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The Other Trends to Watch

Whats up for next year? In a time of great uncertainty—from the presidential election to the bumpy economic warnings—there is nervousness in the tech...

Sunny Scott Seems Cloudy About Linux

Spencer wondered why sun microsystems ceo scott mcNealy was so snippy at the companys much-trumpeted clustering software launch in Santa Clara, Calif., last week....

Oracle Targets Developers

Oracle corp. is pitching new services to aggressively woo software developers after seeing what company officials said are cracks in Microsoft Corp.s base of...

Java Tool Will Debut in Dual Editions

Sun Microsystems Inc. this week will announce a new version of its Forte for Java tool set, as well as a new edition of...

Personal Firewalls Not So Safe

Its one thing to rush an application to market without thinking about security. Its another to rush a security application to market. But thats...

Food Markets Get a Taste of New Services

Foodmarketexchange.com and Foodtrader.com Inc. are beefing up their respective food and agricultural exchanges with new services and capabilities.FoodMarketExchange.com will announce in the first quarter...

Cutting Edge of Schema Editing

Small companies are often the nimblest. Take Altova, of Vienna, Austria, which has delivered the first Extensible Markup Language tool I have seen that...

B2B: See the Big Boom Go Bust?

Business-to-business e-marketplaces that began the year with such promise are now approaching the end of 2000 nagged by doubts about long-term viability.Last weeks announcement...

Its Better Than Being There

When actually being there is more than you want to achieve, a teleconference can be the solution—and a number of vendors and carriers are...

Tradiant, Shippers Go Global

A host of ocean carriers will join with software developer Tradiant Inc. to launch a platform in the first quarter of next year for...