SCO FORUM
The Santa Cruz Operation Ltd. (SCO), the leading shipper of UNIX on Intel, recently held its thirteenth annual conference amongst the redwoods of the University of California's Santa Cruz campus. After several years of uneven financial performance, this year's event came on the heels of record quarterly financials. Even though the mood was upbeat, the event appeared to have fewer attendees and exhibitors than in previous years and SCO's refusal to provide attendance figures only reinforced this impression.
By George Pajari

TRADOS: Translating 'success' into 55 Languages
It's important to understand the difference between automatic translation and the sort of 'translation memory' product TRADOS is offering. Most professional translators quickly grow tired of repairing machine translation output. Equipped with a 32-bit translation memory, TRADOS' most popular product, Translator's Workbench, memorizes the translator's work.
By Gail Nakada gail

Mating the elephants -- ERP implementation in Japan
Mating elephants is one of a zookeeper's toughest jobs. It involves a lot of bellowing and trumpeting, occurs at a high level, and takes two years to produce results. This, oddly enough, is a pretty fair description of the typical ERP implementation project in Japan, except for the part about happening at a high level -- which perhaps is a cultural clue as to why Japanese corporations are facing extra costs, increased time, and reduced functionality from their ERP efforts.
by Matthew Mail

Commentary on Pricing Online Media Access
(October 1999 CJ)
In Niall O'Keefe's October feature, he made the point that media website operators have to carefully consider the pricing and access model that will be most agreeable to their customers--a topic near and dear to CJ Online's heart. The commentary was provided by Peter Brantley, Director of Computing Services at the University of California's College of Letters and Science, who points out that obtaining a content access solution involves technical as well as legal and other issues.
By Peter Brantley

IT Money
The investment maze
by Snejana Andjelkov

The Query Column
Getting it all into one box
by Thomas Caldwell

Industry Eye
Success secrets of foreign IT companies
by John Boyd

In my opinion
Digital beings
(On the Internet, the line between real and virtual has been largely irrelevant for years)
by Tim Romero

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