Monthly Archives: April 2005
Microsoft Reaches Out to Open-Source Community
Microsoft Corp. has extended an olive branch to the open-source community, calling for a sit-down to discuss how the software giant can better work...
Will Your PC Be Ready for Longhorn?
SEATTLE—Although Longhorn isnt slated to be available until "holiday 2006," some PC users are already wondering what kinds of PCs will be able to...
Hummingbird, Veritas Tackle E-Records Management
Content management vendor Hummingbird Ltd. has joined forces with leading storage software vendor Veritas Software to provide a joint solution designed to help organizations...
IBM Inks $402 Million Deal to Upgrade Medical Centers IT Infrastructure
IBM and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have entered into an eight-year, $402 million partnership designed to overhaul the medical centers IT infrastructure...
Overseas POS Sales, Linux Potential Growing
Point-of-sale terminal shipments grew about 8 percent in Europe, the Middle East and Africa last year compared with a 5 percent annual increase in...
Call to Turn off PCs Is Misguided
"Turn that thing off!" If your parents said it once, they said it a thousand times: Turn off the television and pay attention to...
Getting the Colors Right When Soft Proofing
Graphics professionals everywhere want to reap the benefits of soft proofing. Instead of paying for shipping and waiting for a hard-copy proof, publishers can...
BEA Preps Suite for Composing Apps Without Code
BEA Systems says it will announce in June an integrated suite of products to address a new market opportunity it calls the service architecture...
Sun May Speed Up Niagara Release
Suns upcoming "Niagara" systems will be shipping no later than early 2006, and could even start rolling out earlier.
Andy Ingram, vice president of marketing...
Kriens: Juniper Acquisitions Provide Web Piece Parts
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Juniper Network Inc.s acquisitions of two Web performance optimization technology companies this week provide some of the "piece parts" required to improve...