InfoWorld articles from May 2000

InfoWorld archives from May 2000

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Who benefits from a Microsoft breakup?(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
May 1, 2000... The notion of a corporate breakup shakes the very foundations of Microsoft, the company that values integration over all things. Microsoft and anti-regulatory stalwarts are horrified at the idea of separating and regulating the way that...

Intel eyes Internet as next frontier to cross.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... INTEL COURTED THE financial community in New York last week with a host of forward-looking statements about the realignment of its many businesses, as well as glimpses at some forthcoming products. Intel Chairman Andy Grove said Intel is...

Intel to phase out processor serial numbers.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Intel plans to stop stamping serial numbers in its processors, starting with its Willamette chip that is due out later this year, company officials said last week. Privacy groups last year protested after Intel announced that it was planning to...

WorldCom shareholders approve merger.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Shareholders of MCI WorldCom last week "overwhelmingly approved" the pending merger with Sprint, with more than 98 percent of WorldCom shares voting in favor of the deal. Despite reports that the Federal Communications Commission has put a hold...

Cisco fires two over kickbacks.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Cisco Systems said last week that it fired two employees, suspended one, and reassigned three others after uncovering a kickback deal involving Cisco salespeople. According to a Cisco representative, two Cisco salesmen sold $50 million in...

Airline exchange is unveiled.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... Six major airlines -- Air France, American Airlines, British Airways, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and United Airlines -- will create a joint venture to operate an online marketplace for buying goods and services. The new company will...

Script-Hotmail conflict emerges.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... A JavaScript-related privacy problem popped up for Hotmail last week, as it was found that JavaScript commands in unforeseen HTML labels could compromise user password security when messages were viewed with Internet Explorer. Microsoft...

Oracle offers fast financial application setup.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... PROMISING A FULLY functional financial management system in five days, Oracle debuted its Oracle FastForward OnLine Financials-RPM program for Oracle Financials at the Oracle Application Users Group conference in Philadelphia last week. ...

Vendors eye businesses that stock up online.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... MAJOR VENDORS, including PeopleSoft, Sun Microsystems, Netscape, and Oracle, jumped into the e-procurement game last week, courting businesses seeking online buying's promise of cost savings and more efficient supply chains. Behind the...

Online bill options mount - Major players from diverse sectors eye opportunities.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... THE POTENTIAL FOR EBPP (electronic bill presentment and payment) to streamline business transactions lured several powerhouses last week, all of which partnered with EBPP providers. Reflecting the range of interest in EBPP, Bank of America...

Convergence technology boosts enterprise appeal.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... IN AN EFFORT to hasten the trend toward voice and data convergence on enterprise networks, Siemens, General Bandwidth, and others will use next week's NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas to showcase solutions enabling different traffic types to...

Management tools take stage.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... NETWORK MANAGEMENT administrators seeking that elusive ingredient to tie their enterprise directly into the company's online business process should find plenty of e-commerce network performance and analysis options to choose from at the...

Application delivery gets a modular twist.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... USING PRINCIPLES SIMILAR to those behind content-delivery networks -- but applying them to application delivery -- AppStream is offering companies a way to get applications to users quickly and in a bandwidth-efficient manner. AppStream...

PC's role is questioned - Emergence of Web devices sparks debate at conference.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... WHEN MICROSOFT last week demonstrated its Universal Plug and Play (UP&P) concept with a prototype Internet audio/visual set-top box built by Dallas-based Panja, Greg Sullivan, a product manager for Microsoft's Platform Group, called the PC-less...

Microsoft tweaks DNA code.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... MICROSOFT last week stepped up its efforts to work out the prelaunch kinks in a pair of its key Windows DNA components, releasing updated test versions of Host Integration Server 2000 and SQL Server 2000. The latest Host Integration Server...

Intel touts high-speed data transfer rates with final spec.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... INTEL LAST WEEK announced the release of the final specification of USB 2.0, expected to transfer data between devices at a rate of up to 40 times faster than current USB specifications, according to Intel officials. Patrick Gelsinger,...

Lotus targets MS Office users with Bluejay.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... TO INCREASE THE appeal of its Domino messaging and Web applications for Microsoft Office-centric enterprises, Lotus is preparing an extension of Domino that provides collaboration between the two envi-ronments. Code-named Bluejay, the product...

HP's JetSend utility lets Palm and WinCE devices join hands.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... IN THE THIRD quarter of this year, Hewlett-Packard will deploy a version of its JetSend technology that will allow for the exchange of data between Microsoft Pocket PCs and Palm PDAs (personal digital assistants). Although most companies...

MERGERS: MCI WorldCom-Sprintrun into EU concerns.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The planned merger between U.S. carriers MCI Worldcom and Sprint is running into trouble in the European Union, EU Competition Commissioner Mario Monti revealed last week. Monti said the EU's investigation into the merger has unearthed serious...

MARKET SHARE: PC shipments rise, eMachines shines.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... DISCOUNT PC vendor eMachines burst into the top tier of computer companies in U.S. sales during the first quarter of this year -- which saw robust growth in worldwide PC shipments -- according to preliminary figures from two market research...

FINANCIALS: Compaq's revenue flat in first quarter.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... COMPAQ'S GROWING pains continue to plague the company as it tries to evolve from a PC manufacturer into a broader systems provider. Compaq last week reported a minuscule 1 percent increase in revenue in the first fiscal quarter. The...

THE BUG REPORT.(iPlanet 's iPlanet WebServer Enterprise Edition 4.1 and Novell's BorderManager 3.5 Internet/Web server software and Microsoft Windows NT 4.0)(Product Information)
May 1, 2000... Novell has an important warning for users of BorderManager 3.5 who are thinking about installing Enhancement Pack 1. You shouldn't do it if you need SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) authentication to an HTTP Accelerator. An incompatibility will open...

Bristol's eSleuth tracks transaction performance.(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2000... WITH ITS RELEASE last week of eSleuth, which is designed to analyze bottlenecks and system failures in applications based on IBM MQSeries middleware, Bristol Technology targeted the growing complexity of application integration. According...

IBM readies update packs for OS/2 users.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... TO ACCELERATE the update of OS/2 applications and encourage their use on other platforms, IBM this November will release two upgrade packs containing many of the development technologies that have dribbled out the last three years for the...

Constructing a Web foundation for builders - Larry Chen, CTO of Bidcom, says company makes it easier for building industries to leverage the Internet.(Company Operations)
May 1, 2000... BEHIND THE HARD hats, backhoes, and super cranes at any building site today is a network of software applications and hosted services for managing projects and procuring building materials and services. Bidcom is a leading ASP (application...

Bringing down the international barriers - Vendors are tackling different aspects of how to take your e-business overseas.
May 1, 2000... WITH THE INTERNET opening international business markets previously considered unreachable, having an international e-commerce strategy will soon become a necessity rather than a luxury. However, doing business overseas brings an entirely...

Protecting privacy - As missteps bring privacy panic back into the headlines, businesses are rethinking their Internet policies and taking a proactive stand.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
May 1, 2000... THERE'S NOTHING like a rash of bad publicity and finger-wagging from politicians to jump-start corporate America on a hot-button issue such as consumer privacy. Slightly more startled by the possibility of a privacy scandal than of facing...

PLATFORMS & INFRASTRUCTURE - HOTLINKS.
May 1, 2000... BREAKING NEWS ONLINE Platforms & Infrastructure breaking news and business briefs: For the latest Platforms & Infrastructure news, go to InfoWorld.com's Home Page at www.infoworld.com. Articles on topics such as WAN and LAN networking,...

Microsoft's centralized services - Death of fat-client, distributed computing should bring customer savings.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 1, 2000... WHEN BULLETS ARE flying overhead, it's wise to lie low. That's been Microsoft's strategy of late, speaking in whispers while Sun Microsystems and the Department of Justice deliberate on Microsoft's corporate fate. Now that the foregone guilty...

WINDOW MANAGER: Fixing NT slowdowns, sharing your Favorites folders, and tilting against Windmills.
May 1, 2000... THIS WEEK, I report on some tips that readers have sent in response to previous columns. I wrote a series about "Windows arthritis" in three columns published on June 21, June 28 and July 5, 1999 (see www.infoworld.com/printlinks). This is a...

SECURITY WATCH: Security industry continues to argue over the sacred cow of full disclosure.
May 1, 2000... WELL, IT TURNS OUT that Microsoft is a lot more competitive and contentious than even the mainstream media claims. The "secret password" that was hyped as a backdoor to hundreds of thousands of Web sites by The Wall Street Journal April 14...

The wireless advantage.(Marty Cooper, CEO and co-founder of ArrayComm)(Company Operations)(Interview)
May 1, 2000... SONY'S INVESTMENT into ArrayComm's new wireless technology may herald the explosion of wireless initiatives in the U.S. ArrayComm's iBurst -- called the DSL of wireless by some observers -- offers alternatives to the expensive proposition of...

Sendmail goes trans-Atlantic.(Company Operations)
May 1, 2000... HELP IS ON ITS way for European users of the popular open-source, Internet mail-transfer agent, sendmail. Sendmail, a provider of software enhancements and support services for the sendmail package, opened an office in the U.K. last month,...

Wireless technology: simple business tool by day, lifesaving friend by night.(Technology Information)
May 1, 2000... GENERALLY, I COULD care less if some hotshot banker misses out on a big trade because he didn't have a wireless trading system on his handheld. Or if a CEO doesn't close the big merger because his cell phone wasn't getting service, it doesn't...

Project portal boosts productivity - ActiveProject v2000/E improves team collaboration, eliminates delays.(from Framework Technologies)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 1, 2000... WHEN ENTERPRISES need to get time-critical information to external partners, extranets are often their first lines of communication. Geared for building, manufacturing, and product development projects, Framework Technologies' ActiveProject...

INTRANETS & I-COMMERCE - HOTLINKS.(Directory)
May 1, 2000... BREAKING NEWS ONLINE Internet-commerce breaking news and business briefs: For the latest news on the products and companies in the Internet- commerce marketplace, turn to www.infoworld.com. Breaking news and business briefs are updated...

Fast storefront creation, but no enterprise integration.(Breakthrough Software's ShopZone Pro 3.0)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 1, 2000... FOR SMALL TO midsize companies, developing an effective e-commerce presence can involve prohibitive financial and technical constraints. ShopZone Pro 3.0 from Breakthrough Software facilitates e-commerce on a tight budget while delivering the...

BizTalk simplifies data exchange - Microsoft's b-to-b technology preview proves commitment to EDI.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 1, 2000... EVEN THOUGH THE XML language has been promoted as a panacea for EDI (electronic data interchange), most businesses have yet to fully exploit its power. True, business data produced and consumed within your company yields easily to XML, but...

ENTERPRISE COMPUTING - HOTLINKS.
May 1, 2000... BREAKING NEWS ONLINE Enterprise Computing breaking news and business briefs: For the latest news on the products and companies in the enterprise computing marketplace, including application development and databases, turn to...

Roll out Notes apps faster with IT Factory - Object-oriented architecture simplifies maintenance.
May 1, 2000... MOST DEVELOPERS of Lotus Notes and Domino will concur that virtually any messaging or collaboration task can be accomplished by exploiting the platform's capabilities. But the unstructured development environment of Notes limits the...

Taming the data lets Geekteam focus on business.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... IN THE INFORMATION AGE, information overload often buries needed data and, in many cases, finding the relevant detail can mean hours of lost labor as well as lost opportunities. John Berry, vice president of operations at e-commerce...

ENTERPRISE TOOLBOX: Online sleuths: Monitoring Web confab for corporations opens the door for legal strife.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... FOR MOST PEOPLE, thinking about detective work tends to evoke age-old icons, including trench coats and utterances such as "just the facts, ma'am." These days, however, many online sleuths are trading their trench coats for keyboards in the...

TEST CENTER RX: Windows 2000 may be unavoidable, but with proper planning you can still sleep soundly.(Product Information)
May 1, 2000... I'm trying to figure out exactly what to do about Windows 2000 Server. I manage a network of around 20 Windows NT 4.0 machines that run Microsoft Exchange and Internet Information Server and that also act as file servers. I'm starting to get...

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE: How to keep your undercompensated IT workers (Hint: Pay them more money).(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... MANAGEMENT SPEAK: Don't waste time worrying about layoffs. Just get back to work. TRANSLATION: The sooner you get your work done, the sooner we can lay you off. -- IS Survivalist Brian Crook explains the results of getting back to...

TO THE EDITOR.(Letter to the Editor)
May 1, 2000... If metering is the way to go... I'VE BEEN DRAGGED kicking and screaming into the meterist camp by spammers and pornographers (see From the Ether, March 6). It's not that I don't want Dave Rhodes to "Get Rich Quick!" or that I would...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF: Be careful when choosing technology partners in today's volatile market.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... Unless you've been living under a rock the last few weeks, it's been hard to miss the bouncing stock market and all the analysis that's gone along with it. The ups, and mostly downs, of the Nasdaq and Dow Jones have struck fear in the hearts of...

No shame in self-promotion.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... The path to promotion can be precarious; if you're not careful, you may stumble and end up losing ground. But take calculated steps, and you'll be well on your way. WANT TO GET promoted? There's no shame in trying to get ahead, especially...

STATE SNAPSHOT: Georgia.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... Bolstered by an infusion of technology-related businesses, Georgia is enjoying robust economic times. Meanwhile, Atlanta is emerging as the leading regional hub for New Economy companies. Vital statistics Population: State -...

THE GRIPE LINE: Users find Microsoft's 'medialess' anti-piracy play hard to swallow.(Product Support)
May 1, 2000... THINK MICROSOFT HAS been scared by the antitrust case? Apparently not scared enough to refrain from ramming a new "medialess" OS policy down the throats of computer manufacturers and their customers. As an anti-piracy measure, Microsoft has...

FROM THE ETHER: Quality multimedia in real time is the impetus for Enkido's 768 service.
May 1, 2000... NAYEL SHAFEI called last week to announce that his Enkido start-up is the first company ever to provide 768 service. This is pretty amazing, and takes some explaining. But that's why they keep me around, in case you're wondering. You may...

NET PROPHET: Napster sends a message to music industry: 'Your customers aren't happy'.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... THE NOISE OVER MP3s and Napster just got cranked up a notch louder. High-profile bands such as Metallica are filing suit against Napster, alleging racketeering and piracy. Rapper Dr. Dre is threatening to sue and the attorney for Metallica is...

Crime and punishment - Industry debates impact of potential Microsoft breakup.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... ALMOST TWO YEARS after filing its landmark antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft, the Department of Justice has proposed a punishment once considered unthinkable by all but the most vociferous critics of the software giant: splitting Microsoft...

InfiniBand spec nears - Interconnection technology could alter the server's role.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... WHEN THE FINAL InfiniBand specifications are released later this year by the InfiniBand Trade Association, the I/O technology will not only provide 2.5GBps of data throughput but also could allow for radical changes in the way networks are...

Sun, Andersen spin off venture for procurement services.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 1, 2000... SUN MICROSYSTEMS and Andersen Consulting launched an Internet procurement venture last week that the companies say will give businesses the option to outsource run-of-the-mill purchases of office supplies, furniture, and other "indirect"...

If you build an exchange, will buyers come? Companies offering trading exchanges find third-party alliances are the key to success.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... BUSINESS-TO-BUSINESS Web-based trading exchanges need more than a great Web presence to be successful; they need buyers. Hardly a day goes by that another independent trading exchange is not announced for a particular vertical market, and for...

PictureTaker 3.0 eases group installation - Lanovation's affordable tool is not quite enterprise class.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 1, 2000... ONE OF THE biggest challenges facing system administrators is finding a manageable way to distribute software, especially on the enterprise level. A simple manual software installation or upgrade can cost IT staff members an obscene amount of...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Source code doesn't kill competition in the software industry, people kill competition.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
May 1, 2000... THE OPEN-SOURCE world seems to be divided into at least two camps: the religious and the pragmatic. To the former group, proprietary and closed-source code are evil. The latter group sees proprietary and closed-source code as benign and even...

From paper to PDF in a few easy steps - Acrobat Messenger cuts copying and mailing costs.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
May 1, 2000... IF YOU HAVE been waiting for the digital revolution to eliminate the reams, if not mountains, of paper that pass through your departments and workgroups, it's time to face the facts: Paper is not going away. If anything, increased computer use...

Looking behind the resume - Companies use psychological profiles to gain insight.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 1, 2000... Finding qualified job applicants with the right work experience and solid references may seem like a small miracle during this global drought of skilled IT professionals. In the interest of filling seats, many companies tend to overlook a...

Fire and rain: IT staff get canned, and clouds are approaching Redmond.(News Briefs)
May 1, 2000... MADISON REALLY TOOK the gift I gave her the wrong way. I bought a box of Special K cereal because the doc said I should lose a few pounds to take some of the pressure off of my knee. Little did I realize that I would be an instant winner in the...

The selling of the intranet - Co-marketing deals drive business-to- employee model.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 8, 2000... THE TRADITIONAL company store is making its way to the corporate intranet in the form of reciprocal marketing deals struck between business partners looking to capitalize on access to burgeoning employee buying networks. A few large...

Evolution or extinction - Exchanges face a market shakeout.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 8, 2000... FOLLOWING ON the heels of dire predictions about the business-to- consumer environment, some see the proliferation of business-to- business exchanges forcing an intense shakeout among e-marketplaces as well. In short, exchanges face...

FROM THE NEWS DESK: Shortchange from trading exchanges?(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
May 8, 2000... The hundreds of industry trading exchanges mushrooming on the Internet are riding the business-to-business wave as well as anybody. The promised vision is compelling: Connect to a virtually unlimited number of business partners, get the best...

Cisco buys ArrowPoint for $5.7 billion.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2000... Cisco Systems has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ArrowPoint Communications, a supplier of switches that can speed up the delivery of Web content, in an all-stock deal valued at $5.7 billion, officials at the networking giant...

Oracle, home builders plan exchange.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2000... Five U.S.-based home builders have joined forces to create a global online exchange in partnership with Oracle and venture capital firm Encore Venture Partners. Called HomebuildersXchange, the business-to- business exchange is scheduled to...

Cisco cache to monitor Internet use.(Cache Engine 500)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2000... Cisco Systems this week will release an updated version of its Cache Engine 500 that includes Internet-filtering software designed to monitor and control Internet use in enterprises. San Diego-based Websense said code for its...

Sun: Reorganization will aid customers.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2000... Sun Microsystems has realigned pieces of its business units to streamline its interaction with customers. The realignment included the melding of its computer systems and microelectronics product groups into one division that will oversee all...

'Love bug' has IT dodging hail of e-mail bullets.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 8, 2000... COMPUTER SYSTEMS around the world were left bruised and battered last week from a mercurial computer worm promising sweetness but offering a sour payload instead. Believed to have originated in the Philippines, the deceptively dubbed "Love...

Remedies debate resumes - Microsoft readies rebuttal; IT voices concern over breakup.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 8, 2000... MICROSOFT IS SLATED this week to respond to the U.S. Department of Justice's recommendation that the company be broken up as punishment for its antitrust offenses, but many of the proposed restrictions drew negative reactions from IT managers...

HP to demo its first 'printer ecosystem' kit.(HP JetDirect 4000)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2000... THIS WEEK at NetWorld+Interop, Hewlett-Packard will show off the first product resulting from its recent e-services printer ecosystem announcement. The HP JetDirect 4000 print appliance, announced in April and available as of May 1, helps...

Intel speeds e-commerce - NetStructure units prioritize XML-based transactions.(7280 XML Director, 7210 XML Accelerator)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2000... AT THIS WEEK'S NetWorld+Interop show in Las Vegas, Intel will roll out NetStructure networking devices designed to speed up XML-based e- commerce transactions. The network control devices, designed to be used in conjunction with switches,...

Tivoli, vendors beef up reporting capabilities.(Tivoli NetView 6.0, Aprisma Spectrum 6.0, Sitara Networks QoSWorks 1.5)(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2000... MAKING USE OF the end-to-end reporting capabilities of a company's enterprise is becoming much more of a critical factor for network management during these days of the booming e-business age. At NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas this week,...

Virus protection takes to the Web.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2000... The McAfee division of Network Associates will announce the McAfee Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team (AVERT) WebImmune service for the ebusiness market. The Web-based virus security service offers real-time fixes and information about new...

F5 aids content management.(F5 Networks Big-IP line)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2000... F5 Networks at NetWorld+Interop will expand its Big-IP line with four Internet Traffic and Content Management (iTCM) appliances, designed to provide load balancing and high availability for specific network devices. The Fire Guard appliance...

Guidelines for ASPs proposed.(ASP Industry Consortium, World Intellectual Property Organization)(Industry Trend or Event)
May 8, 2000... THE ASP Industry Consortium (ASPIC) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will work together to establish a voluntary settlement service designed to help ASPs (application service providers) and their clients avoid and mediate...

Toshiba adopting a PC direct-sell strategy - OEM to roll out Web-based initiative in three stages.(Company Business and Marketing)
May 8, 2000... BEGINNING THIS summer, Toshiba will shift its entire computer sales strategy to a buy-direct model, eventually resulting in a built-to- order (BTO) manufacturing process such as Dell Computer's, according to sources close to the company. ...

CTO Briggs shifts MCI's playing field.(Fred Briggs, chief technology officer of MCI WorldCom)(Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
May 8, 2000... THE FACT THAT MCI WorldCom's outspoken CEO Bernie Ebbers last month railed against the use of the word "telecom" to describe his company has enormous implications for CTO Fred Briggs. It is Briggs who must drive the company's future product...

Ringing the changes - Traditional phone carriers are redefining themselves for the Internet age.(Industry Trend or Event)
May 8, 2000... IN THE WAKE OF the e-business gold rush that has created such an explosion of Internet traffic, traditional telecom carriers are edging further away from their voice roots, attempting to carve out potentially lucrative space in the market for...

PERSONNEL: Myhrvold not returning to Microsoft in full-time role.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2000... Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft's CTO, will not be returning to the company full-time, Microsoft officials said last week. Myhrvold took a sabbatical last year to pursue other interests. He will now act as a special advisor to Bill Gates on a...

ACQUISITION: PeopleSoft buys APS to boost data analysis software.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2000... LOOKING TO strengthen its Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) data- analysis software suite, PeopleSoft last week bought Advance Planning Solutions (APS), which makes software for business modeling. PeopleSoft did not disclose the terms...

FINANCIALS: Novell lowers expectations in Q2.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2000... NOVELL LAST WEEK issued a profit warning for its second-quarter financial results, saying both revenue and earnings will be substantially lower than the company had previously forecasted. The main factor dragging down Novell's results is a...

Rational suite to ease Web development.(Rational Software K2)(Company Business and Marketing)
May 8, 2000... HOPING TO HELP software developers solve what it terms the "e-software paradox," Rational Software last week launched a new version of its K2 product suite family, which includes 12 products for Web development. The paradox to which the company...

Caching market heats up as vendors push capabilities.(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2000... AS CACHING TECHNOLOGY expands its reach, more vendors are beginning to focus their offerings on specific segments of the market, such as enterprise applications, dynamic content, or streaming media, as well as setting their sights on taking a...

Blue Martini's retail platform helps in-store cross-selling.(Customer Interaction System 3.1)(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2000... E-COMMERCE SOFTWARE developer Blue Martini at its user conference last week added wireless and international language support to Version 3.1 of its Customer Interaction System and detailed partnerships with two system integrators. Version...