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Enterprise analytical applications and packaged data warehouse provider DecisionPoint Applications Inc. late last month appointed Yorgen Edholm as CEO. Edholm replaced Marc Demarest, who will remain as chairman and chief architect of the Beaverton, Ore., company. Edholm resigned as CEO of analytic applications developer Brio Technology Corp. earlier this year.

The offices at Rational Software have many of the trappings of a New Economy company. There are pool tables, pingpong tables and video games for the code-slinging employees to use anytime. Work hours are flexible, based on what the company calls “implied” core work hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Telecommuting is encouraged, and […]

No Such Thing as a . . . In a somewhat spiteful gesture, the Recording Industry Association of America last week launched a new Web site: Nofreelunchster.com. Its supposed to be a humorous attempt to soften the RIAAs image as a bunch of greedy SOBs. The message is that the music industry is not all […]

A glitch with Sun Microsystems Inc.s Sun Blade 1000 workstations would impact few, if any, users. But the remedy will ultimately curb the performance of all those systems. The problem lies in the companys new UltraSPARC III chip. The errata has been linked to a new feature on the UltraSPARC III processor known as prefetching, […]

Theres still some life left in NetWare. First of all, NetWare 5.1 is not going to go away, at least in the near term. Jim Tanner, director of platform product management at Novell, expects the current product to be viable for “workforce deployments” until at least mid-2002. You can expect to see several enhancement packs […]

Web sites are like babies: there are no ugly ones if you listen to the proud parents of the Web site or the baby. But the truth is that, like loving parents, the creators of Web sites are often tempted to ignore their progenys shortcomings. Successful Internet businesses, however, scrutinize their sites from the customers […]

The era of the nerd is over. Its time to get back to business as usual and solve problems for business instead of showing off your technical prowess. The nerd era can be squarely bit-mapped to the rise of Bill Gates, whose multibillion-dollar fortune actually inspired a whole series of Gates clones inside Microsoft, as […]

Goin South Portera Systems has been something of a trailblazer in the application services business, focusing on a vertical market — professional services — before vertical markets were cool and becoming the first ASP to offer services based on Oracle software. Now, the company is pushing in a new direction: south. “About 15 percent of […]

Vice President eMarketing, Texas Instruments In October 1999, Marcia Page became Texas Instruments manager of worldwide eMarketing, to oversee the integration of the Web into the companys product-support efforts. When she began, Page oversaw 125 employees. Today, she leads a 200-member group of software coders, illustrators and strategists. Her goal is to provide as much […]

If SAP wasnt serious about enterprise portals before, top brass wants to make sure everyone knows the German software giant is now. After acquiring TopTier Software at the end of March for $400 million in cash, SAP created SAP Portals, a company that will combine the recently acquired TopTier, the mySAP Workplace and mySAP Business […]

Business-to-business software makers are paring down their professional-services divisions, opening new opportunities for service partners. In a slew of earnings warnings from B2B companies last week, the most dire came from Ariba, whose top executives scuttled an acquisition after announcing revenues would only be $90 million—half of what the company predicted. In a stunning admission, […]

Jamie Marra, chief information officer at internet ad company Avenue A, was a desperate man last May. His digital-marketing company was growing, and half the employees were moving into a building 10 blocks away. But the local phone companies told him it would be six months before they could get permits, dig up the sidewalks […]