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Startup software vendor InterSAN Inc. is hoping to stand out in the already-crowded parade of enterprise storage management. In an area occupied by such heavyweights as Computer Associates International Inc., IBMs Tivoli division and Veritas Software Corp., InterSAN plans to carve its niche with software designed to manage the applications that enterprises run on top […]

The effort to push an open source database system into competition with commercial products is anything but friendly, with two companies locked in a fierce battle. NuSphere thinks the time is right for open source system MySQL to compete with commercial database systems, such as Oracle. But it knows that prospect is dim as long […]

Microsoft may be laying the groundwork for future control points even as it blesses the creation of an open source version of its .Net platform. One such possible choke point, critics said, could emerge from Microsofts powerful alliance with digital certificate provider VeriSign, which has agreed to provide greater security for .Net technologies and adopt […]

The demand to create web services means that I-managers are scrambling to get their Web applications to work with their legacy systems. Acquisitions and partnerships among integration vendors over the past year are making the job easier, but each vendor still brings a set of strengths and weaknesses to the task that must be carefully […]

Sun Microsystems Inc. has initiated a program to replace some of its Sun Ray devices after finding a problem that can cause the systems to fail. The problem, which is tied to the systems power supply, can also cause the devices to emit a small amount of smoke. The Palo Alto, Calif., company discovered the […]

Its as big as the pocket PC device, but it wont run on the Microsoft Corp. platform of the same name. Casio Inc. this fall will begin shipping the Cassiopeia Pocket Manager BE-300, a color personal digital assistant with a rechargeable lithium-ion battery, 16MB of RAM and 16MB of flash ROM. While it is the […]

Softswitches today are like the PCs of the 90s: their introduction not only improved the way people live and work, but changed the entire infrastructure so that its more efficient and easier to use. And if the softswitch is the PC, which in many cases it literally is, then the old Class 4 and Class […]

ColoWatch, a new managed service provider that aims to furnish enterprise customers with both up-to-the-minute information about performance of their Web sites and maintenance help if the digital corporate facade develops a crack, is expected to officially launch today. Backed by $2 million in seed capital from unidentified Asian hardware makers, angel investors from the […]

Americas big railroads may have been slow to adopt the Internet, but they are gaining steam. Over the past year, The Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway, Norfolk Southern Railway and Union Pacific Railroad have rolled out a variety of Web initiatives designed to reduce costs and give their customers better service. While the initiatives […]

Rumors Not True Market-battered Level 3 Communications says that it has banked enough money to carry it until it reaches “free cash flow break-even” in early 2004. Responding to rumors that it will be the next to file for bankruptcy, Level 3 says that it had about $4.5 billion in cash and available funds at […]