His father worked as a director of information systems for New York Life Insurance in Manhattan.
It would also restrict how much work audit firms could do in developing management information systems for audit clients.
In 1998, Dow Jones sold it to Bridge Information Systems for a third of what it had cost.
Her father retired as the associate director of information systems for the former General Foods Corporation in White Plains, N.Y.
Chemical-processing plants and information systems, for example, are likely to be of this sort.
"Before all this technology, it required more people to administer projects," said Scott A. Silverman, director of management information systems for Slattery Skanska.
Her father is the chief financial officer of Wellsoft, a company in Somerset, N.J., that develops information systems for hospitals' emergency departments.
Her father retired as a director of information systems for the food service and Maxwell House divisions of Kraft Foods in White Plains.
"Essentially, we had to start from the very beginning three years ago," said Alice Mahmood, director of information systems for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee.
HEWLETT-PACKARD CO., Palo Alto, Calif., won a seven-year, $600 million contract to run information systems for Bank of Ireland, Dublin.
SkyTruth relies on other people's technology – images and other data captured by satellites and aircraft and geographic information systems for capturing, analyzing and displaying geographical data.
