Monthly Archives: October 2003
Government Projects Boost Support for Open Source
The U.K. government on Wednesday ratcheted up its commitment to using Linux across its departments, announcing nine proof of concept pilot open-source software projects...
IBM Bundle Automates IT Tasks
IBM at the end of the month will launch the next product offering in its Project Symphony initiative, a bundling of software and hardware...
SAP Upbeat on Early Results
The enterprise resource planning market may be looking up as vendors announce quarterly results and licensing figures. Following on the heels of PeopleSofts results,...
Microsofts Orlando Ayala on Small Business Server 2003
As Microsoft Corp. prepares for its first ever Worldwide Partner Meeting here in New Orleans on Thursday—where it will announce the general availability of...
Bill to Discourage P2P in Government Advances
WASHINGTON—A legislative effort to beef up the federal governments computer security by discouraging peer-to-peer networking moved forward here today with the approval of the...
Microsoft Preps System Management Server 2003 Release
Microsoft on Wednesday announced that its long-awaited Systems Management Server 2003 will be released to manufacturing on October 22.The new release, formerly dubbed Topaz...
SAS Buys Marketmax
SAS Institute Inc. announced Wednesday the acquisition of retail planning and merchandising intelligence software developer Marketmax Inc.The acquisition will give SAS Marketmaxs Retail Merchandise...
Investment Firm to Acquire Pivotal
Private equity firm Oak Investment Partners will acquire Pivotal Corp. and merge its operations with fellow CRM software developer Talisma Corp., Pivotal announced Wednesday.Oak...
Mac OS X Panther Due This Month
The next major release of Mac OS X, called Panther, is now ready for prime time. Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday announced that Mac...
The USB Dongle That May Change the World
A number of unfortunate surprises can happen to you when you travel with a notebook computer but use a desktop computer for everyday work....