Monthly Archives: May 2004
CEO Hire May Prove Too Little, Too Late for Siebel
It was a wise decision for Tom Siebel to give up the post of CEO of Siebel Systems Inc. in favor of a newly...
Gateway Rolls Out Pair of Entry-Level Servers
Gateway Inc. on Tuesday is rounding out its server lineup with the addition of two entry-level, single-processor systems.
The rack-optimized Gateway 9115 is a 1U...
Microsoft to Buckle Down to Nail Security
SEATTLE—Microsoft executives on Tuesday admitted that the company and its partners must do a far better job of "just the basics" and said they...
Red Hat Introduces Desktop Linux Competitor
Red Hat Inc. on Tuesday will announce its new desktop offering, the Red Hat Desktop, which the company said will be available by the...
IBMs Stinger Pokes Holes in Oracles Open-Source and Grid Ambitions
IBM on Monday released the beta of "Stinger," the next version of its DB2 database. With the move, IBM lobbed yet another volley in...
EDS Fixed-Price Follies
To Marine Corps Sgt. Marco Garcia, the Navy Marine Corps Intranet sounds like a great project, in theory. "They sold me on it," he...
SCO Confirms Minor Layoffs
Rumors that The SCO Group Inc. laid off some workers last week turned out to be true. According to Blake Stowell, communications director at...
Apple to Unleash Tiger
Apple will offer developers an early look at the next version of Mac OS X at Junes Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, the...
Web Services for Devices Pushed at WinHEC
WinHEC is the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference, and while Longhorn, Microsofts next version of Windows, remains the big topic, this is a hardware show—and...
No Business in Social Networking
Social networks are a good thing. Everybody should have one--and everybody I know does, in some form or fashion. But whether you need an...