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Variations on Three Systems Themes

My letter of last week, urging that systems be designed to doubt themselves, generated a surprising amount of reader mail for a week when...

Prescient, viaLink Merge for Streamlined Supply Chain

In one of the first IT mergers of 2005, supply-chain vendor Prescient Systems Inc. has been combined with The viaLink Company, a retail and...

VOIP to Make Mainstream Move at CES

Devices necessary for making VOIP (voice over IP) work in new ways will make their debut at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las...

Some Perspective 5 Years After Y2K

Jan. 1 was the five-year anniversary of the Y2K "event." It seems so long ago and so supplanted by more recent events as to...

Wikis at Work

Sometimes a corporate database is just two-fisted overkill, with too many ties that bind. Databases, with their fields and their schemas, are often overly...

Linux and Open Source: The 2005 Generation

Sometimes people dont know when a revolution has happened until afterwards. Then, the historians tell us that 2004 was the year that open source...

IBM Gets Help Finding ISV Talent

In a continuing effort to expand its developer base, IBM is tapping venture capital firms to find hot new companies in emerging technology areas...

Tools Blend Packet Analysis, Management

In the effort to tackle troubleshooting of complex, n-tier applications, the lines are blurring between niche packet analyzers and mainstream enterprise monitoring tools. As...

SBC Plans Set-Top Box with Web Links

SBC Communications Inc. is merging home entertainment and digital content through the television set-top box.The San Antonio, Texas-based telecommunications provider on Monday announced a...

Developers Prep for Oracle

Although the ink on the deal between Oracle Corp. and PeopleSoft Inc. is barely dry, third-party software developers that make their living selling add-on...