Monthly Archives: April 2001
Freddie Mac Riles Critics
Over the past two years, Freddie Mac has aggressively used the Internet to lower the cost of marketing its securities and increase its profile...
Amazons Poor Returns
It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now Amazon.coms enormous investments in partner online retailers are proving to be lead weights...
Dot-Com Deaths Pave the Way for Sybase
One positive thing to emerge from the dot-com disasters is that there is much less traffic congestion along the San Francisco peninsula. My commute...
AskSam Gets Boost to Web
AskSam Web Publisher 4.0 is a useful companion to the AskSam 4.0 database, letting you make the database searchable in any browser.The well-respected free-form...
No Browsing on Shopping Block
SAPs planned $400 million buyout of TopTier Software is the latest in a flurry of acquisitions to kick off consolidation within the enterprise portal...
Microsoft Scales Back VB Changes
Developers welcomed Microsoft Corp.s decision last week to scrap some of its planned changes for Visual Basic.Net but said the decision may fall short...
Web, Print Publishing With a FreeHand
Designers looking to publish their work in multiple media will get help with the newest version of Macromedia Inc.s FreeHand design tool.FreeHand Version 10...
B2B Firms Victims of Own Failures
B2B software providers are the latest to take their turn at the Wall Street whipping post. And like the many other victims of the...
Edholm Joins DecisionPoint
Enterprise analytical applications and packaged data warehouse provider DecisionPoint Applications Inc. late last month appointed Yorgen Edholm as CEO.Edholm replaced Marc Demarest, who will...
7. Rational Software
The offices at Rational Software have many of the trappings of a New Economy company. There are pool tables, pingpong tables and video games...