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Reports on the formation of the Enterprise Integration Council. What the group offers to member software vendors; Comments from David McGoveran, the group's founder; Why integration issues have become important.

Makes observations about the activities of computer vendors in the United States. Plans of Siebel to acquire companies with businesses in configuration and enterprise resource planning markets; Bill payment problems of software vendor LivePix; Purchase of naming rights to the Oakland Coliseum by Network Associates.

Reports on developments in client/server computing and the computer software and hardware industry in the United States. Includes the topic of the white paper Netscape plans to present at the Giga IT World Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona; Mathsoft's plan to roll out a version of its S-Plus statistical mining software with enhanced features.

Focuses on the schemes planned by computer software and hardware vendors in the United States to keep up with the developing enterprise computing landscape. Growing importance of the database in the development of networked applications of the future; Products and features targeted for development.

Focuses on sales in the computer software industry. Proposed amendments to the Uniform Commercial Code to govern software transactions; Concerns on getting legal protection for software buyers; Anti-consumer elements issues; Comments from industry executives.

Presents news briefs related to the information technology industry, for the week ending December 9, 1996. Includes Oracle's plans for implementing Java in all tiers of its Network Computing Architecture; Persoft's Persona Intranet line of Java applets; Compaq's worldwide recall of certain AC adapters that have been supplied with the company's Armada 4100 notebook PCs as options or spare parts to resellers.

Presents news briefs related to the information technology industry, for the week ending December 2, 1996. Includes International Business Machines' shipment of the first in a series of Internet servers based on RS/6000 hardware to bundle High Availability Clustered Multiprocessing software; Release of the second beta of Navigator 2.02 for OS/2 Warp 4.0; Netscape's release of an incremental upgrade to its Mail Server.

Reports on developments in the computer industry in the United States as of July 1, 1996. Includes an ATA/IDE hard drive interface protocol from Intel Corp. and Quantum Corp.; Working group plan of the Internet Engineering Task Force; Phase-out plan for Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Omnibook 600CT notebook.

Announces developments in the computer, computer software and semiconductor industries. International Business Machines Microelectronics and Motorola Incorporated's PowerPC 601 chip that runs at 120 megahertz; Computer Associates International Incorporated's acquisition of The Ask Group Incorporated; Advanced Micro Devices Incorporated's release of Am486 microprocessors; More.