Monthly Archives: January 2005
Taking Surveys to the Next Level
Enterprises spend a significant amount of money every year on survey technologies, trying to figure out how to satisfy their customers, employees and partners....
nLayers Insight Boosts Mapping Tools
New component discovery and dependency mapping tools, along with new partnerships, are helping one management software vendor make its case to users looking for...
Microsoft Pursues Cross-Licensing Deals
As Microsoft Corp. pursues its goal of signing cross-licensing agreements with the approximately 40 global companies that hold the most technology patents, it is...
Spammers New Tactic Upends DNS
Although some ISPs and legislators are crediting the year-old CAN-SPAM Act and better technology for recent gains in the war on spam, many in...
Open-Source Survey Tool phpESP Stands Test of Time
Given the high cost of commercial survey applications and services, its no surprise that low- and no-cost open-source alternatives have emerged for performing surveys...
RainStorage Eases Migration
Data migration is a big headache for IT managers because it is time-consuming and typically requires a lot of downtime. Using the RainStorage 4.0...
IBM, NetApp Ease Storage Integration
Impeccable housekeeping and extraordinary customer service are the traditional marks of a four-star hotel. For many, internal IT operations receive that same level of...
Thunderbird Gets Messages Out
The Mozilla Foundations Thunderbird 1.0 is a serviceable messaging application, albeit one without the group calendaring features of IBMs Lotus Notes or Microsoft Corp.s...
WebSurveyor Fine-Tunes Surveys
The latest release of WebSurveyor Corp.s namesake product makes conducting online surveys even easier. With the implementation of a new user interface that features...
As Gartner Buys Rival, IT Loses a Voice
While you were away for your holiday vacation, Meta Group was acquired by Gartner. Sure, it wasnt Oracle-PeopleSoft, but it was a significant acquisition...