Monthly Archives: February 2004
Eclipse Moves Ahead
The Eclipse open-source development platform entered a new era last week. At the first Eclipse developer conference here, leading Eclipse developers praised the newly...
IT: Whats Here to Stay—And Whats Not
We live in an increasingly impermanent world. Few things are built to last. And yet some things are uncannily permanent. Some things will remain;...
IBM Addresses Vertical Needs
IBM is following through on plans announced late last year to gear its integration software offerings for specific vertical industries.The Armonk, N.Y., company last...
Quest, Veritas Bolster App Performance
It environments have become complex, with architectures having three or more tiers, transactional information moving on the Internet, and more complex development schemes such...
WorldCom to Support Any-to-Any IP Links
When you order a pizza from Pizza Hut, your request could go to a store, a call center or the company headquarters if you...
Broadmargin Curtails Telecom Costs
At U.S. Bancorp, the monthly bill from one telecommunications supplier is so large that it typically arrives in 12 boxes. That supplier is just...
Salesforce.Com Easier to Use
Salesforce.com Inc. has improved on its well-designed hosted customer relationship management application through a number of new features that make information more accessible and...
NewsGator Takes RSS Online
With NewsGator online services, NewsGator Technologies has taken its popular RSS aggregator online, giving users a convenient combination of tools with which to check...
Really Bayesian
The cover of the Jan. 15 issue of the prestigious science journal Nature is striking. Viewed from above, a tennis player swings her racket...
Tech Patent Process Needs Overhaul
When the business process patent burst upon the scene in the late 1990s with Amazon.coms infamous one-click-shopping patent, many wondered how the U.S. Patent...