Monthly Archives: August 2003
IT Pros Need New Skills
Since giving birth to the digital revolution, the United States has led the way. American IT workers, innovators and entrepreneurs have blazed new technological...
Defining Web Services
You know Web services is going to be a success when every vendor redefines its product to be a Web service. Were pretty much...
Business Intelligence Quotient
There is a vital distinction between business intelligence and other aspects of data processing or productivity application development. The difference lies in the benefit...
Spec Unifies Web Services
A group of vendors, including Iona Technologies PLC., Arjuna Technologies Ltd., Oracle Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc., last week announced a new Web services...
Automating the Back Office
NetLedger Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are each aiming to streamline back-office processes for small and midsize companies with business automation software upgrades.NetLedger, which develops...
GXS Extends Visibility into Supply Chain
Global Exchange Services Inc., the former business-to-business software and services arm of General Electric Co., announced last week the availability of two new services...
Alliance Eyes Interface for Mobile Chips
A group of major wireless industry companies last week announced an initiative to standardize the interface to cell phone application processors.The MIPI (Mobile Industry...
GIMP Competes Nicely With Photoshop—For Most
Adobe Systems Inc.s Photoshop is the gold standard among image manipulation tools, but its facing increasing competition from alternatives in the open-source world. GIMP...
Penguin Moves to Disney
Last year, when the Walt Disney Co.s feature animation unit, in Burbank, Calif., announced that it was using Linux for digital animation work, speculation...
IBM Offers Linux-Based Cluster Environment
Despite the current brouhaha over Linux that IBM finds itself in, the company is moving forward with its Linux product offerings, support and services....