Monthly Archives: June 2003
Decisions Deserve a Record of Whence They Came
MIT math professor Arthur Mattuck once famously began a lecture by saying, "Suppose we have a 1-by-1 matrix, also known as a number." I...
IBM Touts Power Chips Over Itanium
Intel Corp.s latest generation 64-bit chip, the Itanium 2 6M, may be getting the lions share of attention this week, but IBM officials on...
Windows SBS 2003 On Tap
Microsoft Corp. will on Tuesday announce the release candidate for its Windows Small Business Server 2003, the latest product in the Windows Server 2003...
DOJ Makes Second Inquiry to Oracle
The U.S. Department of Justice Monday issued a second request to Oracle Corp. requiring more information regarding that companys bid to acquire rival PeopleSoft...
Tools Aim to Help Developers Build Linux-Based PDAs
Metrowerks Corp. announced a new platform and tools for building Linux-based applications for devices.Austin, Texas-based Metrowerks on Monday announced the Metrowerks OpenPDA platform and...
Lawson Apps to Run on New HP Servers
Expanding its applications reach, Lawson Software announced Monday that its Enterprise Resource Planning apps will be available on Hewlett-Packard Co.s Intel Itanium 2-based Integrity...
McAfee To Provide Free Anti-Spam Tools July 4
McAfee Security said it would hand out free copies of its McAfee SpamKiller on July 4 at selected retailers, as part of its "Independence...
A Better Way to Run Windows Apps in Linux
The state of software support for Linux has gotten pretty good—for me, its gotten good enough that the only Linux-unfriendly application for which I...
Cluster Options Aim High With Low Prices
PolyServe Inc. and IBM have introduced offerings that promise to provide enterprises with a lot of computer processing power at a relatively low cost.A...
Sybase Expands Wireless E-Mail Line
Sybase Inc. subsidiary iAnywhere Solutions Inc. this week introduced a new family of wireless e-mail products for both desktop and server environments.The new Pylon...