Hardware




All Aboard the Midrange Express

<P>IBM has launched a package of outsourcing services called Midrange Express, designed to help small and medium businesses with the day-to-day management, maintenance and support of AS/400e servers at a fixed, low rate.

Data Storage Cost Will Continue to Fall -- IBM Exec

<P>The chairman of IBM Europe, Middle East and Africa told an IT and telecommunications seminar in Copenhagen yesterday that the cost of computer data storage would fall to as little as two cents per megabyte within two years.

Windows 98 Hits Y2K Snag

<P>Microsoft Corp. has found a Year 2000 problem in Windows 98 and has issued an update to fix it.

Bluestone Sapphire/Web Supports AS/400

<P>Bluestone Software's (Mount Laurel, N.J.) Web application server, Sapphire/Web has passed tests at IBM-Rochester and now supports the AS/400.