Monthly Archives: December 2002
Prescient, PeopleSoft Oil Up the Supply Chain
Software upgrades from Prescient Systems Inc. and PeopleSoft Inc. make strides toward bringing the demand planning and execution components of SCM closer.By integrating these...
AT&T to Offer View Into IP Links
Telecommunications providers, looking for ways to reduce costs and differentiate themselves in a competitive arena, are racing toward automated service provisioning and management services.The...
Microsoft Puts New Twist on Licensing Plans
Microsoft Corp., which has been trying to repair its relationship with customers who are facing higher software costs for refusing to upgrade to its...
Do You Really Want to Have It All?
Ive always wanted personal computing to help me with personal organization. I bought my first laptop, in 1988, to run Ashton-Tates Framework III. With...
Dell Misfires on PDA Strategy
Dells entry into the PDA space with sub-$200 and sub-$300 devices scared the heck out of competitors. Then they actually saw the devices and...
IBM Scoops Up Rational
IBM shook up the software and Web services development world late last week when it agreed to buy Rational Software Corp. in a deal...
The Buzz: December 9, 2002
HP-Compaq Meld Almost CompleteHewlett-Packard expects to complete the integration of Compaq by the end of next October, almost a year ahead of schedule, HP...
Patch as Patch Can
For overworked administrators, the weekly flood of patches for new vulnerabilities can quickly lead to a vicious cycle of trying to solve the latest...
Feds Flunk Security
For the second year running, the federal government has flunked Computer Security 101. The 24 major agencies of the U.S. government performed so poorly...
New Tools Automate Attack, Intrusion Responses
As security specialists continue to scramble to make sense of the flood of data from their network devices, a trio of vendors this week...