InfoWorld articles from June 1999, page 2

InfoWorld archives from June 1999

CAREER CURRENTS--Getting ahead: Without business skills, your IT career path will be limited.
June 21, 1999... Getting ahead: Without business skills, your IT career path will be limited This week's question: What are the rewards for learning about business? The numbers are in, and they confirm what many in the IT field have been saying for...

THE GRIPE LINE--Time is running out: You must act now to prevent the passage of UCITA.(Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act)(Government Activity)
June 21, 1999... I'm pleased to report that our e-mail petition opposing the immediate enactment of the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) garnered more than 1,000 virtual signatures in its first week. They're still coming in, but we need...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD--Rose is worried about her weight, but Bobby's more concerned about Sybase.(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
June 21, 1999... Mexico seems like a very long time ago now, and I've spent the past week watching my suntan fade. Rose, on the other hand, has been pondering the extra pounds she picked up eating all those burritos and drinking all those margaritas. She's...

DOWN TO THE WIRE--Treasure trove: PHP offers features that will make your Web apps sparkle.(Technology Information)(Column)
June 21, 1999... I just discovered a hidden gem. I'm talking about a programming environment called Hypertext Preprocessor, aka PHP (www.php3.org). PHP is a Web scripting language that is the functional equivalent of Microsoft's VBScript and Active Server...

FROM THE ETHER--Linux's '60s technology, open-sores ideology won't beat W2K, but what will?(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
June 21, 1999... Closing the eighth International World Wide Web Conference, I predicted the Internet's stock bubble would burst on Nov. 8, 1999. A thousand people hooted at my specificity. Next, I predicted that the Internet would gigalapse before the...

Server appliances--Serving up simplicity.(Cobalt Networks' Cobalt Qube 2, Compaq Computer's Prosignia NeoServer, HP's NetServer E 60, Rebel.com's NetWinder GS)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 21, 1999... Branch offices need file and print services, with or without an IT staff. When it's up to you to provide those services from corporate headquarters, choose a server appliance -- and make your job a lot easier. COMPARED Cobalt...

Intel on the road with PIII-- Company envisions seven types of mobile platforms.(Intel's Mobile Pentium III microprocessor)(Product Information)
June 21, 1999... On the eve of PC Expo, Intel is pushing notebook makers to expand their mobile offerings during the next year, hoping to give customers more choices than ever for maximizing mobile productivity while minimizing costs. In a market that...

'Pervasive' IBM plan targets mobile users.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 21, 1999... IBM will lay out its long-term pervasive computing strategy this week, which aims to extend electronic business beyond the PC to the emerging class of intelligent devices. In addition, IBM will detail how it will use Java as the lingua...

NEWS BRIEFS--Ex-Symantec CEO stands up for Microsoft.(Gordon Eubanks)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 21, 1999... Former Symantec CEO Gordon Eubanks was the star of the Microsoft antitrust trial last week. Eubanks insisted that competition is healthy in the software industry, but U.S. Department of Justice officials tried to discredit his testimony by...

Cisco readying router to boost IP bandwidth.(Cisco Systems 12000 Plus)(Product Development)
June 21, 1999... Cisco is gearing up to address an impending crunch in the core of the Internet with a high-performance routing box that could help establish the credibility that high-speed routing technology needs, according to sources familiar with the...

Intel eight-way servers face off against Alpha -- Compaq readying systems for early viewing at show.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 21, 1999... PC Expo will serve as the launching pad for a new round of system wars, pitting beta versions of eight-way Intel-based servers vs. low-priced Alpha servers. Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM are set to demonstrate products and...

Windows 2000 first release could appear by end of June.(Microsoft)(Product Development)
June 21, 1999... Microsoft is hoping to reach a significant Windows 2000 milestone by completing Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the system by the end of June, but many beta testers still are unclear about when they will get their hands on that issue. ...

Senate passes Y2K bill--But the White House threatens to veto the legislation.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 21, 1999... The U.S. Senate last week passed legislation five votes shy of a veto-proof margin that would limit corporate liability for year-2000 problems. The bill encourages mediation and gives companies 90 days to fix problems before they can be...

Qwest bids $55 billion for US West, Frontier.(Qwest Communications)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 21, 1999... Qwest Communications last week submitted an unsolicited bid to acquire US West and Frontier for a total of $55 billion in cash and equity, with Qwest also taking on $11.4 billion in assumed debt from the companies. Should the deal be...

CA outlines its Platinum plans.(Computer Associates, Platinum Technology)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 21, 1999... Computer Associates last week detailed its post-merger plans for the holdings it garnered through its $3.5 billion acquisition of Platinum Technology, outlining its product strategy and signaling impending staff cuts. CA officials...

3Com's Abrams reads Palm's future--Palm Computing president forecasts the role of handhelds in the enterprise.(3Com Palm Computing div Pres Robin Abrams discusses future of Palm Pilot PDAs)(Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
June 21, 1999... One of the most credible alternative operating systems to emerge on the client side in recent years is the software currently being used to power the increasingly ubiquitous Palm handheld devices from 3Com. As president of 3Com's Palm...

Actuate automates, personalizes reporting--Dynamic HTML key to product's new capabilities.(Actuate's e.Reporting Suite 4.0 reporting software)(Product Announcement)
June 21, 1999... Think of it as an electronic letterhead for your corporate reports. In an effort to simplify the creation and viewing of Web-based corporate reports, enterprise reporting vendor Actuate last week introduced e.Reporting Suite 4, with...

Trading partners to get new options for communication.(i2 Technologies', Manugistics'i2 Intelligent eBusiness Initiative)(Product Announcement)
June 21, 1999... With an eye on predictions that electronic commerce will continue to balloon in the next several years, i2 Technologies and Manugistics are using their experience in automating internal supply chains to build external ones. Both...

Compaq, IBM deliver on promised network storage plans.(Company Business and Marketing)(Product Announcement)
June 21, 1999... Compaq Computer and IBM are stepping up their presence in the storage area network (SAN) market. Compaq last week delivered on portions of its Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA) strategy, and IBM is set to add several pieces...

BUSINESS BRIEFS.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 21, 1999... Resignation: Nortel president to leave merged networking giant Nortel Networks President Dave House resigned last week, one year after the merger of Bay Networks and Nortel created a networking powerhouse. House will leave the company...

RESEARCH BRIEFS--Market trends: Real numbers behind Net profits.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 21, 1999... Perhaps Web-based profits are not as elusive as most believe. According to a June study published by ActivMedia Research, "The market leaders are savaging current profits for anticipated payoffs in market share that are several...

Street prices.(News Briefs)
June 21, 1999... Pentium desktops for the week of June 21 Tabular data available in hardcopy from publisher

Linux founder Torvalds speaks out on the future of the OS.(Technology Information)
June 21, 1999... Linux creator Linus Torvalds last week set goals for his open-source operating system, including a movement to the desktop and faster release times. But a one-size-fits-all implementation of Linux is not likely or desirable, because...

Service-level monitoring options growing.(Product Announcement)
June 21, 1999... Options for service-level management will grow this month, with 3Com and two other companies detailing software upgrades to monitor network application performance. 3Com last week introduced an update to its DynamicAccess software that...

The Bug Report--Bugs and fixes reported to BugNet.(Novell Client 32)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 21, 1999... Novell Novell engineers have found that some Windows 95 PCs with both the Novell Client 32 and the Microsoft Client for NetWare get spool32 errors when printing. In one case, a port mismatch between a Cisco CAT5000 and Netelligent...

BEHIND THE LINES - WITH MARK TEBBE.(eBay system problems)(Company Operations)
June 21, 1999... eBay's outages highlight problems with I-commerce Setbacks at auction company aren't unique When eBay went public, many analysts called it the perfect business. It had no physical warehouses, no storefronts, and no need to produce...

Sun at work on deployment tools for Java 2 technologies--Baratz expects others to follow suit.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 21, 1999... Recognizing that managing the version control and updates of the 15 Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technologies may be daunting, Sun Microsystems is working on platform-deployment tools and processes that will debut late this year. "In...

Bracing for losses, Compaq to reorganize--PC maker looks to create three separate profit centers.
June 21, 1999... With losses looming, Compaq Computer has announced a major restructuring that will result in three business units, each responsible for its own profits and losses. Compaq blamed pricing pressures in the personal computer segment,...

Picking the PC's new directions--At a critical juncture, the PC platform is morphing into simplified and specialized devices.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 21, 1999... As the 17th annual PC Expo takes stage in New York this week, the venerable personal computer is finding that its road to success has taken a few new turns. The flames of the PC revolution 20 years ago were fueled by the desire to...

Lotus woos developers--Touts Notes/Domino platform amid market share slip.(Lotus Developers Conference '99)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 21, 1999... Lotus this week will seek to rally its developer community behind Notes and Domino as an open and versatile platform worthy of a critical role in the developers' business plans, even as it fends off increased competition and an uncertain...

Gosling: Windows can't touch Unix for safety.(Windows and NT blamed for viruses and worms)(Technology Information)
June 21, 1999... Java co-author and Sun Microsystems evangelist James Gosling said at last week's JavaOne conference that the recent spate of viruses and worms affecting corporations worldwide is a result of Windows' and Windows NT's structure, and that Unix,...

Bonuses: For many, financial rewards of IT work go beyond salaries.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 21, 1999... That's the best way to help employees see the link between IT work and business results? One possibility is to use bonuses to reward performance that helps the business. IT professionals with a joint business-technology focus reported...

Work hours: Lots to do, never enough time to do it.(IT professionals work long hours)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 21, 1999... Although our survey results indicate that some IT professionals put in close to a standard workweek, many others work long hours and are on call far beyond 40 hours. The average work week reported by this year's respondents was 48.4...

Motivation: Many factors at play.(salaries to list of IT concerns, but job satisfaction, new technologies and new skills also count)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 21, 1999... Compensation surveys, not surprisingly, tend to focus on money. And for some people, money is one of the main reasons they will accept or leave a job. "Compensation can be used as a benchmark for value," said an IT manager at an...

Education: Advanced learning advances careers.(IT professionals)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 21, 1999... To achieve that crucial balance between technical and business skills, IT professionals are turning to a variety of training and education methods. Formal degrees remain the cornerstone: Almost all of the survey respondents reported...

Diversity: Differences are clear, but reasons are not.(IT professional compensation)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 21, 1999... Most of this compensation survey examines fairly rational reasons for the wide variety of salaries paid to IT professionals. After all, it's not unfair for an IT manager who supervises 40 employees and controls a large budget at a big...

Pentium notebooks for the week of June 14.(Illustration)
June 14, 1999... 300-MHz Change Pentium Screen Hard from notebook(1) size drive Low High Average April Acer...

Champions of change.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 14, 1999... IT managers must help users and employees weather the storm When she was CIO of Universal Underwriters Group, in Overland Park, Kan., Eileen Strider started each IT staff meeting by taking her employees' "emotional temperature reading."...

Gasp will not leave you breathless.(Access Systems Gasp 5.0 network management software)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 14, 1999... It's budget time, and your boss needs to know how many unused licenses of key applications are left. There has been a complaint, and you're about to be audited. Can you prove that you did your best to stay on top of illegal software use?...

Tripwire: last defense before checkmate.(Tripwire 2.1 for Windows NT systems/data security software)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 14, 1999... Checkmate is at hand. Hackers have made their moves, bypassing your firewalls and sidestepping your security policy scanners. They now have access to your files. Soon your financials will be off by 0.01 percent and your Web site will offer...

Clik card eases portable-storage woes.(Iomega Clik PC Card removable media drive)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 14, 1999... The zip disk revolutionized portable storage by making it easy to transport large files between machines without a network connection. It also made life simple for people who want to back up important files. However, there is a drawback to...

Economical AT-8126XL switch impresses.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
June 14, 1999... It wasn't too long ago that only high-end switches had decent management features. But recently vendors have been introducing low-cost switches with management features that rival their high-cost-per-port brethren. The Allied Telesyn...

Test Center Analysis: Making the grade.(Technology Information)
June 14, 1999... The latest class of application servers goes to work in the real world As class of 1999 application servers leave the relative safety of product development labs and commence work in the real world, many IT managers with Web application...

Secant speeds up distributed development projects.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 14, 1999... The sheer number of application servers available today makes choosing the most appropriate one much more difficult. Sites investigating application servers for use in distributed Web application projects should definitely check out Secant's...

DataAge 4.0 gracefully ages data archives.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 14, 1999... One of the year-2000 troubles that companies could face involves applications stumbling over future date fields found in a database. For example, an application that calculates a shipment date for an order could work today, but fail when...

PipeLive bolsters Web support.(Interworks Systems' PipeLive 3.0 network management utility)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 14, 1999... In the physical world, a customer who wanders into a shop is encouraged or at least supported by a salesperson who represents the product. In the digital world, however, we can shop for hours without interacting with a single human being....

Message Inspector investigates e-mail.(Elron Softwares Message Inspector 2.0 network security software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 14, 1999... Software helps companies target suspicious incoming, outgoing data Every corporation faces security issues when it comes to online communications, such as problems related to receiving unsolicited e-mail, the possible loss of confidential...

Site profile: www.cheaptickets.com.(Cheap Tickets Inc.)(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 14, 1999... Company: Cheap Tickets Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii Content: Sales of discount airline tickets and travel services Revenues: Gross Internet bookings of $20.3 million for the first quarter of 1999 Customers: More than 750,000 registered...

Expect godlike performance from Zeus.(Zeus Technology Zeus Web Server 3.3.1 Web server software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
June 14, 1999... Given the abundance of free or bundled Web server software, such as Apache and Microsoft's Internet Information Server, there's been little reason for companies to invest in other versions. According to Netcraft's Web server survey (see...

Mentor's Corner: USOP gains accidental e-commerce benefit.(US Office Products electronic-commerce system)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 14, 1999... A $2.6 billion office-products supplier, US Office Products (USOP), was playing catch-up with the competition when it launched an electronic-commerce system in 1997. But what started as a reaction to the competition has been a boon to...

Spyrus CEO sees digital certificates and smart cards as the way to secure access no matter how far users stray from the corporate net.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 14, 1999... The issue of network security is becoming increasingly important as commerce transactions and secure communications grow in number on the Internet. With this increased interest, some security companies have found an opportunity to mix...

Microsoft, others to improve protocol's scalability.(Microsoft Windows 2000 OS)(Product Information)
June 14, 1999... A reworking of the set of protocols designed to provide guaranteed quality of service (QOS) on IP networks is now raising hopes for better application performance all the way from clients to servers. A Microsoft official and others at the...

FTC closes door on investigation into Cisco.(Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Networks)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 14, 1999... The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has closed its inquiry into partnership talks among Cisco Systems, Lucent Technologies, and Nortel Networks, and has decided not to investigate the matter further, according to Cisco. The FTC...

Savant CEO explains how company's systems management software aims to make sense out of collected data.(Savant CEO Bill Wynn)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 14, 1999... Measuring the effectiveness of large, relational databases, eight-way NT servers, and storage area network solutions requires significant, enterprise- level systems management. Enter Savant, a company dedicated to developing systems...

French Net fees still high.(France Telecom)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 14, 1999... While the French telecommunications regulator has approved France Telecom's much-anticipated plan for lowering off-hour Internet access rates, it is now unclear if the new tariffs will be put into place, because of a disagreement over...

NAI joins Cisco's VPN group.(Cisco Systems and Network Associates)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
June 14, 1999... Cisco Systems and Network Associates Inc. (NAI) announced that NAI will become a member of Cisco's newly formed virtual private network (VPN) client interoperability program. Under the program, Network Associates' PGP VPN client software...

VPN rollouts promise higher capacity, intelligence.(Ennovate Networks Envoy 1600 IP switch, Nortel Networks Contivity Extranet Switch 1500, 2500, and 4500)(Product Announcement)
June 14, 1999... Vendors are beginning to unveil advances in virtual private network (VPN) equipment for enterprises and service providers, pursuing more cost-effective solutions for secure communication over IP networks. Nortel Networks is introducing...

ISP pursues cable vendors.(Internet Ventures)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 14, 1999... Provider asks FCC's help in leasing high-speed lines A California Internet service provider (ISP) has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission to determine whether cable operators should be compelled to lease parts of their...

Lucent, Ascend pledge VOIP product interoperability.(Lucent Technologies PacketStar Internet Telephony System,)(Ascend Communications MAX 6000 and MAX TNT VOIP platforms)(Product Information)
June 14, 1999... Lucent Technologies and Ascend Communications detailed plans to make their products interoperable in the voice over IP (VOIP) space. VOIP entails processing voice calls over a company's IP network, for cost savings. The companies plan to...

AT&T drops from Unisource venture.(AT&T Unisource Communication Services)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 14, 1999... Companies agree on terms nearly a year after decision AT&T and Unisource have agreed on terms to allow the U.S. carrier to withdraw from its joint venture with the European tele-communications alliance. Neither the terms nor the...

Data General rolls out suite for storage management.(DG/Management Suite)(Product Announcement)
June 14, 1999... Data General further demonstrated its strategic commitment to the enterprise storage market, announcing a package of enterprise-level management products that are compliant with the Common Information Model (CIM) standard. The...

FROM THE NEWS DESK.(computer software industry)(Industry Trend or Event)
June 14, 1999... Same old technology, just a different decade Lots of people marvel at the speed of innovation in the computer industry, but truth be told, innovation tends to move at a snail's pace. For example, most of the leading-edge...

Administrator access is only the first step in hacking your way into Windows NT Server.(Product Information)
June 14, 1999... Unfortunately, in the great majority of NT domains, Administrator on one system inevitably leads to ownership of the entire domain. The reason for this is disturbingly simple: 99 out of 100 companies don't enforce a policy of using separate...

Prepare your PC for faster performance and more reliability under Windows.(Product Information)
June 14, 1999... Two weeks ago, I asked whether you found that Windows was getting slower each month. Several people I respect find Windows' behavior so annoying that every six months they back up their data, format their hard disks, and reinstall Windows....

Clueless banks are spelling opportunity for online start-ups.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 14, 1999... I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. This may not be news to you, but the banking industry hasn't got a clue about the Internet. During the past two months, I've discovered how frustrating that cluelessness can be for...

Platform-independent power management increases efficiency of NT and other systems.(Product Information)
June 14, 1999... My power trip must continue this week. In my May 10 column ("Energy Star makes you feel good while saving money in cooling and operating costs," page 88), I addressed a question about powering off monitors not in use. In that response, I...

InfoWorld readers have plenty to say about how to boost ranks of high-tech employees.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 14, 1999... There are certain topics, such as IBM's AS/400, Linux, and open-source software, that always seem to evoke a large amount of feedback from InfoWorld's print and online reader communities. In my May 17 column, I shared suggestions made by...

Full disclosure: Vendors should come clean early on about security flaws.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 14, 1999... In explaining my career to my young sons, one of their biggest disappointments was learning that my work with cryptography did not actually allow me to see dead bodies. One of my biggest disappointments in working in the Internet security...

Redesigned Web site provides readers with new and improved information.(Editorial)
June 14, 1999... The InfoWorld Web site has a new look this week to go with a raft of new capabilities designed to make it more useful for both our print and our online readers. It has a new name, InfoWorld.com -- replacing InfoWorld Electric -- but the same...

Change can be painful, so it's natural for people all over the company to resist.(Humor)(Column)
June 14, 1999... MANAGEMENT SPEAK: I support you 100 percent. TRANSLATION: If anything goes wrong, we've never met. -- Regrettably, you'll never know if you meet this week's anonymous translator I've just made the transition from renting to...

Going beyond software: UCITA might ensnare consumer buyers as well.(News Briefs)(Column)
June 14, 1999... There's one more story I need to tell you to help put the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) in perspective. In the fall of 1995, Gateway 2000 celebrated its first decade in business by shipping the Gateway Tenth...

While in a bar, Rose gets the call from a cult, and Bobby is almost left out.(News Briefs)(Column)
June 14, 1999... On the last day of our vacation in Mexico, Rose was accosted by a man in a very bad toupee. Obviously engaged by Rose's vivacity (we were in a restaurant called Ernie Tomato's and she was singing along to the Aretha Franklin song that was...

Office 2000: Collaborating is terrific until it includes your intellectual property.(from Microsoft)(Product Information)
June 14, 1999... For the first time in ages, I'm actually looking forward to getting the latest copy of something published by Microsoft. I'm anxious to take a good look at Office 2000, because it appears as if Microsoft is finally pushing the suite in...

No need to waltz around scheduling when you have TimeDance on your hands.(from AnyDay.com)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 14, 1999... You could just trust me. You could stop reading and go try some new scheduling software available for the first time today at www.timedance.com. Or, you could read on about why TimeDance will likely start another major Web epidemic, and...

Worm wreaks IT havoc.(Product Information)
June 14, 1999... Major security breach enters same holes used by Melissa A new worm, called Worm.ExploreZip, blazed across the Internet last week, altering the win.ini file when users rebooted and deleting large numbers of files. As the worm spread,...

Push is on for Windows 2000 apps delivery.(Microsoft ramps up third-party licensing)(Company Business and Marketing)
June 14, 1999... Well aware that an operating system is only as good as the applications that run on it, Microsoft is turning up the heat on ISVs to get behind Windows 2000 with months to go before the release. Despite planning to spend almost $48 million...

NEWS BRIEFS.(Microsoft facing lawsuits from Caldera, Bristol Technology)
June 14, 1999... Legal imbroglios worsen for Microsoft While the federal government's antitrust case against Microsoft raged on last week. Microsoft lawyers also defended the company against antitrust charges in two other courtrooms. In Salt Lake City,...

Dell to reveal OptiPlex services program.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 14, 1999... Dell Computer will step up its commitment to corporate services this week with its CareFree Services package for OptiPlex desktop PCs, according to sources close to the company. The program will bundle comprehensive services, including...

SCO to unveil server-side Java enhancer.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
June 14, 1999... SCO this week at JavaOne will announce a patented technology, code-named PerkUp, that lets a single Java virtual machine (JVM) run multiple Java applications concurrently by sharing system resources, SCO officials said. PerkUp obviates the...

Compaq delivers on ENSA strategy.
June 14, 1999... Compaq this week will deliver portions of its Enterprise Network Storage Architecture (ENSA) strategy that company officials feel will help them provide storage solutions "from the desktop to the data center." Its StorageWorks Virtual...

Symantec spins off Java tools business.(Product Information)
June 14, 1999... Symantec last week moved to sever its Java tools unit from the rest of the software vendor and plans to set up a separate company with the Visual Cafe family, its flagship product, the company announced. Symantec officials said the new...

RosettaNet group to use XML for commerce interoperability.(Industry Trend or Event)
June 14, 1999... To improve their business interoperability, dozens of PC makers, suppliers, and buyers last week announced they will begin using eConcert, a new electronic- commerce language based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML), by Feb. 2, 2000. ...

HP offers ERP print help.(Company Business and Marketing)
June 14, 1999... Company attacks big IT headache Hewlett-Packard will launch this week HP Digital Workplace Services, a portfolio of consulting and outsourcing services for printing that will be essential to complex IT environments. Although computer...

JBuilder 3 adds Java 2, visual tools.(from Inprise)(Product Announcement)
June 14, 1999... This week at the JavaOne show, Inprise will show its JBuilder Java development environment running on the Solaris platform. The company expects to expand support for its Windows Java development tool to both Solaris and Linux by early in...