Monthly Archives: January 2005
IBM Flexes XML Muscle
In an effort to give customers more focused control over internal and non-IBM external enterprise data stores, IBM is planning to add native XML...
QuickBase Builds Web Apps Fast
With improved customization capabilities and more prebuilt applications, the latest version of Intuits QuickBase hosted database application gives companies a convenient option for building...
Quality Sets the Standard
For baseball lovers, this is hotstove season—with lots and lots of trades and free-agent signings that leave fans unsure of just which team their...
Mergers, Meshes and Grids Will Be Big in 05
I spent much of December putting together a list of the biggest technology stories of 2004, only to have the biggest ones unfold all...
Mastering DODAF Will Reap Dividends
When seeking an irresistible force that can shift the immovable object of IT inertia, two candidates come to mind—and only one of them is...
FineGround Adds Dashboard to Suite
Application performance optimizer FineGround Inc. later this month will further help IT fine-tune Web applications delivery with a new dashboard view of performance.
The Campbell,...
OpenManage Provides Home for SMS 2003
Dell Inc. server users can now get all the features and functions of Dells OpenManage 4.0 suite inside Microsoft Corp.s Systems Management Server 2003....
Elluminate Aids Web Meetings
One of the bigger shortcomings of Web conferencing is that non-Windows clients are generally an afterthought. A refreshing change of pace, Elluminate Live 6.0...
Apple Set to Launch $500 Mac
In a bid to take advantage of the success of the iPod music player, Apple Computer Inc. is set to release a Mac retailing...
Variations on Three Systems Themes
My letter of last week, urging that systems be designed to doubt themselves, generated a surprising amount of reader mail for a week when...