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If youre Nordstroms department store, and youve implemented the sale of cosmetics on the Web, what do you need to do besides wait for the profits to roll in? Paul Onnen, chief technology officer of Nordstrom.com, the online version of Nordstroms Inc., says it isnt that simple. The Web site is built on a Microsoft […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has pushed back the release of its first 64-bit processor designed for multiprocessor workstations and servers, codenamed Sledgehammer, from the second half of 2002 to early 2003. At its annual fall analysts meeting Thursday, AMD revealed new processor roadmaps that showed that while the first incarnation of its 64-bit Hammer architecture, […]

One thing about strategic alliances: When they fail—and they usually do—they tend to do it in conclusive fashion. Once the deal is announced, strategic priorities typically change, key employees move on, and in the end, all there is to show for the effort is a yellowed press release and an exchange of business cards. But […]

To give end users more data back-up options, Compaq Computer Corp. on Monday will announce a partnership with Atempo Inc. The deal will let Houston-based Compaq include Atempos network data management protocol (NDMP) technology into Compaq network-attached storage (NAS) units. The software will be included with all of Compaqs NAS units beginning early next year, […]

Many presumed online services are now in the dustbin of history. But one, data mining via the Internet, makes a lot of sense to its practitioners at WhiteCross Systems of London, Chicago and San Francisco. WhiteCross founders came out of the massively parallel machine producers, Teradata. A Teradata machine was adopted by Wal*Mart for data […]

At least a half-dozen tape storage businesses will meet behind the scenes at the Comdex trade show next week in Las Vegas to discuss creating an industry consortium. Called the Tape Technology Council, the meeting attendees—who will probably include representatives from IBM, Seagate Technology LLC, Sony Electronics Inc., Storage Technologies Corp. and Tandberg Data ASA—will […]

Kevin Wilson, product line manager for desktop hardware at Duke Energy Corp. and an eWeek Corporate Partner, recently sat for an interview with eWeek Labs Cameron Sturdevant, Jason Brooks and Debra Donston. Wilson is directly responsible for the composition of the product line and the operational integrity of products and preloads and has served on […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. has accused a former employee of sabotaging benchmark tests on its top Unix server, the Superdome, resulting in lower scores that may have undermined sales of its most expensive hardware. HP made the allegations in a lawsuit it filed against the employee in U.S. District Court, in San Jose, Calif. According to the […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc., the worlds second largest manufacturer of PC chips, on Thursday predicted that despite selling a record number of processors this quarter, revenues will remain relatively flat from the previous quarter. Speaking at the companys annual fall analysts conference, AMD Chairman Jerry Sanders also warned that the sales could dip again during […]

Its almost been lost in the antitrust settlement, but Microsoft early this week made a rare addition to its Office application suite, the $179 Data Analyzer for ease-of- use data manipulation for business intelligence. But you wont find it by rushing down to your neighborhood software store and buying the latest version of Office. This […]

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SilverStream, the last of the independent application server companies, has always surrounded its Java 2 Enterprise Edition server with application development tools. Now it is adding applications on top of those tools for the rapid deployment of Web services. Indeed, while other companies are catching up on tools, SilverStream President David Litwack says his company […]