Monthly Archives: September 2001
Linux Emerges As Best Os Play For HP-Compaq
The combined Hewlett-Packard-Compaq Computer must weed a tangled garden of operating systems and focus on fewer platforms to realize the $2.5 billion per year...
HP-Compaq: State of Confusion
The most appropriate icon for the proposed combination of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq might well be the Hindu god Shiva, multiarmed symbol of destruction and...
Operator No. 9: September 10, 2001
Post-Merger PossibilitiesSo Hewlett-Packard and Compaq Computer want to merge? Well, while everyone else spent the week trying to figure out why the $25 billion...
Cost-Saving Gear in Works
Equipment vendors, reacting to the slowed economy, are pushing the message that todays entrenched networks are unwieldy and inefficient and are hurting the bottom...
PGP Expands Crypto Offerings
As it attempts to shake off a years worth of internal issues and economic problems, security giant Network Associates Inc. is readying new products...
Linux on Mainframe Gains Momentum
E-businesses looking for more of the kind of stability and reliability found only in mainframe computers suddenly have a few new solutions to help...
Maxtor and Sony Aim at Midrange
Maxtor Corp. and Sony Corp. of America are attacking the midrange storage space with new network-attached and tape devices.At this weeks NetWorld+Interop trade show...
Clock Speed Is Not Output
Have you ever bought a car because it had an 8,000-rpm engine? No, you havent. So why would you ever buy a PC because...
Hosted CRM Targets the Enterprise
Salesforce.Com Inc., a fast-growing CRM hosting service, will move to expand its offerings beyond the department level next month with an enterprise-class version of...
Battles Eroding the Future of Web Services
As Sun and Microsoft duke it out over which is the supreme leader in Web development, their hubris has become comical, as if the...