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FineGround Adds Dashboard to Suite
Application performance optimizer FineGround Inc. later this month will further help IT fine-tune Web applications delivery with a new dashboard view of performance.
The Campbell,...
OpenManage Provides Home for SMS 2003
Dell Inc. server users can now get all the features and functions of Dells OpenManage 4.0 suite inside Microsoft Corp.s Systems Management Server 2003....
Elluminate Aids Web Meetings
One of the bigger shortcomings of Web conferencing is that non-Windows clients are generally an afterthought. A refreshing change of pace, Elluminate Live 6.0...
Apple Set to Launch $500 Mac
In a bid to take advantage of the success of the iPod music player, Apple Computer Inc. is set to release a Mac retailing...
Variations on Three Systems Themes
My letter of last week, urging that systems be designed to doubt themselves, generated a surprising amount of reader mail for a week when...
Prescient, viaLink Merge for Streamlined Supply Chain
In one of the first IT mergers of 2005, supply-chain vendor Prescient Systems Inc. has been combined with The viaLink Company, a retail and...
VOIP to Make Mainstream Move at CES
Devices necessary for making VOIP (voice over IP) work in new ways will make their debut at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las...
Some Perspective 5 Years After Y2K
Jan. 1 was the five-year anniversary of the Y2K "event." It seems so long ago and so supplanted by more recent events as to...
Wikis at Work
Sometimes a corporate database is just two-fisted overkill, with too many ties that bind. Databases, with their fields and their schemas, are often overly...
Linux and Open Source: The 2005 Generation
Sometimes people dont know when a revolution has happened until afterwards. Then, the historians tell us that 2004 was the year that open source...