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Office 2000: For Heavy Web Users Only
The latest version of Microsoft Corp.'s Office the most popular office suite in the state and local marketis all about the World Wide Web. In fact, it is tough to tell where Office 2000's Windows applications end and the Web begins. The beta version of Office 2000, which shipped last month, is
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Littleton, Colo., Plants Investment With High Tech
Littleton, Colo.'s, shrinking economy was no little problem. In 1987, the community of 40,000 was still coping with the aftershocks of layoffs at several Texasbased oil companies when aerospace giant Martin Marietta cut its local rocket engineering staff in half. With an unemployment rate of about
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Pennsylvania's Bold Buy
This summer, in a move that shook up its procurement patterns, Pennsylvania standardized the core desktop functions of 40,000 state workers on Microsoft Corp. software. Under the threeyear, $23.6 million deal, which covered the operating system, the office suite and email, the state expected to save $9.2 million and reap big productivity gains.
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Local Government and the Year 2000
The political drama in Washington, D.C., in the past few months stands in stark contrast to the atmosphere at the other end of the representative spectrum these days. While Congress decides on the removal of a president, local governments are more likely to be busy with snow removal, traffic manage
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Facilities Management: Windy City Shoulders Work Flow
Facilities management isn't something you usually notice unless it's being done poorly.
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This Month's State and Local IT Developments
ECommerce Appointments Challenged Congress reserved eight seats for state and local government officials on a highprofile, 19member commission that likely will set the agenda for a national Internet tax policy. But already state and local interest groups are irked. Both the National Association
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Marketplace
Psych 101 Helps Xerox ReEngineer Documents and GTE's inResponse Rescues the Deluged Webmaster
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Y2K Contingency Planning: What If...
When it comes to disasters, cities and counties throughout the United States are prepared to face just about anything: hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, earthquakes, mudslideseven terrorist attacks and nuclear war. But the crisis that many people expect to occur when the internal clocks on compute
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The IT Work-Force Shortage Will Outlast Year 2000
If asked today to describe their single most pressing problem, most state chief information officers would name the Year 2000 problem. I agree: Year 2000 is consuming a large amount of my time as well as Missouri's resources. But I also believe that the attention we must give the Year 2000 problem
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Attention, Shoppers
On Oct. 15, VWR Scientific, a Buffalo Grove, Ill., lab supplies company, received a small but notable purchase order from Massachusetts.
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Microsoft and Netscape
Dread waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles?
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How to Hire an Effective Consultant
Everyone has a consultant story that would make a good 'Dilbert' cartoon.
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Don't Let the Education Rate Perish
The fall of 1995 was a heady season for the education technology movement. Politicians from both sides of the aisle and the entire telecommunications industry worked feverishly to make a reality of a challenge issued that September by President Clinton:
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NetWare 5.0 Proves Worth the Upgrade
With its recent release of NetWare 5.0, Novell Inc. delivered on its promise of a totally revamped network operating system, which government information technology shopslongtime NetWare mainstayswill find a worthwhile upgrade. Like its competitors,
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Document management moves to the Web
In the past few years, the World Wide Web has become a standard means of outreach for federal agencies, a multimedia bulletin board for items ranging from public service announcements to tax forms.
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Pennsylvania Sets Stage for Data Center Outsourcing Pennsylvania awarded a $410 million data center outsourcing deal to Unisys Corp., Blue Bell, Pa.
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New Jersey's Environmental Management Desktop
New Jersey may often bear the brunt of pollution jokes, but the state actually is far down on emissions lists, thanks to one of the most aggressive environmental programs in the United States.
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Are You Ready for Web Workflow?
State and local government staffs are intrigued by the idea of using Internet technology to improve agency workflow, but few have actually taken the plunge to commit to the beguiling new technology at least for now.
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Las Vegas Rolls GIS Toward Citizens and City Workers
Las Vegas is the nation's fastestgrowing city. Each month it takes in 6,000 new residents, approves construction of more than 577 new homes and cranks out 500 new business permits. To manage that kind of expansion, city officials are leveraging the power of a geographic information systems (GIS)
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