Monthly Archives: May 2001
Senators to OK FCC Heads
Ushering in what appears to be an era of improved relations between lawmakers and telecommunications regulators, U.S. senators overseeing the Federal Communications Commission this...
Cable Telephony: to IP, or Not to IP
Its getting close, but not close enough.Cable operators have been looking forward to the day Internet Protocol (IP) telephone technology becomes good enough to...
Fired and Proud of It
Just got dumped amidst the dot-com crash, but dont want to put your personal e-mail address on your résumé? (Why not? Its that embarrassing,...
Concert: Out of Tune
With both of its parents struggling to shake off their staggering debt loads, the joint telecom venture called Concert is looking more and more...
Signal Skirmish
The federal communications commission is once again at the center of a passionate spectrum debate, this time over the 12.2-gigahertz to 12.7-GHz band that...
Opportunity Knocks … and Echoes, Too
Even as parts of the dot-com era reach extinction, some really weird practices are still being stirred up in startup land.Consider the following plea...
At a Glance
Customer: American Honda, Torrance, Calif. (www.honda.com)Size: 1,300 dealershipsBusiness: AutomobilesBusiness Need: Bottom-up MRP and inventory controlSolutions Provider: SyncataHardware: Compaq server, IBM RS/6000Software: Microsoft Visual Basic,...
Adventures in Partnering
Vendors first started to hone in on these three emerging database markets with partnership programs a couple of years ago.Sybase, which launched its business...
Consider This
1. How well does the open source code youre considering match up with your existing environment?If you are considering Linux, do you run IBMs...
DBAs Reaction Mixed on Oracle9i Clustering
Oracle Corp. is touting real Application Clusters as one of the key enhancements in the companys 9i database software, which is being readied for...