In the regulatory fallout from Enron, WorldCom and other business scandals, owners and officers of privately held IT companies may find reason to be thankful they missed the booming initial public offering market.
The government should consider providing centralized patch management services to help agencies protect their IT systems, according to a new General Accounting Office report.
Titan Corp.'s shareholders this month overwhelmingly approved a $2.2 billion takeover bid by Lockheed Martin Corp., but some analysts said Lockheed Martin might lower its offering price a second time to complete the deal.
When Daly Computers Inc. was preparing to bid on Virginia's statewide computer and peripherals contracts, it called one of its distributors, Ingram Micro Inc., for help -- not that it was expecting much. "When we used to go to our distributors for help, they would usually just throw a list of products at us," said company president <b>Ryan Yu</b>. Not this time.
Federal government spending on information technology security products and services will increase in fiscal 2005 just 2 percent over fiscal 2004 spending.
The federal government plans to aggressively market cooperative purchasing to state and local governments until it receives widespread adoption, a congressman says.
The Washington State Department of Information Services is planning two solicitations for a justice information network. One will be for the design of the network's technical architecture, and the other will be for the network's enterprise service architecture.
When California officials contracted out the state portal four years ago, their strategy was the antithesis of an enterprise approach. Rather than awarding one prime contract, they awarded 20 contracts to six contractors.
Two and a half years ago, Ken Buck was glad to leave his job promoting share-in-savings contracting for the General Services Administration. He was frustrated that few agencies and contractors had tried the method, despite its authorization by law in 1996.
The telecommunications industry is once again in a state of flux. Still acclimating to the flood of competition unleashed by the 1996 Telecommunications Act and licking its wounds from a scandal-tainted 2000 market crash, the industry now must grapple with how best to deliver a wide variety of services over a changing network infrastructure.
