Monthly Archives: January 2007
NCR to Spin Off Teradata
Data warehousing provider teradata, which has operated as part of ATM-making giant NCR since 1995, is splitting off into its own corporate entity in...
Apple Goes Beyond Mac
SAN FRANCISCO—In the weeks leading up to the Macworld Conference & Expo, rumors abounded about a full-screen iPod, an Apple Computer-branded phone or some...
Everything and the Kitchen Sink
Sun Microsystems is encouraging developers to throw everything including the kitchen sink into evolving the Java language.While Sun has announced its plans to open-source...
Aras Goes Open Source
Product lifecycle management software maker Aras has a new spin on open source: make the code to its Aras Innovator software, which runs only...
Sun Woos Blade Customers
Sun Microsystems is looking to grow its foothold in the highly competitive blade market and entice new and current customers to stay with its...
CES Isnt the Whole Show
I had a lot of fun last week covering the Consumer Electronics Show by not covering it. I wrote a series of "Im not...
Microsoft Targets On-Demand CRM
Microsoft officials are hoping a test program of an early version of their next major customer relationship management release—code-named Titan—will ease partner concerns over...
Taking Least Privilege to the Max
Symantec is arguing that Windows Vistas User Access Control features are too intrusive, and perhaps they have a point. Theres no reason to assume...
Can Java Become an Important Linux Language?
When you think programming languages and Linux, the languages that tend to come to mind are C, C++, Perl, PHP, Python and, lately, Ruby....
Without Flying into the Ground
Sometimes, fate hands me the perfect pair of news hooks from which to hang a metaphor. So it is with this weeks combination of...