Sun executives have outlined plans to slash its workforce by 11%.
Market research firm Dataquest Inc. says corporations worldwide are continuing to postpone personal computer purchases.
TDK Systems Europe Managing Director Nick Hunn writes that the IEEE standards body seems to have forgotten that for WLAN to take off, it must be seens as simple technology by end users.
While the promise of Web services may be elaborate e-business applications
running on the Internet, the reality of the XML-based technology implementations
remains much more mundane, according to Bob Potter, executive vice president of
business operations at Iona Technologies, Waltham, Mass.
Harnessing unstructured data from customers can boost efficiency and revenues. Island Data's Insight RT seeks to understand the hidden meaning of words within the context of specific customer interactions.
Ascential Software Corp., Westboro, Mass., and Top Team Inc., San Mateo, Calif., will use the Oracle user group stage in San Francisco next month to unveil a joint solution aimed at easing corporate migrations to the Oracle 11i
database and applications suite.
Pervasive Software has released a candidate edition of Pervasive.SQL Version 8 for public testing.
Microsoft officials have unveiled Jupiter, code name for the company's vision for an "IT ecosystem of information" based on XML Web services.
Attendees at last week's Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC 2002) in Anaheim,
Calif., pushed the Redmond, Wash., software giant for as much information as possible on Titanium, the code name for the next version of Microsoft Exchange Server that's slated to ship next year.
The addition of Starbase will add SCM functionality to Borland's development tool offerings and will help to extend the firm's coverage of the application development life cycle.
The Wi-Fi Alliance (formerly known as WECA) discloses its plans for the long-awaited certification testing process of 802.11a products for Wi-Fi interoperability.
Although UML 2.0 is still on the drawing board, some players are ready to launch software that helps designers to work to the
upcoming standard.
AdventNet Inc. seeks to further the cause of Java Management Extensions by releasing a software framework that allows developers to better customize the management of their apps.
Namespaces are an Achilles' heel that leaves Web services vulnerable to hackers, says Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO at security software provider KaVaDo Inc.
Precise i3 Version 6 claims to reduce resolution time to mere minutes.
Lack of a unified XML standard for wireless Web services may be holding back growth in the consumer sector, says Ken Waln, CTO at Santa Clara, Calif.-based Edify Corp.
Borland said it intended to buy software lifecycle tool provider Starbase for $24 million in cash, and to provide bridge financing so Starbase can fund operations until the transaction is completed. -Oct 9
Google Inc. unveils a new high-end search product in its new Google Search Appliance line.
''Every year, organizations spend millions of dollars on intrusion-detection products to minimize risk to their distributed networks, which contain approximately 15% of business-critical data,'' said Ronn H. Bailey, president of Vanguard Integrity Professionals. ''But they overlook the mainframe ... the most critical data storage device.''
Mercury Interactive's Zohar Gilad talks about his firm's Business Technology Optimization approach that gets both sides of the "technology divide" speaking the same language.