Monthly Archives: January 2001
Getting Down to the Truth
As we enter 2001, an obvious gap between past fantasy and present reality is our lack of computers that care about telling the truth.The...
IBM Ships eServer z900
IBM has begun shipping the eServer z900, which it calls the "reinvented mainframe" and the successor to its popular S/390 line.To highlight its aggressive...
Microtek Makes Nice Impression
When image is everything, a lightweight $150 scanner simply wont suffice. Microteks ScanMaker 8700 weighs 25 pounds and costs $1,000, but buyers get what...
How to Cover Your Shopping Footprints
Shopping on the Internet is like signing up for a supermarket saver card or getting that extra 10 percent discount when you sign up...
Hacking: Its a Mad, Mad, Mad New World
"Spy vs. Spy" is Mad Magazines classic cartoon that pits two virtually identical characters against each other in an espionage and dirty-tricks contest that...
Oracle: The Yahoo of the Corporate World
Once again, Larry Ellison has taken a basic technology and made it seem interesting. That basic technology is the portal, and Oracle is staking...
Microsoft, Oracle Vis-A-Vis
Microsoft Corp. is becoming increasingly concerned about the growing threat the Unix platform is posing to the companys Windows platform, and its starting to...
Geekspeak: January 1, 2001
No one can afford to scale up user support. we often hear the word "scalability" reverently invoked—as if it were the necessary and sufficient...
Rave Boosts Redundancy
Multiple optionsRave Computer Association Inc., of Sterling Heights, Mich., has added a rack mount to its line of Rave AXmp systems to provide redundancy...
On Technology Targets Support
Desktop configuration management provider ON Technology Corp. has extended the concept of self-service user support to Web-based remote software delivery. The Cambridge, Mass., vendor...