Database and Network Journal articles from August 2000

Database and Network Journal archives from August 2000

XIR Voice Channel.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... XIAM Ltd have announced the XIR Voice Channel as part of the XIAM Enterprise Routing Suite which was designed to allow business users have urgent emails, database alerts and network events forwarded immediately to their mobile phones/PDAs as...

Web Changes Database Technology.
August 1, 2000... Intersystems Corporation One in three European companies are re-evaluating their current database technology and incumbent database suppliers as a result of e-Business, with the UK, Germany and Israel at the vanguard of recognition for the...

ETI * EXTRACTO for new Data Warehouse consulting service.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... NCR has selected the ETI*EXTRACTO Tool Suite as its preferred data integration management solution for a new data warehouse professional services consulting service. The design and implementation service will allow NCR to build and stage...

Data Protection in Systems Design.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Data Protection Commissioner, Elizabeth France, has launched a project on the development of guidance in systems design. The aim of the project is to provide the Commissioner with the draft of a guide for systems designers. It would set...

`LiveReorg for Oracle'.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... LiveRcorg for Oracle, from Quest Software provides users with the ability to perform non-intrusive, downtime-free maintenance of Oracle databases. It helps database administrators maintain optimum system performance, prevent wasteful disk...

SAS Business Intelligence Portal.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... SAS Institute have announced the SAS Business Intelligence Portal that makes SAS business intelligence functionality available through a tailored Web interface. The new SAS Portal Architecture enables SAS Business Intelligence Portal content to...

dbazine.com Premier Portal Destination.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... dbazinc.com, from BMC Software is an online portal destination for database information and solutions, providing information, including tips, techniques and links to related sites, articles written by industry experts, academics and BMC...

AS/400 Database Analysis And Extraction.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Extractor400, is a module enabling the reduction of databases to create perfect' live' database subsets. Data subsets are used extensively for a range of corporate applications - especially software testing or IT training, also for archiving,...

Tamino 2.1 For Sun Solaris.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Tamino Software AG's XML database now runs on Sun Microsystems' Solaris operating system. The main innovations of the new version are a new query language (X Path), improved processing of XSL (eXtensible Stylesheet Language), support for...

JDatastore 3.5.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Inprise/Borlands JDataStore 3.5, is a 100 percent Pure Java: Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), providing platform independence and portability in a small-footprint package. It is integrated with JBuilder, Inprise/Borland's Java...

Nusphere to Support MYSQL.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Progress Software has formed NuSphere, a Progress Software Company dedicated to supporting the MYSQL open source database. It is claimed to be the first company supported by a major global software vendor to provide professional services for...

Mercury Interactive and OAG Get Wireless Travel Database Ready.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Mercury Interactive Corp. has announced that its new Web performance management and testing solutions, including LoadRunner, the industry standard load testing solution, are being used to help ensure that OAG Mobile, a comprehensive travel...

Relational Data Comparison Tool Speeds Time-to-Market.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Princeton Softech has announced Compare for Servers, a data comparison tool for server environments that understands complex database relationships, and is designed to reduce development cost by streamlining the application testing process. ...

Intergraph and Infoshare launch unique data cleansing service.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Intergraph and Infoshare have teamed up to launch a unique data cleansing service incorporating a map-based front end. Infoshare software draws upon an array of different data sets enabling information from any source to be cleansed, validated...

The Object Management Group Standardises Telecommmunications Service Ordering and Provisions.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The Domain Technology Committee (DTC) adopted a new Telecommunications Service Access and Subscription Facility. Recommended for adoption by OMG's Telecommunications Domain Task Force, this new facility unites the service-oriented world of the...

Sila Provides Wireless Data Services in Europe.(Sila Communications)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Sila Communications, created by Aether Systems and Reuters to provide leading wireless data services in Europe and Asia, has been launched. Sila will host, design and manage services for customers through enterprise wireless data centres...

Voiceband Modem Standards Step Forward.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The ITU agreed on three important new standards for voiceband modems in Edinburgh, Scottand, at a meeting of the ITU-T Working Party responsible for modem specifications. Building the now ubiquitous V.90 Recommendation for modems at data rates...

Wide-Area Wireless Web Connectivity.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Be Incorporated and Metricom, Inc. have announced a strategic alliance to provide a wireless-enabled solution for the Internet appliance market by integrating the BeIA'rm software platform with the Ricochet wireless modem and high-speed mobile...

Trials of Riverworks.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Indus River Networks, developer of virtual private networking solutions for the remote access market, has announced a "Try Before You Buy" initiative for it's RiverWorks Enterprise VPN (EVPN), aimed at companies with up to 500 remote users....

Band-X to expand into Asia.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Band-X Ltd, the London-based independent virtual market for international wholesale telecom capacity, announced today its expansion in to the Chinese market and the Asia-Pacific region. The springboard for this expansion is the acquisition of...

Enea OSE Systems in Asia.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Enea OSE Systems is increasing its expansion into Asia with the new agreements with Asian distributors who will offer the OSE realtime operating system (RTOS) to Asian businesses developing communications and safety-critical applications. The...

Wireless Web Development.(Review)
August 1, 2000... Wireless Web Development R. Rischpater, ISBN 1-893115-20-8 Wireless development is already the next Internet revolution. Analysts predict that over 1 billion wireless handsets will be in active use by 2005, with the vast majority of them...

Cyberslacking - how big a problem is it and what can be done to prevent it?(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2000... There is no doubt that the Internet has made employees working lives easier. E- mail has replaced lengthy phone conversations, file transfer and attachments allow several offices to edit documents without using an envelope, and business-...

Teaching the Internet.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The last few decades of the 20th century saw a huge change in technology and the way in which people gather, learn and most importantly absorb information. As we move into the 21st century, the amount of information given to individuals will...

Why You Should Be Bothered About Wireless Internet Sooner Rather Than Later.
August 1, 2000... The public image of WAP has suffered a huge turnaround. Criticism of its usability, of slow download times to handsets, of the limited range of services available and even of its suitability as a development environment, have poured in from...

On-line Clearing Services for Students.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... www.careers-portal.co.uk For Students During Clearing No-one needs to suffer the misery of A-level disappointment in the Information Age, according to Toby Trotrnan, Managing Director of the Trotman Group, who, inspired by his own early...

IT Services in Europe $184 Billion by 2004.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2000... The Western European services market is undergoing a rapid change. The industry is witnessing increased merger and acquisition activity as service firms attempt to scale in size and to expand their competencies. IDC expects the market to...

Amazon injunction threatens Internet services.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... On-line book company, Amazon's success in obtaining an injunction to prevent its main competitor from using its express check-out system could have major implications for retailers planning to conduct business over the Internet, according to IT...

Scottish Law Website.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Top Scottish law publisher W. Green is launching a new-look website - with daily updates on important legal developments, As the new site includes details of the latest UK and European legislation, Those logging on to www.wgreen.co.uk can also...

My Favorites 1.1 for Windows.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... My Favorites can automatically launch daily websites with one click, allowing users to leave a computer, go and have coffee, and come back to their PC with all websites ready to look through. A browsing companion also personalizes the way users...

Easynet Launches A.DSL For Business Users.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Easynet, pan-European commercial Internet Service Provider have released its ADSL service for business users, EasyDSL. EasyDSL is a fully routed multi-user service for the IT business user who requires IP services allied to broadband...

Tea Council Ecology Module.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... According to a recent survey commissioned by the Tea Council, 93% percent of teachers agree that the Internet plays a positive role in the education of children and all of them think computers are a valuable classroom tool. With the help...

Automated Testing Tools for Web.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... GemStone Systems, and RSW Software, Inc., are to jointly provide tools for load testing, and optimizing the performance of enterprise applications from development to deployment. GemStone and its customers are to utilize RSW's e-TEST suite and...

Mobile and Wireless Information Delivery.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Sybase, Inc., claims to be the first vendor to add mobile and wireless capabilities to its portal product, Sybase Enterprise Portal (EP). Customers will have access to important business information and applications via mobile and wireless...

Employee Internet Management.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2000... 60% of all online purchases are made during working hours and 30-40% of internet surfing is non-business related, according to International Data Corp (IDC). These problems looks set to increase with the current number of approximately 100...

Net TV in Europe.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... According to recent research from IDC, a number of significant changes in infrastructure, bandwidth, content price points, and system capabilities will allow the NetTV market to flourish in the consumer segment in Western Europe. NetTVs include...

Market Drivers and Inhibitors.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... * The biggest market driver for the NetTV is that television technology is very pervasive and familiar, and the TV is a friendly form factor. TVs will not have to win consumer mindshare in the same way as new form factors do. In addition, its...

ASP E-commerce versus packaged software.(Application Service Providers)
August 1, 2000... Turn the page of any current IT publication, and the chances are that Application Service Providers (ASPS) are mentioned. They're hot, they re new, and you would think that they had already `made it' by the coverage that they're receiving. But...

E-business in 80 countries under Electronic Commerce project.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Less than a year after the ITU signed a partnership agreement with Geneva-based World Trade Centres and WISeKey, deployment of e-business infrastructure has started in more than 80 countries, funded by a US $2.5 million in-kind contribution...

e-business Expo 2000.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... e-business Expo 2000 takes place from 7-9 November 2000 at Olympia and combines an exhibition with a free and comprehensive e-business education programme with over 100 seminars and keynotes including a presentation from Patricia Hewitt -...

eSupport for Europe.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Support.com and IP Globalnet have a partnership to help broaden eSupport solutions in Europe it will enable IP Globalnet to create the first scalable, pan-European customer care strategy for e-business. IP Globalnet is a provider of...

Internet ventures rely on help desk - White Paper.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... E-commerce ventures will fail without help desk support, argues Sunrise Software in a new White Paper. Exploring the shifting role of the help desk from internal support to external customer service, the White Paper analyses the impact of the...

Improving Web "Look-to-Buy" conversion.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... A BT agreement with Selectica is intended to enable customers to enhance their Internet-based sales channels by improving the "look-to-buy" ratio - particularly in the retail-banking, insurance and hi-tech manufacturing markets. Selectica's...

Bluetooth Library.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Note: It is said two thirds of Internet based sales transactions are abandoned before completion. I-Logix is developing a library of Bluetooth software components for its Rhapsody Visual Application Development Environment that will enable...

Yet2.com Selects Versata.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Yet2.com has chosen the Versata E-Business Automation System for automating the researching, requesting and purchasing intellectual property. Yet2.com is an online forum for exchanging intellectual property, know-how protected by patents and...

On-line PI Service for Solicitors.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... FirstCity, is to launch a state an interactive PI Professional Indemnity Insurance web site for solicitors. The service, is aimed at law firms with up to three partners, which accounts for around three quarters of all law firms in the UK'...

WebGain.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... WebGain Inc., a new venture formed earlier this year in Cupertino, California has launched in Europe, and located it's European headquarters in London. The company's WebGain Studio product is a specialist, browser-to-database, Java solution for...

EDS Hosts Xchange dialogue.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... EDS will extend its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) services by offering its clients hosted ECRM marketing automation solutions from Xchange. EDS will host Xchange Dialogue, an ECRM solution that helps click-and-mortar businesses plan,...

ePeople Customer Service.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Online IT services and support company, epeople, has joined forces with Support.com, a provider of esupport infrastructure software, to offer e-business customers automated IT solutions. epeople matches companies in need of IT support with...

NCorp Technology helps its customers identify Criteria.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... lastminute.com is using technology from NCorp to create a more intuitive service for customers to search the offers on its e-commerce site. NCorp's technology automatically deduces what users might prefer, matches requests with appropriate...

Small companies have more interest in Feng Shui than e-business.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Many small businesses are more interested in adapting their offices and working practices according to Feng Shui principles rather than adopting e-business, according to a UK e-business company. Intronets, which specialises in turning small and...

CommerceFraud.(electronic commerce software)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Developed to detect fraudulent buying patterns, CommerceFraud from Commerce NTI is to help on-line merchants to minimise charge-backs levied by acquiring banks, who, despite authorising a card transaction will not guarantee payment in...

SequeLink 5.0.(electronic commerce software)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... DataDirect SequeLink 5.0, an information delivery technology for Egility MERANT framework of e-enablement solutions introduces new capabilities to manage and secure data for e-business and enterprise transactions through interoperable...

Supplier Central.(supply chain management software)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Supplier Central, is an 'integrated set of business-to- business applications that enables companies to work over the Internet with their suppliers as if they were part of a single organisation. Focused on the strategic processes of the supply...

Intershop 4.2 Unique "Sell Anywhere" Capability.(electronic commerce software)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Intershop Communications, have Intershop 4.2, an upgrade to the Intershop 4 family of hosting products and the first product in its class to enable small and medium sized enterprises to sell direct and indirect on the Internet. Also, intershop...

BusinessObjects 5i.(database access software)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... BusinessObjects enable users to build reports not only from traditional corporate data stores, such as data warehouses and enterprise resource planning (ERF) systems, but also from the Internet. Users can create, refresh and analyse reports...

Gemstone/J 4.0.(application development software)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... GemStone/J version 4.0, is an application server platform that uses Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology. This new version of GemStone/J is built upon an Extreme Clustering architecture designed to reduce e-business cost of...

Xchange 4.0.(marketing management software)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Xchange, has launched Xchange 4.0, a suite of products and services for planning, executing and evaluating integrated online and offline marketing in real-time. Companies, it is claimed, can tailor campaigns to specific customers at a moment's...

Service Assurance Center ROI Tool.(return on investment)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... BMC Software, Inc. have announced the creation of the Service Assurance Center ROI Tool, to help determine return on investment (ROI) value areas for customers considering implementing a Service Assurance Center. Also an Online Assessment Tool,...

eBizinSights Solution Programme.(electronic commerce software)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... E-business enabling software is available via the channel, following the launch of Visual Insights'eBizinsights Solution Partner programme. The eBizinsights product family is designed to provide companies with an understanding of site...

E-business solution for MYSAP.COM.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... A joint development with PricewaterhouseCoopers incorporates the functionality of Documentum 4i ebusiness Edition with SAP/R3 and mySAP.com products. The objective of which is to enable mySAP.com applications with the features required for a...

Versata Addresses Commerce Change Management.(Versata E-Business Automation System)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... The majority of trading exchanges today are still new and fine turning their business trading models as they begin to transact, add new business partners, react to competitors or impose new transactions upon their existing trading model, using...

Web connection for fast-track commerce.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Alternative Networks has launched an ISP service targeted at rapidly growing businesses whose bandwidth requirements are likely to change regularly. The service will combine the UUNET's infrastructure, with Alternative Networks' approach to...

Privacy, Anonymity and the Attack on Authentication Technologies.
August 1, 2000... Early in the debate over encryption, I used to say that there was some good news about government policy: Strong authentication was probably ten times more important for secure networks than strong encryption - and at least there weren't any...

ISSE 2000.(Information Security Solutions Europe)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Information Security Solutions Europe 27-29 September Catalonia Palace of Congresses, Barcelona www.eema.orglisseISSE 2000 The ISSE 2000 Conference Europe's major independent European Forum on IT security & e-business attracts over 500...

Requirements for E-business Security.
August 1, 2000... Ovum Ltd. Many organisations today still rely on an approach to security which is, at best, outmoded. Security requirements, though, evolve at the same speed as the growth of e-business, or even faster sometimes. Access points are...

Mobile Phones New Target for Virus Writers.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Kaspersky Lab, announces the discovery of a new harmful program capable of wreaking havoc to mobile phones. In the past few months, mobile phones and their users have had increasing attention pad to them by virus writers who have found a new...

Phone fears exploited.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... In spite of the fact that there is not a single mobile phone virus in existence, virus writers and hoax writers alike have been exploiting public concern about the issue. A computer worm, VBS/Timo-A (also called Timofonica), has been sending...

Anti-Virus product for NT.(Unipalm's F-Secure Anti Virus)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Unipalm, has announced that F-Secure Anti Virus has been named an "Excellent AV Product" in the VTC scanner tests. The tests were conducted by the Virus Test Center Hamburg, an institution for testing anti-virus programs for virus detection and...

ACAD.Star Virus Invades AutoCAD!(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... Kaspersky Lab have announced the discovery of a first computer virus that affects the world's most popular PC-based design software AutoCAD (www.autocad.com) originally developed by Autodesk company. The ACAD.Star virus was published on the...

World-wide levels of telecoms fraud "worse than predicted".(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2000... Predictions on the level of fraud in the telecoms industry may have to be revised upwards in light of a new report issued by Chorleywood Consulting. The Manual of Fraud, Bad Debt and Revenue Assurance conservatively estimates the impact of...

Sophos Anti-Virus six month summary.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2000... A report published by Sophos Anti-Virus,, indicates that some of the most prevalent e-mail-aware viruses of the year so far have spread rapidly because of the psychological temptation they present to computer users. Sophos's research highlights...