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Oracle Shifts Exec Lineup
Changes in Oracle Corp.s executive lineup are adding a new note of uncertainty about the direction in which the worlds second-largest software developer is...
IBM, Sybase Eye Linux for Data Management
Responding to increasing demand from customers eager to drive Linux capabilities deeper into the enterprise, database vendors IBM and Sybase Inc. are forging ahead...
Software Users Shouldnt be Treated Like Criminals
I hope this column turns out ok. Im rushed and will file it late to my editor. But its not my fault. First, it...
Next-Gen Nuptials
The marriage of Web services and Java got a big boost with the release this month of IBMs technology preview of WebSphere Application Server...
ASP Musical Chairs
Remember ASPs? Providing applications remotely to enterprises, usually over the Internet, was once a hot business model, but it cooled off fast. Survivors are...
How to Battle Spam
Im responsible for sending 200 million e-mail messages per month. If you didnt know me, youd call me a spammer. But every message was...
Apps Aim to Smooth Customer Interactions
Improving the quality and scope of customer interactions and learning from those interactions are essential to improving customer relationships. In different ways, software developers...
Stellent Brings Optika Into Fold
Stellent Inc.s move to buy Optika Inc., a fellow developer of content management software, gives it more pieces of the enterprise content management technology...
GSA to Closely Eye WorldCom
The federal government may have dropped its proposal to debar WorldCom Inc. from future contracts, but officials in Washington said the accounting- and scandal-laden...
Server Merges Insurance Data
Metaserver Inc. is preparing software that the company says will solve IT development problems specific to insurance companies by providing a template for business...