Monthly Archives: October 2003
Maxtor Prepares To Leap Storage Hurdle
Maxtor Corp. subsidiary MMC Technology this week plans to announce that it believes it can manufacture next-generation hard-disk platters using todays equipment, helping keep...
Microsofts Raikes Continues His Office Pitch
One week before Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates announces the global release of Office System 2003, Jeff Raikes, the Group Vice...
Whats With All The Anti-eVoting Hysteria?
Electronic voting has been in the news a lot lately, almost as much as in late 2000. The punch card debacle of that year...
Waiting for Offshore Outsourcing
In my previous column, I examined some signs of the quickening pace of offshore outsourcing of IT jobs: the results of a recent eWEEK.com...
Storage Digest: AppIQ Revamps SAN Management Suite
Here are a variety of storage-related stories from around the Web. The subjects include storage hardware and software, as well as financial news and...
Its Official: No Longhorn Until 2006
At Microsofts worldwide partner conference this week, Microsoft finally admitted that Longhorn wont see the light of day until 2006.This isnt a guess on...
Microsofts Raikes Touts Office 2003; Takes Swing at Linux
NEW ORLEANS—Information worker productivity is at a tipping point, becoming a workspace for innovation, integration and teams, with Microsoft itself making a major transition...
A Week of Windows
We see dozens of Migrating from Windows to Linux stories that talk about features Windows users miss when they switch, but we rarely see...
Oracle Extends PeopleSoft Bid — Again
Oracle Corp. on Friday extended its bid a fifth time to buy enterprise software competitor PeopleSoft Corp.—this time until the end of the year.The...
Sun Touts its Java-focused Portals
At the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Telecom World 2003 conference in Geneva next Tuesday, Sun Microsystems Inc. is expected to make announcements touting momentum...