Monthly Archives: February 2002
Building Portals Made Easier
With portals growing more strategic to both application server providers and users, portal software companies are delivering tools that make it easier to build...
Easing Health Care Headaches
Making further inroads in the health care vertical market, Mercator Software Inc. is partnering with ProAct Technologies Corp. The agreement calls for Mercators Integration...
Keeping Businesses Linked
Systems management software maker BMC Software Inc. and application integration company WebMethods Inc. are teaming up. The two companies this week will announce a...
Just Connect Us to the Internet, Please
Maybe you think that unless your company runs an e-commerce Web site, the conduct and policies of consumer ISPs is of no concern. Think...
Time for Some Heavy Reading
When Microsoft announces that it will stop writing code for a month, devoting its attention to a bottom-up review of what it ships now,...
Tightening the Supply Chain
IBM and Parametric Technology Corp. have each found partners to help them sell technologies that will enable manufacturers to collaborate online with suppliers, dealers...
iVault, eRoom Provide Collaboration
Placeware Inc. and eRoom Technology Inc. are enhancing their respective online collaboration software platforms, addressing some familiar enterprise computing concerns—security, business process automation and...
Hosted Apps: Answer for CRM Cost Bloat?
The pitch seems almost too good to be true. Are you frozen with fear by tales of runaway CRM software deployment costs? Not to...
Microsoft Exec Focuses on .Net Vision
As Microsoft Corp., of Redmond, Wash., rolls out Visual Studio .Net, a product its touting as the best available for developing and delivering Web...
Kattoon: February 25, 2002
Read this weeks Spencer column.