Contribute 3 puts users in the driver's seat
Though not as industrial-strength as some Web content management systems, Contribute from Macromedia Inc. of San Francisco has become a popular tool for fast, easy Web content management.
Weaving a tighter web
HTML pages and Adobe Portable Document Format files aren't just the highly visible face of federal agencies anymore. Increasingly, they are the currency of internal and intra-agency communication, much of it driven by mandates for common enterprise architectures.
Groove improves its virtual space
Groove Workspace, a peer-to-peer collaboration tool from Groove Networks Inc., has become something of a darling of the federal government, thanks largely to its extra-tight security.
Team players
Few kinds of software are as slippery to categorize as those that use computer networks to bring people together.
Storage management: Battle of the bulge
An old computing adage says that software lags behind hardware. In the case of storage, the gap has widened'hardware has left software eating its dust.
Videoconferencing screen gems
We don't have Dick Tracy watches and holographic Star Trek displays just yet, but videoconferencing is finally beginning to live up to its decades-old potential.
The human touch
If human resources departments haven't always emphasized the human element of their work, traditional HR management systems have barely tried.Most legacy systems, many of them homegrown and outdated, generally support payroll processing and core functions such as benefits administration, and time and attendance.
Better on balance
Government bookkeeping used to involve people in green eyeshades who painstakingly wrote transactions in heavy, lined ledgers. The eyeshades are gone but not all the ledgers are, even in shops that long ago built mainframe accounting programs.
Who knew dust could be so smart?
Tiny, wireless sensors and transmitters, dubbed smart dust, are moving out of research labs and onto battlefields and other locations where they can track assets, detect intruders and even sense dangerous chemicals.
Middleware connects
The federal government's push for better information sharing among agencies, made more urgent by e-government initiatives and 9-11 intelligence failures, has created strong demand for enterprise software architectures, Web standards and integration tools.
Grokker 1.0
Among a new category of data visualization tools is Grokker 1.0 from Groxis Inc. of Sausalito, Calif.
Data takes shape
The explosion in government data has created a boom in software tools that can analyze information and present it in charts, graphs and other images that people can quickly grasp.
SCO's lawsuit could slow the march of Linux
With the SCO Group suing IBM Corp. for alleged infringement of Unix copyrights in Linux, and NetWare vendor (and Unix patent holder) Novell Inc. disputing SCO's claims, government IT managers must wonder what to do with that alleged unauthorized derivative known as Linux. SCO's discomforting advice: Get a lawyer. That's what it warned in a letter to 1,500 large companies.
OS roundup
You used to have only two or three real choices in operating systems for government PCs. You ran Microsoft Windows on desktops, and Unix on engineering and design workstations, and maybe Mac OS for graphics. You wouldn't dare put anything but Unix on servers.
Is handheld convergence on the horizon?
The long-promised convergence of wireless computing and communications in one shiny little box that hangs lightly on your belt looks increasingly like those two lines that incline toward each other near the horizon, holding hope for a rendezvous in a place just beyond.
Oki Data's C5300n represents the new level for LEDs
The C5300n color printer from Oki Data Americas Inc. is a new series of printer rolled out in January that the company claims can achieve unprecedented performance for a system built on a single-pass LED engine.
Color makes a play
When it comes to adding red, yellow or blue to government printing, the primary color is green'as in, is it affordable and fast enough to justify replacing a monochrome workhorse?
New developments: integrated development environments
Since the late 1980s, integrated development environments have been popular tools with which programmers write code, compile it for execution and debug it, all without having to load another program.
Tools to unlock Section 508
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act Amendments of 1998 got serious last year, with a concerted push for agencies to make all information systems accessible to the disabled.
Enterprise architectures
Several years after federal agencies began individually building enterprise architectures to comply with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996, the Office of Management and Budget is gradually rolling out a mandatory process for all agencies to follow.
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