Navigating NCOF

| Jeff Kline

This year’s National Conference on Operations and Fulfillment (NCOF) was held at the Opryland Resort and Conference Center in Nashville, TN, April 28-May

Fast Forward

| Rama Ramaswami

We won’t be talking about e-business next year, declares Gartner analyst Jeff Roster. Huh? We knew dot-coms were dying, but have they gone forever? Take

Climate Control

| Jeff Siegel

Robert Angstadt remembers the old days. The faxes containing orders would stack up at the West Coast warehouse, waiting for a clerk to come in at 9 a.m.

Royal Flush

| Peter Counihan

Even seasoned cardsharps know that at some point, sleight of hand isn’t going to give them a strong suit there’s just no substitute for luck. But check

Window Shopping

| Rama Ramaswami

X-box or XP? For the average consumer, the choice is obvious. But for retailers, the next big thing in the systems arena may well be Windows XP Embedded,

ICE Flow

| Ernie Schell

Although object-oriented, component-based (OO/CB) systems development has rarely lived up to its promise, iCentrix in Salem, NH, has done an outstanding

PC Connection income down 77%

| MCM staff

Like other computer resellers, Merrimack, NH-based PC Connection (Nasdaq: PCCC) continues to suffer the effects of corporate cuts on IT spending. The

work WITH me

| Frank W. Renshaw, P.E.

If you store a ton of junk in your garage, it isn’t harmful it’s just messy, and it doesn’t leave much room for your car. Pile up stuff in your warehouse,

What We Need Now

| Ron Hounsell

It’s time to develop requirements for a software acquisition project. Everyone knows what we need, right? If only that were true. The fallacy of this