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Oracle.com president Tim Chou sees the world moving from a place where every company is an island with its own IT department running its own applications to a place where companies are connected not only with their trading partners but also with their software provider. Increasingly, the future is now for Chou, whose business, a […]

In continuing pursuit of the paperless office, Cardiff Software Inc. has released Teleform Version 8.0, the latest upgrade of its electronic forms software. Teleform supports the electronic routing of forms and documents, providing a migration path from paper to electronic forms via a connect agent to Cardiffs LiquidOffice e-forms management software. It includes a remote […]

Following the Money XML must be a sure bet. The financial services and insurance industries, notable for conservatism, are leading the way in adopting XML as many companies convert data to XML formats. “The capital markets are taking the lead. The largest dealers—Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch—do it first, and the smaller traders follow,” […]

WorldCom Cuts 3,700 Things are going from bad to worse for WorldCom. The telecommunications company last week announced it is cutting 3,700 jobs from WorldCom Group, its business data and telecom arm. In one sense, the job cuts are good news. The day before the announcement, published reports indicated WorldCom was preparing to lay off […]

Holographic storage, widely considered a technology of the future, may gain needed credibility with InPhase Technologies Inc.s demonstration next week. The spinoff of Lucent Technologies Inc. will show its Tapestry system, using 30-second MPEG video files, at the National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, said Lisa Dhar, vice president of media development for […]

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A Delaware judge today is mulling whether to allow Walter Hewlett to proceed with his lawsuit accusing Hewlett-Packard Co. of illegally buying shareholder votes in order to allow it to proceed with its controversial buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. HP claims the suit by Hewlett, son of one of the companys late co-founders, is baseless, […]

A Delaware judge ruled Monday that Walter Hewlett can proceed with his lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Co., a decision that could ultimately block the computer makers planned $19 billion buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. Judge William B. Chandler IIIs decision marks a significant setback for HP, which argued during a special court hearing Sunday that the […]

IBM warned on Monday that its first quarter sales will fall about $1 billion short of Wall Streets expectations because its customers are continuing to delay purchases, rekindling fears that the high-tech industry still remains mired in a more than yearlong slump that has battered earnings. The warning by the worlds largest high-tech company reverberated […]

The high-end storage division of Compaq Computer Corp. signed $900 million worth of new business spanning 63 petabytes of data over the past six months, according to officials. The Houston companys Enterprise Storage Group made the announcement Monday in the wake of large customer wins from rivals like Dell Computer Corp recently and in the […]

IBMs Tivoli management software division will announce a significant storage software upgrade and a mass product consolidation effort on Monday, according to company officials. The Austin, Texas division of IBM will upgrade Tivoli Storage Manager 4.2, which launched in July last year, to version 5.1, available April 12, said Brenda Zawatski, vice president of storage […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina and other senior executives will be eligible for unspecified pay raises should the company complete its acquisition of Compaq Computer Corp. The disclosure in a filing with the Securities Exchange Commission Thursday comes two months after dissident board member Walter Hewlett alleged that Fiorina favored the deal in […]