InfoWorld articles from November 1998

InfoWorld archives from November 1998

Internet landscape shifts America Online, Sun partition Netscape's product lines.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... America Online's acquisition of Netscape Communications last week, along with a broad alliance with Sun Microsystems, significantly alters the global Internet-commerce terrain, albeit with plenty of new fault lines. Major unresolved...

3Com's Palm tightens link to Web apps.(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... 3Com will announce this week at its developer's conference in Santa Clara, Calif., a new wireless version of the PalmPilot, code-named Eleven, that will serve as the foundation for an initiative with Internet service providers. Wireless...

Selling Siebel CEO Thomas M. Siebel explains why demand for front-office applications will outpace ERP by the year 2000.
November 30, 1998... Siebel Systems has been at the forefront of automating front-office operations since its inception in 1993. And with a new industrywide emphasis on providing tangible returns on investment, front-office applications such as sales automation,...

Steamlining IP Protocol may reduce Web congestion.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... Scaling problems associated with sending video and other traffic across IP networks could be solved through a new proposal that would overcome the limitations of existing IP Multicast technologies. The Simple Multicast protocol, proposed...

FROM THE NEWS DESK.(Digital economy)(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... IT choices narrow in new digital economy Every now and then a seminal event comes along that changes the nature of the IT world in which we live. What's important to note about the forthcoming acquisition of Netscape by America Online and...

IBM percolates fresh Java plans.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 30, 1998... In New York next week IBM will provide an update of its far-flung Java initiatives. Billed as a strategic overview, the event's agenda will include details on the WebSphere application server platform. Also expected are announcements of...

Sybase to debut PowerBuilder 7.0.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Sybase's tools division will unveil the next feature set for PowerBuilder 7.0 at the Java Business Expo on Dec. 8 in New York, as well as announce the pending arrival of Sybase's next Enterprise Application Server, code-named Vineyard. Due in...

HP to tie OpenView to enterprise apps.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
November 30, 1998... Hewlett-Packard last week announced deals with SAP, Oracle, and Informix to closely integrate management of their applications with the HP OpenView platform. OpenView Application Quality of Service for SAP R/3, due in spring, will help users...

Novell returns to profit for fiscal 1998.(Company Financial Information)(Brief Article)
November 30, 1998... Last week Novell posted strong quarterly financial results that showed progress in the company's comeback. A revenue gain of 11 percent in Novell's fiscal fourth quarter (ended Oct. 31), to $298 million from $269 million one year earlier,...

AMD to show remote configuration tool.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 30, 1998... Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 7 plans to unveil embedded device technology, AlertIT, that will enable remote configuration and operation of hardware components in enterprise-level PCs, via Computer Associates' Unicenter management platform,...

Microsoft eyes easing WTS requirements.(Windows Terminal Server )(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... With many customers voicing dissatisfaction about the Windows NT prices they must pay for Windows Terminal Server (WTS), Microsoft is rethinking the cost structure of its thin-client solution. Today, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server Edition...

Sun and Netscape face product overlaps.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... Although the logistics of the agreement between America Online (proud new owner of Netscape Communications) and Sun Microsystems seem to be ironed out, the impact of the deal on those companies' product plans and customers remains to be seen....

AOL gets `crown jewel' portal.(AOL acquires Netscape Communications)(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... America Online in one fell swoop got its own Web browser and portal site through its acquisition of Netscape, leaving ISP competitors scrambling to figure out what it all means. AT&T refused to comment on the deal. MCI WorldCom, Sprint,...

Is the DOJ case now moot? Microsoft hopes AOL-Netscape deal impacts antitrust case.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... U.S. federal antitrust regulators currently prosecuting software giant Microsoft cannot be too happy about the timing of the America Online-Netscape merger. In asking U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson to throw out the...

Microsoft complies with Java court order Mac, Unix Explorers lose Java support.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... Microsoft plans to comply with a court order requiring it to change software in Windows 98, Internet Explorer 4.0, and its Java software development kit so the products are compatible with Sun Microsystems' Java Native Interface technology....

Proposal contains XML chaos.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... When the Extensible Markup Language (XML) enabled people to create their own unique data-markup tags, many industry observers feared that chaos would ensue. Several vertical industry groups rushed to solve this problem and agreed on...

'Tis the season for I-commerce Retailers predict big boom in online holiday sales this year.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
November 30, 1998... The traditional holiday shopping craze is upon us once again, but this year it will be gift sellers, not gift buyers, working extra hard to give something different. With consumers increasingly comfortable buying goods online, IT...

Forum seeks open systems.(Multiservice Switching Forum )(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... A new alliance of several telecommunications carriers and equipment makers could bring the innovation and low prices of open systems to service providers' central offices. Cisco Systems, MCI WorldCom, and Bellcore are spearheading the...

Toshiba dishes up servers.(Toshiba Magnia 7000 series enterprise-class server)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Continuing its efforts to provide a full range of PC solutions to the enterprise, Toshiba last week introduced servers that offer as many as four 400-MHz Pentium II Xeon processors. Toshiba unveiled the Magnia 7000 series enterprise-class...

Automated tape libraries arrive.(Advanced Digital Information Corp)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Advanced Digital Information Corp. (ADIC) is announcing a family of automated tape libraries, called the Scalar series, that uses Sony AIT tape technology. The three new libraries include the 220, 480, and 1000 models, which scale in...

AT&T Local Frame Relay Service set.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... AT&T, with its recently unveiled Local Frame Relay Service, is expanding the company's existing frame-relay offerings while also simplifying customer management of those services, company officials said. Seeking to provide an "any...

IBM's Transarc to extend AFS file platform to Linux.(Andrew File System)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Seeing a rise in demand for Linux in the business world, IBM's Transarc subsidiary is preparing to release versions of its enterprise file system software for the open-source Unix variant. Transarc this week will announce versions of its...

Oracle rolls with the bank flow.(Oracle Internet Bill & Pay electronic commerce software )(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Oracle will use the Bank Administration Institute Retail Delivery Conference '98 in Las Vegas this week, to announce several Internet-commerce initiatives, including the official rollout of its Oracle Internet Bill & Pay module, formerly...

Mini PCI to put notebooks on diet Forthcoming specification reduces size, price of notebooks.(the PCI Special Interest Group's specification for mobile PCs)(Technology Information)
November 30, 1998... The growing popularity of thinner and lighter notebooks that maintain full desktop capability is putting the mobile PC industry on the fast track to incorporate alternatives to bulky PC Card technology. The PCI Special Interest Group (PCI...

BEHIND THE LINES -- WITH MARK TEBBE Having won the battle, Sun needs to finish the war Company should open Java to all players.(Sun Microsystems' response to its court victory over Microsoft regarding Java)(Company Business and Marketing)(Column)
November 30, 1998... From a legal point of view, the past year has proven to be Microsoft's most challenging yet. With ongoing trials with the Department of Justice, Sun Microsystems, and Caldera, Microsoft executives spend plenty of time answering lawyers'...

Acquisitions: CA extends its services plans with LDA buy.(Computer Associates acquires computer service provider LDA Systems)(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... Computer Associates last week announced it is continuing its aggressive acquisition strategy in the services arena with the purchase of LDA Systems, an information management consulting company that specializes in client/server, mainframe,...

Data warehousing: Ardent to acquire Prism.(Ardent Software acquires Prism Solutions)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
November 30, 1998... Database and data warehousing software vendor Ardent Software last week announced a roughly $42 million deal to acquire Prism Solutions, a developer of data warehousing tools. Under the terms of the agreement, Ardent will exchange 0.13124...

Networking hardware: Fast Ethernet overtakes Ethernet.(Ethernet switch sales in the 3rd qtr of 1998)(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... Fast Ethernet surpassed Ethernet switch sales for the first time in the third quarter of the year, according to a study by Cahners In-Stat Group, based in Newton, Mass. It also found that router market revenue reached an all-time high in the...

Network security: Lucent buys start-up for its RADIUS technologies.(Lucent Technologies acquires network security software vendor Pario Software)(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... Lucent Technologies last week announced it has acquired Pario Software, a start-up developer of network security software for IP-based networks. The specific terms of the agreement were not disclosed. However, according to Lucent...

Unix enjoying resurgence OS picks up where NT leaves off.(Intel and Compaq plan to support Unix as well as Microsoft's Windows NT)(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... A variety of factors are combining to drive a Unix resurgence in the enterprise, and the emerging message is clear: Reports of Windows NT's imminent dominance have been greatly exaggerated. Compaq, which has taken a 180-degree turn from...

Lernout & Hauspie's Gaston Bastiaens speaks out on the future of speech recognition.(Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
November 30, 1998... In 1999, natural language understanding, the underlying technology that takes voice recognition beyond speech to text, will begin targeting major corporations with a variety of business applications and tools that will include computer-driven...

PIPELINE, 1.(HP Kayak PC price cuts, Nvidia's Vanta marketing, and Franklin Electronic Publishers' Rex Pro handheld organizer)(Product Information)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... ANNOUNCED Hewlett-Packard has cut prices on its Kayak workstations. Kayak XU PC workstations feature support for as many as two Pentium II or Pentium II Xeon processors. The price of a Kayak XU with a 400-MHz Intel Pentium II processor,...

Intel faces stiff competition `Alternative' chip makers catching up with performance.(AMD, Cyrix and Rise Technology develop new microprocessors)(Product Development)
November 30, 1998... Buyers will get more choices in PCs, and Intel will get more paranoid, as x86 CPU competitors field an array of chips -- some of them more capable than Intel's high-end offerings. "These guys are going to be fighting each other tooth and...

Sony prepares to initiate major corporate push for 1999.(plans desktop and notebook computers running Windows 2000)(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... Sony Electronics is quietly readying a thrust into the corporate PC arena that it hopes to make in conjunction with the launch of Windows 2000 in 1999. As part of that effort, Sony is investing more than $10 million to build a...

Irish storage vendor looks to extend its reach.(Eurologic's XL500 and XL600 storage arrays)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Eurologic, an Irish storage maker that has until now concentrated on selling to high-end vertical markets, is taking steps to boost its profile and its product line. Eurologic is readying a series of SCSI, Fibre Channel, and RAID...

The Bug Report Bugs and fixes reported to BugNet.(Product Information)
November 30, 1998... Novell officials say there is an incompatibility between Windows 95 OS Release 2's Universal Serial Bus (USB) Supplemental Support and Windows 2NCS 2.1x. If you try to test security or use the communications port, you may get this error:...

Linux continues to pick up steam Customers, vendors wrestle with issues but remain excited.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... Anybody walking down the Linux pavilion at Comdex, in Las Vegas, two weeks ago could not fail to notice a lot of smiling faces. The booths of Linux vendors such as Red Hat Software and Caldera Systems were swamped with attendees eager to...

ATM Forum to ease QOS Plan will offer queues for high- or low-priority traffic.(the Weighted Unspecified Bit Rate setting for quality of service guarantees across IP and ATM networks)(Technology Information)
November 30, 1998... A technology now under development by the ATM Forum may make it easier for enterprises and service providers to offer guaranteed quality of service (QOS) across both IP and ATM networks. Networking vendors in the ATM Forum are developing...

Regulatory Roundup Telecommunications newsbytes from the United States.(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
November 30, 1998... (Washington) The Federal Communications Commission has proposed allowing nongeostationary orbit (NGSO) fixed satellite services to operate on a coprimary basis with Ku-band frequencies. This move should allow the expansion of global...

CTI Expo to feature call centers.(telephone management software from Blue Pumpkin Software, Artisoft and PakNetX)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Vendors are gearing up their call center solutions for CTI Expo, in San Jose, Calif., this week. Blue Pumpkin Software, a provider of workforce management products, will announce PrimeTime Enterprise, an enterprise version of its call...

PIPELINE, 2.(new products from Symantec and SinglePoint Systems/NetIQ, and a new specification from the Enterprise Computer TelephonyForum)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... ANNOUNCED Symantec's Norton Ghost file system cloning tool now supports NetWare server volumes. Ghost has been available for other file systems -- including Windows FAT-16, FAT-32, and Windows NT File System -- and is mainly used for PC...

MCI to sell Internet links.(MCI WorldCom plans high-speed Internet access services using DSL)(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... MCI WorldCom will begin offering Internet access in selected U.S. cities based on Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) technology by the end of the year, a move analysts predict may finally catapult DSL into the mass market. MCI WorldCom, which...

PC users awaiting ADSL.(PC vendors follow Compaq and Dell in offering ADSL modems)(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... PC users are dependent upon telecommunications providers in a quest to enable use of Asymmetrical Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) technology in PC systems. Most major PC vendors in 1999 are expected to follow the lead set by Compaq and...

Security plan backed by IETF.(the Internet Engineering Task Force's OpenPGP data encryption protocol)(Technology Information)
November 30, 1998... The OpenPGP security protocol has reached a milestone: It has been promoted to the status of proposed standard by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). "It's very gratifying that we've reached this stage in the standards process,"...

Neon lights up TVs with Internet access Pentium chip used in set-top box.(Neon Technology)(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... Neon Technology has announced a television set-top box for high-speed Internet access, featuring an Intel Pentium MMX chip, as part of a trend toward non-PC-based information appliances. Designed around an embedded version of the Intel...

Spectrum managers utilize Web Metrix Web Console gives browsers access to platform.(Cabletron Systems' Metrix Web Console for Spectrum network management software)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Spectrum, Cabletron's network management software platform, will be accessible from a Web browser with the release of Metrix Web Console for Spectrum. This technology boost comes courtesy of a key development partner, Metrix Systems,...

Cisco advances SNA plan.(version 12.0 of Cisco Systems' Internetwork Operating System routing software combines SNA and the Resource Reservation Protocol)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... The guaranteed response of Systems Network Architecture (SNA), which users have relied on for years in the mainframe world, may return in standards-based IP networks due to a technology advancement made by Cisco Systems. The router and...

WINDOW MANAGER.(News Briefs)(Column)
November 30, 1998... Readers comment on FAT-32, meta-search tools, and Ultra DMA This week, I report on comments readers have sent on the 32-bit file allocation table, or FAT-32; meta-search utilities; and Direct Memory Access (DMA) and Ultra DMA (UDMA) hard...

Entrust promoting PKI security strategy.(Entrust Technologies Entrust/CommerceCA 4.1, Entrust/Express 4.0; public key infrastructure)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Entrust Technologies is pushing the idea of using public key infrastructure (PKI) as the best solution for security purposes, and is shipping a host of new products to secure e-mail, Internet transactions, and enterprise resource planning...

XML explodes onto the scene: Vendors rush to release tools.(Technology Information)
November 30, 1998... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is the text of a thousand faces. Despite its hype usually being associated with Web publishing because Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) vendors are first out of the gates with the most...

XML explodes onto the scene: IBM harnesses language.(xmLDAP query technology)(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... IBM has developed a technology, called xmLDAP, that enables Extensible Markup Language (XML) to query a company's directory services database. The technology can query any directory services that support the Lightweight Directory Access...

Centra aims at bigger target.(Centra Software Symposium 3.0 collaboration software)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Centra Software is preparing the next major release of its Symposium Web-based learning and collaboration software that is aimed to broaden the target market of the product. Centra is expected to announce in January Version 3.0 of its...

Pipeline 3.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... ANNOUNCED Lucent Technologies and Inferno have announced a joint marketing agreement with Internet content services provider InfoSpace.com. Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will work together to develop and market...

CertCo Chairman Peter Freund intends to bring banks squarely into e-commerce.(Technology Information)(Interview)
November 30, 1998... Recently, eight major worldwide banks, including Bank of America, CitiBank, Barclays Bank, and others, joined together in an alliance called the Global Trust Enterprise. (See "Banks form digital-certificate alliance,"...

The Web Hotlist Web sites worth checking out.(Buyers Guide)(Directory)
November 30, 1998... Cyrix - www.cyrix.com Computer processor vendor Cyrix provides data on its products and technical concepts under development. Go to the Cyrix Emerging Technologies area to learn about the WebPad, a device that enables low-cost wireless Web...

Commerce One automates supply procurement on Web.(BuySite 4.0, MarketSite 2.0)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Commerce One is now shipping the next versions of its BuySite and MarketSite applications for automating procurement of supplies across the Internet. One significant improvement included in both BuySite 4.0 and MarketSite 2.0 is a new...

RealNetworks leads multimedia.(RealNetworks G2 player)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... RealNetworks last week shipped its latest media player for Windows, capping a two-year development cycle for its streaming media products. One analyst said that despite Microsoft gaining ground, RealNetworks is expected to be the market...

E-Stamp, AOL deliver online postage.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... America Online and E-Stamp have signed an agreement to offer digital postage to customers of AOL, CompuServe, AOL.Com, and AOL's Digital City. The E-Stamp product allows users to purchase the worth of physical postage, download it, and...

Net prophet.(Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
November 30, 1998... When taking measure of e-commerce, don't forget about the costs You've heard the hype: electronic commerce is going to usher in a new era of efficiency, leisure, and sky-high profits. Like many myths, this one has truth at its core....

EU proposes rules to boost I-commerce.(European Union )(Government Activity)
November 30, 1998... To help European businesses increase their share of the I-commerce market, the European Commission this month proposed legislation to clarify the rights and obligations of companies and consumers using the Internet for commerce. If...

Site profile: www.etrade.com.(E*Trade Group Inc., )(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... Company: E*Trade Group Inc., Palo Alto, Calif. Business: Online investing services and resources Revenues: $68.7 million in the quarter ending Sept. 30; $245.3 million for the past four quarters Traffic: 171 million total page...

Review: Dreamweaver 2 delivers.(Macromedia's Web authoring tool)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 30, 1998... Unlike the two major Web browsers, Web authoring tools are abundant, making it difficult to choose one. Macromedia's Dreamweaver 2 will only make the choice harder. The beta version shows promise as an excellent tool for creating professional...

Review: Generator 1.0 delivers dynamic animated Web content with ease.(Macromedia Web graphics software)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 30, 1998... Using Macromedia's Flash Shockwave movies in your Web pages is a great way to deliver impressive, interactive animation. However, after visiting Flash-enhanced sites a few times, the novelty can wear thin due to the fixed nature of their...

Review: Trellix 2.0 gets documents online fast Easy organization eliminates need for HTML editing.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
November 30, 1998... With an uncommon blend of word processing, design, and navigation tools, Trellix is a valuable utility for creating all types of hypertext documents. Still, Version 1.0 was hindered by having few layout options and only rudimentary text...

FORUM TALK: Does learning occur in 12 steps or less?(InfoWorld Electric's forums excerpts)(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... These edited excerpts from InfoWorld Electric's forums provide a sample of the lively debate that takes place there. For the full discussions, go to www.infoworld.com and click on the forums button. Is there a right way to learn? ...

FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... How low can they go? Falling hardware prices mean more for much less There are two certainties when it comes to computer hardware: Processor speeds will increase, and system prices will decrease. Brian Halla, CEO of National...

Manugistics taps Oberon.(Product Development)(Brief Article)
November 30, 1998... Supply-chain software maker Manugistics (www.manugistics.com) is hoping to power up its applications with a new data warehouse built on Microsoft's SQL Server 7.0, as well as a new partnership with application integration vendor Oberon...

Transparent supply chain.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
November 30, 1998... Supply-chain software vendor Numetrix (www.numetrix.com) says the Internet will deliver supply-chain salvation by enabling trading partners to exchange data about the supply and demand for their respective products regardless of what software...

Marketing apps make a mark Bevy of niche vendors succeed in extending front-office functions.
November 30, 1998... As Mark Twain once reported about himself, rumors of the death of marketing automation software are greatly exaggerated. Specialized marketing automation application vendors are trying to counter the conventional wisdom that expanded...

MarketFirst CEO Tierney ponders the complexities of marketing automation.(Company Business and Marketing)
November 30, 1998... Pete Tierney has a big job on his hands. He is the CEO of MarketFirst Software, a start-up company that provides software for automating one of the most complicated of corporate functions: marketing. Direct mail campaigns, sales lead...

Pro Player comes through with remote overhaul Upgrading to a virtual private network gives sports apparel vendor speed and power to compete.(Company Operations)
November 30, 1998... Sports apparel manufacturer Pro Player knew that its remote access was outdated, but when a few dozen sales representatives brought the system to its knees, the company decided it had to come through with a big play. The Hudson,...

Drop a dime online Micropayments were declared DOA a few years ago, but advances in smart cards and software may revive the virtual penny.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
November 30, 1998... Micropayments are one of the Internet's great failures. In the mid-1990s a handful of eager start-ups with expertise in encryption technology recognized the obvious: There will be an online economy and a lot of virtual money will be spent in...

TEST CENTER RX.
November 30, 1998... Sparing your routers from excess traffic: the magic of proxy ARP and other solutions Reader: In a recent Test Center Rx, you suggested to reader Alex Saunders that he implement a subnet mask of 255.255.252.0 to eliminate traffic passing...

SECURITY WATCH.(Product Information)
November 30, 1998... Windows NT leaks: Two denial-of-service attacks work their way past Service Pack 4 Our two-part coverage of Windows NT Service Pack 4 (SP4) has been expanded this week because we received late confirmation from Microsoft about two...

Career paths: Rick Morayniss Systems analyst works his way up while learning new technologies.
November 30, 1998... Rick Morayniss went into IT and built his skills through necessity, not formal planning or schooling. He earned the equivalent of an associate's degree in computer programming in 1981 in Canada and got his first job in IT working as a...

A program for success There are many ways to build a thriving programming career.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... Ian Clark was barely past adolescence when he stumbled into programming. His training with the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force not quite complete, Clark started pounding the pavement looking for a job. His pursuit led him to the Labour...

1999 IT career outlook.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... Economists and other professional crystal-ball gazers predict that the U.S. economy will slump slightly in premillennial 1999. How much is anybody's guess. But few expect the slowdown to have much impact on the healthy market for IT workers....

IS SURVIVAL GUIDE.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... Make sure your integrated IS plan looks at the human element of management MANAGEMENT SPEAK: You have to apply common sense to this problem. TRANSLATION: You have to think like me. -- Our favorite contributor, Ann O. Nymous,...

ON THE EDGE.(Product Information)
November 30, 1998... Improve your file-save times with this advice for NT Workstation and NetWare servers Maybe I'm just impatient, but over the years as computers have gotten faster and faster, I've really grown tired of waiting for them to complete basic...

Alpha Five elegantly combines simplicity with power.(Evaluation)
November 30, 1998... If you are looking for a database that's easier to use than Microsoft Access and yet offers plenty of power, then you would do well to consider the venerable Alpha Five, a simple, powerful, and elegant relational database. I find Alpha...

Notes expands its client options.(Product Development)
November 30, 1998... Lotus Development's second public beta of Release 5 (R5) of the Notes client and Domino server adds impressive improvements that will help dispel the notion that Lotus is a proprietary groupware solution. With the addition of Internet...

Iluminar's luster in its meta data.(Evaluation)
November 30, 1998... Managers of corporate intranets frequently must provide end-users the means to quickly and easily share content while keeping the content meaningful and accessible to other users. One solution to this problem is Verano's Iluminar, which...

Visual SlickEdit 4.0 a boon for C, Java programmers Time-saving features make this a treat.(Evaluation)
November 30, 1998... When it comes to software development, the adage "time is money" really hits the mark. Any tool or method that can speed processes is well worth looking into. After checking out the Visual SlickEdit 4.0 (VSE), I think my development time will...

THE GRIPE LINE.(Industry Trend or Event)
November 30, 1998... Software publishers don't really want customers to see license terms presale Software publishers always say they expect you to fully read the terms of their shrink-wrapped licenses. But do they really want you to? I recently...