Monthly Archives: June 2004
IBM, Verizon Feared Oracles PeopleSoft Buyout
SAN FRANCISCO—At the ongoing trial here, the Department of Justice on Wednesday marched PeopleSoft customers and systems integrators into the witness box. The prosecutors...
SCO Wants to Delay Linux Trial with IBM
The SCO Group would like to see the trial date of its Linux copyright case with IBM moved from April 2005 to September 2005,...
Apple Pumps Up Power Macs with Dual Processors
After a week of fevered speculation by Mac fans, Apple on Wednesday updated its Power Mac G5 series of desktop computers with three new...
Internet Security Systems CTO Steps Down
Chris Klaus, the founder of Internet Security Systems, has decided to relinquish his role as chief technology officer, but is staying on with the...
How Much Is Spam Costing Your Company?
By now, youve probably seen the stories about the outrageous cost of spam to businesses. Most of it came from research firm Nucleus Research.eWEEKs...
Bio Bank Needed to Optimize Genetic Research
SAN FRANCISCO—Genomics research has unearthed a wide range of approaches that drug companies can use to treat diseases. Now, the big question for these...
Microsofts New BI Tools Pose No Serious Competition
For now, established vendors of Balanced Scorecard tools have little to fear from Microsofts new, free business-intelligence add-ons, Office Business Scorecards Accelerator and the...
US Government Offers Internet Help With HIPAA
As the deadline for HIPAA compliance moves closer, both the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare...
Iowa County Government Embraces Open Source
Looking to cut costs, Iowas Pottawattamie County switched from mostly Microsoft software to Linux. The move entails a migration to the MySQL open-source database...
Steep Oracle Discounts Revealed in Court Testimony
This week in San Francisco federal court, Oracle Executive Vice President Keith Block admitted in videotaped testimony that Oracle cuts prices up to 70...