Monthly Archives: July 2002
Tips for IT Contractors
Rates keep slumping. The IT labor market is stuffed to the gills with talent. And third party agents have the market for large companies...
Microsoft Warns of SQL Server Flaws
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unleashed a flurry of security bulletins warning of problems in several of its products, including SQL Server 2000, Exchange 5.5...
Proficient Tool Bases Routing Decisions on Cost
Proficient Networks Inc. this week expanded the software options for its network optimization appliances to allow them to route traffic based on cost.Proficient Networks,...
Layoffs Looming at AvantGo
Handheld software maker AvantGo Inc. on Wednesday posted a loss that was narrower than analyst expectations, but, anticipating a slow year, the company announced...
Power Mac Leak Provokes Apple Legal
In its latest skirmish with independent Web sites bearing unauthorized information about the Mac, Apple Computer Inc. this week moved to block the posting...
CA Pays Wyly $10 Million to Drop Proxy Battle
Computer Associates International Inc. bought peace from dissident shareholder Sam Wyly for $10 million. In exchange, Wyly agreed to desist from all proxy battles...
Microsoft Steps Up Its War on LAMP
Is Microsoft at last conceding that the open-source world may have some new tricks to teach the old dogs in Redmond? Or is the...
Contractor Meat Market: Readers Respond
Ive been contracting as an Oracle developer for seven years now. A year and a half ago, I quit my permanent job at an...
WorldCom Ties Tip EDS Revenues
EDS managed in its second quarter to come out 14 cents a share and $67 million ahead of the same quarter last year, despite...
Quantum Reports First-Quarter Net Loss
Tape and network-attached storage maker Quantum Corp. made $211 million in revenue but had a net loss of $131 million for its first fiscal...