Index 697digital entertainment piracy, 587
Digital Equipment Corporation, 73
ALL-IN-ONE, 209
digital liability management, 572
Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 588
digital networks, 64
digital signals, 63–4
digital signatures, 256
Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), 64, 82, 88
telephone lines, 256
digital video disk (DVD), 24
digital voice transmission, 64
Dipmeter, 242
direct access files, 24–5
compact disk (CD), 24
digital video disk (DVD), 24
flash drive, memory 24
keychain drive, 24
optical disk, 24
direct access storage device (DASD), 24
Direct Distance Dialing (DDD), 77–8
direct marketing, 227
disaster recovery contingency planning, 571
disintermediation effect, 268
disposable application software, 103–4
distributed systems, 62, 192–3
dNet portal, 216
documentation, of system, 366
documentation generators, 378
Documentation eRoom, EMC, 210
dot-com companies, 253, 268–72
bust, 259
China, 273
eBay (www.ebay.com), 269–70
Facebook (www.facebook.com), 270–1
Google (www.google.com), 270
intermediaries, 268, 272
meltdown, 259
retailers, 263–5, 267
dot-com retailers, 263–5, 267
Amazon.com (www.amazon.com), 263
Cliptomania Web store, 308–20
initial, advantage of, 267–8
Netflix (www.netflix.com), 263–5
DoubleClick Inc., 270, 271, 581
Dow Jones Newswires, 62
downloadable software applications, 3
Driver’s Privacy Protection Act, 582
DSS.Seedecision support system (DSS)
DSS generator, 224
Dun & Bradstreet Software, 236
DuPont, 420
Duracell, 246
dynamic binding, 351data warehousing appliance, 203
database, 52
database administrator (DBA), 97
database architecture, 53
defined, 53
hierarchical, 53
network, 53
object-oriented, 53
object-relational, 53
relational, 53
database management systems (DBMS), 39, 52–4, 99,
100, 230
database programming, 53
query language, 53
datacom, 63
DBMS.Seedatabase management systems
(DBMSs)
decentralized IS governance design, 537
Decisioneering Group, 108
decision support system (DSS), 223–6
components of, 224
defined, 223
DSS generator, 224
examples of, 225–6
specific, 224
Decision Theater, Arizona State University, 246
Deep Blue, 591
default analysis, 227
Definition phase
contract negotiations, 398
controls, 355–7
feasibility analysis, 363–4, 394
of purchased systems, 393–8
request for proposal (RFP), 395–8
requirements definition, 364–5, 394
of systems development life cycle (SDLC),
339–40, 363–5
selection, criteria for, 394–5
suitable packages, creating short list of, 394
Dell, Michael, 266
Dell Computer Corporation. SeeDell Corporation
Dell Corporation, 20, 29, 32, 42, 55, 56, 187, 198, 248,
263, 265, 266, 268, 274, 450, 506, 661
Delta Airlines, 89
departmental applications, 384
desktop PC, 29. See alsomicrocomputers
desktop publishing, 40
desktop support, SLAs, 545
desktop virtualization, 194, 195
developer roles, 385
diagramming tools, 378
Dial Corporation, 201
digital computer, logical structure of, 20
Digital Divide, 589