Monthly Archives: September 2002
Optiant Optimizes the Supply Chain
Optiant Inc. last week made available PowerChain 4.0, software that works with a companys advanced planning system to optimize inventory based on sales and...
Feds Cast Eye Toward Nanotechnology
In its national strategy to secure cyberspace draft released last week, the Presidents Critical Infrastructure Protection Board named nanotechnology as having the potential to...
Critics Take on New Fed Plan
Public comment on a newly released draft of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace began swiftly last week, with mixed reviews ranging from toothless...
XML: New Options, New Worries
Despite all the attention given to Web services applications that will make life easier for general consumers, business-to-business applications have always been at the...
With IT Spending Studies, Estimates Run the Gamut
For most it buyers and vendors, making sense of the various 2003 IT spending reports has been about as easy as reading tea leaves.Depending...
BEA + IBM = YAC (Yet Another Catfight)
Its a two-horse race in the application server world. IBM admits it. BEA admits it. Even PeopleSoft CEO Craig Conway mentioned it in a...
Microsoft, Intel Elbow Into Wireless
Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are putting their muscle behind new WLAN components, but the heavyweights actions have others in the industry worried they...
Intel Targets PC and Wireless Convergence
Intel Corp. is looking to extend its prowess in the wireless arena by introducing several new products in the coming months that will take...
Training Security Foot Soldiers
Security managers worth their salt are arming their companies with arsenals of technology such as firewalls and encryption. But its the wise ones like...
New Web Services to Run the Security Gamut
Entrust Inc. and Westbridge Technology Inc. are rolling out Web services security platforms designed to give enterprises a complete package of tools and support...