InfoWorld articles from May 1998

InfoWorld archives from May 1998

Easier install makes Red Hat 5.1 even more appealing.(Red Hat Software Inc's Red Hat 5.1) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 25, 1998... Red Hat Software is set to announce a June 1 ship date for Red Hat Linux 5.1. The latest release is a real gem; it promises easier installation, new window manager options, and improved tools for system administration, application development,...

Grab Umax SuperMac while you can.(Umax Computer Corp's SuperMac S900 Base) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 25, 1998... With its recently announced price cuts, Umax is offering some real bargains. Among these is the SuperMac S900 Base w/G3, which comes bundled with Newer Technology's 250-MHz G3 card that replaces the much slower 604e 150-MHz PowerPC CPU....

Can IP answer AT&T's call?(Internet telephony) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Faced with threats to its markets from all sides -- including the new breed of carriers such as WorldCom, the emergence of Internet telephony, and a shake-up of the regulatory landscape following the 1996 Telecommunications Act -- granddaddy of...

Courtroom showdown: Antitrust action already affecting Microsoft, rivals. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Government regulators' historic antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft will mean the end of business as usual for Microsoft, which now will have to look at every aspect of its burgeoning business through antitrust-tinted glasses. And although...

Ready, SET, wait.(Secure Electronic Transaction)(includes related article on merchants' hesitation to implementing SET) (Technology Information)
May 25, 1998... With SET I-commerce sites are still fishing for the ideal security solution The high-rollers in Internet commerce have placed their bets on Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) -- but the security protocol still has more than a few hurdles to...

Sun walls off Java; New division to own standards process.(Sun Microsystems Java Platform Group) (Company Operations)
May 25, 1998... Soothing fears that Sun Microsystems' desire to drive revenue from Java will subvert its capability to act as guardian of the Java standard, the company has created a new division dedicated to policing Java standards process as part of a...

NEC to offer PCs sans browsers.(will offer Microsoft and Netscape browsers on separate CDs) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Amid the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust action against Microsoft, NEC is stripping its PCs of browsers from both Microsoft and Netscape, and instead offering them both on CDs bundled with the systems. Company officials declined to say...

Microsoft to form NT alliance with ICL. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Microsoft this week will announce what company officials are calling its biggest global enterprise support deal ever for Windows NT, an alliance with computer systems manufacturer ICL. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's senior vice president of sales...

Internet-in-the-sky gets partners.(Teledesic partners with Motorola, Boeing and Matra Marconi Space) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Teledesic announced new partners -- Motorola, Boeing, and Matra Marconi Space -- for its forthcoming global, broadband "Internet-in-the-sky" satellite communications system. The companies will work together on development of a 288-satellite...

Oracle may link CORBA to meta data. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Industry observers are expecting Oracle's forthcoming meta-data strategy for data-warehouse management to be CORBA-compliant. Oracle representatives declined to comment. The Object Management Group's (OMG's) CORBA object specification would be...

AMD to launch K6-2 processor.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Advanced Micro Devices this week will introduce the K6-2 CPU, which includes 3DNow extensions to the MMX instruction set and plugs in to the 100-MHz Super7 socket. Last week, Integrated Device Technology's Centaur unit released its WinChip 2...

Intel drops soft-DVD plans. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Intel has dropped plans for Intel DVD, a host-based playback product that was scheduled to launch this week. An Intel executive said there already are enough alternatives with a half-dozen competitors entering the market since Intel began work...

Dell posts big profit increase. (Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Dell continued its meteoric rise by announcing a 63 percent increase in earnings over the same quarter last year -- at a time when most PC manufacturers are struggling mightily with inventory gluts in the channel. Dell's revenue increased 52...

FROM THE NEWS DESK; Suits go to the heart of Microsoft's business. (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
May 25, 1998... The minute we see vendors wrapping themselves up in the flag and pledging their allegiance to free-market principles, you know they are running scared. The computer industry is just like any other business in terms of making money. So the...

Standard to meld messaging, browsing.(MIME Encapsulation Aggregate HTML Documents) (Technology Information)
May 25, 1998... The next generation of e-mail and browsing clients will have a lot more in common thanks to a new standard approaching maturity within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The MIME Encapsulation of Aggregate HTML Documents (MHTML)...

How the software industry creates monopolies. (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... While libertarians tend to readily dismiss the antitrust cases against Microsoft, some prominent economists are saying only the rule of law can restore free-market competition to the software industry. Economists whose theories helped shape...

Microsoft memos tell the story.(antitrust case) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Microsoft executives poring over the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case will see plenty of familiar comments -- and may wish they could take them back. The Justice Department's filing includes internal Microsoft memos, interview...

Facing heated competition, HP updates NT workstations.(Kayak XW, XU and XA lines)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Hewlett-Packard is set to launch a barrage of Kayak workstations, based on the latest Intel processors, into the Windows NT workstation market that is being heated up by newcomer Dell. After waiting more than a month since Intel's launch of...

Microsoft and Iona to integrate COM, CORBA offerings.(Microsoft Transaction Server, Iona Technologies Object Transaction Monitor) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Microsoft is working with Iona Technologies to integrate its Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) with Iona's Object Transaction Monitor (OTM) software, sources said. When the integration is complete, it will enable transactions started in MTS...

PC maverick Monorail expands line.(with low-cost servers) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Monorail, a pioneer in outsourcing the manufacturing and distribution of desktop PCs, plans to introduce in early 1999 low-cost servers that also will be assembled, shipped, and supported by contractors. Following the introduction of servers...

For the record.(Correction Notice)
May 25, 1998... The article "Online job sites boom" (May 4, page 119) incorrectly described The Monster Board's growth. The site's total number of monthly visits increased from 745,000 to 2.2 million in one year. Copyright (c) 1998 InfoWorld Meida Group Inc.

AT&T lines up RBOC partnerships.(long-distance services) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Prompted by its competitors, AT&T said last week it is looking to team up with the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) to offer their customers AT&T long-distance service. During the AT&T 1998 annual meeting, Chairman C. Michael...

Sprint eyes ATM. (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... As AT&T moves to IP, Sprint is looking to ATM, a company source said. According to the source, the long-distance company is already making moves to put all types of traffic, including voice and data, on an ATM network, using Synchronous...

Pager outtage points to weakness.(PanAmSat satellite malfunction) (Technology Information)
May 25, 1998... The pager service that stalled due to a satellite malfunction last week underscored the increasing vulnerability of networks. Riding on the heels of the AT&T frame-relay outage in April (see "AT&T disconnects," April 20, page 1), a PanAmSat...

SAS boosts MDDB database.(SAS Institute's Multidimensional Database Server extensions)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... The SAS Institute last week announced server extensions to its data-warehouse software, the SAS Multidimensional Database (MDDB) Server, that are designed to enable mingling of multidimensional databases and flat file, legacy, and relational...

BEA expands middleware market presence.(BEA Systems's Iceberg Object Transaction Manager software) (Product Development)
May 25, 1998... BEA Systems will launch its Object Transaction Manager software code-name Iceberg -- the culmination of several product acquisitions -- in New York next week. Separately, the company acquired NCR's Top End enterprise middleware software last...

3Com to add IP telephony.(development deal with eFusion) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Advanced Web telephony capabilities will be added to another major line of access devices through a deal announced last week between 3Com and eFusion. 3Com and eFusion, a maker of IP telephony software, will jointly develop and market...

RSA files suit over licensing.(RSA Data Security sues Network Associates) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... RSA Data Security filed a federal lawsuit against Network Associates early last week in response to a licensing disagreement between the two companies. At issue is technology acquired through Network Associates' purchase of Trusted Information...

Sun coming up on 64-bit Solaris Unix OS. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Sun Microsystems last week launched the next development phase of its 64-bit Solaris Unix operating system with the release of its first full beta version. Sun Senior Product Manager Patrick Dorsey said 1,200 ISVs and customers and systems...

Unix vendors embrace USB.(Universal Serial Bus) (Technology Information)
May 25, 1998... Hope to simplify Unix with Windows-like plug-and-play Refusing to concede the server market to Intel and Microsoft, major Unix software vendors are joining forces in an attempt to add some of Windows NT's simplicity, such as a hot-pluggable...

Vendors push Unix unity.(The Open Group releases Unix 98 standards suite) (Technology Information)
May 25, 1998... In yet another attempt to present Unix as a unified front against Microsoft's encroaching Windows NT, The Open Group last week released Unix 98, an updated version of a set of Unix application and development environment standards. IBM, Sun...

Lexmark brightens offerings via printing division.(Lexmark International) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Lexmark will announce at PC Expo in New York on June 15 a new division focused on corporate color printing. Both ink-jet and laser printers that can be networked will be offered by the as-yet-unnamed printing division. The Lexmark decision...

PIPELINE, Part 1. (News Briefs)
May 25, 1998... ANNOUNCED Storage Technology will announce this week its 9740 DLT tape library, its first use of Digital Linear Tape (DLT) cartridges in the 9740 family. The unit can hold as many as 10 DLT 4000 or 7000 drives and 588 DLT cartridges and has...

Pushing Unix-NT cohabitation.(efforts by IBM, Sequent Computer Systems and Unisys) (Technology Information)
May 25, 1998... Unisys, Sequent, and IBM take best-of-breed approach to operating systems Although opinions may differ on just how far Windows NT will scale and whether Unix's credibility in the enterprise is threatened, a handful of companies are opting...

Street Prices.(Hard drives) (Product Information)
May 25, 1998... Hard drives for the week of May 25 Change Enhanced Access from IDE drive Capacity time(1) Low High Average Feb....

Web-centric Oracle Apps 11 get mixed reviews. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Already king of the hill in the database market, Oracle now wants to shift its development and marketing emphasis to its secondary product line -- business automation software -- in the hopes of knocking SAP out of the No. 1 spot. Oracle...

Micro Focus tackles Y2K.(TouchPoint 2000 fragment testing software, WinRunner 2000 unit and integration testing software)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Micro Focus last week announced two additions to its Mainframe Express suite that are designed to move year-2000 testing off of the mainframe and onto the PC. The first addition is aimed at fragment testing, called TouchPoint 2000, and the...

Oracle to update OLAP applications. (Express Sales Analyzer 6.2, Financial Analyzer 6.2, Express Administration 6.2)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Oracle within a month plans to unveil upgrades to its applications that are designed to add functionality to its new Express 6.2 online analytical processing (OLAP) server, including Java-enhanced versions of Express sales and...

Apple refines OS strategy again.(Mac OS X) (Product Development)
May 25, 1998... Mac OS X to inherit features from Rhapsody processor Apple's announcement of Mac OS X (which stands for Version 10) earlier this month was well-received by analysts, developers, and users. The only problem was that everyone interpreted the...

Sony expands monitor line with 21-inch CRT, flat panel.(CPD-520GS-F500 CRT unit)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Sony Electronics last week expanded its monitor line with new units in its flagship Trinitron line, and its first flat-panel monitor. Priced at $1,300, the CPD-520GS-F500 CRT unit, which targets corporate applications, incorporates a flat,...

WordPerfect 8 for Linux targets corporate IT users.(Corel's WordPerfect 8 for Linux)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Corel will release WordPerfect 8 for the Linux operating system before September, and a Linux version of the full WordPerfect 8 Suite in the following 14 months, the company announced earlier this month. Corel WordPerfect 7 for Linux is...

IBM readies NT-Unix clusters.(RS/6000 HA50, AS/400e S20 and S30 server bundles)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Targeting a market of small and midsize businesses that must link to high-availability technology from parent companies, IBM announced forthcoming server-clustering solutions that feature the linkage of Netfinity NT servers to RS/6000 models....

Microsoft announces upgrade to Visual FoxPro database tool.(Visual FoxPro Version 6.0)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Microsoft last week announced Visual FoxPro Version 6.0 at its Visual FoxPro DevCon '98 developer conference in Orlando, Fla. In Version 6.0, the company has rewritten the threading model so that it works with Microsoft Transaction Server,...

The Bug Report.(Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS), Lotus cc:Mail) (Product Information)
May 25, 1998... Bugs and fixes reported to BugNet Lotus cc:Mail For full year-2000 compliance in cc:Mail, Lotus officials say you must run at least cc:Mail DB8 database, R8.x administration tools, R8.x Internet- and LAN-based services, 6.02 routers, and...

Vendors team up on presentation package. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Compaq, Microsoft, Iomega, and InFocus Systems have joined forces to bundle various presentation tools that are designed to provide an easy-to-use package weighing less than a total of 8 pounds. Announced last week, the four companies are...

Natural Language promises simplicity. (Technology Information)
May 25, 1998... Latest software advances go beyond speech recognition Voice-recognition technologists from IBM, Lernout & Hauspie (L&H), Microsoft, and others are battling it out behind the scenes to bring Natural Language (NL) understanding, which is...

WINDOW MANAGER. (Product Information)
May 25, 1998... It's time to watch out for bugs, tips, and secrets for Windows 98 Regardless of the outcome of the Microsoft antitrust case, one thing is certain: Some product called "Windows 98" will eventually be available to the public. Because that is...

TEST CENTER RX. (Question and Answer)
May 25, 1998... Tackling IP addresses, plus more on speeds for Pentium Pros Reader: I am responsible for maintaining a Windows NT 4.0 network. Currently, my network is a Class C IP based on xxx.xxx.xxx.0 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192. My Internet...

QOS faces growing pains. (Technology Information)
May 25, 1998... Consistent policies from LAN to WAN prove difficult Enterprises banking on the promise of combined voice, video, and data networks with guaranteed quality of service (QOS) may be in for a surprise when they try to run delay-sensitive...

PIPELINE, Part 2.(Hewlett-Packard and Ganymede Software, NetScout Systems)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... ANNOUNCED Hewlett-Packard and Ganymede Software last week announced a strategic agreement, under which Ganymede's Chariot and Pegasus network performance-monitoring products will be resold through HP's worldwide sales force. The two...

Microsoft enlists INS to help fortify NT.(International Network Services (INS), Microsoft Windows NT OS) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Out to prove that Windows NT and BackOffice are valid corporate infrastructure solutions, Microsoft has enlisted International Network Services (INS) to provide enterprise-level consulting and integration services. INS will offer the...

Concord digs out a healthy network niche.(Concord Communications) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Concord Communications has carved an impressive niche for itself in the predictive network-monitoring market, claiming to have signed up more than 65 new blue chip customers in its last quarter alone. The company has developed a family of...

Vendors try to save ATM connectivity costs.(Inverse Multiplexing over ATM (IMA)) (Technology Information)
May 25, 1998... WAN vendors last week kicked off an initiative to promote a technology that could save ATM connectivity costs for many midsize organizations. Sentient Networks announced it will join with 3Com, Larscom, and other hardware manufacturers to...

Novell's ZENworks to ease administration.(Zero Effort Networks)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Software management is added bonus Novell last week began shipping ZENworks (Zero Effort Networks), the company's directory services-based tool designed to provide network administrators with software management and distribution, as well as...

Gigabit Ethernet to reach mass market.(MMC Networks' AnyFlow 5500)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Gigabit Ethernet and multilayer switching, which only recently began shipping in volume, are headed on a steep trip down to mass-market pricing with the introduction of low-cost merchant silicon. Chip sets to be introduced this week by MMC...

Entevo looks to help migration to Windows NT 5.0.(DirectManage)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... Entevo this week is expected to announce DirectManage 1.0, a cross-platform directory services management suite that is Active Directory Services Interface (ADSI)-compliant and is aimed at easing the migration to Windows NT 5.0. DirectManage...

Novell readies service pack for NetWare memory glitch.(NetWare 4.x) (Product Information)
May 25, 1998... Novell is currently developing a service pack to address a problem with memory allocation in NetWare 4.x servers. The company has heard complaints from customers that they are receiving "memory allocator out of available memory" error messages...

Motorola chips bridge ADSL, analog divide.(CopperGold Lite chips)(Product Announcement)
May 25, 1998... By providing support for both V.90 and Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) access technologies, modem chips introduced this week by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector are designed to let PC OEMs provide systems that offer the...

IBM, Symantec enter alliance to integrate anti-virus lines. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... IBM and Symantec last week announced a deal through which they will combine their respective anti-virus products. As part of the undisclosed cash and royalty agreement, Symantec will license IBM's immune system technology and patents and...

HP expands Microsoft Exchange plans. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Company touts enterprise products and competitor Digital responds Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard have announced plans to expand their ongoing alliance to develop Microsoft Exchange messaging and collaboration products and services for...

Regulatory Roundup.(The European Commission) (Government Activity)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... A telecommunications newsbyte from Europe (Brussels, Belgium) The European Commission (EC) has opened infringement procedures against Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg for violating telecommunications legislation. The EC has...

EC seeks wireless consensus.(European Commission) (Industry Trend or Event)
May 25, 1998... Europe's mobile telecom clout at stake The European Commission (EC) has begun an effort to establish a common European position on allocation of frequencies for the next generation of mobile telecommunications systems. An EC statement...

Review: Snap Server simplifies small-network storage chores.(Meridian Data) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
May 25, 1998... Meridian Data's recently released Snap Server 1.0 makes providing network storage a breeze for IS managers in small heterogeneous environments. Although Snap Server is no panacea, I found that for workgroup office storage needs, it lives up to...

CacheFlow relieves WAN links.(CacheFlow Inc's Cachflow 1000) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
May 25, 1998... Managing bandwidth on WAN links has become an increasingly difficult proposition for IT managers with the rise of Internet and intranet use. CacheFlow's CacheFlow 1000 can effectively stem this traffic tide at the edge of your enterprise...

Help for the Web upgrade boosts self-help interface.(GWI Software Inc's Help for the Web 2.0) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 25, 1998... Depth and breadth of service and support offerings are two key factors under constant scrutiny by end-users in the computer industry. As a result, many managers are turning toward Internet-based help-desk software to augment their customer...

DiscPort eases CD-ROM control, lacks central console.(Microtest Inc's DiscPort Executive for NT 2.2) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 25, 1998... Nobody on your network likes to wait, least of all for software to upload from a server. Microtest's DiscPort Executive for NT 2.2 CD-ROM sharing software incorporates some handy features that expedite disk access. It works well in Windows NT...

SECURITY WATCH.(protecting Web sites from Computer Graphics Interface vulnerabilities) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
May 25, 1998... CGI vulnerabilities that leave back doors open still plague Web sites Ever wonder how unethical hackers or "crackers" deface Web pages so easily? What most are doing is exploiting existing CGI vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, overworked Web...

LOOSE CABLES. (News Briefs)(Column)
May 25, 1998... Offering hot jazz and cool drinks, industry events leave us dizzy Think fast: What software company is right on Microsoft's tail in terms of scope and size? No, it's not Oracle, Novell, or even IBM. It's Computer Associates. After a series of...

PIPELINE, Par 3.(Pager information) (News Briefs)
May 25, 1998... ANNOUNCED Open Market will offer its ShopSite Express product free to Microsoft FrontPage users. ShopSite Express offers an easy-to-use Web-based interface for entering product name and pricing information into an online database. The...

Netscape scores big with Citibank sale. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Deal puts upstart Internet company in the running for I-commerce market Netscape -- sorely needing a major corporate software sale to bolster its image -- scored its largest business transaction last week by becoming an Internet-commerce...

Lotus buys its way to instant messaging.(Ubique, DataBeam) (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... Intent on making Lotus Notes/Domino a does-all application, IBM bought two companies last week that bring instant messaging and real-time conferencing features to Notes and Domino. The technology from DataBeam, in Lexington, Ky., and Ubique,...

The Web Hotlist.(recommended Web sites) (News Briefs)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Web sites worth checking out Broadcast.com - http://www.broadcast.com Web media company Broadcast.com offers a wide range of streaming audio and video programming. The Technology Channel features live feeds from industry events and access...

Batten down the hatches: Code attacks lurk.(vulnerabilities of Windows NT, Java) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 25, 1998... Internet security experts agree that mobile code attacks are increasing in frequency, and many are working to help find solutions to stem the tide. The threat of mobile code attacks looms over the Internet for commerce, privacy, and...

Hostcheck keeps the bad guys at bay.(DMW Worldwide's network security software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Featuring a Java-based GUI and a vulnerability database that contains almost 2,000 validated exploits, DMW Worldwide's HostCheck provides a simple, powerful way for companies to maintain high-level security. DMW Worldwide, in Colorado Springs,...

USWeb shuffles its acquisitions.(purchases Gray Peak Technologies) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... Gray Peak is latest to fall into the fold USWeb will reorganize its services into three main groups as part of a new business plan announced in conjunction with the company's most recent acquisition The Web-site consulting company has...

W3C gives a nod to DataChannel's WebBroker.(World Wide Web Consortium) (Industry Trend or Event)
May 25, 1998... The push for a standards-based distributed computing model got an advance with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) acknowledging DataChannel submission, attempting to standardize its WebBroker technology. WebBroker wraps Microsoft's...

CommerceNet group taps Current Analysis. (Company Business and Marketing)
May 25, 1998... CommerceNet, a nonprofit association to promote Internet commerce, has formed a partnership with Current Analysis to provide analytical content to CommerceNet users. CommerceNet is a group made up of about 500 I-commerce vendors, banks,...

e2 Software rolls out Web marketing system.(SalesOffice)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... SalesOffice eases analysis and tracking e2 Software is now shipping its e2 SalesOffice, a real-time Internet marketing automation system to assist users with customizing their Internet-commerce sites and providing useful information to their...

GlobeSet, IBM to test SET systems for I-commerce.(Secure Electronic Transaction technology for IBM CommercePoint) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... GlobeSet and IBM have announced they will enter into interoperability testing for each company's Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) system. Both companies offer a suite of products that allow consumers, merchants, and banks to utilize the...

Autonomy CEO Michael Lynch on how to sort the wheat from the chaff. (Product Information)(Interview)
May 25, 1998... Beyond keywords and structured searches is a new kind of technology for recognizing patterns in data. As CEO of Autonomy, a company that is developing and marketing such technology, Michael Lynch recently met with InfoWorld Intranets &...

W3C targets Web page display and privacy specifications.(Platform for Privacy Preferences specification) (Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 25, 1998... The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is seeking to improve the end-user experience on the Web with recent announcements that involve privacy and better Web page display and creation. The W3C last week made public a draft of the Platform for...

NET PROPHET.(Innovative Software's Web-based marketing strategy) (Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
May 25, 1998... Innovative strategy drives online success for software vendor If you doubt the power of the Internet to transform business, just talk to Jim Luty. The president of Innovative Software (http://www.innovativesoftware.com), in Milwaukee. Luty...

Review: SilverStream shines.(SilverStream Software's SilverStream 1.5 Web application server) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 25, 1998... Peppy performance, native drivers will please Web builders SilverStream 1.5, from SilverStream Software, is a Web application server that shows definite star quality by offering IT sites a solid solution for the development, deployment, and...

Web sales are more than just high-tech.(Dell Computer logs $4 million per diem on Web site) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 25, 1998... It comes as no shock when an IT company such as Dell Computer boasts of making $4 million daily on its Web site. But as International Data Corp.'s eCommerce Forum demonstrated in Monaco this month, non-IT companies are setting up shop on the...