Monthly Archives: September 2005
Oracle Extends Vertical Push With Retail Brand
In its quest to become the dominant enterprise software maker, Oracle Corp. acquired two retail-based software developers this summer—Retek Inc. and ProfitLogic. At its...
Tools Hold Code to High Standards
The hoped-for economies of outsourced or offshored development will quickly disappear if the code thats produced wont do the job.
Successful outsourcing therefore requires upfront...
HP Picks Up Peregrine, IT Service Clout
Hewlett-Packard Co. continued its string of software acquisitions last week when it announced a pact to acquire asset management and IT service management provider...
Innovation: Dont Get Me Wrong
It turns out that Im a really naive person. I thought I was arguing in favor of innovation when I was writing columns attacking...
Set Expectations for Outsourcing
Like any other IT novelties, outsourcing and its cosmopolitan cousin, offshoring, have gotten much more than their Warholian 15 minutes of fame.
In the quiet...
Dont Blook Now
From: [email protected]: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:42 AMTo: eWEEK readersSubject: Domain of the cat; solar flares; rhymes with ..."Hello, kitty!" exclaimed Spence when he...
Defining Tomorrows Technology
For the past 40 years, Moores Law has been about as reliable as Newtons Laws of Motion. The number of transistors on a chip...
IT 101 Switches Gears
Its fall—back-to-school time—and there is no more appropriate time than now to look at IT education and its current crisis.
On the heels of oversubscribed...
Microsoft Realigns Units, Focus
Five years after a federal judge tried and failed to force Microsoft Corp. to split into several pieces, the company has decided to do...
Oracle Tunes App Server for SOAs
Oracle Corp. last week announced a new version of its application server at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.
The new version, expected in...