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Imagine if computing power were as easily accessible as electricity. Businesses essentially would be able to tap into a vast network of supercomputers and pay only for the power they use, rather than spend millions of dollars on the hardware itself. Such a scenario could become a reality in a few years as international efforts […]

The resale agreement between Sun Microsystems Inc. and Hitachi Data Systems Corp. unveiled this month was the biggest and latest in a string of moves by companies trying to muscle into the high-end storage market, long dominated by EMC Corp. But for all those moves—which date back to last years resale agreement between Compaq Computer […]

Companies looking for evidence of database life beyond Oracle Corp., IBM and Microsoft Corp. can be optimistic after news from third-party vendors supporting Sybase Inc. and the University of California at Berkeleys PostgreSQL. Embarcadero Technologies Inc. last week announced a Sybase version of its SQL Debugger tool, which will be available later this month for […]

As Microsoft Corp. prepares the final release of its Visual Studio .Net tool set, its vision for Web services and the .Net platform on which those services are based is set to become a reality. Anders Hejlsberg, chief designer of Microsofts object-oriented C# programming language and one of its 20 Distinguished Engineers, spoke to eWeek […]

VP, Application Outsourcing Keane Inc. Elevator Pitch: Barry has ignited Keanes application outsourcing practice since heading it up two and a half years ago. He built a business plan and made the practice more aggressive. Claim to Fame: Sparking the companys application outsourcing practice. Current Challenge: “Keeping my boss happy. Biggest challenge is to continually […]

Large Enterprises Stick With E-Com … Although many independent e-marketplaces are struggling to survive, large global enterprises have not given up on business-to-business e-commerce, according to a recent report by research company eMarketer Inc. The New York-based company predicted that B2B e-commerce transactions worldwide will reach $2.7 trillion by 2004. The bulk of those transactions […]

As XML becomes deeply embedded in the Internets infrastructure, three particular implementations — ebXML, SOAP and XHTML — have emerged as technologies likely to provide the foundations for future Web services. The downturn in the economy hasnt slowed XML development as much as it has consolidated support behind the most durable XML technologies, says Ronald […]

Can a CRM solution developed by two small businesses compete against million-dollar suites from major players like Siebel Systems? Could be, if The Mercadien Group and Pronto Solutions hit the small and midsize CRM market at the right price with the right feature set. The Mercadien Group, an accounting firm formerly known as Druker, Rahl […]

There are no street addresses in cyberspace. But some new Internet geographical location services can ascertain — with varying degrees of accuracy — the physical location of a single Internet user. These services each work in a similar manner: They do a quick database lookup that correlates an individual users IP address to a point […]

In announcing his companys second-quarter earnings recently, Tom Siebel had ample reason for celebration. “We met our plan for the quarter,” Siebel Systems CEO and co-founder told analysts after he bested Wall Streets second-quarter projections. “Were one of the few who did.” Siebel is the worlds largest customer relationship management (CRM) software vendor, with about […]

Name: Jeff Harrow Title: Founder, The Harrow Group Web Info: www.theharrowgroup.com Claims to Fame: Former Compaq futurist; DECnet guru Back in 1984, when Jeff Harrow worked at Digital Equipment Corp. before there were sophisticated design tools, he tackled networking the old-fashioned way: with a set of blueprints, some string, a can of tacks and a […]

In Compaq Computers continued push to make services a bigger part of its future, the Houston company today, Aug. 20, will announce a partnership to make its consulting and integration services available to customers of computer retailer CDW Computer Centers. CDW, which had sales of $3.8 billion in 2000, could provide a good fit for […]