Writing in the October 5th issue of Computerworld, Mitch Betts reports on tech analyst Jack Gold’s new cost model that casts doubt on many companies’ new mantra of holding on to notebooks for 2 years beyond the usual 3-year life cycle, in order to avoid the capital expense of replacing them. Gold argues that with battery replacements, [...]

             
Eric Lai's article Vista May Still Have Its Day in the August 25th edition of Computerworld and his blog makes the case that despite all the doom and gloom about Vista– "home users hate it, businesses are uninstalling it" and Gartner is saying it's all proof that the 23-year-old Windows line is "collapsing" unders its own [...]

It may not be officially declared by the ones that make such declarations, but with this week’s cover stories entitled Recession and You, Bracing for The Slide and Waking up to the Recession, from Information Week, Computerworld and Business Week respectively, I’d say if we’re not there yet in the U.S., we’re close. Here at [...]

Best value. Best pricing. World-class customers. Great testimonials. Did this, done that, will do that. As a vendor, we tell you it all. But as Virginia Robbins points out in the July 30th edition of Computerworld, a lot of that doesn’t matter. Or perhaps a better way to say it is, it only matters if [...]

I just wanted to pass on what I thought to be an interesting edition of Computerworld, the old-school, mother of all computer magazines. The July 9th edition was their 40th anniversary special, and one where it also (finally!) moved to a magazine format.
Anyway, the issue covers:

a list of 10 people in IT who have mattered [...]

A few items that have caught my attention over the last few days:

Computerworld had an interesting article on how virtualization is cutting storage costs for some large firms. As storage demands continue to grow seemingly unabated and the technology matures, real companies are realizing real technology and management cost savings. For example, Banc of America [...]