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Hacking: Its a Mad, Mad, Mad New World
"Spy vs. Spy" is Mad Magazines classic cartoon that pits two virtually identical characters against each other in an espionage and dirty-tricks contest that...
Oracle: The Yahoo of the Corporate World
Once again, Larry Ellison has taken a basic technology and made it seem interesting. That basic technology is the portal, and Oracle is staking...
Microsoft, Oracle Vis-A-Vis
Microsoft Corp. is becoming increasingly concerned about the growing threat the Unix platform is posing to the companys Windows platform, and its starting to...
Geekspeak: January 1, 2001
No one can afford to scale up user support. we often hear the word "scalability" reverently invoked—as if it were the necessary and sufficient...
Rave Boosts Redundancy
Multiple optionsRave Computer Association Inc., of Sterling Heights, Mich., has added a rack mount to its line of Rave AXmp systems to provide redundancy...
On Technology Targets Support
Desktop configuration management provider ON Technology Corp. has extended the concept of self-service user support to Web-based remote software delivery. The Cambridge, Mass., vendor...
Microsoft Boosts .Net With Great Plains Deal
Microsoft Corp. made a serious move into the small-to-midsize business applications space and bolstered its .Net strategy at the same time with its purchase...
Lessons for the Year Ahead
If your business made it out of last year alive, and if weve learned anything during the last official days of the 20th century,...
The Future Is Not What It Used to Be
As the dawn of the new year approached, El Gato took a moment to contrast the reality of the year 2001 with Stanley Kubricks...
Integrating Web Apps: Pain and Horror
Just when you thought it was safe—when there would be no more ERP implementation debacles in your future because, well, big ERP projects are...