InfoWorld articles from April 2004

InfoWorld archives from April 2004

Siebel expands its scope.
April 26, 2004... Siebel Systems is setting its sights beyond CRM, landing a banking software acquisition and an alliance with analytics vendor Teradata. Siebel last week also released a major update to its Siebel 7 product line. Siebel paid $70 million...

HP launches four-way Opteron system.(Hewlett-Packard Co.)
April 26, 2004... On the first birthday of AMD's Opteron, Hewlett-Packard has become the first major vendor to offer a four-processor server based on the 64-bit chip. HP's new ProLiant DL585 is a 4U, Opteron-powered sister product to its Xeon-based DL580....

Intel updates server, handheld processors.(Itanium 2 processor )(Brief Article)
April 19, 2004... Intel upgraded two chips last week with the intention of expanding its reach both higher and wider. The chip maker boosted its Itanium 2 processor line for servers, as well as its XScale family of chips for mobile devices such as handhelds....

Salesforce.com launches Spring 04.(Customer relationship management software)(Brief Article)
April 19, 2004... As regular as the four seasons, Saleforce.com unveiled its Spring 04 CRM application last week. The Winter 04 edition saw the introduction of a customizable Sforce development platform using open APIs as integration hooks into other...

Visio 2003 makes the right moves.(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 19, 2004... The term Visio hasn't quite become a verb, akin to Google, but the presence of this tool in daily IT life is significant. Visio has become the de facto standard for standard diagram drawings, especially network layouts and process...

Microsoft and Sun: The morning after.
April 12, 2004... The saga of sniping and legal wrangling between Sun Microsystems and Microsoft is finally over. But is it feel-good posturing or a harbinger of joint development? "The ink is hardly dry," Sun CTO of Software John Fowler told InfoWorld....

P-to-P Voice Hits the Road.(Brief Article)
April 12, 2004... Peer-to-peer telephony company Skype Technologies has launched a portable version of its software for PDAs. PocketSkype lets users make p-to-p voice calls using a Wi-Fi-enabled Microsoft PocketPC from any Wi-Fi hotspot. PocketSkype is a thin...

Motion Computing Rolls Out New Tablet PC.(Brief Article)
April 12, 2004... Motion Computing unveiled the third generation of its slate Tablet PC product, complete with a new processor from Intel and improved display and microphone technologies. The M1400 is the same size and weight as its predecessor, the M1300....

The mainframe also rises.(computer mainframes)
April 12, 2004... Big Blue celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first mainframe by unveiling a lower-cost version of its flagship e-Server zSeries z990 mainframe. Sun Microsystems, meanwhile, unveiled its Mainframe Migration Program. The program will...

Microsoft, Sun bury the hatchet.
April 5, 2004... Sun Microsystems said Friday that it has entered into a "broad cooperation agreement" with Microsoft and settled all outstanding litigation. Microsoft will pay Sun $700 million to resolve all pending anti-trust issues and $900 million to...

Stonefly i3000 pumps new life into attached storage.(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 5, 2004... For many midsize companies, the major obstacle to adopting IP storage is not necessarily the fear of new technologies but the need to preserve a recent, conspicuous investment in conventional storage arrays. That the benefits of...

Two paths to WLAN intrusion detection.(wireless local area network)(Product/Service Evaluation)
April 5, 2004... Intrusion detection systems (IDSes) have become a key piece of security infrastructure for enterprise networks. With the rise of wireless networks, the need for IDSes has increased, as has the complexity of finding patterns and policies that...