Jacqueline Emigh

For improved performance, stop communicating with your suppliers by fax and phone. Turn to portals and other Web-based methods instead, according to a new supply chain study from the Aberdeen Group. “Aside from communicating regularly with their suppliers, companies should share information with their suppliers and monitor suppliers at an above-average rate,” Beth Enslow, an […]

Propelled by a recent acquisition as well as by retailers RFID (radio frequency identification) requirements, specialty food maker Bruce Foods is about to go live with phase one in a far-reaching rollout of RedPrairies supply chain software. “Itll be like going from a sandbox to the moon,” said Patrick Brown, director of purchasing and logistics […]

Still pursuing its own IPO while fighting mounting competition from Yahoo and Microsoft, search engine giant Google this week acquired Pasadena, Calif.-based digital photo management company Picasa Inc. Google has also rolled out a new feature called Browse By Name for faster searching from Microsofts Internet Explorer browser. Google Inc.s latest acquisition comes on the […]

With security experts busily downloading, peering at, and analyzing leaked source code, the industry is still buzzing with controversy over last weeks Windows security breach. But what about the impact of the leak on Microsofts relationships with channel partners? Will Microsoft still be able to trust its partners, and vice versa? Will application security be […]

Red Hat Inc. officials last week beat the drum about the need for better system administration tools for Linux. To meet that need, Red Hat announced at New Yorks LinuxWorld new provisioning capabilities for Red Hat Network, while also pointing the way toward virtualization and a number of other future management features. Improved system management […]

NEW YORK—Are The SCO Group Inc.s ongoing legal attacks against Linux vendors putting any dent in customers plans to buy Linux? The answer is a resounding “No,” judging from reactions of showgoers at this weeks LinuxWorld here. A series of off-the-cuff interviews found, however, that opinions are divided over Red Hat Inc.s lack of a […]

NEW YORK—”Who says penguins cant fly?” IBMs Ross Mauri asked a packed LinuxWorld audience Thursday. During his keynote speech at the show here, Mauri, general manager of E-Business on Demand for the IBM Systems Group, answered his own question by citing real-world implementations of Linux across businesses and governments throughout the world. “I believe Linux […]

Novell Inc. looms large at LinuxWorld this year. Now that its SuSE Linux acquisition is done, what does that mean to Linux? Nabbed at the show for on-the-spot interviews, many showgoers pointed out that what Linux needs most is money. Some worried, though, that the SuSE Linux they know will ultimately fade away. “Novell is […]

Satellite-based internet access is no longer just pie in the sky. Just ask Bill Collins, an independent telecom industry consultant. Collins credits StarBands new two-way broadband fixed satellite service with letting him telecommute full time from a house in rural Oregon instead of spending two days a week at his DSL-outfitted condo in the city. […]

IBMs unfolding WebSphere vision is spawning new opportunities for large and small integration partners. WebSphere Business Integrator, the latest entry in Big Blues middleware lineup, uses XML and related standards in an attempt to embed “Web services,” including business processes such as payroll and shipping, directly into software components for interchangeable use across the B2B […]

Vendors first started to hone in on these three emerging database markets with partnership programs a couple of years ago. Sybase, which launched its business intelligence (BI) and “mobile and embedded” database divisions as part of a major company restructuring in January 1999, is now working with 30 systems integrators in the BI space, according […]

Hospitals, government agencies, retail chains and other industry sectors are being buried by data. As the piles of digital files, X-rays and scanned-in paper records grow higher and higher, data-management applications are coming to the rescue, creating new opportunities for solutions providers. Applications showing the most promise include business intelligence, PDA-based mobile databases and content […]