Monthly Archives: October 2001
Watchdog Group Rips Into Anti-Terror Bill
A privacy watchdog group on Tuesday ripped the latest draft of the Bush administrations anti-terror bill as vague and warned that the broad powers...
Cisco Unveils Service Provider IP Strategy
In an effort to make greater inroads into the service provider market, Cisco Systems Inc. today announced three products slated to give carriers new...
Formation to Give a Web Face to Product Lifecycles Management
Formation Systems Inc. is Web-enabling its product lifecycle management software suite. As a result, makers of formula-based goods such as packaged food or plastics...
Logistics.com Unveils Logistics Event Management Architecture
As in other industries, those in the transportation business use hundreds of different software applications to communicate with suppliers and partners. As a result,...
EMC Fine-Tunes Database Tuner Line
High-end databases and high-end storage needs tend to be bought at the same time, and storage leader EMC Corp. is taking advantage of that.On...
CRM: Girding Yourself for the Long Haul
COMMENTARY--Why to do many first-time CRM implementations fail to meet business objectives?Consider that the Gartner Group predicted last month that 50 percent of all...
Changes Afoot for MySQL Database
MySQL AB is planning major changes to its namesake open-source database technology by the end of the year.According to CEO Mårten Mickos, the company...
Microsofts .Net Server Line Pushed to 2002
The third beta of Microsoft Corp.s upcoming Windows .Net Server line will be released before the end of the year, according to Cliff Reeves,...
Perfect Storm Batters Compaq
Compaq Computer Corp. warned Monday that its quarterly earnings will fall far short of expectations, saying that fallout from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...
Running Cool
In a move that will affect many of its product lines, IBM is implementing a company-wide initiative to optimize the energy efficiency of computing...