Monthly Archives: October 2004
Microsoft: Dividing to Conquer
Not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, there was one Windows client, one Windows server and one Visual Studio.Then Microsofts...
Amazon Launches New Web Services
New Web services technologies announced Monday will help developers build money-making applications and use existing mainframe technology to create and deploy new Web services.
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Top IT Players Tout Their Tech at Vortex
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Open-source Linux game over, Sun Microsystems president Jonathan Schwartz said Tuesday at the annual Vortex conference here. There are a thousand distros,...
PeopleSoft Running Short on Options, Credibility
Its not every day that a corporate board member publicly declares under oath from a witness stand that his company is willing to negotiate...
MSN Search Preview Resurfaces
The public preview of MSNs upcoming search engine is back, this time with a Web index about five times fatter and reworked relevancy algorithms.
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Some See PeopleSofts End Drawing Near
After 16 months of bloody warfare, PeopleSoft has finally voiced a willingness to sit down and discuss a deal with Oracle—a development that marks...
Microsofts POS Move May Make It a Viable Retail Option
When Microsoft Corp. unveiled its embedded operating system for retailers on Monday, it stressed the mini-OS plug-and-play capability. But one key motivation for the...
Software Patents Gone Bad
Open-source and proprietary developers have at least one enemy in common: software patents.This latest mess with Kodak and Sun is just one of many,...
Siebel Offers Narrowly Focused BI Apps
Enterprise software provider Siebel Systems announced this week that it has begun an initiative to provide global business intelligence to its enterprise clients. The...
Transmeta Eyes 64-Bit, Virtualization for Efficeon
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Future enhancements of Transmeta Corp.s Efficeon architecture will include 64-bit extensions and virtualization technology, officials said at In Stat/MDRs Fall Processor Forum...