TOPICS

• Business Topics
• Business Systems - Planning & Design
• Business Technologies
• Operating Systems & Networks
• Security - Virus & Invasion
• History & "Off Topic"

• Software Licensing - Costs, Risks and Changes.
• Nightmares for Microsoft - Your business will be affected by their challenges.
• UCITA - Big Software Companies Take All Your Rights Away
• On-Line Polls - Never valid, often highly misleading.

• A Commercial Web Site

• Accounting
• ASPs - Application Service Providers.
• AutoID
• Bar-code
• Biometrics - Verifying who you are by scanning body parts.
• Cable Modem Internet Access
• CD-ROM Publishing
• CD-ROM Towers & Jukeboxes
• Client Server Computing
• Color Printing
• Computer Telephone Integration
• Credit Card Clearing
• CRM - Customer Rlationship Management
• Data Capture
• Data Mining, Data Warehouse, Data Mart
• Desktop Publishing
• Digital Photography
• Document Management
• DSL Internet access
• EDI
• Electronic Commerce
• EMail
• EMail Advertising
• EMail List Servers
• ERP - Enterprise Resource Planning
• Fax Broadcasting
• Fax from the Desktop
• Fax On Demand
• Faxing on the Internet
• Fax Response
• Industrial & Laboratory
• Internet Research
• Internet Telephone
• Internet On-Line Polls
• Intranet / Extranet
• Inventory Management
• ISDN
• Java
• Label Printing
• Local Area Networks
• Mailing Lists
• MRP - Material Requirement Planning
• Network Computers
• Network Attached Storage
• Object Databases
• OCR
• Office Automation
• Paging
• Portable Computing
• POS
• Radio Frequency Tagging
• Remote Access
• Sales Force Automation
• Security Monitoring & Access Control
• Thin Client Computing
• Virtual Private Networks
• Web Advertising
  
• Web Customer Service
  
• Web On Disk
• Web Enabled Applications
• Web Services
• Wide Area Network
• Wire and Cable
• Wireless Networking
• XML - the heart of a new commerce.

• System & Network Software - Are there really choices?
• Comparison Chart - Workstations, Servers & Software comparison
• Networks - What they are, how they work.
• The Case For Conformity - Why choose the "All Microsoft" environment.
• The Case Against Conformity - The unexpectedly high cost of Windows.
• Adopting Windows 2000 - The "All or Nothing" proposition.
• Windows NT - (Now mostly historical).
• Linux - Server powerhouse - desktop threat.

• Viruses, Worms & Other Invaders - What they are and how you get them.
• Virus Fixes & Patches - what to do.
• Data Backup - Your primary defense against all hazards.
• DSL & Cable Modem Security - If you aren't firewalled, you are exposed.
• Cult of the Dead Cow - System Invasion by Trojan

History & "Off Topic"

• Microsoft the Company - How it started, how it grew.
• Computer Timeline - When did it all happen?