Features & News


ETL Vendor Informatica Tackles BI

PowerAnalyzer catapults company into difficult BI market

News in Brief

Utility computing; Microsoft Office Manager

IBM Supercomputes in Alaska

Big Blue's AIX-based Iceberg performs 5 trillion operations per second

Fujitsu’s Aggressive SPARC Roadmap

SPARC64 chips will hit 3.0 GHz by 2005, 5.0 GHz by 2006

Oracle Still King of the RDBMS Heap

IBM, Microsoft post small gains

Growth Spurt: Intel-based Servers Scale Up

Not your grandfather’s commodity hardware platform

BMC Abandons Storage Management

Users feel jilted as they question their next move



News in Brief

HP pay-for-use computing; updated IBM Director;l MS Datacenter Server; VisualAge C++ for Linux

Desktop Management Ends Late-Night Work

Unisea, one of the world's leading fish product processing companies, turned to Sitekeeper from Executive Software Inc. to help them better manage and track software updates and licences.

News in Brief

HIPAA rules; a free browser security test; and managing security knowledge

Product News in Brief

News from SAP, SPSS, Recommind, and Plumtree

NetIQ Enters Instant Message Monitoring Fray

Easier admin touted, but imMarshall only monitors MSN for now

Sendmail Vulnerability Exposed

Flaws found in Web’s most widely used E-mail transport

Deep Discounts Drive CRM Software Glut

Biggest mistake: companies underestimate TCO impact of unused license maintenance

XQuery—Could Finalized Standard Emerge This Year?

A proposed standard for querying structured and un-structured data has been a long time coming

News in Brief

Sybase revamps PowerBuilder; HostFront update; IBM's new autonomic technologies; Aelita enhances Active Directory management

SCO, IBM Wrangle over Unix, Open Source

SCO sues Big Blue for $1 billion; HP, Sun reassure customers

IBM Sells 1000th z800

University of Florida deploys baby mainframe to support grid computing research

IBM King of Shrinking Server Market Heap

Sun remains tops in the Unix server market

News In Brief

WebSphere Business Integration suite updated; Half-off price set for new Windows Server 2003 for Web Edition; HP adds outsourced “smart cooling” service for data centers