Monthly Archives: July 2005
Hardening Expectations for Software Quality
A hardware manifestation of a software bug, for example the Pentium FDIV error of 1994, is so rare that people can still remember that...
Equity Firm to Squeeze Profit Out of WinZip
Vector Capital announced on Monday that it has purchased WinZip Computing Inc., maker of the ubiquitous file compression download that ranks near the top...
Oracle Implements Thai Electronic Medical Records
The Thai government has launched the Thailand Center of Excellence for Life Sciences Pharmacogenomics Project, in collaboration with Oracle, to gather and unify health...
Medicare Lacks Health IT
A report recently released by the HSC (Center for Studying Health System Change), a nonpartisan policy research organization, revealed that a majority of Medicare...
Oracles 10g Encryption Feature Is a Fine First Step
The most timely feature of Oracles newest release, 10g R2, has to be Transparent Data Encryption. When you consider all the recent data privacy...
Apple Earnings Show Rising Mac Sales
Industry analysts examining Apples Wednesday earnings statement concurred that the most interesting information revealed was the strong growth of Macintosh computer sales.
As discussed in...
Yahoo Heads to Berkeley for Internet Research
As it races to keep pace with changes on the Internet, Yahoo is heading back to school.
The company that operates the nations most popular...
Code Fathers Talk Programming Futures
Microsoft Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. officials are sharing more and more these days, from ID management specs, to racks of servers, to keynote...
IBMs OS/2 Reaches the End of the Road
In 1987, the top songs included U2s "With or Without You" and Belinda Carlisles "Heaven Is a Place on Earth," and the top new...
OS/2 Has a Future—It Just Isnt with IBM
Ive gotten a lot of e-mail today. "Did you see IBMs news? Theyre finally killing OS/2!" wrote several longtime acquaintances, pointing me at "Changes...