Monthly Archives: June 2004
Sun, IBM Should Quit Open-Source Posturing
"Fight! Fight! Fight!" Remember that call from grade school, when two kids started fighting with each other over some stupid thing or the other?
I...
Court Denies Mass. Appeal in Microsoft Antitrust Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the Commonwealth of Massachusetts appeal for more stringent antitrust sanctions against Microsoft Corp....
Developer: Analysts Forecasts Shouldnt Steer Java
SAN FRANCISCO—Defending Sun Microsystems honor regarding its stewardship and its ability to profit from Java, a leading Java developer said he has had enough...
Industrywide DRAM Glitch May Be Old News
A so-called industrywide memory problem reported by Hewlett-Packard Co. last week may be less pervasive than the PC maker implied.Officials at IBM and Dell...
Conferencing GUI Stands Out at Supercomm
A lot of IP telephonys productivity-enhancing applications face an uphill adoption battle. They must wean users away from a lifetime habit of using handheld...
CrossOver Office Professional 3.0.1
Microsoft Office Under LinuxOne of the more common questions experienced Linux users get asked by those considering migrating from Windows to Linux is, "Will...
Nokia Backs Eclipse for Building Apps
SAN FRANCISCO—Nokia extended its support for Java development by announcing support of the Eclipse platform for developers building applications to run on its phones...
Versant to Buy Object-Relational Mapping Tool
Software maker Versant will acquire the JDO (Java Data Object) Genie product line and its customers from JDO Genie for a combination of less...
Study: Health Care Providers to Spend More on IT
Two-thirds of major health care providers are planning to grow their IT budgets by more than 10 percent in the next few years, according...
No Health IT Legislative Mandates
In a press conference with reporters last week, secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson said that the Bush administration...