InfoWorld articles from July 1996

InfoWorld archives from July 1996

NT to blaze desktop trail; add-ons bolster usability of Microsoft's robust OS. (Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 operating system) (Product Development)
July 29, 1996... Microsoft Corp. this week will send Windows NT 4.0 to manufacturing with an eye toward delivering the next major upgrade to the company's high-end operating system in September. But although this release will make NT more competitive in the...

Netscape to deploy ORB technology. (Netscape Communications' Open Network Environment for application development uses Visigenic Inc's object request broker technology) (Company Business and Marketing)
July 29, 1996... Netscape Communications Corp. this week will add another front to its far-ranging war with Microsoft Corp. when it launches an Open Network Environment (ONE) for application development. In an attempt to get momentum behind the Object...

Microsoft sidesteps NDS; SMS 1.2 lacks key NetWare support. (the Systems Management Server in Windows NT 4.0 will not support Novell Directory Services) (Product Development)
July 29, 1996... A forthcoming point release of Microsoft Corp.'s Systems Management Server (SMS), due out with Windows NT 4.0 in September, will provide support for remote control of NT systems for the first time. But although this feature will be a boost to...

Windows 95: one year later: 40 million candles on the cake. (Special News Report) (Product Information)
July 29, 1996... With sales of Windows 95 expected to top 40 million units by the end of August, Microsoft Corp. should have plenty to celebrate when it marks the one-year anniversary of its primary 32-bit desktop operating system. Although Microsoft appears...

Caldera reopens 'settled' suit, buys DR DOS. (Caldera alleges unfair business practices against Microsoft involving the DR DOS operating system) (Company Business and Marketing)
July 29, 1996... Caldera Inc., a small software company founded by former Novell Inc. CEO Ray Noorda, is challenging Microsoft Corp. by resurrecting a forgotten operating system and a recently settled lawsuit. Caldera's suit, filed in U.S. District Court in...

Win95 delay to cause NT upgrade crunch. (the late arrival of Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system slows adoption of its Windows NT operating system) (From the News Desk) (Product Information)(Column)
July 29, 1996... No doubt Microsoft Corp. will be throwing a big bash to celebrate the first anniversary of Windows 95 next month, but maybe it should take a moment to reflect on what might have been. Had the company kept to its original schedule, we'd all be...

Microsoft working on Explorer 3.0 problems. (the Internet Explorer 3.0 Web browser) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Microsoft Corp. is expected to ship Internet Explorer 3.0 by the end of August, but the company is still working on solving glitches in the newest beta version of the software, including installation problems that affect other applications and...

Hitachi to use Robotics modems. (Hitachi PC Corp will use US Robotics Inc modems in its notebook PCs) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Hitachi PC Corp. will develop, integrate, and brand US Robotics Inc. modems in Hitachi's notebook PCs, company officials announced this week. Hitachi officials said the alliance will help users avoid modem-related installation and configuration...

Vines to grow metering software. (Banyan Systems Inc's StreetLegal software metering and licensing program for the Vines operating system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Banyan Systems Inc. next week will introduce StreetLegal, software-metering and licensing software for the Banyan Vines OS, as well as Web-based calendaring software, expected to be called Calendar WebView, said sources familiar with the...

Crystal forms Web partnerships. (Seagate Software Information Management Group's Crystal Div signs agreements with Microsoft, Informix and Allaire) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Crystal, a division of Seagate Software Information Management Group, will this week announce Web strategy partnerships with Microsoft, Informix Software Inc., and Allaire Corp. Microsoft, which already ships Crystal Reports with Systems...

Briefly noted. (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... NORTHERN TELECOM INC. will add integrated modem capability to its Magellan Access WAN switches. The company is offering cards with eight individually insertable modems for asynchronous dial access. Nortel also introduced the Magellan Access...

Fusion's Web site builder has 50 site style templates. (NetObjects Inc's Web page design and management system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... NetObjects Inc. next week will announce Fusion, a Web page design and management system that uses a template-based approach to create Web sites with a consistent style and structure. Fusion includes an integrated set of modules, called...

AT&T to help develop NC standards; company hopes to make network services easily available. (network computer standards) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... AT&T is working with companies that are developing network computers (NCs) to develop standards for locating resources, downloading software, and performing other operations, such as registration, on the network. AT&T believes that such...

Novell offers GroupWise 5.0 beta, free move to upgrade. (workgroup software) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Novell Inc. has released an open beta version of GroupWise 5.0 and expects to have a final release-to-manufacturing version ready by the end of September. GroupWise 5.0, formerly code-named GroupWise XTD, will be targeted at the GroupWise...

AT&T plans to offer Explorer. (Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 Web browser will be offered by AT&T to its WorldNet customers) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... AT&T and Microsoft Corp. plan to distribute Microsoft's World Wide Web browser with AT&T's global directory services. Microsoft later this year will provide access to AT&T's WorldNet Service as part of the Windows 95 software pre-loaded on...

Netscape readies 'net calendaring offering. (Netscape Communications Corp plans to enter the enterprise scheduling market by the end of 1996) (Company Business and Marketing)
July 29, 1996... Netscape Communications Corp. last week announced that it would enter the enterprise scheduling market by year's end with a product of its own. The announcement came in a press release that also announced the Internet Calendaring Summit, a...

Microsoft Office 97 will offer intelligent help; interactive wizard adapts to users. (the integrated software will include the Office Assistant help wizard) (Product Development)
July 29, 1996... Microsoft Corp.'s release of Office 97 this fall will be a major upgrade to the architecture and interface of the suite, with a new Office Assistant help wizard and three other shared components that integrate functionality between...

Intel outlines Connected PC initiative. (the Intel Internet Media Symposium) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Intel Corp. laid claim to the Internet last week, taking the concept of thin clients head on and, in the process, attempting to establish itself as a major focal point of software design. At its first Intel Internet Media Symposium last week,...

Packard Bell NEC updates PowerMate line. (the PowerMate Professional and PowerMate Performance Pentium-based systems)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... In its first act as an officially merged company, Packard Bell NEC Inc. unveiled last week a completely revamped PowerMate corporate desktop line with hardware and software management tools that the company believes will attract IS managers....

IBM unveils its latest low-price desktop PC. (the PC 340 Pentium-based system)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Keeping pace with other PC vendors' aggressive pricing strategies, IBM PC Co. last week unveiled an entry-level desktop computer priced at $1,198. Available now, the PC 340 is the newest member of Big Blue's low- to mid-range corporate PC...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
July 29, 1996... The chart (page 32) accompanying the July 15 article "NEC, Digital, HP readjust notebook offerings" (page 29) listed an incorrect model number for a Toshiba notebook. The chart should have listed the Toshiba Satellite Pro 420CDS, with an...

IBM hits hurdles at Olympics; complaints abound about the relay of information. (Company Business and Marketing)
July 29, 1996... IBM's reputation as a provider of world-class IT systems suffered a major setback last week as a result of numerous systems failures that have led to sluggish updates of Web sites and delayed postings of scores after many Olympic events. For...

IBM tests Web technology at summer Olympics. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... As part of its IS operations at the Olympic Games, IBM is testing two new technologies that promise to automate the building and linking of Web pages and make it easier to run multimedia applications across the World Wide Web. Developed...

Express yourself on the Web. (Oracle Express Server for Windows NT 6.0 64-bit version of the multidimensional database and online analytical processing engine supports HTTP server requests and publishes HTML pages on the Web)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Oracle Corp. last week announced a 64-bit version of the Oracle Express multidimensional database and online analytical processing (OLAP) engine, which lets users perform complex analyses over the World Wide Web. Oracle Express Server 6.0...

Bay Networks' CEO hands in resignation. (Andy Ludwick) (Company Operations)
July 29, 1996... Bay Networks Inc. said last week that its president and CEO, Andy Ludwick, has decided to resign. Ludwick helped to found Synoptics Communications Inc. in 1985 and has led Bay since its creation out of the 1994 merger of Synoptics and...

Explorer, Navigator in browser beta battle. (Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 and Netscape Communications' Navigator 3.0 Web browsers) (Software Review)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
July 29, 1996... Version 3.0 of Microsoft Corp.'s browser presents the first significant challenge to Netscape Communications Corp., matching Navigator 3.0 feature for feature -- and it's free. But should your company standardize on Explorer 3.0 or Navigator...

IBM toasts its own milestone. (the 15th anniversary of the original IBM PC) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Although Microsoft Corp. will be calling in the bands next month to celebrate Windows 95, IBM's celebration of another milestone will be a much more subdued event. Fifteen years ago this August, IBM jump-started the PC revolution by...

Insignia ports Ntrigue to NC; move will push Windows to NC front. (Insignia Solutions Inc's Ntrigue Net client software for network computers) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Despite the best efforts of Oracle Corp. and other archenemies of Microsoft Corp., the Network Computer (NC) of the future may end up running Windows rather than Java. Insignia Solutions Inc. is working with developers to port its upcoming...

Xylan, IBM team up to turn on switch market. (each will market the other's switching products) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Under the terms of an agreement announced last week, IBM and Xylan Corp. will form a joint-development organization in order to market each other's switching products. IBM agreed to order $30 million worth of products from Xylan, a...

Apple, Fore to build API for ATM apps. (Fore Systems Inc and Apple will develop an API for ATM applications running on Unix and Macintosh machines) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Fore Systems Inc. and Apple Computer Inc. announced a licensing agreement last week under which they will develop a common API for native Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) applications that will run on Unix and Macintosh systems. The...

Microsoft lets ActiveX go to standards group. (ownership and future development of Microsoft's ActiveX technology will be given to an unnamed independent organization) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Microsoft Corp. last week announced that it will transfer ownership and future development of its ActiveX technology to an independent, unspecified organization. The company is ceding ownership of ActiveX -- a component integration...

Siemens widens DCOM's reach. (Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG's ComUnity application development software supports Microsoft's Component Object Model and Distributed COM)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... SIEMENS-NIXDORF Information-ssyteme AG will this week announce extensions for its application development framework that will link Microsoft Corp.'s object technologies with other architectures. ComUnity, a toolset for software developers...

Pipeline. (Client) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... SHIPPING PANASONIC PERSONAL COMPUTER CO. last week began shipping its CF-62 notebook featuring an integrated PD/CD drive, which is a combination quad-speed CD-ROM drive and 650MB phase-change dual (PD) rewritable optical storage drive. The...

Intel pricing fosters Pentium Pro; IS managers willing to consider powerful desktops as system prices come down. (Market Analysis) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Triggered by Intel Corp.'s aggressive pricing, IS managers later this year could be tempted by an array of Pentium Pro-based PCs that creep within a $500 range of their Pentium-based cousins. According to analysts, Intel will follow this...

Macromedia streams digital audio on Web; Shockwave upgrade supports near-CD-quality sound. (Macromedia's Audio Xtras addition to the Shockwave browser plug-in for viewing interactive multimedia files)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Macromedia Inc. this week will unveil a version of Shockwave supporting high-quality digital audio files streamed from standard Web servers over the Internet. Macromedia's Audio Xtras addition to Shockwave, available for free and...

Diamond offers NT 4.0 graphics card. (Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc's Stealth 3D 3000XL low-cost graphics board for Windows NT 4.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Seeking to stake an early claim on what promises to be the latest PC gold rush, Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc. will introduce a low-cost graphics board for Windows NT 4.0 at next week's Siggraph show in New Orleans. Diamond intends to...

Olympus offers an industry surprise with its low-cost portable MO drive. (Olympus Image Sysetms Inc's SYS.230 Universal Personal Storage System magneto-optical disk drive)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Olympus Image Systems Inc. next month will ship a $299 external magneto-optical (MO) disc drive that can be used on notebook computers and can store as much as 230MB of data on media that will cost only $10 per disc. The SYS.230 Universal...

AntiVirus scans Internet; IBM upgrade also protects against Concept virus. (IBM's AntiVirus 2.5 anti-virus software)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... IBM this week will formally roll out an improved version of its IBM AntiVirus package that can now scan Internet documents for viruses before they reach a user's desktop. Version 2.5 of the program, now being used to protect PCs at the...

17-inch color monitors. (InfoWorld Street Prices)(Illustration)
July 29, 1996... Change Dot from Model(1) pitch Low High Avg. May Apple AppleVision 1710 .26mm...

Anything I can do you can do better: reader responses. (Window Manager) (Technology Tutorial)(Column)(Tutorial)
July 29, 1996... This is a good week to take a look at some reader responses to recent columns. I can hardly mention a new shareware program or obscure technique without someone sending me a tip about an even better one. Fine! Keep those insider tips coming....

OAG specifications not yet plug and play. (the Open Applications Group's specification for interoperable systems) (Technology Information)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... The enterprise application market is moving toward plug-and-play compatibility among competing systems, but the specifications currently offered by the Open Applications Group (OAG) provide interoperability for only a limited number of business...

Pipeline. (Server) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... ANNOUNCED HEWLETT-PACKARD CO. on Aug. 1 will ship HP-UX 10.20, a new version of its OS that features the Java virtual machine. Version 10.20 also will support NetWare 4.1 services, including Novell Directory Services, when these services...

CompuWare to usher in first Uniface revamp. (the Uniface Seven application development environment) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Enterprise software developer Compuware Corp. this fall will introduce the first major upgrade of the Uniface development environment since its acquisition of the tool in mid-1994. The upgrade, called Uniface Seven, will incorporate a higher...

Movin' on up. (Informix Software Inc CEO Phil White) (Hot Seat) (Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
July 29, 1996... For the past seven years, Informix Software Inc. has held a respectable third place in the relational database market behind Oracle Corp. and Sybase Inc. But recently Sybase has stumbled, and Informix has edged into the No. 2 position. Late...

Big Blue to unleash big product upgrades. (IBM's Scalable Powerparallel High Node server series)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... IBM announced last week processor upgrades and a new Scalable Powerparallel (SP) server in its RISC-based symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) line of RS/6000 systems. Big Blue is offering its installed base of G40, J40, and R40 server customers...

Dun & Bradstreet Access to connect European databases. (SAP AG's R/3 can be used to access Dun & Bradstreet Information Services' databases)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Dun & Bradstreet Information Services is readying an interface that allows users of SAP AG's R/3 to access the company's business information databases that store data on 17 million European companies, the company said last week. Slated to...

PeopleSoft to link sales-tracking, accounting apps. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Client/server application provider PeopleSoft Inc. is in discussion with several software vendors, including Vantive Corp., to link sales-force automation software with accounting systems. The integration is expected to give financial...

For now, 'Plug and Play' means same as 'Win95-specific.' (Help Desk) (Question and Answer)(Column)
July 29, 1996... Q: We have recently purchased a Supra 28.8Kbps internal modem. The box said it is "Plug and Play," but what it did not say is that the modem would not function at all on non-Windows systems. We run Unix. Can we use the modem? Chuck Greeley...

Pipeline. (Internet) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... ANNOUNCED WELLS FARGO BANK announced Business Gateway, Windows-based banking software for small business owners. The new product will allow businesses to perform up-to-the-minute account balance retrieval, fund transfers, and check payment...

VeriSign acts as an online notary public. (VeriSign Inc and Visa International will offer digital certification of credit cards) (Company Business and Marketing)
July 29, 1996... VeriSign Inc. and Visa International Inc. announced a deal last week that will provide digital certification of credit cards, allowing consumers to purchase products over the Internet without exposing their credit card numbers on the 'net....

Microsoft will not limit TCP/IP usage in NT Workstation 4.0. (the beta version of Windows NT Workstation 4.0 allows only 10 TCP/IP connections in a 10-minute period, but the restriction will be removed in the final version) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Microsoft Corp. has backed off a proposal that could have adversely affected smaller customers by imposing a TCP/IP connection policy that limited the use of NT Workstation 4.0 as a Web server. The restriction, found in the current beta...

The Web Hotlist. (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Micrografx -- http://www.micrografx.com Software for producing interactive graphical content is featured on Micrografx Inc.'s site. Get Java and Visual Basic scripting samples or visit the Online Reference Library for product documentation and...

NetCentric takes a more realistic approach to Internet communications. (NetCentric Corp's Internet-based fax services) (From the Ether) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
July 29, 1996... Here last week I called it fraud to offer free long-distance telephone calls over today's bogging-down Internet. So this week I had fraud on my mind as I crossed the Charles River to visit NetCentric Corp., a start-up offering not phone but fax...

Travel services are first online commerce offerings to fly; many corporations arrange flight, car rental, and hotel bookings on the Internet. (Market Analysis) (includes a related article on Charles Schwab & Company's outsourcing of its travel planning) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
July 29, 1996... Online travel services at major corporations have become one of the first real examples of online commerce in the business sector, increasing the efficiency and reducing the expense of travel planning. Companies such as Palo Alto,...

Microsoft will launch Web travel rival. (a Web-based airline, car rental and hotel booking service) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Microsoft Corp. is going into the travel business with a service that will rival existing offerings. The software giant will turn travel agent in the fourth quarter with the release of a Web-based airline, car rental, and hotel booking service,...

Pipeline. (Networking) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... ANNOUNCED LOTUS DEVELOPMENT CORP. and PointCast Inc. last week announced a technology partnership in which both companies would jointly develop a PointCast NetApp. NetApp is a set of tools Lotus will begin releasing in September that groups...

Web network management is here today. (how networking hardware vendors are using the Web to simplify network management) (News Analysis) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... The Web-based Enterprise Management standard for integrated network and systems management, called for by Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., and a broad group of vendors earlier this month, will not be complete until next year at the...

3Com announces RMON 2 for Transcend. (the Transcend Network Management system adds RMON 2)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... 3Com Corp. announced extensions to its Transcend Network Management offering that it said will provide the most complete RMON 2 offering on the market. These include Traffix Manager, which displays end-to-end communications patterns across...

Bay splits Optivity suite into analysis and design modules. (Bay Networks Inc's Optivity Analysis 7.0 and Optivity Planning 7.0 network management software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Bay Networks Inc. last week announced a repackaging of its Optivity network management suite into separate analysis and planning tools, some new software components, and some RMON/RMON 2-based Fast Ethernet probes. Optivity Analysis 7.0 and...

Hitachi unveils Fast Ethernet switch. (the HS-150 series)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... A unit of Japan's Hitachi Ltd. will make its first foray into the workgroup switches market with a low-priced Fast Ethernet switch. The four models in the HS-150 family can be easily upgraded to handle high-speed WAN technologies, including...

TIS upgrades firewall to protect networks from Java and ActiveX applets. (Trusted Information Systems Inc's Gauntlet Internet Firewall version 3.2)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... IS managers concerned about the risk of Java applets causing havoc on their networks now have a simple solution: Turn Java off. The latest version of Trusted Information Systems Inc. (TIS)'s Gauntlet Internet Firewall includes an option...

Geoworks molds content, services for smart phones. (Geoworks Inc's new wireless content and services division will support smart phones using the company's Geos operating system) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Geoworks Inc. will package and deliver content and services for smart phones that use its Geos operating system, company officials announced last week. The company has formed a new wireless content and services division, of which Jonathan...

Lotus unveils client enhancements to Notes. (VideoNotes 1.2 and RealTime Notes 2.0 video software)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Lotus Development Corp. this week will announce enhancements to both its live and storage-based video software in the form of upgrades to RealTime Notes and VideoNotes. "In 1995 the technology tire kickers were playing around with...

Crossover to Green River will be easier. (Novell's NetWare 4.11, also called Green River, includes the File Migration and DS Migrate features to facilitate file and bindery migration and installation) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Novell Inc. is enhancing file and bindery migration and installation in the Green River release of NetWare, also known as NetWare 4.11, which is due to ship this fall. One feature is called File Migration, which is for transferring data...

Competition heats up for remote access; Cisco acquires Telebit to boost offerings and put pressure on market leader Shiva. (Company Business and Marketing)
July 29, 1996... Large networking vendors are eager to steal market share in the remote access arena from Shiva Corp., as reflected in Cisco Systems Inc.'s acquisition last week of Telebit Corp., a manufacturer of modems and ISDN devices. But as a pioneer in...

Interest grows in Psion's EPOC OS for PDAs. (Psion begins to license the software used in its 3a personal digital assistant) (Company Business and Marketing)
July 29, 1996... Seeking to broaden its reach in the mobile hand-held market, Psion Plc. Inc., in London, has begun licensing the software that forms the foundation of its successful 3a personal digital assistants (PDAs). Though declining to be specific, Nick...

Pipeline. (Remote Computing) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... MOTOROLA lowered prices by 30 percent last week for its Surfr Series of V.34-compliant 28.8Kbps modems. Prices now range from $99 to $160. (800) 426-6336; http://www.mot.com/modems. ANNOUNCED TRAVELING SOFTWARE INC. is tapping into The...

ANS expands network services portfolio. (America Online Inc subsidiary ANS will provide WAN-based internetwork and Web services) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Corporations not wanting to take on the headaches of remote networking and Web site management can turn to ANS, an America Online Inc. subsidiary that provides network management services. ANS is adding to its lineup standardized solutions...

Motorola delivers cellular fax modem. (the Montana PC Card fax modem for Apple PowerBook 190 and 5300 portable computers)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... High-speed wireless communications are arriving for Apple Computer Inc.'s PowerBooks, courtesy of Motorola's Computing Products Division. Motorola is now shipping its cellular Montana PC Card fax/modem for the PowerBook 190 and 5300 portable...

Attachmate teams up to offer RLN; joins with GDC, CommVision for integrated solution. (the SpectraComm Remote LAN Node SNMP-manageable modem chassis being developed jointly by Attachmate and General DataComm Inc, and the CommSwitch RLN server developed with CommVision Corp) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... Companies seeking turn-key remote access solutions can look to Attachmate Corp., which has teamed up separately with General DataComm Inc. (GDC) and CommVision Corp. to package Remote LAN Node (RLN) software with hardware devices. Attachmate...

IPC and Time Warner interact to bring hotels data services. (IPC Interactive Inc and Time Warner Cable of New York) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... IPC Interactive Inc. joined forces with Time Warner Cable of New York this month to bring interactive technology, services, and content to New York hotels. The agreement will enable Time Warner Cable to enhance its existing services to New...

StarScreen can do it all - phone, fax, and 'net. (StarTronix Inc's screen phone)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
July 29, 1996... Aiming to provide basic remote office functionality at a low cost, StarTronix Inc. will deliver this September its StarScreen, a screen phone that provides Internet, phone, and fax capabilities. The device consists of a telephone with a...

Nothing is more haunting than a voice from the past, unless it's your own voice. (The Gripe Line)(Column)
July 29, 1996... We've heard this week's gripe before, but it's taken on a few added twists. Late last year, a man we'll call Mr. Blue received a very nice Christmas present from his colleagues at the East Coast bank where he works. They took up a collection...

Notes from China: InfoWorld breaks ground for second test center.(From the Editor and Chief)(Editorial)
July 29, 1996... Product Comparisons Editor Tom Young recently spent a week in China to attend events organized around the groundbreaking for China InfoWorld's second test center, in Shanghai. He also visited the existing lab in Beijing. After returning to his...

Lotus 1-2-3 rode high until Windows revolution. (13 Years Ago in InfoWorld)(Column)
July 29, 1996... August 1, 1983--InfoWorld's reviews, always known for being stingy with praise, tried hard not to get caught up in the hype over Lotus Development Corp.'s 1-2-3 spreadsheet application. Still, our review declared: "Lotus 1-2-3 is the best...

Confronting ISO 9000. (quality business standards in IS departments) (includes related articles on documenting an ISO 9000 system, and on the importance of reading the standards) (Industry Trend or Event)
July 29, 1996... Chances are pretty good you haven't had to learn about ISO 9000. Chances are also good that you're perfectly happy about that. Yet ISO 9000, the international standard for overall quality business processes, has for the past several years been...

Manager's Bulletin Board. (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
July 29, 1996... COMPULSORY OLYMPICS STORY. We couldn't let the Summer Games pass by without at least one blurb. Among the technological marvels in Atlanta is a new traffic-control system that is being managed by a massive client/server network. The system is...

Seeing beyond internal customer myopia keeps focus on big picture. (IS Survival Guide) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
July 29, 1996... Management speak: Value-added. Translation: Expensive. Thanks to the anonymous reader who provided this. The collapse of world communism means we no longer get to hear political candidates refer to one another as commie pinkos, communist...

Data warehouse initiative helps Sears weather competition. (NCR develops a data-warehouse system for Sears Roebuck and Co) (includes a related article on NCR's Worldwide Services Div) (Company Operations)
July 29, 1996... In the long-ago days before the convenience store and shopping mall, Western settlers relied on a thick, illustrated catalog from Sears, Roebuck and Co. to purchase everything from foodstuffs to rocking chairs. The catalog is part of the past,...

Catching up with the Joneses and 'requirement' creep. (Software Productivity Research Inc Chmn Capers Jones on improving software development processes) (Developers' Advocate) (Technology Information)(Column)
July 29, 1996... One of the people I didn't include in last week's discussion of resources for improving your software development process is Capers Jones, chairman of Software Productivity Research Inc. (SPR), in Burlington, Mass. Jones' main focus and...

It's between you and them. (CheckPoint Software Technologies' CheckPoint Firewall-1 2.0, Harris Computer Systems' CyberGuard Firewall 2.1.2 and Trusted Information Systems' Gauntlet Internet Firewall 3.1 network security software packages)(includes related articles summarizing the reviews, describing the testing process, and the describing the Socks5 protocol for network proxies at the transport level) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 29, 1996... COMPARED: CheckPoint Firewall-1 2.0 CheckPoint Software Technologies Inc. CyberGuard Firewall 2.1.2 Harris Computer Systems Corp. Gauntlet Internet Firewall 3.1 Trusted Information Systems Inc. Security experts...

Does scanning for vulnerabilities mean your firewall is safe? (security experts discuss firewall testing)(One on One) (Technology Information)
July 29, 1996... A scanner is a device that looks for specific security holes in your network and reports any internal or external network security problems to the administrator. Since the scanner's introduction last summer, there has been a lot of debate as to...

Eagle poised to prey on the Windows NT market. (Raptor Systems Inc's Eagle NT firewall software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 29, 1996... Firewalls have changed quite a bit in only a few years: Vendors are regularly adding new features and making administration easier, as well as devising new ways to implement security. However, one thing has remained constant: Firewalls run on...

Docs Open moves to enterprise. (PC Docs Inc's Docs Open 3.0 electronic document management software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
July 29, 1996... THE BOTTOM LINE: VERY GOOD Docs Open 3.0 Docs Open 3.0 is a powerful document management system based on a distributed client/server architecture. Documents are physically stored on a variety of network operating systems, which function as...