Monthly Archives: June 2003
Marimba Eases Windows Migration
Marimba Inc. on June 16 will launch the second major release of its 1-year-old Windows Migration tool with a series of enhancements that emphasize...
Palm to Buy Handspring
Handheld computer company Palm Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to buy rival Handspring Inc. in a stock deal worth about $169 million.Palm, of Milpitas,...
IBM Moves on Storage Virtualization
IBM on Tuesday announced product details for its long-awaited storage virtualization products, due this summer.Virtualization is the management of disparate hardware as a single...
Startup to Launch Low-End Storage Alternative
After years of witnessing storage companies come and go, one customer has decided he knows better for the network-attached storage niche.Zetta Systems Inc., a...
Salesforce.com to Offer Hosted Development Tools
Salesforce.com plans to extend its business model from providing hosted customer relationship management applications to providing hosted development tools with the release of its...
Ballmer Memo Cites Linux Threat
Microsoft Corp. officials on Wednesday again expressed concerns about the threat Linux and open-source software poses to the companys business.In an annual letter sent...
Precise Beefs Up SQL Server Tool
Precise Software Solutions Inc. is beefing up Precise/Indepth for SQL Server, its application performance monitoring software for Microsoft Corp. SQL Server databases, the company...
What If Companies Just Asked?
I finally figured out what bugs me about how my private information is used and abused by businesses large and small, legit and not-so-legit....
Forum Followup: Intuit Learns a Lesson in People Power
When Intuit decided to add product activation and Macrovisions DRM software to its popular TurboTax software there was a huge outcry in our forums...
BellSouth Eyes Bigger Piece of Managed Services Pie
ATLANTA—BellSouth Corp. is planning to lift an ever-increasing burden of networking duties off the enterprise shoulder as it continues to upgrade its regional MPLS...