eWeek articles from July 2001

eWeek archives from July 2001

Mixed mail bag.(Letter to the Editor)
July 2, 2001... Readers correct, add context to stories about Office XP and VB.Net, the USPS, toxic waste Launch pad(ding) Regarding Peter Galli's article, "XP: The last of the desktop behemoths?" (June 4, Page 9): I was amused by [Microsoft Office...

Software independence.(Technology Information)(Column)
July 2, 2001... eWeek welcomes your comments. Please send them to Letters to the Editor, 10 Presidents Landing, Medford, MA 02155 or fax to (781) 393- 3795. You also can reach us via Internet at eWEEK@ziffdavis.com. All letters must include name, address,...

It is common knowledge.(Technology Information)(Column)
July 2, 2001... Centuries of scholarship and financial competition have been shaped by the fact that knowledge was scarce-that is, in the economic sense of being something that had to be paid for. n Knowledge is power, power yields wealth, wealth enables...

Tending the Microsoft flock.(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
July 2, 2001... I'm not the first to notice that there's a certain relationship between Microsoft and its customers-especially the developers, who enjoy all the benefits of being part of the world's largest computing community, one that is led by one of the...

Games without frontiers ...(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2001... Expect to see more and more folks working and gaming while on their feet. According to Gartner Dataquest, a unit of Gartner Inc. in San Jose, Calif., mobility-focused applications and consumer-based data services and devices will drive the...

... but then on the other handheld ...(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2001... Fun games or no, enterprise de- cision makers are spending conservatively on wireless applications because the wireless functionality being touted by most service providers considerably overreaches most customers' basic wireless needs,...

Order out of chaos - As Web domain names proliferate, enterprises must plan.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 2, 2001... You've got to feel for Gene Bolmarcich. As trademark counsel at Caterpillar Inc., in Peoria, Ill., Bolmarcich already spends huge chunks of his time as a watchdog, protecting the company's online brand-and its 600 registered .com, .net and .org...

Lost in domainland? There's help.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Enterprises trying to navigate domain names are discovering that a little help from service providers can send them in the right direction. Assistance is coming from more and more registrars that once simply served as the middlemen in...

Winning the domain name blame game.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 2, 2001... Recently, Marilyn Cade, the director of e-commerce and Internet policy for AT&T, mentioned to me that, with this summer's introduction of new top-level domains, ICANN's UDRP will soon be the name of the game for all enter prises registering...

How to protect client relationships.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 2, 2001... In my last column, I asked readers to send me the ethical dilemmas with which they have to grapple in their roles as corporate IT managers: be it a gap between corporate policy and practice or ticklish situations regarding data privacy,...

Facing top-level challenge - CEO defends ICANN's policy-making processes.(Industry Trend or Event)(Interview)
July 2, 2001... For nearly three years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has attempted no small feat: to set policies and procedures governing how the Internet will grow. At no time has that role gained so much scrutiny as in the past...

Analyzing a good Net career - Enterprises can't locate enough Web analysts.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 2, 2001... At Kelley Blue Book Inc., nothing new is done without a road map. As owners of the venerable Kelley Blue Book car-pricing manual, the company, based in Irvine, Calif., employs Web data analysts who spend months determining how visitors navigate...

Rolling toward AD payoff - Mouse-overs, rich media may boost online sales.(Internet advertising)(Industry Trend or Event)
July 2, 2001... From Madison Avenue to Silicon Valley, Web marketers have watched as GIF banner ads on Web sites have failed to de liver many concrete sales. A recent Forrester Research Inc. report said banner ads were the least effective way to bring buyers...

Integration: Hardware or software? Microsoft, NetVendor, iWay rekindle debate with partnerships that widen companies' offerings.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Which path to integrating disparate systems is better: hardware or software? Both sides of the debate got new ammunition late last month when Microsoft Corp., NetVendor Inc. and iWay Software announced partnerships to broaden their respective...

Web services network in the works.(Grand Central Networks)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Unlike the major software vendors that are providing tools and platforms to build and deploy Web services, startup Grand Central Networks Inc. is trying to be the conductor. Grand Central provides a vendor- neutral infrastructure layer to...

Small firms get help with storage needs.(IBM and Sun Microsystems enter separate agreements.)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Sun MICROSYSTEMS Inc. and IBM have entered into separate partnerships that will make it easier for small enterprises to handle their storage needs. Sun and Veritas Software Corp. will sell NAS (network-attached storage) products through...

Air Jordan on a handheld.(Palm M100, M500 Michael Jordan Edition)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... Ptn media inc., of ann Arbor, Mich., this summer will launch the Michael Jordan signature editions of Palm Inc.'s Palm m100 and m500 handhelds, to be sold online and in retail stores. Besides featuring basketball star Jordan's name on the...

When change is a constant.(Serena Software Inc's Change Man ALM 3.1, ECP 3.1, and Change Man for z/OS and OS/390 5.2)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... Change within an en-terprise can be a disruptive process. Three new products from Serena Software Inc., of Burlingame, Calif., are designed to minimize the problems. The Serena ChangeMan ALM 3.1, for connecting and managing the development...

Keeping the system running.(RiverSoft Inc's Network Management Operating System and Fault Manager 3.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... To protect enterprises from network downtime, RiverSoft Inc. has updated its IP network management software. The third iteration of the product, called Network Management Operating System and Fault Manager 3.0, was crafted to alleviate the...

Saving through e-commerce.(ROI Estimator)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... Can moving to an e-business platform save a company money? There may be a way to find out. E-commerce software vendor InterWorld Corp., of New York, has released its ROI Estimator, software designed to assess a company's business...

Security from internet site defacements.(AppLock)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... WatchGuard keeps attackers at bay by locking down Web server content Access denied Responding to the ever-increasing number of Web site defacements, WatchGuard Technologies Inc., of Seattle, this week will release a product designed to...

Not your parents' glass house.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2001... The web has added a new twist to centralized computing, as Contributing Editor Roger Hartje notes in his Tech Analysis at right. But it's the old lures-easier management and lower costs per user-that have many sites mulling a return to...

Clearer view of tomorrow.(NetRule 4.0)(Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2001... Senior Analyst Cameron Sturdevant lauds the strong forecasting capabilities in Analytical Engines' Net Rule upgrade. With the right input, NetRule 4.0's simulation engine provides useful analysis of net performance based on such factors as...

Back to the future? Centralized, 'thin' computing plans get another look.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 2, 2001... Perhaps the best way to manage a network teeming with PCs is not with more software or administrators but with a garbage truck. Many companies are hoping to save money and headaches by getting rid of the complicated, often obsolete PCs on every...

ePolicy orchestrator minds anti-virus lines.(Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition 7.5)(McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.0)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 2, 2001... Network ASSOCIATES Inc.'s McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator 2.0 provides large companies with an easy-to-use anti-virus software management tool. Although it is limited to Windows systems, ePolicy Orchestrator provides more comprehensive reporting...

Pings&Packets - Searching the industry for technical connections and returning analysis in byte-size packages.(Netscape 6.1 Web browser; XFree86 4.1.0 operating system; Microsoft's Yukon DBMS)(Product Information)
July 2, 2001... Latest Netscape supports LDAP For the most part, the improvements Netscape has made in the beta of Version 6.1 of its namesake Web browser are aimed at everyday users. However, one development bodes well for businesses: Netscape 6.1 finally...

If Oracle's 'last database' is so good ...(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Oracle chief Larry Ellison said the code name for Oracle9i is the "last database," which I concluded to mean that Ellison thought the database market was dead.He later clarified his remarks. It's not the "last" database, he said-Oracle9i...

NetRule ably predicts net growth, but setup is tricky.(NetRule 4.0)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 2, 2001... Analytical Engines Inc.'s lightning-fast NetRule 4.0 network modeling and performance simulation tool is a good guide for planning network growth. Senior IT executives and network planners should put this product in their tool kits before...

SunForum shines with VOIP vigor - Sun Microsystems' update brings collaboration to Sun Ray thin-client platform, saves sites money.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 2, 2001... Sun Microsystems Inc.'s SunForum 3.2 software upgrade brings a host of collaboration features, including VOIP capabilities, to Sun's already solid Sun Ray thin-client platform. For IT shops already using the Sun Ray platform, this free...

Will Microsoft embrace or deface XML?(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... In my reviews of XML standards and Microsoft's .net products, I've consistently questioned whether Microsoft will support the standards and, if so, how fully. Well, just about two months after the release of the key XML Schema standard, it...

LTSP brings Linux to X Window desktops.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 2, 2001... Providing an economical migration path to back-end, server-based computing and centralized administration, Linux Terminal Server Project 2.08 is a stable open-source offering that converts virtually all major distributions of Linux into an X...

Wireless tools to make biz apps mobile - Sonic and Xora recruit handhelds to facilitate e-commerce interactions.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Sonic Software Corp. and Xora Inc. are developing wireless capabilities that help companies connect their business-to-business applications to wireless devices such as PDAs, cell phones and pagers. The big-ticket promise with wireless B2B...

Double the DSL with half the trouble - Rainfinity bonded digital subscriber lines enhance reliability by promoting always-on Web access.(Technology Information)
July 2, 2001... With all the troubles the typical DSL customer endures on the road to Internet connectivity, why would anybody want to deal with two digital subscriber line providers at the same time? For Brian Hauer, systems architect and IT manager at...

Road to Windows 2000 made easier.(On Technology Site Manager)(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... With an eye toward the growing number of migrations to Windows 2000, two desktop administration software providers announced new or enhanced tools designed to streamline the process. On Technology Corp., of Waltham, Mass., last week...

.Net gets close to fruition - But whether Microsoft can deliver platform by its self-imposed year-end deadline is no sure thing.(Product Development)
July 2, 2001... After some initial hiccups, Microsoft Corp. has delivered stable beta versions of its basic .Net development tools. However, the Redmond, Wash., software maker will be under the gun to get the final versions of the tools, which will be used to...

Taking analytics into your own hands.(Insightful S-Plus Analytic Server 2.0, DigiMine analytic services)(Product Announcement)
July 2, 2001... A new development platform from Insightful Corp. and a new service from DigiMine Inc. provide customer analysis options for the do-it- yourselfer and for enterprises that simply want to see reports with less IT intervention. Insightful...

MSPs join hands to survive - Companies find partnering is key to acceptance.(management service provider)(Industry Trend or Event)
July 2, 2001... The old adage "two heads are better than one" could define the current state of the management service provider industry. As MSPs grapple with market acceptance, many are looking to complement one another's offerings through partnerships. ...

Oracle takes services tack - Company advances software-as-a-service message with suites for small businesses, e-businesses.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Pushing forward its software-as-a-service message, Oracle Corp. last week rolled out software offerings and partnerships with hardware vendors aimed at small businesses and partners alike. Oracle unveiled its Oracle Small Business Suite, a...

Satellites move closer to the enterprise.(Technology Information)
July 2, 2001... Satellite technology as a WAN platform has always carried an aura of unfamiliarity and space-age connotations that have scared away enterprise customers. However, with the migration toward IP networking, more companies are looking at VSATs...

Of IPOs, layoffs and boring keynotes.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
July 2, 2001... Spencer sat quietly in New York's Jacob Javits center as PC Expo attendees all around him streamed out of Palm CEO Carl Yankowski's less-than-riveting keynote speech. The audience members who did stay were starting to glaze over until the CEO...

'Tis a far better thing we do who serve.(computer services)(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
July 2, 2001... Whether striding up to the microphone or sliding in by the side door, computer makers are busy recasting themselves as service organizations. The reasoning behind this collective salute to service is not hard to understand. You can still make...

Mr. eBay goes to Washington.(NetChoice lobbyist group)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2001... Several high-profile online retailers have banded together to protect themselves and their colleagues against government measures that may stifle Internet-based competition. The lobbyist group, called NetChoice, counts among its founding...

Baseball over the airwaves.(MBL.com)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2001... Major league baseball fans can now vote for their favorite All-Stars anytime, anywhere. MLB.com, the official Web site for Major League Baseball, announced last week an initiative that will allow fans to cast ballots for the starting...

Moving beyond dot-com.(Beyond Corp)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2001... You won't have beyond. com to kick around anymore. At least not the name. At the company's annual meeting last week, shareholders in Beyond.com approved changing the name to Beyond Corp. The company initially was an e-retailer focusing on...

SOS for Hailstorm - Microsoft calls on developers to help build Web services.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... In a change of course, Microsoft Corp. wants interested parties to propose new Web services based on its HailStorm platform and then collaborate with the Redmond, Wash., software company in the creation and deployment of these services. ...

Palm inks partners amid money woes.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Palm last week announced partnerships with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Extended Systems and Panasonic to create or sell applications and technologies for corporate IT shops. The partnerships, unveiled at the PC Expo trade show in New York,...

Novell tries its hand at security with iChain.(Product Development)
July 2, 2001... Best known for its networking software and frequent strategy shifts, Novell Inc. is set to roll out this summer new products in an effort to reshape itself as a security company. The Provo, Utah, vendor last week spelled out the details of...

Cisco's IOS open to hackers - Company: Switch/router software holes let attackers control net devices, manipulate SSH sessions.(Internetwork Operating System)(Product Information)
July 2, 2001... Several serious vulnerabilities in Cisco Systems Inc.'s Internetwork Operating System could catch unawares some enterprises that run the company's popular lines of routers and switches. The networking company last week revealed several...

Putting Novell's iChain in its place.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
July 2, 2001... As a reborn security company, novell inc. has some pretty good products to tout. But businesses should make sure that Novell's claims aren't exceeding reality. eWeek Labs recently met with Novell to discuss its forthcoming iChain 2.0, which is...

Investors raise heat on CA - Sam Wyly's Ranger group plots takeover, but company's recent positive results belie group's charges.(Computer Associates International)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... A group of investors led by entrepreneur Sam Wyly last week continued its aggressive takeover bid for Computer Associates International Inc., including taking out a full-page advertisement in The New York Times that slammed CA's treatment of...

Right verdict, wrong remedy - Court vacates breakup remedy, upholds anticompetitive ruling.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... The unanimous decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals last week that Microsoft Corp. engaged in anticompetitive activity to maintain its monopoly in the operating system market had both Microsoft and the Department of Justice claiming victory....

So long alpha, hello itanium.(Product Information)
July 2, 2001... Compaq Computer Corp.'s decision last week to abandon its high-end Alpha processors and embrace Intel Corp.'s Itanium chips comes as the computer maker slashes expenses in hopes of bolstering revenues. Michael Capellas, chairman and CEO of...

Compaq CEO explains processor shift.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... As Compaq Computer Corp. wrestles with declining revenues, a moribund PC market and fierce competition, cost cutting has become the biggest strategic imperative at the Houston company. Last week, it mapped out plans to fold its Alpha and...

Defending Judge Jackson's big mouth.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... Within the legal community, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson messed up for sure. He shot his mouth off, and now the U.S. Court of Appeals, with which the judge was annoyed for overturning his original injunction to stop Microsoft from tying...

Critics hit Microsoft move - Developers, competitors say expansion of .Net strategy is aimed at suppressing growth of Java.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 2, 2001... While every move Microsoft Corp. makes in the near future is likely to come under intense scrutiny-following the appeals court's ruling last week in the Microsoft antitrust case-Microsoft critics say the company is continuing to try to suppress...

The real verdict: A win for IT.(Microsoft's case)(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
July 9, 2001... With the benefit of a couple of weeks of perspective, it's clear that there was not nearly as much good news for Microsoft as had first met the eye-and as the company would have had us believe-in the recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals....

Data can't ever get away.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Column)
July 9, 2001... Debates concerning e-privacy usually focus on the risk of deliberate abuse. Perhaps it's more important to protect our personal data against incompetence, rather than malice. n Eli Lilly, maker of the antidepressant Prozac, didn't mean to...

Vacation: Time to recharge.(Technology Information)(Column)
July 9, 2001... You may be set to embark on your summer vacation. It's a time to get away from the things you deal with the rest of the year. Here's my list of things to do or not do: n Get away from your computer. Do you ever get the feeling that your world...

CRM spending is up by leaps and bounds.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 9, 2001... Seventy-four percent of businesses will spend more money on customer relationship management software and hardware this year than they did last year-some by as much as 50 percent-according to a report from Internet research company Jupiter...

Currying favor with customers.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
July 9, 2001... Enterprises looking to further bolster good customer relations would do well to consider spending marketing dollars on online media, according to a survey from Myers Reports, a New York marketing consultancy that conducts quarterly surveys of...

Ready for hardball? Vendors get tough on licensing deals; how to fight back.(Industry Trend or Event)
July 9, 2001... Desperately needing a major software upgrade but unwilling to pay through the nose for a new enterprise software license on which his vendor insisted, Dave Waterman recently found himself between a rock and a hard place. After weeks of...

One law? Sure, but this one isn't it.(Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act)(Government Activity)
July 9, 2001... Cios frustrated by increasingly expensive, sometimes kludgy software would be well-advised to pay attention to the status of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act as it wends its way through state legislatures. The legislation,...

House specialty: Fresh data - Web-based BI helps restaurant chain rev margins.(Company Operations)
July 9, 2001... Not all cheeseburgers are created equal. Just ask the management team of Red Robin International Inc., a privately owned, 170-restaurant chain that spent years trying unsuccessfully to come up with the right recipe for quickly assembling menus...

E-mail bill may fail to curtail spamming.(Government Activity)(Column)
July 9, 2001... As the unsolicited commercial electronic mail act of 2001 (H.R. 95) works its way through the federal legislative process, many of us wonder if it will have any perceptible effect on the slew of unsolicited garbage that flows into our e-mail...

The new breed of deal maker - Expert e-biz negotiator navigates partnerships.(Carolyn Brackett)(People)
July 9, 2001... The year was 1995. consumers were on the cusp of becoming e-commerce slap-happy. Officials at FirstData Corp.-the king of credit card transactions-had two choices: figure out an e-business strategy fast or watch FirstData's key industry slip...

Ruling enables carrier to start again - But the reorganized NextWave might face further troubles from FCC.(District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeal's ruling in favor of Nextwave Telecom)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Nextwave Telecom Inc.'s victory in the District of Columbia Circuit appeals court this month forces the newly installed Federal Communications Commission to re-examine a series of regulatory blunders and legal missteps-including the summary...

MSN Messenger hit by IM disruptions - Microsoft attributes outage to failure of disk controller, estimates one-third of users lost service.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... With many of Microsoft Corp.'s future Web services initiatives riding on instant messaging technology, nearly a week of service disruptions on Microsoft's MSN Messenger service was the last thing the company needed. But that's exactly what...

Epicentric offers Web services standard.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Epicentric Inc. is leading an effort to develop a new standard for accessing Web services through a portal interface. The proposed Web Services User Interface, or WSUI, standard from the knowledge management and portal software vendor would...

Deal widens Adaptec scope - Platys acquisition gives company storage- over-IP expertise for SANs, Fibre switches, NAS gear.(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Adaptec Inc. strength-ened its role in the storage connectivity market with its $150 million acquisition this month of Platys Communications Inc. By buying the Santa Clara, Calif., company, Adaptec will receive expertise in the...

App helps buyers tune B2B purchasing.(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... Rapt Inc. is looking to take the guesswork out of business- to-business procurement. Rapt last week introduced the second generation of its Rapt Buy application that enables buyers of high-tech and automotive components to improve purchasing...

Accenture, SAPMarkets join forces.(developing products and services for private online)(business-to-business exchanges)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... Accenture LLC is teaming up with SAPMarkets Inc. to build private online exchanges for business-to-business e-commerce. The two companies earlier this month promised to provide a package of software and services that integrates a company's...

Robust and in living color.(Casio announces Cassiopeia Pocket Manager BE-300)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... It's as big as the pocket PC device, but it won't run on the Microsoft Corp. platform of the same name. Casio Inc. this fall will begin shipping the Cassiopeia Pocket Manager BE-300, a color personal digital assistant with a rechargeable...

Subscriber management.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... Here's a pain everybody can feel: the long, torturous wait for a broadband hookup. Issanni Communications Inc. wants to provide a cure. The Eatontown, N.J., company is rolling out a high-capacity SMS (subscriber management system) that...

Keeping an eye on JavaScript.(Agilent Technologies announces Firehunter eCommerce 1.5)(upgrade with new JavaScript support)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... Agilent Technologies Inc. is readying a new version of its Firehunter eCommerce performance management tool that extends monitoring to client-side JavaScript applications. Firehunter eCommerce, which competes with Mercury Interactive...

Adds for access management.(NetPoint5.0 includes XML support)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... Oblix Inc. is putting new features into its NetPoint access management platform. The Cupertino, Calif., company this week will announce that NetPoint 5.0 is built on a Web services architecture and is fully XML (Extensible Markup...

VIDEO ON THE GO.(LiveWave Inc introduces ConvergenceCams suite)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... Views from above can perk up your Web site Coming to life Need help livening up the Web site? LiveWave Inc. says it has the answer. The Newport, R.I., company this month rolled out its ConvergenceCams suite of controllable remote video...

Microsoft almost gets OS picture.(Software Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
July 9, 2001... Senior analyst Cameron Sturdevant doesn't want to overstate Microsoft's recognition of other operating systems in his review of Microsoft Operations Manager 2000 that begins at right. MOM is, first and foremost, a Windows-centric management...

Not your parents' scanning software.(ScanSoft OmniPage 11.0)(Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
July 9, 2001... In his review of OmniPage Pro 11 contributing analyst Russell Windman says ScanSoft is tapping the talented crew of developers that it got when it acquired Caere, its major competitor, last year. The result: OmniPage Pro is a software upgrade...

MOM knows better - Microsoft tries managing more than Windows.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 9, 2001... Finally acknowledging that businesses use operating systems other than Windows and might even use Unix, Microsoft Corp. has taken some baby steps toward providing full-fledged system management with MOM 2000. Microsoft Operations Manager...

AMD Athlon chip set rivals Intel's technology.(review of Athlon-based Polywell Poly ServerStation)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
July 9, 2001... With the release last month of the Athlon MP processor and accompanying 760 MP chip set, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has positioned itself to challenge Intel Corp. in the X86-based server and workstation market. However, although eWeek...

Smart tags: Too much ado about nothing.(Microsoft)(Company Business and Marketing)
July 9, 2001... One of the good things to come out of bad economic times should be better products. Successful vendors focus on solving pressing business problems while setting themselves up for better times. Unsuccessful companies, of course, simply go out of...

Integrated Web appliances worth a look.(ClickArray Networks Array)(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... When asked how to build a high-performance, reliable Web infrastructure, most IT managers will probably say something like this: Place redundant firewalls and multiple server load balancers, caching devices and SSL accelerators in front of your...

Pings&Packets - Searching the industry for technical connections and returning analysis in byte-size packages.(Product Announcement)
July 9, 2001... 'Going native' for PDA apps Most corporate handheld applications run on the server, using a design in which server-side code generates client-side interfaces using HTML or Wireless Markup Language. ThinAirApps' Identicon DB wireless...

Read-only? Not anymore - OmniPage Pro upgrade's new OCR capabilities take document management to a new level.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 9, 2001... Scansoft Inc.'s OmniPage Pro 11, with its ability to parse PDFs and flow text from one column to another, is a worthwhile upgrade. The software's new OCR capabilities will free users from the chore of searching printed documents by hand and, of...