Monthly Archives: December 2003
Microsoft to Junk Flagship Products, Cites Java Settlement
Microsoft will phase out a slew of products as of December 15, citing its 2001 legal settlement with Sun Microsystems over Java as the...
SAP to Provide RFID Technology
SAP AG is entering the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology gambit, in a big way.The Walldorf, Germany-based company is in development with its Auto-ID...
Bank of America: When Systems Dont Merge
Bank of America now stretches from the West Coast to the Gulf Coast to the East Coast. But its information systems dont.Even five years...
Microsoft Releases SQL Server Hotfix Patch
Microsoft on Friday issued a hotfix aimed at distributed queries that may incorrectly use SQL Server startup account permissions when SQL Server 2000 is...
Kattoon: December 8, 2003
Read this weeks Spencer column.
Vendors Prep HDTV Recorders
In what will certainly be a preview of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this January, Motorola and Scientific Atlanta recently rolled out...
Roaming Bedevils Wi-Fi Value-Add Services
SAN JOSE, Calif.—The future of value-add services in the Wi-Fi space can be summed up in one word: roaming.Without roaming agreements to simplify the...
Linux vs. Windows: The Proverbial Truth for Solution Providers
An old Chinese proverb states, "A sly rabbit will have three openings to its den." The annotation - to succeed, you must have several...
Torment and Coding
The sadomasochistic nature of programming, in my opinion, means that open-source software will always be better than commercial software. This is a whopper of...
Yahoo Patches IM Security Hole
Yahoo Inc. this week issued a security update for Yahoo Messenger after the report earlier this week of a buffer overflow vulnerability in the...