InfoWorld articles from October 1995

InfoWorld archives from October 1995

Smell of Java lures scores of vendors. (software vendors' support for Sun Microsystems' Java Internet programming language) (Technology Information)
October 30, 1995... A critical mass of software vendors is throwing support behind Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Java Internet programming language in the hopes that it will shape the first generation of Internet-based client/server applications. The list of vendors...

OpenDoc group realigns; Novell passes Windows SDK responsibility to IBM. (IBM to develop OpenDoc for Windows software development kit) (Product Development)
October 30, 1995... IBM is trying to re-energize the faltering OpenDoc initiative by taking over development of OpenDoc for Windows from Novell Inc. and closing ranks with the Object Management Group (OMG) and its Common Object Request Broker Alliance (CORBA)....

One more try at network cooperation. (Ki Networks, Sun Microsystems and IBM develop the Cooperative Management Protocol network management initiative) (Technology Information)
October 30, 1995... After backing off on more ambitious efforts, IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc., and Ki Networks Inc. are now developing a new protocol that promises to integrate data across diverse network management platforms. Dubbed the Cooperative Management...

ATM: Hype or hope? (asynchronous transfer mode data transmission technology) (includes a related article on the outlook for desktop ATM) (Technology Information)
October 30, 1995... It may not have the mass-media allure of the Internet, but networking vendors are hoping that Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) will capture the imaginations of network managers whose applications are demanding greater network bandwidth....

Intel to unveil 180-, 200-MHz Pentium Pros. (Product Development)
October 30, 1995... Intel Corp. this week will provide a couple of surprises with its long-awaited Pentium Pro introduction: versions of the chip running at 180 MHz and 200 MHz. Those processors, along with the long-anticipated 150-MHz and 166-MHz versions,...

OK, IS uses the 'net for more than alt.sex. (survey on Internet usage) (From The News Desk) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
October 30, 1995... Numbers shumbers. When it comes to the Internet, it's difficult to distinguish the hype from reality -- be it the number of Internet users or the reason that users are surfing the 'net. Earlier this month, the research company O'Reilly and...

Oracle lines up Internet partners. (Oracle forms alliances with AT and T, Adobe Systems, Silicon Graphics and MasterCard to strengthen Internet technology) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Oracle Corp. is set to strengthen its WebSystem Internet technology by unveiling alliances with four vendors of Internet-related technology, according to sources close to Oracle. The Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company this week will announce...

Intel rivals prepare faster chips. (Cyrix, Texas Instruments and AMD set to unveil microprocessors)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Three companies in November will ship chips to challenge Intel Corp.'s low-end Pentiums. Cyrix Corp. will boost the speed of its 5x86 processor from 100 MHz to 120 MHz. The company expects this speed boost to make the chip perform as well as or...

Netscape cuts server prices. (Netscape Communications reduces prices on the Netscape Commerce Server for Unix and Netscape Communications Server) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Netscape Communications Corp. this week will announce price cuts for its line of World Wide Web servers. Pricing for Netscape Commerce Server for Unix, which includes Secure Sockets Layer security, will drop from $5,000 to $2,995. Netscape...

IBM's Claflin jumps to Digital. (Bruce Claflin leaves IBM PC Co to join DEC's PC business unit) (Company Operations)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... IBM PC Co.'s general manager of product management Bruce Claflin resigned last week to become vice president and general manager of Digital Equipment Corp.'s PC business unit. Claflin, credited with turning IBM's portables business, said he...

Briefly noted. (computer companies announce new products and services)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... SYBASE Inc. will this week announce its long-awaited System 11 database and tools upgrade. IBM this week will reveal a revamped microkernel licensing plan for OEMs. U.S. ROBOTICS Inc. is seeking to acquire Hayes Microcomputer Products...

Oracle set to beta test Sedona toolkit. (Oracle's Sedona next-generation object-oriented toolset) (Product Development)
October 30, 1995... Oracle Corp. is set to begin beta testing the first components of its next-generation object-based toolset, code-named Sedona, early next year. The three components -- the Active Repository, Object Factory component generator software, and...

Portable market primed for pricing showdown. (Compaq may begin round of price cuts for portable computers) (Industry Trend or Event)
October 30, 1995... An aggressive scramble for market share -- fueled by fears of Compaq Computer Corp.'s Comdex plans -- is about to ignite a price war among portable vendors. Compaq has yet to take any pricing action, but sources familiar with the company's...

Lotus agents improve Notes, Web information exchange. (Lotus Notes 4.0 will feature agents that retrieve information from the World Wide Web and deliver it to Notes users) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Lotus Development Corp. will improve integration between Notes and the Internet by delivering agents that can be programmed to retrieve information from the World Wide Web servers and deliver it to Notes users. The agent functionality will...

Dell pushes to offer enterprise solutions; teams up with Digital for support. (Dell Computer set to release new server services and products for corporate solutions) (Company Business and Marketing)
October 30, 1995... Dell Computer Corp. will add a sweeping set of new products and services to its server group next week in an effort to supply enterprisewide solutions to corporate customers. Dell's foray into enterprise computing will be based on a...

TI extends Composer's reach. (Texas Instruments' Composer 3.0 Internet application development environment)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Texas Instruments Inc. is trying to expand the market for its Composer 3.0 application development environment by adding broader platform support and the ability to connect business applications to the Internet. TI is also modernizing...

NetWare makes it to the World Wide Web. (Novell's NetWare Web server and American Internet's Internet World Site Builder HTTP server)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... While the varieties of World Wide Web servers for Unix and Windows NT proliferate, NetWare has been all but ignored as a platform for the Internet. But Novell Inc. and American Internet Corp. will remedy that this week with offerings...

Symantec launches 32-bit remote package. (Symantec's Norton pcAnywhere32 remote communications software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Symantec Corp. launched Norton pcAnywhere32 last week, a 32-bit version of its remote communications software for Windows 95 and Windows NT. As one of the first 32-bit remote communication packages, pcAnywhere32 allows remote users to...

Vendors make Internet accessible; Internet World show stresses Web integration. (products introduced at Internet World trade show) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... A host of vendors will unveil plans to make the Internet a better place to do business at this week's Internet World show in Boston by improving development tools, search and navigation software, and electronic forms capabilities. Verity...

Director opens up. (Macromedia's Director multimedia authoring software boasts new architecture) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Macromedia Inc. will this week unveil a new open architecture for its Director multimedia authoring software and its Shockwave playback technology for Director movies at the Macromedia International User Conference, in San Francisco. The new...

For the record. (pricing score correction in Oct 23 product comparison)(Correction Notice)
October 30, 1995... In the Oct. 23 product comparison "Democratic data tools" (page 80), the pricing category word scores and points for Cognos Corp.'s Impromptu 3.0 and Borland International Inc.'s ReportSmith 2.5 for Windows were transposed. The correct pricing...

Intersolv buys SequeLink to fortify data warehouse: middleware tool provides server-based data access. (Intersolv acquires TechGnosis International and the SequeLink database access tool) (Company Business and Marketing)
October 30, 1995... Intersolv Inc. plugged a hole in its data warehouse strategy last week by acquiring key data access middleware technology. In a deal valued at roughly $80 million, the Rockville, Md.-based company purchased Brussels, Belgium-based TechGnosis...

Informix buys OLAP vendor. (Informix acquires Stanford Technology Group) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Informix Software Inc. is also girding for competition in the data warehouse market through the acquisition of Stanford Technology Group, an online analytical processing (OLAP) tool maker. Informix officials last week said the company will...

Banyan partitions ENS parts to sell as individual modules. (Banyan Systems will sell components of the Enterprise Network Services network software individually) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Banyan Systems Inc. next week will announce a plan to sell the components of its Enterprise Network Services (ENS) networking software individually. The company will announce at its Association of Banyan Users International user conference...

BayStack combines hubs. (Bay Networks introduces BayStack Ethernet 10Base-T stackable hub and Optivity Workgroup network management software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Bay Networks Inc. has released a line of hybrid stackable systems based on new and existing hardware that will streamline network management processes and make it easier for users to connect remote sites to campus networks. The BayStack line...

Microsoft offers rebate to mend Access mishap. (Microsoft offers $100 rebate checks to users who believed, based on a labeling mistake, that Access for Windows 95 only needs 8MB instead of the required 12MB) (Product Support)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Microsoft Corp. sent out a $100 apology last week for a manufacturing gaffe that incorrectly labeled Office Professional for Windows 95 boxes. The problem was caused by an increase in memory requirements for the Access database from 8MB for...

Novell will give NTS voice-enabled apps: plans unveiled at TSAPI conference. (Novell will add voice services to NetWare Telephony Services) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Developers of NetWare Telephony Services (NTS) voice-enabled applications will get more to work with early next year when Novell Inc. delivers on its broadened computer-telephony integration strategy. Novell's new strategy, unveiled at the...

Multiplatform StarOffice suite en route to United States. (Star Division's StarOffice 3.0 integrated software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... The desktop suite market will get an infusion of new blood next year with the U.S. introduction of a multiplatform suite developed by a German company. Star Division GmbH, in Menlo Park, Calif., plans to deliver versions of its StarOffice...

Vendors showcase advances in conferencing. (companies at the TeleCon XV trade show unveiled audio and document conferencing services and products) (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Multipoint audio- and document-conferencing applications took center stage last week at the TeleCon XV show, in Anaheim, Calif., reflecting an acceptance of the recently released T.120 multipoint dataconferencing standard. MCI Communications...

IBM to stress preconfigured PC servers. (IBM will market PC servers bundled with teleconferencing and workgroup applications) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Taking dead aim at archrival Compaq Computer Corp., IBM will deliver a number of PC servers over the course of 1996 that will be bundled with workgroup and teleconferencing applications. The new emphasis on preconfigured solutions for large...

Vendors prep Pentium Pro. (HP's Vectra XU 6/150, NEC Technologies' PowerMate Pro and Dell Computer's Dimension XPS Pentium Pro-based workstations)(Product Announcement)
October 30, 1995... Users may go slow with Pentium Pro purchases, but they'll have no lack of vendors, configurations, or price points to choose from. With Intel Corp.'s introduction of its Pentium Pro series this week, a who's who of the computer industry is...

ISV's package decisiveness. (Avantos Performance Systems' DecideRight and Arlington Software's Which & Why decision support software)(Product Announcement)
October 30, 1995... Two software vendors are seeking to infuse the often emotional decision-making process with a dose of cool computerized reasoning. Both Avantos Performance Systems and Arlington Software Corp. are this month releasing applications designed to...

Win95 growth spurt. (Microsoft Sr VP Brad Silverberg discusses the success of Windows 95) (Product Information)(Interview)
October 30, 1995... Flushed with pardonable pride at having sold more than 7 million copies of Windows 95, Brad Silverberg, senior vice president of Microsoft Corp.'s Personal Systems division, talked last week with the InfoWorld staff about the operating system's...

Pipeline. (software companies announce new products and shipments) (Software)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... ANNOUNCED ProtoView Development Corp. plans to ship the ProtoGen+, Version 5.0, suite of C++ visual development tools for Windows 3.1, Windows NT, and Windows 95 in November priced at $2,000. ProtoGen+ has prebuilt objects for database...

Microsoft compiles Service Pack pieces. (Microsoft's Windows 95 Service Pack enhances operating system functionality)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Microsoft Corp. officials say Windows 95 doesn't need a bug-fix release, but the company is piecing together a Windows 95 Service Pack due early next year to add several capabilities to the operating system. Microsoft has already released...

Microsoft Schedule+ faces glitches in mixed environments. (reserving common resources in mixed Windows 95 and Windows 3.x environments is impossible) (Product Support)
October 30, 1995... Users of Microsoft Corp.'s Schedule+ group scheduling software might discover they have problems reserving common resources such as meeting rooms when working in mixed Windows 95 and Windows 3.x environments, Microsoft officials confirmed last...

IBM lines up tool vendors for its Visual Warehouse; OLAP ISVs support data warehouse. (vendors supply software for IBM's Visual Warehouse Solution data warehousing package) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Vowing to provide users with a choice of data warehousing tools, IBM recently signed up five on-line analytical processing (OLAP) tool vendors that have pledged to integrate their wares with IBM's data warehouse products. The five vendors --...

ParcPlace-Digitalk speeds up VisualWorks. (VisualWorks 2.5 development tool)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... The newly formed ParcPlace-Digitalk Inc. has delivered an improved version of the Smalltalk-based VisualWorks development tool to help developers build faster object applications that run across a variety of hardware platforms. VisualWorks...

Autodesk makes first mapping move. (Autodesk's AutoCAD Map geographic information system and AutoCAD Data Extension Release 2 CAD software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Autodesk Inc. will unveil its first geographic information systems (GIS) offering as well an upgrade of its AutoCAD Data Extension (ADE) at the Autodesk University conference and exhibition in San Francisco this week. AutoCAD Map is the...

A lesson on how to manage objects, icons under Desktop feature of Win95. (how to create and change objects and icons) (Window Manager) (Technology Tutorial)(Column)(Tutorial)
October 30, 1995... The Windows 95 desktop is a new feature of Windows that has many uses. You can place handy objects on the Windows 95 Desktop -- not just icons for minimized applications, as in Windows 3.1. Most users of Win95 have by now found some use for...

Mapping tools vendors hone in on desktops. (MapInfo's MapInfo Professional and ESRI's BusinessMap geographic information systems)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Mapping and geographic information system (GIS) application vendors will try to make software more accessible on the desktop with new releases this winter that extend their offerings' client/server capabilities and add more intuitive...

Pipeline. (Hardware)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... PRICE CUTS Texas Instruments Inc. has cut the prices on its TravelMate and Extensa line of notebooks. Prices now begin at $2,099 for the Extensa 450T with Intel Corp.'s 75-MHz IntelDX4 processor, a 9.4-inch screen, and 340MB hard drive. The...

AMD, NexGen to merge, jointly develop K6 chip. (Advanced Micro Devices) (Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and NexGen Inc. indicated that they will focus their development efforts on a next-generation, multimedia-capable K6 processor in the wake of their merger last week. "This is a megadose multivitamin for the...

Intergraph Pentium Pro challenges RISC. (Intergraph Computer System's TDZ-300, TDZ-400, TDZ-600 Pentium Pro-based systems)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Intergraph Computer Systems intends to take on the RISC-based graphics workstation marketplace this week with three systems based on the 150-MHz Pentium Pro (P6). The computers include the single-processor TDZ-300, the dual-processor...

Digital ready with Pentium Pro; workstations, PCs, network and systems tools offered. (DEC's Celebris XL 6150 Pentium Pro-based system and ClientWorks network management software)(Product Announcement)
October 30, 1995... Digital Equipment Corp. this week will formally roll out its first Pentium Pro-based desktop systems, along with a series of network and systems management tools to help IS departments gain a tighter grip on tracking and managing network...

Towering Vectra. (HP's Vectra VL4 MT Pentium-based system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Hewlett-Packard Co. is adding four minitower models to its Vectra line of desktop PCs, including a version equipped with a 133-MHz Pentium processor. Debuting on Nov. 1, the basic Vectra VL Series 4 MT will have 8MB of RAM, a 1-gigabyte hard...

Power Computing offers clones with a difference. (PowerWave PowerPC-based system)(Product Announcement)
October 30, 1995... In the early days of the PC clone market, Compaq Computer Corp. used to brag that it was more IBM PC compatible than IBM was. Now, Power Computing Corp. wants to see if that approach will work in the fledgling Macintosh clone market as well....

Newton-to-PC integration focus of OS update. (Apple's Newton 2.0 operating system)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Apple Computer Inc. last week introduced a completely revamped Newton operating system, developed with an eye toward turning its hand-held devices into companions for desktop computers. The Newton 2.0 OS includes more input options, better...

Panasonic revamps notebooks. (Panasonic Personal Computer's Panasonic V41 MK III Pentium-based notebook)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Panasonic Personal Computer Co. last week introduced a multimedia notebook line with a 12.1-inch active matrix color screen. The V41 MK III supports 65,546 colors simultaneously at an 800-by-600 resolution. The only other notebook to come...

Satellite gets facelift. (Toshiba's Satellite Pro 410 Pentium-based notebook)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. last week updated its Satellite Pro line with a more powerful processor, faster CD-ROM drive, and better screens. The Satellite Pro 410 notebooks will replace the existing Satellite Pro 400 models....

Conner boosts drives for high-end systems. (Conner Peripherals' FilePro Performance CFP4217 and FilePro Performance CFP8718 over-3GB hard disk drives, and FilePro Performance 2115S 2GB-3GB hard disk drive)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Conner Peripherals Inc. is introducing a new series of 3.5-inch drives this week designed for high- end PCs, workstations, servers, and storage subsystems. The new 7,200-rpm FilePro Performance drives are available with either an Ultra SCSI...

Sony adds six Trinitron Multiscan displays. (15sfII, 17sfII, 20sfII, 17seII, 20seII and 15sx color displays)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Sony Corp. has added six models to its Trinitron-based line of Multiscan displays. The displays include a new Multiscan sfII line of 15-, 17-, and 20-inch monitors, additions to the company's Multiscan seII line, and a new low-end 15-inch...

600-dpi monochrome laser printers. (InfoWorld Street Prices)(Illustration)
October 30, 1995... Chg. fr. Model(1) RAM Ppm(2) Low High Avg. July Apple LaserWriter Select 360 7MB 10 $1,099 $1,300 $1,205 +2% Brother HL-1260...

Accelerator card to improve Mac 3-D graphics. (Apple's QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card graphics accelerator/display board)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... As promised, Apple Computer Inc. is introducing a 3-D graphics card accelerator designed to boost the performance of its PCI-based Macintosh systems to that of an entry-level graphics workstation. The QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Card will ship...

Auspex adds to its file server lineup. (NS7000/650, NS7000/250 and NS7000/150 SPARC-based systems)(Product Announcement)
October 30, 1995... Auspex Systems Inc. announced last week three additions to its NetServer line of file servers, along with new network and storage processor boards for existing models. Due out in mid-November, the new servers and boards are targeted for use...

Win95 still benefits from memory management apps. (question-and-answer) (Help Desk)(Column)
October 30, 1995... Q: After an upgrade to Windows 95, does it make any sense to run MemMaker? Will the application help me get more memory for DOS programs? Tom LongLand A: Yes. Just as with DOS and Windows 3.x, a system running Windows 95 first boots a...

Pipeline. (Networking)(Column)
October 30, 1995... SHIPPING Lotus Development Corp. cc:Mail users can now take advantage of the Universal Inbox in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows 95 without upgrading to the upcoming cc:Mail 6.0 Messaging API 1.0-compliant version of cc:Mail server software....

Visual Recall 2.0 lets users generate document summaries. (XSoft's text processing software)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... XSoft Corp. has added new excerpting technology, enhanced integration with desktop applications, and a developer's kit to Version 2.0 of its Visual Recall document management package. The Excerpts Browser, based on a document summarization...

ManageWise 2.0 improves SNMP-based network management. (network management software from Intel and Novell)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Novell Inc. and Intel Corp. have announced a new version of their ManageWise network management suite that will enable NetWare administrators to integrate systems and network management tasks more closely and make NetWare networks more...

LAN Emulation clears way for ATM users; standard provides way to integrate legacy LANs with ATM backbone. (ATM Forum's standard) (Technology Information)
October 30, 1995... Although most network managers and analysts acknowledge that widespread use of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is a year or more away, those who want it now have a standardized migration path for their legacy networks. The path was cleared...

Banyan to tell ENS for SCO users to move. (Banyan Systems' Enterprise Network Services for SCO UNIX network software is discontinued) (Product Information)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Banyan Systems Inc. this week will advise users of Enterprise Network Services (ENS) for SCO software to migrate to other platforms, according to industry officials familiar with the Banyan plan. ENS for SCO will only be upgraded if there is...

RAM network to get broader coverage. (Megahertz' AllPoints Wireless PC Card wireless LAN WAN adapter)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Seeking to address one of the obstacles to deployment of wireless data systems, the RAM Mobile Data network at the end of this month is expected to announce that it is enabling access to the RAM network via circuit-switched cellular (CSC) and...

Apple renews networking plan; products include PowerPC version of AppleShare 4.2. (network operating system)(Product Announcement)
October 30, 1995... Apple Computer Inc. earlier this month made another attempt to convince users it has a networking strategy when it announced a series of networking product upgrades, including a PowerPC version of AppleShare. AppleShare 4.2 for the PowerPC,...

Novell will bring Personal NetWare to Win95. (Personal NetWare for Windows 95 network operating system) (Product Development)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Reports of the death of Personal NetWare are exaggerated. Novell Inc. is planning a Windows 95 version of the peer-to-peer OS but will not commit to a ship date. The new OS will offer better performance and improved remote connectivity, and...

Motorola plans multipurpose PC Card. (Mariner wireless fax modem)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Motorola will this week unveil Mariner, a multifunction PC Card that offers 28.8Kbps land-line fax/modem and cellular modem capabilities, Ethernet LAN connectivity, and alphanumeric pager communications. The $599 product, which will be...

Single-chip technology cuts cost of ISDN remote-access products. (Livingston Enterprises' PowerLink 128 ISDN modem adapter, PortMaster router and PortMaster communications server)(Product Announcement)
October 30, 1995... Livingston Enterprises Inc. has taken advantage of an innovative chip technology to deliver a line of ISDN remote-access products at what analysts say are the lowest prices in the industry. The company will announce this week the PortMaster...

Securing network communications is pivotal for growing remote technology. (LAN Talk) (Technology Information)(Column)
October 30, 1995... Improvements in laptop and modem technology have driven the demand for remote network access to an all-time high. Beyond firewall and access-control technologies, we need to consider the third member of the security triumvirate: payload...

Pipeline. (Internet) (Technology Information)(Column)
October 30, 1995... SHIPPING Group Cortex Inc. last week shipped SiteTrack 1.0, a World Wide Web server add-on that tracks user access to Web sites to allow Webmasters to build databases of user activities. SiteTrack 1.0 is available for Netscape Communication...

The Web Hotlist; Web sites worth checking out.(Illustration)
October 30, 1995... Welcome to SCO -- http://www.sco.com Santa Cruz Operation Inc. presents a comprehensive package of information on its Unix system software products. Areas to browse include SCO User Stories and Developer's Place. Wall Data --...

IS 'net shopping grows; IS using Internet to buy software. (Industry Trend or Event)
October 30, 1995... As software vendors make products and software patches available on the Internet, corporate IS managers are warming up to the Internet as a medium for software distribution. Though concerns over the security of financial transactions remain,...

Getting on the Internet at last. (AT&T VP of Gateway Services Tom Evslin) (Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
October 30, 1995... The new, slimmer AT&T was slow to enter the Internet services market but plans to be a force in several areas. AT&T's Vice President of Gateway Services Tom Evslin talked to IDG News Service Correspondent Michael Parsons about AT&T's plans to...

Are Internet advocates trying to convince you of just another fish story? (differing Internet projections) (From the Ether) (Industry Trend or Event)(Column)
October 30, 1995... MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte says the Internet will have 1 billion users by the year 2000. If the number is 50 million today, Negroponte says it will double in each of the next five years. Negroponte is dancing the fine line between vision...

IS wary of Linux as Web server OS; despite advantages, freeware OS lacks vendor support. (Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Nearly 10 percent of existing World Wide Web servers are running the Linux Unix operating system, according to a survey published this month, but the freeware program is not expected to win the hearts of corporate users any time soon. The...

Software.com introduces commercial Internet mail. (Post.office for Unix e-mail)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... Software.com will this week announce commercial availability of post office, a server-based E-mail program designed to replace the Sendmail freeware Unix messaging program. The software will provide IS sites with a more robust commercial...

InfoWorld brings home the gold in competition for excellence in redesign. (From the Editor in Chief)(Editorial)
October 30, 1995... Good design is so commonplace it's easy to take it for granted, whether you're looking at systems, software, or newspapers. But while good design is the norm, exceptional design is rare. It's an occasional, extraordinary product that leaps out...

Visi On combines visually oriented display, mouse. (reprinted article from Oct 31, 1983)
October 30, 1995... Finally, Visi On is here (0ct. 31, 1983) Visi On is finally on. Almost a full year after VisiCorp first demonstrated its integrated software environment, the San Jose, Calif. software publisher is putting the product on computer store...

Manager's Bulletin Board.
October 30, 1995... WIRING THE SLEEPING GIANT. Control Data Systems Inc., in Arden Hills, Minn., and Rayes Technology Co., in Shenzhen, China, are building what could turn into the world's largest information superhighway. It's not hard to figure out why: Their...

Standardization: the great debate; advocates say using similar systems saves money, trouble. (Enterprise Computing: Management) (Industry Trend or Event)
October 30, 1995... With hardware fleets and software suites available for the enterprise, the debate over standardization rages in many IS departments. So, in a two-part series, we're going to examine both sides of the issue. This week: IS managers and analysts...

Checkfree gives secure Internet transactions top billing. (Checkfree Corp's CheckFree software) (Company Business and Marketing)(Company Profile)
October 30, 1995... Checkfree Corp. has parlayed the notion of making other company's products look good into a $40 million business. The company, based in Columbus, Ohio, is best known as the maker of the CheckFree software that enables users of popular home...

A LAN speed record. (evaluations of Grand Junction Networks Inc and 3Comm Corp 10 100Mbps switching hub solutions) (includes related articles on test results, test methods and the 100VG-AnyLAN) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
October 30, 1995... Today's LANs demand maximum horsepower to break through old barriers. These 10/100Mbps switching hub solutions took our real-world testing in stride. Will your servers be ready on race day? COMPARED: Grand Junction solution FastSwitch...

Segment switching at either speed: Bay Networks' LattisSwitch 28115. (switching hub) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
October 30, 1995... If you're looking to outfit your wiring closet with a high-performing segment switch but don't want to provide desktop switching just yet, Bay Networks Inc., in Santa Clara, Calif., deserves your attention. Bay's LattisSwitch 28115 switching...

SmartSuite moves to groupware. (Lotus SmartSuite 96 Edition for Windows 95 office suite software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 30, 1995... The Bottom Line Lotus SmartSuite 96 Edition for Windows 95 SmartSuite 96 may not supplant Microsoft Office, but it offers some innovative workgroup tools for sharing documents that you won't find elsewhere. Pros: Easy-to-use...

Dual-purpose office peripherals turn colorful. (HP's CopyJet and CopyJet M color ink-jet printers and copiers) (Hardware Review)(Evaluation)(Brief Article)
October 30, 1995... The Bottom Line: GOOD HP CopyJet and CopyJet M CopyJet provides competent color ink-jet printing and low-volume copying with reduction/enlargement at a price that compares well with color copiers alone. Pros: Spacesaver; easy to set up...

Organizer 2.0 gives you more than just time of day. (Day-Timer Technologies Inc's personal information management software) (Software Review)(Evaluation)
October 30, 1995... The Bottom Line: GOOD Day-Timer Organizer, Version 2.0 Organizer offers a familiar face for Day-Timer users, but its interface suffers from inflexibility. Although not the easiest personal information manager to use, it offers a useful set...