Monthly Archives: March 2004
ERP Vendors Target Niches
Oracle Corp. defends its bid for PeopleSoft Inc. against charges that it would violate antitrust laws by saying customers could go to second-tier vendors...
United Parcel Service: Sticky Fix
/zimages/2/17485.gif United Parcel Service expects a 2"x3" label to save $600 million a year. How can such a small label reap such a big...
BlackBerry Is Branching Out
Research In Motion LTD. is working on new products and carrier partnerships that will mean easier deployment and more choices for IT managers.RIM this...
Watch-Worthy Trends
When is a trend for real? When a vendor gets behind the trend—from the president to the parking lot attendant—and when customers ask for...
IBM, SAP, Hyperion and Others Form BPM Standards Group
While BPM—or business performance management—has received its share of attention, it hasnt seen quite the adoption some would like. To remedy that, a handful...
On-Demand Computing Takes Hold at IBM
SOMERS, N.Y.—When CEO Sam Palmisano set IBM on the path toward On Demand in October 2002, he said the company would help its customers...
AT&T Rolls Out Do-It-Yourself VOIP
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—AT&T rolled out its do-it-yourself voice-over-IP service on Monday, allowing customers to add a VOIP phone to an existing broadband connection. The...
IBM Opens Up the Mainframe
The distinction between applications locked in big-iron mainframes and those running on distributed client/server and Web-based systems could fade, thanks to new and enhanced...
Sun to Release Beta of Java Studio Creator
Sun Microsystems Inc. is expected to announce that its Java Studio Creator, previously known by the code name Project Rave, is going to early...
Macallan Windows CE Release Due This Summer
Microsoft Corp. took the wraps off the latest version of its Windows CE platform at the Embedded Systems Conference in San Francisco on Monday.Microsoft...