Tony Baer Archive

Here is a selective bibliography of the published columns, articles, and essays of Tony Baer from magazines such as Computerworld, Application Development Trends, Software Magazine, Manufacturing Business Technologies, and others.

Application Development Trends

• The end of IT as we know It (1/1/2005) (will open in a new window)
• Estimate the degree of risk (11/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• Longhorn debuts, but few pay attention (11/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• The Basics of Longhorn (11/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• A Look forward, A look Back (11/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• Behind the Numbers (9/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• Eating your own dog food (7/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• Who goes there? (7/1/2004)
• The paradox of open source (7/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• IT slow to embrace enterprise Linux (7/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• Covering your assets (5/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• IT security: Taking a bite out of development? (3/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• BAM Against the World (2/1/2004) (will open in a new window)
• On track for integration, 11/1/2003 (will open in a new window)
• BI: Real Time or Right Time?, 10/1/2003 (will open in a new window)
• Risk and Respect, 9/1/2003 (will open in a new window)
• New teams required for Web services management, 7/1/2003 (will open in a new window)
• Three Little Words, 7/1/2003 (will open in a new window)
• Open Source Upsets the Apple Cart, 5/1/2003 (will open in a new window)
• Managing Web Services, 4/1/2003 (will open in a new window)
• A Web Services Management Framework, 4/1/2003 (will open in a new window)
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• The Call of Offshore Development, 3/1/2003 (will open in a new window)
• Getting What We Asked For (1/1/2003) (will open in a new window)
• The Elements of Web Services (12/1/2002) (will open in a new window)
• Easy Money (9/1/2002) (will open in a new window)
• The Real Buying Decision, 8/1/2002 (will open in a new window)
• As Simple As You Think, 5/1/2002 (will open in new window)
• Analyzing Data in Real Time, 4/1/2002 (will open in new window)
• Standards Turf Wars Scale Back, 3/1/2002 (will open in new window)
• Staying out of the deep end, 1/1/2002 (Will open in new window)
• A Perpetual Game of Internet chess, 12/1/2001 (Will open in new window)
• Not So Fast, 10/1/2001 (Will open in new window)
• Java at a Crossroads, 8/1/2001 (Will open in new window)
• Microsoft's .NET Framework: First Looks, 6/1/2001 (Will open in new window)
• The More Things Change, 6/1/2001 (Will open in new window)
• Growing Pains, 4/1/2001 (Will open in new window)
• Kiss and Tell, 2/1/2001 (Will open in new window)
• Is Enterprise Java enterprise-ready, 10/1/2000 (Will open in new window)
• Family Matters, 6/1/2000 (Will open in new window)
• The Year of Living Dangerously, 2/1/2000
• The New Software Economics, 1/1/2000 (Will open in new window)
• Warm and Fuzzies, 9/1/1999 (Will open in new window)
• Next Up: VoIP, 7/1/1999
• Is Bigger Better, 5/1/1999
• Tooling up for Components, 11/1/1998 (Will open in new window)
• The Culture of Components, 9/1/1998 (Will open in new window)
• Retooling the software factory, 9/1/1998 (Will open in new window)
• Disposable data marts, 7/1/1998 (Will open in new window)
• Platinum Buys Logic Works, 5/1/1998
• Not Another UNIX, 5/1/1998 (Will open in new window)
• Sweating the Details, 3/1/1998 (Will open in new window)
• The evolution of the QA specialist, 1/1/1998 (Will open in new window)
• Gates Outlines Future of Windows, 11/1/1997
• Who's Minding the Meta Data, 3/1/1997 (Will open in new window)

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Computerworld

• Building Broadband Into Business, 1/29/2001 (Will open in new window)
• Web-Based Support: A Work In Progress, 8/28/2000 (Will open in new window)
• Object Databases, 1/11/1999
• Making Dollars and Sense out of the Internet, 11/16/1998
• ERP users face data warehouse dilemma, 10/26/1998
• Data mart users try try again, 9/28/1998
• OLAP: Too much of a good thing, 7/27/1998
• Giant Steps, 2/23/1998
• Building a Loyal Clientele, 2/23/1998
• Radiotherapy targets tumors, 10/1/1997
• Now Showing On the Company Channel, 3/23/1997
• Timely Transport for Portable Patients, 2/1/1997
• Tales from the Network, 10/1/1996
• Lean and agile for the future, 6/1/1996
• Don't try this @home, 3/1/1996
• A Step toward Open Systems 1/29/1996
• Debugging people in software development, 1/10/1996
• Mister Data Clean, 11/1/1995
• The Dark Side of Data Warehousing, 8/15/1995
• Kaizen Blitz, 8/10/1995

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Software Magazine

• Putting Apps to the Test, 10/1/1997
• Rational Rose to the Occasion, 7/15/1997
• Components of Success, 6/1/1997
• Object Standards: Is Peace Breaking Out, 5/1/1997
• There's A Web -- Is There A Way, 4/1/1997
• The Politics of Reuse, 1/1/1997
• A Rational Approach to Objects, 11/1/1996
• Network Management Does Windows, 9/1/1996
• I Want My Meta Data, 8/1/1996
• Putting Data in Its Place, 7/1/1996
• Relational Technology in the Land of the Giants, 2/1/1996
• Getting the Most from Your MIPS, 1/1/1996
• Distributed Systems Are a Handful, 12/1/1995
• A Customer is a Customer is a Customer, 11/1/1995
• Where Systems Integration Ends, Does Outsourcing Begin, 10/1/1995
• IBM Discloses Warehouse Plans, 7/1/1995

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Manufacturing Business Technology
(Formerly MSI/Manufacturing Systems)

• How much is that software really worth? (2/1/2005)
• Brewing a new kind of connection (1/1/2005)
• .NET-based stops and starts (12/1/2004)
• Gosling: Version releases could spike return of client-side development (12/1/2004)
• IT must claw its way back to relevance (12/1/2004)
• Vendor loyalty or satisfaction depends on the goal  (11/1/2004)
• SSA Global outlines growth strategy (11/1/2004)
• IBM program yields prototype results (11/1/2004)
• ACT system gets Microsoft-centric facelift (11/1/2004)
• New Goldratt-fashioned approach saves project time, money (11/1/2004)
• We're Not Going to Pay a Lot for this Muffler (9/1/2004)
• The reality of real-time intelligence (7/1/2004)
• Fix for IT productivity an emerging space (6/1/2004)
• Integration as configuration (4/1/2004)
• How Web Services Can Deliver on the Hype (2/1/2004)
• Don't Point the Finger, Look in the Mirror (12/1/2003)
• Tune in to a new frequency, 11/1/2003
• The Meaning of Business Intelligence, 10/1/2003
• Offshore: Back to the Future, 10/1/2003
• Pac Man and Risk Management, 7/1/2003
• The 80/60 Rule, 5/1/2003
• Is Linux Ready for the Enterprise, 3/1/2003
• Are Analytic Applications for Real, 1/1/2003
• App Vendors Take Sides, 1/28/2002
• At Each Other's Throats: .NET vs J2EE, 1/7/2002
• It's the Machine Stupid, 12/1/2000
• Is the Web Just Another Pretty Interface, 10/1/2000
• Grudge Match, 8/1/2000
• The Kernel's Secret Recipe, 6/1/2000
• What's In a Name, 2/1/2000
• Rooms for Rent, 1/1/2000
• Finding Value in All the Right Places, 11/1/1999
• Integrating Expectations, 9/1/1999
• Begging for Bandwidth, 7/1/1999
• Yesterday's News, 5/1/1999
• Inmates Taking Over the Asylum, 3/1/1999
• Bypassing Authority, 1/1/1999
• Just Another Pretty Interface (II), 11/1/1998
• Some Assembly Required, 10/1/1998
• Peace Dividend, 8/1/1998
• e Commerce is a Contact Sport, 6/1/1998
• ERP Insurance, 4/1/1998
• PDQ ERP, 2/1/1998
• Somebody Else's Problem, 11/1/1997
• The Webbed Warehouse, 10/1/1997
• Zero Defects, 9/1/1997
• The Price Is Right (II), 8/1/1997
• A Universal Future, 7/1/1997
• New Industrial Revolution, 6/1/1997
• Data Warehouse, 5/1/1997
• Push Technology, 4/1/1997
• A Work in Progress, 3/1/1997
• The Price Is Right, 2/1/1997
• Deja Vu All Over Again, 1/1/1997
• The Sky Is Falling, 12/1/1996
• The Multimedia Killer App, 11/1/1996
• Just Another Pretty Interface, 10/1/1996
• The Odd Couple, 9/1/1996
• Growing Pains, 8/1/1996
• Keeping Up with the Joneses, 7/1/1996
• A Question of Balance, 6/1/1996
• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, 5/1/1996
• It's A Jungle In There, 4/1/1996
• A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, 3/1/1996
• The Personal Enterprise Database, 2/1/1996
• The Computer is the Network, 1/1/1996

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Other (selected)

• Making Web Services Inevitable, Computergram, 5/15/2001
• IBM Declares Database War, Computergram, 4/25/2001
• IBM WebSphere Finally Supports Mainframe, Computergram, 3/15/2001
• CA Enters Development Suite Market, Computergram, 3/7/2001
• My Way or the iWay, Computergram, 2/7/2001
• Rational Raises the Configuration Management Stakes, Computergram, 11/13/2000
• HP Puts Spark Under Web Services Strategy with Bluestone Buy, Computergram, 10/27/2000
• Vendors Tentative on Windows 2000, Computergram, 2/21/2000
• EAI Plumbing, Computer Business Review, 9/1/1999
• Designing for Formula One, Mechanical Engineering, 7/1/1995
• Primer for Startups (Part I), Mechanical Engineering, 11/1/1995
• Primer for Startups (Part II), Mechanical Engineering, 12/1/1995
• Tech Notes: Power Transmission & Motion Control, Mechanical Engineering, 3/1/1996
• Do You Really Need OLAP, Open Computing, 9/1/1995
• How to Buy OO AD Tools, Open Computing, 10/1/1995
• Reviews: Crystal Info+ Forest & Trees 4.0, PC World, 10/1/1995