Monthly Archives: June 2002
Loudcloud Changes to Opsware Inc.
Loudcloud Inc., originally an IT management outsourcer, announced a crucial strategy change today, repositioning itself as a software company and selling its services efforts...
Getting Testy About High-Quality Software
Of all the topics that I try to cover in these developer-oriented letters, nothing generates even half as much mail as the issue of...
Partnerships Key to Itanium 2 Push
Intel Corp. is gearing up its marketing machine for the launch of Itanium 2 this summer, hoping to ignite demand for the chip among...
Office Work Is Never Done
Microsoft Corp., which released its Office XP desktop productivity suite last May, has been hard at work on the next-version upgrade, the first beta...
10 Gigabit Ethernet Standard Ratified
The 10 Gigabit Ethernet standard, after three years of work, has become official and is helping to pave the way for broader adoption of...
Sierra Atlantic Partners With WebMethods
Business process integration software maker Sierra Atlantic announced a partnership today with WebMethods Inc. to provide manufacturing customers with business process integration solutions.Sierras packaged...
Apples Marketing Mojo: Readers Respond
If my excitement over Apple Computers recent spate of activity is delusional, it seems to be symptomatic of a mass psychosis—at least judging from...
Toshiba Talks Up Hot Spots
Toshiba Inc.s Computer Systems Group is prepping new technologies and services to support its effort to make wireless LAN access in public spaces ubiquitous...
Microsoft Scales Down BizTalk
Hoping to increase companies ability to quickly and inexpensively integrate small numbers of trading partners, Microsoft Corp. announced Monday Partner and Standard editions of...
Flaw Found in Apache HTTP Server
A buffer overrun vulnerability in the Apache HTTP server included with many popular Web servers enables an attacker to execute code on vulnerable machines.The...