Monthly Archives: June 2001
Data, Data Everywhere, but Which Is Crucial?
In our last column, we discussed the fact that most Web sites have various stakeholders, each of whom will want to measure different things...
IBM Opens Door With NAS Products
Four months after launching its storage networking initiative, IBM last week unveiled a number of NAS products aimed at helping businesses link information and...
Stamping Out the Bad Guys
Most companies use business intelligence and customer relationship management software to identify customers and get them to spend more. Not the U.S. Postal Service....
Do Clones Make The Mac?
Of all the quirks that set Apple Computer apart from other PC makers, few irk some members of the Windows majority like Apples dogged...
Apples Challenge: Retail Balancing Act
Last month, Apple followed Gateways country store example by opening its first two retail stores, one in Tysons Corner, Va., and another in Glendale,...
9i Comes With Competition
When Oracle Corp. rolls out its Oracle9i database this week, it will boast some 450 new or improved features over its predecessor, 8i. Though...
Oracle Raises E-Procurement Stakes
With e-procurement competitors Ariba Inc. and Commerce One Inc. stumbling over earnings reports, Oracle Corp. is pressing its advantage by offering a fast implementation...
The Internet, Take Two: Waiting for the Other Shoe to Drop
Rising from the pile of dead dot-coms is a set of new companies trying to fix things that are wrong with the Internet. To...
Software: Beyond the Box
I hope these are the last words I write about Microsoft Office, at least as the giant application suite is currently configured. As strongly...
C++ Falls Short of An A
College computer science programs will have the task, during the next few years, of digesting a cohort of incoming students who learned C++ as...