Monthly Archives: July 2002
Congress Zeros In on Cyber-security
WASHINGTON—As Congress continued this week to hash out the details of legislation creating a Department of Homeland Security, securing cyberspace took on an increasingly...
Ariba Third-Quarter Revenues Plummet
Strategic sourcing software maker Ariba Inc. posted third-quarter earnings today that showed quarterly revenues plummeting 30 percent, buffeted by an inching over the profit...
BladeLogic 4 Gets Sharper
Frustrated with the complexity of maintaining his application service providers servers, Dev Ittycheria decided to market a better solution.Ittycherias now CEO of a new...
U.S. Put Man on Moon, Gates Gives us .Net
Two years ago, almost to the day, I went to the first briefing of .Net. At that time, which seems very long ago now,...
Lets Get Rid of Broadcast TV
The electromagnetic spectrum is one of our most important and valuable natural resources. However, until wireless technologies and regulatory schemes can evolve to find...
RSA Reports Loss; Revenues Drop
RSA Security Inc. on Wednesday reported a net loss of $25 million for the second quarter, compared to a net profit of $13.3 million...
MPEG-4 Sharpens Apple QuickTime 6
Although Apple Computer Inc.s QuickTime format (see screen) is typically number three in market share behind the streaming media products from RealNetworks Inc. and...
Gates Hands Out .Net Report Card
Two years ago, at the high-water mark for the dot-com boom, Microsoft introduced its .Net initiative. On Wednesday, amid the debris of a shattered...
Calif. Cancels Oracle Contract
The state of California has ended its controversial enterprise licensing agreement with Oracle Corp. following months of legislative hearings and high-level resignations over a...
Server Lets .Net Apps Run on Apache
Covalent Wednesday afternoon will announce that its Enterprise Ready Server, or ERS, is now compatible with Microsofts ASP.Net development environment. Covalents server is based...