Monthly Archives: July 2005
Software AG Brings Real-Time Data Replication to Adabas
Software AG on Thursday will roll out technology designed to make real-time data changes in Adabas, the companys high-performance database that is designed for...
IBMs Database Queen to Retire
After a tenure of 31 years during which she carved DB2 into a sharp Oracle competitor, Janet Perna is retiring as general manager of...
VARs Should Stave Off Spending Cuts with Services
While the IT spending outlook for the rest of this year remains strong, concerns are growing about prospects for next year. Forrester Research reported...
Gates: Lack of Computer Science Spending Is Kind of a Crime
In a wide-ranging discussion Microsoft chairman and chief software architect Bill Gates offered his views on the decline in government funding for computer science...
HP Announces Massive Job Cuts
Hewlett-Packard Co. will lay off nearly 10 percent of its staff in a restructuring plan designed to increase its ability to compete in the...
VARs Turn Up CRM Heat
CRM sales in the SMB market are exploding. This is good news for VARs. Enterprise-level CRM vendors, as well as pure plays in the...
Web Services Specs Meet Open Source
As the Apache Software Foundation, Microsoft Corp. and IBM sort out licensing issues around making the WS-Security specification open-source-friendly, the issue becomes something of...
Storage Digest: News from Broadcom, NetApp, Arkivio, String Bean Software, SafeData, Lasso Logic
Broadcom and Network Appliance forge alliances to further storage technology, while String Bean Software introduces an improved iSCSI SAN solution, Lasso unveils a CDP...
Tougher Decisions Lie Ahead for HP
In his conference call Tuesday outlining the 14,500 employee cutbacks and the restructuring of Hewlett-Packard into three main groups, recently installed CEO Mark Hurd...
Biowarfare and Health IT: Spoiling Brand USA
Market-based solutions require a market. But this market need not be simply the average consumer. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has tried to...