Friday’s Top 5

Five Hot Trends in 2008 While these five trends are familiar, 2008 should see them maturing to become forces in their own right, not just sideline fads that may or may not make a difference to your operations.

Soft Skills: The Sign of a Savvy IT Pro You’ve got the technical skills, but succeeding as an IT manager requires much more than that, writes CIOUpdate columnist Katherine Spencer Lee of Robert Half Technology.

Getting Your Project Management Office Off the Ground A solid project management office (PMO) is crucial to project and, therefore, organizational success, writes CIOUpdate guest columnist George Hunte of CA, in this six-part series

The Architecture of Architecture, Part I
Just because enterprise architects call themselves architects, are they really, muses CIOUpdate guest columnist Len Fehskens of The Open Group

UNIX vs. Linux: A Vendor’s Perspective A UNIX to Linux migration is a tricky question without a definitive answer … even from the vendors promoting both.