Monthly Archives: May 2005
IT Projects Need Yardstick
You would think that after four decades of computing, we IT professionals would have our acts together on project management. Sadly, many of us...
HP, Citrix Team on Identity Tools
Hewlett-Packard Co. and Citrix Systems Inc. will combine identity and access management technology and develop products together, the companies said last week.
The companies announced...
Competitors Join Forces
Customers of Adobe Systems Inc. and of Macromedia Inc., longtime rivals that agreed to merge last week, are cautiously optimistic that the benefits of...
BPM World Expanding
Enterprise application software developers are painting a future that will consist mostly of business process management components rather than the packaged applications of today.Such...
ARTS PDF Debuts Acrobat Alternative
ARTS PDF this week is releasing what it calls the first true Adobe Acrobat alternative, Nitro PDF Desktop, a PDF creation and editing product...
Microsoft, Carriers Take on RIM
Research In Motion Ltd. for several years has had the corporate mobile e-mail market virtually all to itself. But the honeymoon is about to...
Japanese IT Companies Find World Stage Elusive
This was supposed to be the time when Japans technology-driven economy would hold the prime spot in much of the worlds business. The country,...
Get Used to Globalization
If you think that pressure on IT budgets is sure to lift soon, think again. The forces creating that cost pressure are likely to...
Adobe Should Open-Source Macromedia Castoffs
Now that the initial surprise over Adobes acquisition of Macromedia is over, its time to step back and try to figure out just what...
New Windows of Opportunity
Microsoft Corp.s third decade of Windows computing initially will be dominated by the move to 64-bit computing and the release of "Longhorn." This future...