Monthly Archives: May 2002
Allchin: Remedy Could Undermine Afghanistan Effort
WASHINGTON -- Jim Allchin, the final Microsoft Corp. executive lined up to defend the Redmond, Wash., software maker against tough antitrust penalties, took the...
.Net Speech SDK Goes to Beta
Microsoft Corp. will on Tuesday announce the beta of its .Net Speech Software Development Kit, a Web developer tool based on the Speech Application...
Job Board Sees Uptick in IT Listings
ARLINGTON, Va.--The chronic drip-drip-drip of IT job losses has finally stabilized, said IT job board Dice Inc. President Scot Melland, here at the Information...
C++ Skills Hot; Tech Support Not
ARLINGTON, Va.--Technical support workers apparently wont be among those IT workers enjoying a rebound in hiring demand, according to IT hiring managers surveyed for...
IBM Tops Oracle in Database Sales
Oracle Corp. has lost its reign atop the market for new database sales as IBM overtook it by just under 3 percentage points, according...
BEA, Lockheed Martin Strike Defense Deal
BEA Systems Inc. is making a significant new foray into the government market through a new relationship with Lockheed Martin Corp. to deliver application...
Ipswitch Strengthens Groupware Offering
Ipswitch Inc. on Tuesday will announce Version 7.1 of its iMail e-mail server, with new security and calendaring features that strengthen the softwares position...
IT Work Force Contracts
First, the bad news: The U.S. IT work force shrank by an aggregate of 528,496 workers in 2001, with companies hiring 2.1 million IT...
New Oracle9i Release Coming Next Week
Oracle Corp. is heading into the final stretch for Release 2 of its flagship Oracle9i database with versions of it becoming available next week,...
Microsoft Addresses Management Demands
As Microsoft Corp. continues its drive into more mission-critical computing, its customers are pushing the company to provide more industrial-strength management tools to ensure...