Monthly Archives: August 2001
Smaller Innovators Fill Database Niches
At first glance, the database landscape doesnt appear to be crowded, with IBM, Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. garnering the lions share of attention.But...
Data Underdogs
While open source databases have scored some recent successes, they wont pose a serious challenge to mature commercial databases until they have added some...
Ellisons War Perplexes Some
There are two ways to build and sell enterprise applications.Theres the best-of-breed approach, in which vendors embrace open architecture and easy integration with disparate...
Microsoft: Share More
Source code is the DNA of the e-commerce ecosystem, and access to it is essential to the survival and evolution of e-businesses.Responding to its...
Vendors Rushing IT Utilities Online
While IBM has been among the earliest and most ambitious proponents of shared, pay-as-you-go IT utilities, competitors such as Sun Microsystems Inc., Accenture Ltd.,...
Blending Old, New
Internet systems integrator webMethods has forged a multimillion-dollar deal with Bank of America to connect the banks internal applications with its corporate clients.The deal...
Tivoli Launch Stresses Mobile Support
Tight economic times have put the spotlight back on how to get the most out of IT assets. Vendors that provide management of those...
Buffer Overflows: Problem Multiplies
It used to be that buffer overflows were just a nagging 40-year-old glitch in the software development process. Today, as illustrated by Code Red,...
11i: Too Soon, Users Say
Oracle Corp. boasted famously in television advertisements earlier this year that implementing its own e-business software saved it $1 billion.But Mickey McBride has a...
Smoother Web Deployments
Traditionally, if companies want to deploy applications over the Web, they can use standard Web development tools that are ubiquitous and scalable but also...