Monthly Archives: March 2004
IT Pros Sound Off on Offshoring
One Indian DBA says you get more for your money when you shop India for IT. One U.S. IT pro says you get what...
Oracle Web Services Pull Together Disparate Information Sources
IHOP, the prince of pancakes, is using Oracles Web services-based Customer Data Hub to pull together information from incompatible applications and to create a...
Virus Outbreak: More E-Mail Worms Are Set Loose
Maybe its the weirdness of having 29 days in February or some misplaced glee that spring is coming, but for whatever reason virus writers...
Calculating Returns: Put Time on Your Side
Getting the best return on your technology project means understanding when to spend—and when to save—money. The way to see this is by calculating...
Antitrust Is in the Eyes of the Beholder
The nub of the Oracle-PeopleSoft fight is whether the market for back-office applications will shrink. Thats a vitally important question, and it bears a...
Microsofts Presence Server Marches Toward a Mid-March Launch
Microsoft Corp.s presence server—MapPoint Location Server—is looking like it will launch finally at the DevCon show in San Francisco in March.MapPoint Location Server has...
SCO Reveals Its First Linux Licensee
For many months, officials of The SCO Group Inc. have asserted that companies were ready to sign its Linux intellectual-property license. SCO on Monday...
The Nuclear Weapon of Digital Rights Law
Few examples of technology-related federal legislation have stirred up more controversy in recent years than the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and now the...
InterActiveCorp Embraces Enterprise Social Networking with Acquisition
In another sign of the growing interest in enterprise social networking, Barry Dillers InterActiveCorp on Monday acquired startup ZeroDegrees Inc. as it expands its...
Latest Worm Infestation Puts Security Firms on Alert
The rapid spreading of several variations on recent mass-mailing worms that were released to the Internet over the weekend has caused security companies to...