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From: [email protected]: Monday, September 12, 2005 12:42 AMTo: eWEEK readersSubject: A mate to remember; faded Green; sour peaches"Farewell, lil buddy," thought the Bosun of...

Good Ol Project Days

All this talk nowadays about 10-year anniversaries has got me thinking back to 1995 and those halcyon prebubble days, although Im not thinking about...

Gateway Rolls Out New Convertible System

Aiming for customers who need room to write, Gateway last week introduced a convertible tablet/notebook PC with a 14-inch-wide screen display, adding 25 percent...

Stratus Speeds Up Fault-Tolerant Servers

Stratus Technologies this week is rolling out a new Windows-based fault-tolerant system that offers three times the performance and eight times the I/O bandwidth...

Microsoft Sets Plans for Unified Office UI

Microsoft Corp.s next-generation applications strategy, formally dubbed Microsoft Dynamics, will at last give users a common interface across the companys Office business applications and...

Developers Redefine Abstraction Demands

With Microsofts Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles filling much of my agenda for the rest of this week, this seems like a good...

Salesforce.coms AppExchange Offers Application Sharing

At its Dreamforce 05 user conference in San Francisco this week, Salesforce.com founder and CEO Marc Benioff detailed the next wave in on-demand computing...

Observers Skeptical About Success of Oracle CRM Buyout Binge

SAN FRANCISCO—With its $5.85 billion buyout of Siebel Systems on Monday, Oracle will face persistent questions about how it can effectively market or integrate...

eBay Acquiring Skype

eBay will acquire Internet telephony provider Skype Technologies for $2.6 billion in cash and stock, and as much as an additional $1.5 billion in...

Does the Oracle-Siebel Deal Hurt Overall IT Agility?

The long expected acquisition of Siebel Systems by Oracle was finally announced today. Somehow I dont expect the same cries of despair we heard...