Monthly Archives: February 2001
Reaching Out
Sometimes its not the numbers that count but the way you count them that makes the difference.Take PeopleSoft. The company had good news in...
Microsoft Aims at Embedded Space
If there is one area of technology Microsoft Corp. has not dominated, it is the embedded space. But no longer, as CEO Steve Ballmer...
New Service Aids Buyers
Active Decisions Inc., of Burlingame, Calif., has launched a service for e-commerce sites that helps consumers make decisions across 120 product categories.Active Sales Assistant...
Wireless Enterprise Apps are Brewing
A handful of software developers are building enterprise applications on early versions of a new wireless platform from Qualcomm Inc. that promises easy downloads...
Culture Shift
Call it Lucent Start-Up, or Lucent Launchpad, where the new motto might be "Keep it going and keep it flowing."Here in the Merrimack Valley...
Napster Fallout
Apparently, 50 million people on the Internet can be wrong.Napster fought the law, but the law won — big time. The federal appeals court...
HPs Software Play
Hewlett-Packard Co. last week laid out a company-wide software consolidation plan and a new strategy based on platform independence.The company, known as a collection...
Tool Vendors Gear Up for Oracle Platform
As Oracle Corp. offers its vision of software as a service at its AppsWorld conference in New Orleans this week, a trio of other...
Napsters Hard Times
Jordan ritter, co-founder of Napster Inc., the popular music file sharing company, is at another startup venture, this time in the financial software services...
Helping Systems Communicate Can Only Help You
In todays high-pressure business environment, companies want to get new products and services to market quickly. A systems integrator—a specialist—is often called to install...