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Open Source Is the Loom for Fabrics
In the Fall of 1998, Erick and Linda von Schweber, founders of the Infomaniacs think tank, published an article in eWeek predicting the evolution...
Internet Insight: Girding for Grids
Computers, which mimic human behavior a little more with each step in their evolution, are now connecting for brainstorming sessions. The resulting pooling of...
Geekspeak: January 7, 2002
Oracle is banking that release 2 of its 9i application server will erode the market share of its competitors.Oracle previously touted support of standards...
Disconnected but Still Working
Iconverse.com Inc. last month started shipping a mobile application platform that enables users to work wirelessly even when they are intermittently disconnected.The Adaptix software...
Precise Guarantees ROI for Software
In this economic climate, plenty of software salespeople talk about offerings that pay for themselves. One application performance management provider is going one better...
Manugistics Forges Ahead
Despite a 38 percent decrease in software license revenues in Manugistics Group Inc.s recently completed fiscal third quarter, Chairman and CEO Greg Owens is...
Strategic Sourcing Options on Rise
Verticalnet Inc. is making good on a promise to provide collaborative sourcing software for private e-marketplaces through its acquisition last week of Atlas Commerce...
Legacy Systems Graduate to Web Services
When students at Texas A&M University signed up for classes for the coming semester, they had a new option—they could register online.As college students...
How to Succeed in E-Biz in 2002
We think it was Bill Gates who said you cant turn a dumb or even merely obvious idea into a business plan by adding...
Web Comes to the Aid of Human Services
Question: what do you get when you mix antiquated legacy systems, state bureaucracy and caseworkers from branches of a states health and human services...