Monthly Archives: October 2002
Keeping the Orchestra Together: Dynamic Software for Distributed Systems
Theres poetry in the process of turning our ideas into machine instructions. Of all the types of product that I get to review at...
Tackling Web Transaction Troubles
Startup Quantiva Inc. hopes to break into the Web transaction management space with a tool that draws on sophisticated mathematical algorithms to automate diagnosis...
F5 Adds Smarts to Packet Management
F5 Networks Inc. looks to solve more security and scalability issues on IP networks with a major upgrade to its Big IP traffic management...
NetForensics Gets a Face-Lift
In the suddenly hot market for security event management products, Symantec Corp. and Computer Associates International Inc. may be the big kids on the...
Network Instruments Tool Offers WAN Protocol Analysis
Low-cost software-based protocol analysis vendor Network Instruments LLC on Monday will make its first foray into WAN protocol analysis with its new WAN Observer.The...
Flashline Upgrades Software Reuse Platform
Flashline Inc. on Monday will announce a new version of its software reuse platform, with collaboration and integration capabilities.The Cleveland-based company will announce Flashline...
SAP, PeopleSoft Report Mixed Results
Two bellwethers of the Enterprise Resource Planning software industry—SAP AG and PeopleSoft Inc. —produced a mixed bag of results in their respective third quarter...
Profits Still Elude CRM Vendors
In a quarter when market-leading Siebel Systems Inc. posted a rare loss, few other CRM software vendors fared much better.PeopleSoft Inc., which had been...
Trebia Readies IP Storage Chips
Start-up Trebia Networks Inc. will announce the availability of its first IP storage chips on Monday.The chips will be sold to other storage vendors...
OpenBSD 3.2 Gets It Right
On Nov. 1, the next release of OpenBSD, the Internets most secure operating system, comes out. OpenBSD has had a bad summer for security,...