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Sun Releases Open-Source Java Database

Sun Microsystems Inc. Tuesday announced a move into the database world with the release of Java DB, a distribution of the Apache Derby open-source...

Not All Welcome Open XML Standard

Microsoft Corp. is welcoming Ecma Internationals acceptance of its application to turn its Office Open XML Formats into a standard, but some analysts, lawyers...

Staying the Course—or Not

• Consistency. In 1996, IBMs then chairman and CEO, Lou Gerstner, set about codifying the rules and the borders between direct sales and sales...

IRS Makes Less Taxing Web Site

A major redesign of the Internal Revenue Services public-facing Web site makes search and navigation less taxing for users. The IRS Web site was launched...

Executives Lobby for Increased R&D

Top executives from more than 50 corporations and universities around the country were in Washington last week to hobnob with members of President Bushs...

Cisco Suite Breaks Ground

Cisco Systems Inc. this week will launch a suite of network management tools that marks the companys first attempt at providing multivendor network management.The...

Chuang: New Era for China

BEA Systems Inc.s founder, chairman and CEO has pledged to bring the Chinese IT industry on par with the rest of the world. In...

BEA Unveils Portal Strategy

At the BEAWorld conference here last week, BEA Systems Inc. officials made it quite clear that they intend to make enterprise portals a centerpiece...

BEA Retools for Web Services

Once upon a time, the World Wide Web was all about the pages, back when HTML and good page design were the primary concerns....

AquaLogic Service Bus 2.0

While the aqualogic product has "service bus" in its name, BEA describes it mainly as a platform for managing services. This is probably a...