Monthly Archives: May 2001
Step Into His Cage
Data centers are a home-improvement aficionados dream. More power, faster fiber, megawatts, gigabits, and hundreds of thousands of square footage filled with electrical toys...
Personalization Made Easier
Onepage Inc. last week introduced a technology that company officials said will make it easier for users in corporations and at consumer Web sites...
Storage Stakes Rising
IBMs promise last week of a fourfold gain in disk drive capacities by 2003 raises the stakes for how the Internet will be used...
Working on a Sequel
Chairman John Chen last Tuesday opened what he called "chapter two" in the life of Sybase, one of the original pioneers of database systems...
Look Whos Talking: May 28, 2001
Drew Major may have lost his magic touch. When I spoke with the father of NetWare earlier this year, Major was very upbeat about...
Pulling Away From the Pack
In the crowded world of local service providers, differentiation is key.Pelago Networks Inc., of Marlboro, Mass., this month announced a family of products that...
Your E-Room Is Ready Now
An application architecture should be like a grand hotel: It should accommodate the convention market of B2B and enterprise applications and also afford more...
From the Dustbin, Cobol Rises
Like John Travolta and bell-bottoms, COBOL is back. The 40-year-old programming language is being dusted off after years of being regarded as hopelessly out...
Rational Revs Testing, Online Resources
Rational Software Corp. is injecting its advanced suite of testing and software development management products with Java support and turning on an online resource...
Retreat, Rebuild Then Rebound
In an industry where too many companies try to be everything to their customers, Software Spectrum is happy to return to its roots.The large,...