If we could start the World Wide Web all over again, I think most of us would dismiss the majority of sites now populating the Internet. The more interesting question is which ones we would keep.
While federal IT companies have not been hurt significantly by year 2000-related project deferrals, many commercial IT companies have not been so lucky.
While federal IT companies have not been hurt significantly by year 2000-related project deferrals, many commercial IT companies have not been so lucky.
When it comes to ordering goods and services, Compu-search Software Systems Inc. is doing its best to alleviate bureaucratic headaches and red tape for government employees with the mere click of a button.
BMC Software Inc. executives say their experience with federal government customers was a major driver behind the company's decision to focus on selling services and total solutions instead of just products for specific applications.
Brushing aside criticism about executive turnover, CACI International Inc.'s chairman and chief executive pointed to the company's record revenue and new president as evidence it is on the right track to becoming a top-tier government contractor.
With the last of the second-quarter earnings now reported, the results appear to be solid throughout most of the information technology services industry. CACI International Inc. of Arlington, Va., and GRC International Inc. of Vienna, Va., both reported results above analysts' expectations.
The newsprint barely had dried on my column about high-technology work force needs when I found in my mailbox a recent addition to the literature. Titled "The Supply of Information Technology Workers in the United States" (www.cra.org/reports/wits/cra.wits.html), the study was produced by the Computing Research Association.
The newsprint barely had dried on my column about high-technology work force needs when I found in my mailbox a recent addition to the literature. Titled "The Supply of Information Technology Workers in the United States" (www.cra.org/reports/wits/cra.wits.html), the study was produced by the Computing Research Association.
Since executives at Gates/Arrow Distributing Inc. lured Tim Collins away from a Washington-based reseller last fall, the company's new vice president of sales has added mass and focus to his division's government presence.
We hear it less today than several years ago, but many federal IT companies still feel they must increase their commercial work to add value for shareholders.
A little company in Pittsburgh plans to step up marketing of a powerful tool that can help government and commercial organizations make better decisions. What sort of decisions? Everything from picking the winning vendor on a billion-dollar contract to buying desktop computers.
Just two months after Avnet Inc. knit its enterprise computer products companies into a $1.4 billion global business unit, that unit has formed a division to distribute a focused line of high-end products to the federal government.
In what might be called the "don't get mad, get even" model for developing software programs, Vista X Software of Austin, Texas, recently released a free utility, GovernMail, that lets users track and contact by e-mail federal and world government representatives.
Merger and acquisition activity remains robust in the federal IT market. But while there are several smaller acquisitions of private companies each month, the larger public acquisitions are fewer.
Merger and acquisition activity remains robust in the federal IT market. But while there are several smaller acquisitions of private companies each month, the larger public acquisitions are fewer.
The merger and acquisition waters stirred again in June with Veridian Corp. snatching up a research and development company, and McBride & Associates dipping into the pond for the first time to buy Marconi Enterprise Solutions Inc.
Integrator stocks declined during the first two weeks of June, following the lead of the Internet stocks and reflecting investors' increasing concerns about second-quarter earnings and the impact of year 2000 spending on non-Y2K projects.
Integrator stocks declined during the first two weeks of June, following the lead of the Internet stocks and reflecting investors' increasing concerns about second-quarter earnings and the impact of year 2000 spending on non-Y2K projects.
