dozen businesspeople would discuss travel habits for two

When Second-Best Is the Best Choice

One benefit of arriving at a new company is that you come in with an absolutely fresh perspective. You can look at everything with virgin eyes. You can ask all

Gartner CEO: Tech Spending Rebound Next Year

SAN DIEGO, Calif.–The technology spending recovery is coming–next year, says Gartner chief executive Michael Fleischer.“We see a high probability of significant improvement coming to the technology sector in 2004,” Fleischer

SAP Says It’s No. 1 for CRM

SAN DIEGO—SAP AG of Germany maintains it has overtaken Siebel Systems as the world’s largest seller of customer relationship management systems. That’s the contention of co-founder and Chairman Hasso Plattner,

Why Real-Time Analytics May Not Pay

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Turning your company into a “real-time” enterprise may not be really smart.That is the case, says the consulting firm Gartner, even though one of the few

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