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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Charles Babcock is one of three editor-at-large writers at Informa-
tionWeek and its online publication, www.informationweek.com, a
United Business Media publication, reporting on the technology in-
dustry and business concerns of the IT manager. He has been with
the magazine for seven years. He is charged with reporting on vir-
tualization, databases, emerging integration technologies, and new
Web technologies. Babcock is the former New York correspondent,
software editor, and technical editor of Computerworld.Heisafor-
mer technology editor of Interactive Week and former editor in chief
of Digital News. He is a graduate of Syracuse University with a BS de-
gree in journalism. He is co-winner of the Jesse H. Neal business
award for a July 2003 Baseline magazine cover story, “McBust,” on a
failed effort to revamp computing systems at McDonald’s Corp. He
lives in San Francisco with his wife, Kathleen.
InformationWeek was founded in 1979 and is a leading business
technology media brand, delivering practical and thought-provoking
analysis on IT issues and trends. InformationWeek reaches more than
2 million unique Web site users, 440,000 magazine subscribers, and
thousands of analyst report readers and conference attendees. It
helps IT managers frame and define their business technology ob-
jectives and make IT purchasing decisions.