John S. McCright

CoCreate Software Inc. and IBM are each readying new product lifecycle management software to ease creation of manufactured products by small and midsize workgroups and companies. CoCreate, of Fort Collins, Colo., last week introduced OneSpace.net, software that enables communication and collaboration among engineers working on projects together. It is particularly applicable for situations where an […]

IBM and CoCreate Software Inc. are each readying new product lifecycle management (PLM) software to ease the creation of manufactured products by small and midsized workgroups and companies. CoCreate, of Fort Collins, Colo., on Tuesday will introduce OneSpace.net, software that enables communication and collaboration among engineers working on projects together. It is particularly applicable for […]

Northrop Grumman IT has a large contingent work force with 750 temporary employees and has contracts with dozens of staffing companies to hire and manage these employees. Because the highly skilled workers are hired by numerous departments, the company, a sector of Northrop Grumman Corp., had limited control of its spending on temporary employees. Michael […]

PolyServe Inc. and IBM have introduced offerings that promise to provide enterprises with a lot of computer processing power at a relatively low cost. A major upgrade of PolyServes Matrix Server cluster management software features a symmetric cluster file system that enables scalability with a near-linear increase in performance as more servers are added to […]

Intel Corp. is hoping to pull more enterprises into the 64-bit computing camp with the release of the Itanium 2 6M processor this week. This latest extension to the Itanium line, code-named Madison, runs at higher frequencies than earlier Itaniums (up to 1.5GHz) and offers more cache (6MB). And the 64-bit addressing space will enable […]

Version 3.0 of Valdero Corp.s namesake software suite combines supply chain analysis with replenishment planning and execution capabilities. The update, which was rolled out last week, provides real-time visibility into inventory internally and with suppliers, contract manufacturers and distributors so that production is based on actual demand, not just a forecast. New demand replenishment applications […]

Jim Green, whose career has focused on information technologies that connect pools of information, has taken the helm at a new integration startup. The company, called Composite Software Inc., is a Silicon Valley startup developing software that takes data in any format and makes it available to applications in any format required. Green—whose history includes […]

PolyServe Inc. and IBM have introduced offerings that promise to provide enterprises with a lot of computer processing power at a relatively low cost. A major upgrade of PolyServes Matrix Server cluster management software features a symmetric cluster file system that enables scalability with a near linear increase in performance as more servers are added […]

OEMs and software makers on Monday continued to climb aboard Intel Corp.s Madison bandwagon, while chip-making rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rolled out new versions of its 64-bit Opteron chip. Red Hat Inc. on Monday announced that availability of its Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system optimized for Intels new generation of its Itanium 2 […]

Dell is stretching out the high end of its server line with a new high performance computing box that uses the forthcoming Intel Corp. Itanium 2 6M processor, code-named Madison. The Round Rock, Texas, company today introduced the PowerEdge 3250 that officials said could be used for such compute-intensive applications at graphical rendering of special […]

Nervous users of PeopleSoft Inc. enterprise software are making contingency plans in case their major IT vendor is taken over by rival Oracle Corp. At the same time, Oracle is readying plans to make it easier for IT departments to move from PeopleSoft to Oracle applications. Two weeks after Oracle, of Redwood Shores, Calif., made […]

J.D. Edwards & Co. at its Quest Global user conference earlier this month rolled out a broad slate of upgraded software targeted at automating more of the business processes of its manufacturing customer base, including those that use the IBM iSeries server platform. Key upgrades in J.D. Edwards 5, due next quarter, revolve around supply […]