Digital Government

Windows 98: A tweak, not a major overhaul

With the release of Windows 98 due June 25, federal information systems managers face a critical question: Is it worth the money and effort to upgrade?

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Tune Up Your Site With Web Server Monitoring

As World Wide Web sites have become more mission critical, Web servers have grown increasingly powerful, with such advanced capabilities as clustering and loadbalancing. Nevertheless, most of the best Web server packages lack a critical feature: selfawareness. Where are the bottlenecks that are s

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Guarding the Data Gates With Biometrics

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the state, wrote Cardinal de Richelieu in 1641.

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Windows 98: Beta sports few new features for feds

For all the sound and fury that has accompanied its development, Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 98 operating system is likely to have more impact in the political arena than in the government market.

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We look at three GIS packages designed with state and local users in mind

Most of the time you get what you pay for. And if somebody offers you something for free you have to figure that's probably just about what it's worth.

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New Offerings From Netscape and Microsoft

Government agencies looking to standardize on a common browser have two primary platforms from which to choose: Microsoft Corp.'s Internet Explorer or Netscape Communications Corp.'s Communicator

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Project Management for the People

'Plans are useless' Dwight Eisenhower once observed of making preparations for battle 'but planning is indispensable.'

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The Sweetest Suites

Once upon a time an office suite was just a bunch of applications thrown into a box and tagged with a discounted price.

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Project Management Software Demystified

The devil as the adage goes is in the details.

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Desktop GIS

Geographic information systems (GIS) combine the analytical power of databases with the geographic capabilities of maps to produce reports that showat a glanceanything from demographic trends to the most appropriate site for a new hospital. GIS programs have long been used by engineers transporta