InfoWorld articles from April 1998

InfoWorld archives from April 1998

CA's next dimension Unicenter to proactively manage network.(Computer Associates Unicenter The Next Dimension management software) (Product Development)
April 27, 1998... Computer Associates plans to tell an elaborate management story this week at its annual CA World conference in New Orleans, and headlining those announcements will be the news that Unicenter The Next Dimension (TND) has entered beta testing....

I-commerce deals appeal to Microsoft.(bundling of Site Server and Microsoft Commercial Internet System) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... Microsoft this week will launch a major Internet-commerce drive by bundling its Site Server and Microsoft Commercial Internet System (MCIS) into a single offering that will be packaged with software from companies such as Pandesic -- a joint...

Windows systems suck more juice.(Microsoft Windows 98, Windows NT) (Product Information)
April 27, 1998... Despite claims to the contrary by Microsoft and Intel, the next generation of notebook PC running the default power-management system in Windows 98 and Windows NT 5.0 will actually consume more battery power than its predecessor. The...

HP's notebooks, PCs focus on manageability.(HP OmniBook 4100, 3100 and 2100 Pentium II, Pentium-based notebooks; TopTools desktop-management software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Hewlett-Packard will unleash a barrage of products and services this week in a major announcement in New York, including several new notebooks and a repositioning of its desktop line. Making good on its promise to focus hard on the notebook...

Microsoft faces new antitrust probe. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... The latest potential government antitrust probe aimed at Microsoft reportedly hinges on whether Microsoft illegally tried to recruit Netscape on a plan aimed at dividing up the Internet software market in May 1995. At that time, Netscape's...

FTC OKs Digital, Intel settlement.(Federal Trade Commission gives approval to DEC, Intel deal) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved the October settlement between Intel and Digital. However, the FTC will require that Digital license Alpha processor technology to other semiconductor manufacturers. The agreement includes the...

Cisco, Novell, Microsoft to bolster DEN.(Cisco Sytems product implementation of Directory Enabled Networks) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Cisco Systems plans to announce at next week's NetWorld+Interop (N+I) in Las Vegas its product implementation of the Directory Enabled Networks (DEN) specification that it submitted to the Desktop Management Task Force in February, according to...

Ariba gets funding from Intel.(Ariba Technologies) (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Intel is investing an undisclosed sum in Java developer Ariba Technologies, a company that specializes in providing operating resource procurement automation software. The two companies intend to collaborate on optimizing Ariba's Operating...

Sun to lay out hardware strategy.(Sun Microsystems) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Sun will outline new elements of its enterprise strategy on Wednesday in New York and Brussels, Belgium, including a Sparc processor speed upgrade, new commitments to Fibre Channel storage, and extensions of its alliance with IBM. The exact...

Poet touts XML data management.(Poet Software's Content Management Suite)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Poet Software on May 5 plans to deliver its Extensible Markup Language (XML) data-management solution, Content Management Suite. Featuring the Poet object-oriented database, the product works in conjunction with a Web server, handling editing...

Trying to keep the peace in I-commerce. (Industry Trend or Event)
April 27, 1998... The biggest obstacle hindering widespread adoption of I-commerce applications has nothing to do with the technology itself. Instead, a lot of companies are discovering that internal political wrangling over who controls these systems is forcing...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
April 27, 1998... In "Java-based Web site pushes Deregulation" (April 20, page 104), the corporate parent of Pacific Gas & Electric Company was misidentified. The utility is owned by PG&E Corp. TOP OF THE NEWS Publication Date: April 27, 1998 (Vol. 20, Issue...

Gigabit LANs to span miles of fiber. (Technology Information)
April 27, 1998... A technology to be demonstrated at NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas next week could make it feasible for enterprises to set up Gigabit Ethernet LANs across metropolitan area networks. Bay Networks, 3Com, and Packet Engines will join with...

Microsoft partner L&H to ship verbal link to Word 97.(Lernout & Hauspie VoiceXpress Plus (speech-recognition software))(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Microsoft speech partner Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) will ship this week Voice Xpress Plus, a voice-recognition program that lets users dictate text and give verbal commands to Microsoft Word 97. Voice Xpress Plus is a continuous speech product...

Oracle to link Web with decision-support tools Express Server, Discoverer ship in May.(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Boosting its decision-support tools, Oracle by early May plans to release versions of its Express Server online analytical processing engine and Discoverer front-end analysis tool that will funnel information to Oracle's Reports product, for...

Thin-client market picks up steam, cleaves. (Industry Trend or Event)
April 27, 1998... The future of thin-client computing is beginning to take shape around two camps, with Microsoft's release of its Windows Terminal Server (WTS) expected at PC Expo in June, and IBM's announcement of a network computer running an Intel chip....

Baan makes manufacturing software push.(Baan Supply Chain Solutions (SCS) suite)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... At its user meeting in Denver last week, Baan unveiled plans for a unified software suite designed to cover all aspects of manufacturing and announced a tighter alliance with Microsoft. Baan is adding two modules to its Baan Supply Chain...

Motorola to provide flexibility with voice-over-IP products.(Vanguard router, Applications Ware software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Motorola will announce this week that its Vanguard multiservice access router platform has been enhanced to support voice-over-frame-relay and voice-over-IP options. A single Vanguard router will now support voice over both types of...

Netscape sets focus on smaller companies.(POP3 messaging drive) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Netscape CEO Jim Barksdale at this week's Electronic Messaging Association (EMA) conference in Anaheim, Calif., will launch a POP3 messaging drive that targets ISPs in order to provide Internet-based e-mail to smaller companies. The ISP...

Sun undergoes reorganization, JavaSoft next. (Company Operations)
April 27, 1998... Sun's widespread reorganization last week has left partners and licensees of the Java platform even more concerned about the for-profit company's role as the keeper of the Java standard. As first reported by InfoWorld (see "JavaSoft faces...

Featherweight ThinkPad boasts heavy-duty power.(IBM ThinkPad 600, notebook computer) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
April 27, 1998... THE BOTTOM LINE: EXCELLENT IBM ThinkPad 600 IBM's ThinkPad 600 is a wonderfully designed notebook computer that combines sleek packaging with the latest Mobile Pentium II processor and 32MB of RAM. It has plenty of expansion room and comes...

Microsoft gains momentum in federal court.(includes related article on lobby that supports additional government regulations of Microsoft) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... The government needs to prove that Microsoft has not harmed consumers or competitors Lobby group attempts to add more pressure By Margret Johnston A day before the first oral arguments for a Microsoft appeal in the U.S. Department of...

Windows 98 debuts and crashes.(Comdex Spring) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... It appears power consumption may not be the only Windows 98 feature that is still in the works. Last week at the Comdex Spring trade show in Chicago, Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates, with help from a company product manager, was deep...

Gateway readies enterprise reseller push. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... After announcing strong quarterly financial results thanks to a booming consumer business, PC maker Gateway is ready to tackle the challenging enterprise market in earnest with a new reseller program and a new branding campaign. Formerly...

Neon and IBM launch joint MQIntegrator. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Neon and IBM have jointly created MQIntegrator, an application router or middleware, designed to provide interoperability between disparate systems. By combining Neon's Enterprise Application Integration technology and IBM's MQSeries, the...

Microsoft to give Office 9 a boost through groupware.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Microsoft is readying its HTML version of Office, referred to as Office 9, that will be designed to open the door to Web collaboration via the desktop applications suite, according to sources familiar with Microsoft's strategy. "In 1998, the...

Citrix looks for Windows niche in Microsoft-dominated arena. (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... With slightly wounded pride and a revised business strategy, Citrix is pressing on in the multiuser windows arena, confident it can provide a value-add in a marketplace soon to be controlled by Microsoft. At Spring Comdex last week, Citrix...

Maximizer Technologies.(Maximizer 5.0 contact management program)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Maximizer Technologies will address electronic commerce in the next version of its Maximizer 5.0 contact-management program shipping this June. The new version will include a suite of features to create and put full Web sites online, receive...

DataMirror.(Transformation Server for Oracle)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... DataMirror has added to its Transformation Server data-replication product family support for data transformation in Windows NT-based Oracle databases. With Transformation Server for Oracle, data can be transformed between Oracle databases and...

Hewlett-Packard.(HP 2000C Professional Series inkjet desktop printers)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Hewlett-Packard announced last week the HP 2000C Professional Series ink-jet desktop printers. Designed for offices that regularly use color, the $799 ink-jet compares in speed and cost of ownership to a laser printer. But output quality will...

Java draws wide market interest. (Technology Information)
April 27, 1998... As language matures, popularity grows As Java enters its adolescence, ISVs and end-users are finding that it's no longer just a toy for making cute animations on Web sites. Java is being seized by the ISV community because it offers many...

Dell to move up the enterprise with dual-chip servers.(PowerEdge 2300 server)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Dell will target an undersupplied IT industry "gray zone" Internet and remote-management servers -- with the release of its two-processor PowerEdge 2300 server, which will make Dell the latest OEM to use Intel's slot-1 Deschutes chip. The...

Photoshop 5.0 gets rave end-user approval.(Adobe Systems' Adobe Photoshop 5.0)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... With the release of Adobe Photoshop 5.0 scheduled for May, Adobe Systems is delivering a lot of features that users have long been after. Among these features are multiple undo, better type handling, and improved color management. Adobe...

Remedy and Intel to integrate products. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Remedy and Intel last week announced no-cost integration functionality between their help-desk and network-management products respectively. The integration begins in June, when Remedy will include Intel's Desktop Integrator Technology...

Lexmark moves to merge.(Lexmark International's Optra S 1255, 1855 multifunction printers, OptralImage 15 and 24 image scanners)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... The Optra S line printers feature copier option The move to merge printers and copiers will gain another adherent this week when Lexmark International introduces four new printers to its Optra S line that will offer a workgroup-level copier...

The Bug Report. (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Lotus Notes 4.6.1 If you are using the Lotus Notes 4.6.1 POP3 client and you compose a message addressed to someone without a domain name, or whose name is not in the Domino Public Address Book, you will see this error: "Replicator error,...

Prism boosts Warehouse Executive.(Prism Solutions's Prism Warehouse Executive 2.0 and Prism Executive Suite 2.0 data warehouse development tools)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Java functionaltiy added to data-transformation tools Prism Solutions this week plans to introduce new Java functionality for its data-transformation tools. Version 2.0 of Prism Warehouse Executive, a warehouse development tool, will...

Digital to package servers with pre-configured applications.(DEC) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Following the round of new Intel- and Alpha-based servers that Digital Equipment announced earlier this year, the company is now setting its sites on making those servers easier to install and maintain by pre-configuring popular software with...

Hard at work.(Patty Azzarello, worldwide marketing manager for HP workstations, discusses competition in the workstation market) (Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
April 27, 1998... HP's Patty Azzarello scouts the competition in the workstation marketplace. Workstation markets and design requirements often receive less attention than PC or server markets, but nonetheless are hotly competitive with power users demanding...

IBM's Sonnet to ease eye work.(IBM's visual programming language) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... Visual language to add sound to programs IBM is revamping its visual programming language, called Sonnet, that eventually will allow commercial users to create business applications more easily by adding sound to programs. IBM researchers...

Intel plans to appeal Intergraph lawsuit decision. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Intel plans to appeal a U.S. judge's preliminary injunction requiring it to resume normal business relations with computer maker Intergraph pending the outcome of a lawsuit between the companies. Intel filed notice of its intent to appeal...

K56flex 'upgrade' may actually make your modem run slower than before.(K56flex modems based chipset by Rockwell Semiconductor) (Window Manager) (Technology Information)(Column)
April 27, 1998... K56flex modems based on a chipset by Rockwell Semiconductor may give you slower, not faster, speeds if you upgrade to the new V.90 international communications standard. K56flex modems, which theoretically can download 56Kbps on good phone...

VOIP products make few waves: Cisco integrates Ethernet PBX.(Cisco to co-develop voice and data solutions with NBX) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... Filling another gap in its portfolio of voice services, Cisco Systems last week announced a deal with NBX, in which the companies agreed to co-develop integrated voice and data solutions, including providing support for packet-based voice...

Cisco counts down to optical internetworking.(Cisco Systems) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... Cisco Systems has announced it is in the second phase of a five-phase, one-year strategy to deliver optical internetworking technologies for service providers. The idea is to create networks that are optimized for data, but which leverage...

US West Communications Group.(US West TeleChoice service) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... US West Communications Group announced last week its US West TeleChoice service, providing integrated digital television and Internet access over regular phone lines. TeleChoice -- which uses Very high-speed Digital Subscriber Line technology...

Cisco Systems.(Cisco Systems to resell American Internet's Network Registrar software for linking Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol information to policy servers) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Cisco Systems last week announced two advancements in its CiscoAssure policy-based networking scheme. Beginning this summer, the company will resell American Internet's Network Registrar software for linking Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol...

Cisco Systems and StarQuest Software.(Cisco Database Connection workstation software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Cisco Systems and StarQuest Software have announced Cisco Database Connection, software that is designed to give users of TCP/IP-connected workstations direct access to IBM DB2 databases using Systems Network Architecture protocols. The...

Flexibility comes to the fore.(1998 NetWorld+Interop trade show) (Industry Trend or Event)
April 27, 1998... Vendors are boosting the power and capabilities of enterprise and service provider switches in advance of next week's NetWorld+Interop trade show, opening up new possibilities to network administrators who want to take advantage of fast,...

Finjan offers SurfinGate for system security.(SurfinGate 4.0 security system for scanning mobile software code)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Mobile code scanning alerts users to attempts to steal data At NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas next week, Finjan will demonstrate the latest version of its SurfinGate security system for scanning mobile software code. SurfinGate operates on the...

Sphere's global ATM PBX goes over WANs.(Sphere Communications' Sphericall 2.0 network-based PBX)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Seeking to give users an alternative to Internet telephony, Sphere will unveil next week at NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas its global ATM PBX, Sphericall 2.0. Version 2.0 of Sphericall -- which scales from 50 to more than 1,000 users -- is a...

Token Ring speed to get boost.(High-Speed Token Ring Alliance) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Next week's NetWorld+Interop show will see major vendors demonstrating a migration path for moving Token Ring LANs to 100Mbps High-Speed Token Ring. However, some analysts and users downplay the need for a performance boost in Token Ring....

Regulatory Roundup A telecommunications newsbyte from the U.S. capital. (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... (Washington) The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a set of model rules by which to gauge whether new providers of local telephone service are able to access certain services and functions of incumbent local telephone companies....

RightState taps e-mail to configure mobile PCs.(Mobile Automation's mobile PC configuration software)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Mobile Automation has unveiled a technology dubbed RightState that is designed to let IT administrators configure software on mobile PCs -- even if they're not anchored to the network -- by sending updates via e-mail. "Other products require...

Tivoli aims IT Director at smaller markets.(Tivoli Systems' network management software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Tivoli has, as expected, announced its first foray into the small and medium-size business market with IT Director. (See "Tivoli unleashes Tsunami," April 13, page 1.) IT Director, which runs on Windows NT, is designed to manage...

Lotus may axe support for aging e-mail system.(Lotus dropping support for cc:Mail versions 5.0 and earlier to push maintenance-level cc:Mail users to upgrade) (Product Information)
April 27, 1998... Lotus is considering dropping support for cc:Mail, Versions 5.0 and earlier, in order to try and nudge 4 million maintenance-level cc:Mail users to upgrade, sources at the company confirmed last week. The potentially risky move is being...

Alliance to offer IP telephony worldwide.(GlocalNet, Inter-Tel alliance) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Building on their existing partnership, GlocalNet and Inter-Tel last week reached an accord with IP network operators in Japan and South America, paving the way for an alliance that will offer IP telephony services worldwide. Also last week,...

Lucent can consolidate GSM technology via Optimay deal.(Lucent Technologies to acquire Optimay GmbH) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Lucent Technologies has agreed to acquire Germany's Optimay GmbH, a developer of Global System for Mobile (GSM) cellular software technology and services, for approximately $65 million, the companies announced last week. The acquisition of...

Check Point Software plans MetaInfo buyout.(Check Point Software Technologies to acquire MetaInfo) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Security and virtual private networking specialist Check Point Software has announced that it is acquiring MetaInfo, which makes network and IP address management software. MetaInfo will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Check Point, which...

UWCC task force aims for TDMA global roaming.(Universal Wireless Communications Consortium) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Drumming up support for the Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) wireless communications specification, the Universal Wireless Communications Consortium (UWCC) has formed an international task force chartered to develop global roaming. The UWCC...

Extreme adds Layer 3, 4 power.(Extreme Networks Summit4, Summit48 enterprise switches) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
April 27, 1998... If you're looking for a backbone/server switch that leaves room for migrating to a Gigabit Ethernet environment, take a look at Extreme Networks' Summit4 Switch. It offers solid enterprise switching capabilities, such as load balancing and...

Xiotech RAID unit makes light work of data storage. (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
April 27, 1998... Newcomer provides enterprise-level capabilities but lacks Unix support THE BOTTOM LINE: VERY GOOD Magnitude XP-1400 Xiotech's enterprise-scale RAID solution is especially suited for environments in which server storage requirements...

WebRamp M3i boosts dial-up connections, but it is still no match for ISDN. (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
April 27, 1998... Analog router WebRamp M3i and M3i Plus Ramp Networks' WebRamp M3i and M3i Plus analog-based routers offer a cost-effective way to get Internet access, especially when ISDN service isn't available. Unfortunately, even with two built-in...

CruiseConnect offers smooth connectivity.(Cruise Technologies CruiseConnect, CruisePad, Wireless Access Point wireless networking solution) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
April 27, 1998... THE BOTTOM LINE: VERY GOOD CruiseConnect, CruisePad, and Wireless Access Point This wireless networking solution is ideal for Citrix-based mobile computing that isn't keyboard-centric. Pros: Lightweight; color screen; long communication...

A friendly Ghost, a helpful boot, and a little lab noir.(Loose Cables) (News Briefs)(Editorial)
April 27, 1998... With nearly 300 clients to configure when we're building a test bed, installation floppies and CD-ROMs aren't a rat's best friend. Fortunately, there are a couple of tools we use to make the installation and configuration process a bit more...

Intel to upgrade TeamStation videoconferencing system.(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Aiming to promote videoconferencing as a mainstream business application, Intel this week will launch TeamStation System 4.0, a conference room system that combines videoconferencing, Internet access, corporate network access, and PC...

Netscape ramps up I-commerce.(offers new applications, source code to support XML and Internet commerce; PublishingXPert, CommerceXPert)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Vendor offers enterprises new applications, source code Netscape has upgraded a key facet of its Internet-commerce applications, brought Extensible Markup Language (XML) functions to its open-client efforts, and added some Web-content...

The Web Hotlist. (News Briefs)
April 27, 1998... DocuWorld - http://www.docuworld.com Xerox presents DocuWorld, the online component of a series of global events designed to promote digital printing technologies. Visit the Library section to access enterprise case studies and articles from...

VeriFone to fold in VeriSign technology.(SET-enabled electronic commerce security solutions) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... SET-enabled bundle to include digital certificate services VeriFone and VeriSign have reached an agreement to bundle VeriSign's Secure Electronic Transactions (SET) digital certificate system with VeriFone's SET Internet payment solution,...

Netscape aims for secular audience. (Web server product line manager John Paul) (Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
April 27, 1998... Netscape's server crop has been broadened in recent months to include the former Kiva Application Server, adding a new layer above the company's flagship SuiteSpot Web server line and prompting a shift in Netscape's overall tools strategy....

FedEx and InterWorld team on I-commerce.(global alliance campaign) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... Federal Express and InterWorld have announced an alliance to merge the shipping giant's shipment, fulfillment, logistics, and return processing services with InterWorld's Commerce Exchange application for Internet commerce, according to the...

MCI Web service takes companies' EDI reach to small partners.(electronic data interchange)(MCI Telecommunications) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... MCI Telecommunications has introduced a Web-based service that allows large companies that are users of electronic data interchange (EDI) to exchange business documents via the Internet with trading partners that do not use EDI. Simple Form...

NetCore to ensure QOS for Internet backbone.(Everest routing switch to offer quality of service)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Everest to help ISPs surmount traffic A large routing switch scheduled to begin shipping in October may allow service providers to move beyond best-effort Internet service and give businesses differentiated services. NetCom's Everest...

SEC proposes electronic stock trading rules.(Securities and Exchange Commission) (Government Activity)
April 27, 1998... Faced with an increasing number of stock trades made via the Internet, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voted to release public-comment proposals for new rules governing alternative trading systems before turning them into law....

Verity search toolkit debuts.(Verity K2 Toolkit)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... Verity will release a new search and retrieval toolkit designed to allow corporate developers to build applications that provide fast access to large volumes of unstructured data residing on corporate intranets, a company executive said. The...

WorldSecure Server updated.(WorldTalk WorldSecure Server)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... To help organizations with the business necessities and rules required with using e-mail on the job, WorldTalk will announce the latest version of its WorldSecure Server e-mail firewall and policy-management system. The company is focusing...

CacheFlow 100 release retains 'active' caching capabilities.(CacheFlow to release scaled-down version of CacheFlow 1000 network caching tool)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
April 27, 1998... CacheFlow will release its CacheFlow 100, a scaled-down version of its CacheFlow 1000 network caching appliance, on April 27. The product, a rack-mounted unit housing as much as 2GB disk space, is powered by a 200-MHz Pentium Pro and governed...

Microsoft banks on DNA FS support.(partnerships with HP, Integrion Financial Network; plans to release packaged version of software behind Investor Web site) (Company Business and Marketing)
April 27, 1998... At its annual IT conference for the financial industry, Microsoft announced partnerships with both Hewlett-Packard and the Integrion Financial Network that are designed to drive support for the company's software and tools among financial...

IBM Global Network to offer U.S. V.90 service. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
April 27, 1998... IBM last week announced it will back up customers' access to the IBM Global Network with service-level agreements (SLAs), as well as provide managed network services enhancements, according to officials at the company. Under the terms of the...

Net-It Central puts paper online.(Net-It Software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 27, 1998... Windows' internal printing services let you fax documents from any application as easily as you can print them. Net-It Central 2.5 extends this idea and blends it with Java, enabling your team members to easily publish documents to your...

Webetc combines America Online and Internet proxy services.(Technocratix Inc) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
April 27, 1998... THE BOTTOM LINE: GOOD Webetc Pro 2.0 Webetc Pro provides excellent Internet and America Online connectivity for small workgroups, but it hasn't kept up with the workgroup connectivity marketplace. * Pros: Provides easy Internet and AOL...

Unlike past years, intranet education options abound.(Inside the Firewall) (News Briefs)(Column)
April 27, 1998... This is my last Inside the Firewall column here at InfoWorld. Starting next week, you will find this section transformed, with an added focus on Internet commerce, online security, and transaction issues. The industry's understanding of...

Getting inside the head of salespeople may explain their reluctance to sell.(The Gripe Line) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
April 27, 1998... I've got good news for those of us who have never understood what makes salespeople tick -- especially those who can't be bothered to sell their products. It appears nobody else understands them either, including salespeople themselves. My...

The Test Center's reach spans the enterprise from desktop to mainframe.(Editorial)
April 27, 1998... The InfoWorld Test Center infrastructure team has been unusually busy recently, acquiring and installing equipment to support our mission of providing enterprise testing that is real world, scalable, and multiplatform. Early this year, the...

Broadband: It's about time.(includes related article on European and Asian utilities providing Internet access over power lines) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
April 27, 1998... Telephone companies have long been among the most flagrant practitioners of pie-in-the-sky advertising, telling us that we will soon live in an electronic utopia brought to us by Ma Bell and her offspring. For the majority of users stuck...