Stories by: Don Tennant

It's going to be interesting to see how the media and the Hong Kong IT grapevine paint the startling acquisition of a revered Hong Kong systems remarketer by an upstart IT services provider in Australia.

I suppose this is going to get me tagged as even more of a Jeff Papows butt kisser, but I just can't let this stuff go unchallenged. Papows, the CEO of Lotus Development, was the subject of a late April Wall Street Journal report which alleged that he has engaged in quite a bit of shameless self-promotion over the years by deliberately falsifying his background information, including his US military record.

Nobody will ever accuse Lotus Development CEO Jeff Papows of passing the buck. Whether it's taking personal responsibility for the delay of Notes Release 5 (R5), or missing the boat on the Linux phenomenon, Papows invariably takes the knocks with self-deprecating grace. If you're willing to call yourself a "jerk" or "clueless", chances are you're one of the most competent, clued-in executives around. Don Tennant sat down with the Lotus CEO for a quintessentially Papows-esque, tell-it-like-it-is interview.

Dangers of dismissing women out of hand

The great Netscape escape caper

Standing tall on a three-legged stool

Courage under fire

Compaq has taken over where HP left off

The Hewlett-Packardisation of Silicon Graphics? Don't be so sure

Considering what a pain the big PC vendors have with their distribution channels around here (all you PC vendors out there who haven't sued a distributor at least once for non-payment, please raise your hand ... see what I mean?), you'd think they'd be trying to beat each other to the punch to go direct.