Ramon Padilla Jr.

Society is more communication crazy than ever, and our technology is responsible for this, of course. We live in a culture in which everyone seems to talking on a cellphone; checking and responding to e-mail on their Blackberry, laptop or phone; listening to tunes on an IPOD; or interacting with one or more of the …

I just read an article reporting that the GAO finds that the responsibilities of government CIOs largely resemble those of their non government counterparts. (http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1869922,00.asp) The article says that the major difference between the two is in the challenges that they face: private sector CIOs struggle to align themselves with business goals, while public sector …

I sat down to begin this blog feeling pretty good about myself. Humph, I thought, I’ll write about podcasting and RSS feeds – I bet many governments haven’t even thought about utilizing them yet. Then, to test my theory, I surfed on over to www.firstgov.gov and lo and behold, the Federal Government is already doing …

With most states and local governments now 2 months into their new fiscal years, and the federal fiscal year about to begin, I would like to know how your IT budget fared this year?  Did you get an increase, decrease or continuation?  Did your budget remain constant but you have a bunch of money set …

I have recently been involved with a community of users who experienced a drastic change in one of their applications overnight. Even though they had been warned of the impending changes, and some of the users actually had input into the process, the change has been overwhelming to many of them. As to be expected, …

Over the years I have had the opportunity to experience IT in the organization as it has transformed itself from the “glass house” through the PC “revolution;” client servers; web-centric computing; and now the amalgamation of all of these evolutions as IT strives to be a true “business partner”. Interestingly, I find that for those …

Gov. Kathleen Blanco has stated that “everyone needs to leave New Orleans due to flooding from Hurricane Katrina.”  What an overwhelming statement that is.  Even with all the coverage that we have had regarding the hurricane, it is still hard to grasp the enormity of this disaster. During times such as these, we often talk …

I don’t read a lot about Oracle HTML DB in trade magazines, nor do many of my colleagues know about it. But the ones that are using it think it’s the next best thing since sliced bread and are happily singing its praises. What is it? “Oracle HTML DB is a web-based application development and …