Monthly Archives: February 2004
Push for Grid Computing Is On
With the holy grail of utility or grid computing as their quest, Oracle Corp., IBM and Veritas Software Corp. are each working on technologies...
Reconstructing IT for 40,000 Mortgage Brokers
As mortgage rates sank to an all-time low last year, 11-year-old Accredited Home Lenders Inc., which services an aggregate customer base of about 40,000...
A Healing Salve for Any B2B Woes
When lax inventory controls and a shoddy electronic communications system caused the maker of a popular medicinal skin cream to chafe, it turned to...
Tools Cut Configuration Time
The advent of XML and the effort to reduce the cost of IT operations have unleashed a series of startups focused on configuration management.
This...
Authentica Takes on Microsoft
When Microsoft Corp. announced its intention to get into the digital rights management market, many industry observers —even some DRM vendors—figured that plan signaled...
Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
To honor the 40th anniversary of the Beatles first trip to the United States, Spence tacked up his cherished but tattered poster of the...
App Developers Loosen Up
Application developers have been fighting an escalating war against chaos in IT stacks of ever-growing complexity. Utility computing, with its highly distributed systems, must...
E-Mail Postage Due
If early experience from the Can-Spam act is any indication, we have a long way to go before legislation will protect us from unwanted...
Cognos Forges Closer Links
With enterprises always on the lookout for simpler, more consolidated applications, Cognos Inc. has forged closer links between its financial management applications and the...
Sarbanes-Oxley: Road to Compliance
As the initial June deadline for complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act nears, publicly traded companies across the United States are scurrying to deploy software...