John S. McCright

Hewlett-Packard Co. in 2002 regained the lead in worldwide sales of PCs from Dell Computer Corp., according to separate reports released Thursday by market research firms Dataquest Inc. and International Data Corp. The battle played out against the backdrop of an overall increase in the sales of personal computers last year. Some 132.4 million of […]

Crystal Decisions Inc. on Wednesday will release version 9 of Crystal Enterprise, its business intelligence and information delivery platform. With it, the Palo Alto, Calif., company is intimately linking analysis and reporting capabilities in an effort to press its case that Crystal software should be considered a fundamental part of an enterprises IT infrastructure. Officials […]

Mir3 Inc., which last month launched InlogicNow, a free version of its two-way notification service, this quarter will introduce a fuller-featured version for the enterprise. InlogicPro enables corporate managers to keep in touch with employees and allows employees to keep in touch with one another and with customers through a rules-based notification engine that connects […]

Mir3 Inc., which last month launched INlogicNOW, a free version of its two-way notification service, this quarter will introduce a fuller-featured version for the enterprise. INlogicPRO enables corporate managers to keep in touch with employees and lets employees keep in touch with each other and with customers through a rules-based notification engine that connects myriad […]

Insurance carriers are deploying project management software from Business Engine Inc. and application integration tools from Vitria Technology Inc. to provide broader access to data in compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA. The first component of HIPAA, which will be enforced beginning in April, requires businesses involved in health […]

As a potential new outsourcing powerhouse combination arrives on the scene, an existing outsourcing giant is winning new business. Hewlett-Packard Co. and NEC Corp. on Thursday announced an alliance to jointly provide outsourcing services to enterprises in China, Japan and the United States, with future offerings targeting Southeast Asia and Europe. News of the deal […]

Borland Software Corp. is out of the gate fast in early results from a new benchmark that tests the performance of Java-based software in a Web application. The Scotts Valley, Calif., company recently completed testing of its Borland Enterprise Server (application server edition) Version 5.2 running with its JDataStore 6.03 database against the SPECjAppServer2001 benchmark. […]

Users of Citrix Systems Inc.s MetaFrame server-based computing platform will be getting new collaboration capabilities, as well as performance and ease-of-use enhancements. At its iForum show in Orlando, Fla., last week, Citrix announced Project Pearl, a technology to allow dispersed employees or workgroups using MetaFrame to share access to any published application. Project Pearl, due […]

Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp. will ratchet up their ongoing database battle with each announcing new and upgraded features that hit at the others strengths. At the OracleWorld conference in San Francisco this week, Oracle will introduce real-time features for its Collaboration Suite, ease-of-use enhancements to its EM (Enterprise Manager) database management software and a […]

Users of Citrix Systems Inc.s MetaFrame server-based computing platform will be getting new collaboration capabilities, as well as performance and ease-of-use enhancements. At its iForum show in Orlando, Fla., this week, Citrix announced Project Pearl, a technology to allow dispersed employees or workgroups using MetaFrame to share access to any published application. Project Pearl, due […]