Monthly Archives: November 2004
Oracle Intensifies Offer
With Oracle Corp. making its "best and final" tender offer for PeopleSoft Inc. last week, representing a $3-per-share increase over its long-standing $21-per-share offer,...
Real-Time Reality
Once upon a time, there seemed no end in sight to the magic that the Internet could work on public markets. Then came the...
A Little Software Vendor Honesty Goes a Long Way
I often wonder what shopping in the "real" world would be like if all vendors followed the same practices as many enterprise software vendors.For...
Big WLAN on Campus
By bringing Tablet PCs and wireless projectors into its classrooms, Hinsdale Township Public High School District 86 is revolutionizing teaching in Illinois.
It was nearly...
CEO Likes SAS Position
With $1.34 billion in annual revenue, SAS Institute Inc., in Cary, N.C., is the largest business intelligence software company and the largest privately held...
BPM Helps Grace Chemical Innovate
The Grace Performance Chemicals division of specialty chemical and materials company W.R. Grace & Co. needed to organize and review ideas to drive company...
Dressing Up RFID for Max Appeal
IBM is working with the leading RFID standards body to develop a technology that combines product movement data from radio-frequency identification readers with enterprise...
Mercury Adds Mapping to Performance Suite
Users looking to dynamically manage end-to-end application performance will see improved tools from Mercury Interactive Corp.
At its annual user conference in Orlando, Fla., this...
Graduating to Wireless
When Gallaudet University wanted to deploy a campuswide wireless LAN in the fall of 2003, it turned—as did other enterprises at the time—to a...
Symbol Partners With Zebra
Mobile workers who need to access and print data on the go will soon get new options from Symbol Technologies and bar-code-printer provider Zebra...