Fairfax Columns 2002

Since early 1999 I have written a weekly opinion column for the Tuesday IT section in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, published by John Fairfax. This supplement is now called 'Next'. I also write occasional feature and news pieces.

You can download any of these articles from this website. Note:

  • All files are MS Word documents
  • They are as I originally wrote them, not as subsequently edited by Fairfax
  • There are no headlines - these are added by Fairfax subeditors

Here are the columns for 2002. There are brief synposes of each piece - no full text search available, sorry.

Date File Synopsis Download
22 Jan 2002 F020122hpcompaq Thoughts on the HP-Compaq merger download
29 Jan 2002 F020129ibmrevs IBM’s revenues compared to those of its major competitors download
5 Feb 2002 F020205oldpcs What can we do with discarded PCs? download
12 Feb 2002 F020212gartner Gartner’s predictions for 2002 download
19 Feb 2002 F020219sun Brief history of Sun Microsystems and overview of its current position download
26 Feb 2002 F020226erp History of ERP (enterprise resource planning) and SAP Australia’s current strategy download
5 Mar 2002 F020305wcit Impressions of the Word Congress on IT, held in Adelaide in late February download
12 Mar 2002 F020312imaging History of imaging and document management, with a look at Filenet’s current strategy download
19 Mar 2002 F020319bugs Why software has bugs, and why IT is different to other industries download
26 Mar 2002 F020326bag Why the Australian government just doesn’t get it when it comes to broadband download
2 Apr 2002 F020402indians The Indian software industry, and Infosys in particular download
9 Apr 2002 F020409studentpoint A look at www.studentpoint.com.au, a website for university students download
16 Apr 2002 F020416wayback The importance of maintaining our electronic heritage, and a look at www.archive.org and the Wayback machine download
23 April 2002 F020423zone Australian company Zone and its NASDAQ listing, with musings on the ethics of writing about a company GP is investing in download
30 April 2002 F020430hurol A review of Hurol Inan's book "Measuring the Effectiveness of Your Website", and at related issues download
7 May 2002 F020507numbers How three different reports measure Australia's IT usage, and how the Govt selectively uses them download
14 May 2002 F020514idc IDC's annual briefing and how boring it has become download
21 May 2002 F020521dbms Brief history of the DBMS market and how IBM has pulled ahead of Oracle download
28 May 2002 F020528semweb The Semantic Web and Tim Berners-Lee's plans for the future download
4 June 2002 F020604teradata Why we use so much storage, with reference to US company Teradata download
11 June 2002 F020611teradata2 Continuing on from last week's piece download
18 June 2002 F020618skills Asking the question "Is the IT skills shortage a myth?" Answering it "Yes" download
25 June 2002 F020625records How Napster and dowloadable music has made record companies move towards online distribution of music download
2 July 2002 F020702problems Problems with service on GP's trip to the US - and how IT has not given us better service download
9 July 2002 F020709pcbillion The shipment of the billionth PC and a short history of the PC industry download
16 July 2002 F020716skills2 Follow up on 18 June piece and the hundreds of emails in agreement download
23 July 2002 F020723pdacrap Why GP hates PDAs, and how he organises himself download
30 July 2002 F020730grid Grid computing, and an interview with grid guru Dr Ian Foster download
6 Aug 2002 F020806newhp The new Hewlett-Packard, and how the merger with Compaq is proceeding download
13 Aug 2002 F020813iseries IBM's iSeries, and how it has evolved from the AS/400. How it is underrated and underreported download
20 Aug 2002 F020820netmad How GP never ceases to be amazed at the incredible amount of information on the Internet download
27 Aug 2002 F020827bromley Obituary for Allan Bromley, computer historian download
3 Sept 2002 F020903pda2 Follow up on 23 July piece, with particular reference to the Handspring Treo download
10 Sept 2002 F020919telstra How Telstra is adopting a Sun architecture, with increased emphasis on thin clients download
17 Sept 2002 F020917wolfram A look at Stephen Wolfram's book "A New Kind of Science" and its theories download

 


24 Sept 2002 F020924lansa The success of the Australian-developed Lansa applications development product download
1 Oct 2002 F021001skills3 Still more on the so-called IT skills shortage, and the element of racism that has crept into the debate download
8 Oct 2002 F021008msoft An analysis of Microsoft's suspension of its end user subscription licensing download
15 Oct 2002 F021015elearning The current state of play in the elearning market download
22 Oct 2002 F021022selfserve The importance of self service as a component of e-commerce, based on Martin Butler's comments download
29 Oct 2002 F021029autonomic IBM (and others) move to autonomic computing, where computers maintain themselves download
5 Nov 2002 F021105allencisco A review of the Allen Consulting report that shows e-commerce booming in Australia download
12 Nov 2002 F021112mainframe Why mainframes are still needed and still used download
19 Nov 2002 F021119gartner Gartner's 2002 Symposium and predictions - the real-time enterprise download
26 Nov 2002 F021126cluster The Western Sydney IT cluster and why it is a good idea download
3 Dec 2002 F021203dashboard The different technologies and philosophies behind "management dashboards" download
10 Dec 2002 F021210bioinformatics Bioinformatics - the coming fusion between IT and biotechnology download
17 Dec 2002
F021217predicts GP marks himself on accuracy for his 10 IT predictions for 02, made a year ago. Score: 4.5 out of 10 download

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