Microsoft plans to release an Outlook security patch in the wake of the devastation wrought by the Loveletter (aka Love Bug) virus, a Visual Basic (VB) Script bug that propagated by exploiting Outlook's address book...
Cisco announced that it has acquired Qeyton Systems of Stockholm, Sweden. Qeyton is Cisco's second optical networking acquisition in Europe and its 11th acquisition this year. Qeyton develops the Metropolitan Dense...
One indicator of a new industry's promise is the number of established CEOs and other leaders that jump ship to take a chance in a new marketplace. By that indicator, the application service provider (ASP) market is...
GartnerGroup's Dataquest unit has released its findings on the 1999 database market. "Oracle and IBM are still virtually neck and neck for the top position in the overall database market," said Norma Schroder, senior...
In late April, Intel announced plans to merge its Microprocessor Products and Architecture Business groups, combining its chipset research and development group with its more platform-oriented division to form the...
Calling the government’s breakup proposal unjust, unprecedented, and excessive, Microsoft called for a dismissal of the proposal, and offered its own proposal yesterday. In April, Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson found...
Total cost of ownership (TCO) studies of software—particularly OS software—generate a lot of splash in the trade press. But the reality is that few people look carefully at TCO studies and the thinking that goes into...
IBM announced DB2 Universal Database Version 7, which the company bills as “the world’s first fully integrated e-business database.” The beta of Version 7 will be available on or before April 30. The release includes...
On April 5, Dell announced a new comprehensive business strategy aimed at Internet specialization. The announcement included new business partnerships, Internet access pledges and initiatives, and Internet business...