Monthly Archives: February 2004
PeopleSoft Eases Integration
PeopleSoft Inc., like its enterprise application rivals SAP AG and Oracle Corp., is providing tools designed to make it easier for customers to integrate...
SarbOx Reaches Far and Wide
Three companies working to meet a rapidly approaching Sarbanes-Oxley deadline show the breadth of systems the act affects and the lengths to which IT...
Spam Fight Gains Steam
A grass-roots movement to improve the SMTP protocol that governs e-mail traffic is gaining acceptance, and its lead developer hopes to get fast-track approval...
GNOME 2.5.3 Shows Improvement but Still Trails KDE
Whenever the KDE project ships a new release, you know the next version of the Linux worlds other dominant desktop environment, GNOME, cant be...
It All Adds Up to ISLs, Mesh Networks
Simple math shows why 10G-BPS Fibre Channel speed matters a great deal for Inter-Switch Links.To establish a 10G-bps link between two switches using standard...
QLogics 10G-BPS Switch Stands Out
QLogic Inc.s SANbox 5200 stands out as a solid entry - and midlevel storage area network switch - while packing an unexpected 10G-bps Fibre...
KDE Gains Browser, Management Muscle
Version 3.2 of the K Desktop Environment, which began shipping earlier this month, is a full-featured and easy-to-use desktop environment for Linux and Unix...
HP Acquisitions Add Up
In acquiring Novadigm and Consera Software this month, Hewlett-Packard continued a buying spree that has brought a number of small companies under its corporate...
Competing With Outsourcing
Having read Eric Lundquists column ("Technology May Make Outsourcing Obsolete," Jan. 19) in which he suggested that technology advances will foster new industries that...
Microsoft Launches WS-Discovery
Microsoft and a group of partners were set last week to release a new Web services specification, which will help provide Web services interoperability...