Monthly Archives: June 2001
Storage Vendors Stepping Up Capacity
Storage companies, large and small, have new targets in their sights: small and midsize businesses.As evidence of that trend, about a half-dozen vendors, including...
Can Quartz Crack Adobe?
Is it safe? Like Laurence Oliviers evil dentist in "Marathon Man," I seem to have drilled straight into a nerve with my last column...
Does Mac OS X Rest On Adobe?
The last time I tackled the relationship between Adobe Systems and Apple Computers next-generation operating system in an opinion piece was four years ago,...
Getting to Know You
Advances in business intelligence software are helping retailers get to know their customers — and, more important, sell them more stuff — like never...
Freddie, Fannie Agree to XML Standard
Freddie Mac and its larger cousin, Fannie Mae, are fierce competitors in the secondary mortgage market. But the two companies could make paperless real...
New Pricing With Oracle9i
With all the hype that has surrounded Oracle Corp.s 9i database over the past few months, last weeks actual launch of the database upgrade...
Philharmonic Computing
Improved microprocessors make other technologies more valuable. Mass storage, for example, is worth more if less expensive, faster processors can execute more demanding compression...
Mea Culpa
So much self-flagellation was going on at SuperComm this year, it wouldnt have surprised me a bit to learn that half the analysts and...
Sybase Upgrades Against Rival Threats
With a two-year hiatus between versions and an eye toward competition from Java and Microsoft Corp.s Visual Basic, Sybase Inc. will ship a new...
Remedy Customers Await Deals Impact
The news last week that enterprise software developer Peregrine Systems Inc. will acquire rival Remedy Corp. in a $1.08 billion cash and stock transaction...