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NOW IN ITS fifth year, the AS/400 product line has reached the midpoint in the original life cycle IBM had planned for it. The key indicator here is the processor […]

This Year OSF/I And Windows NT Will Challenge UNIX' Once-Exclusive Claims To Portability, Interoperability And Standards. So Far, HP Is Sticking To Its Guns With HP-UX. When it comes to […]

When Downtime Causes Untimely And Costly Interruptions In Your Business Environment, It's Time To Invest In A Fault-Tolerant System * If you use the computer to play games or to […]

FOUR YEARS AFTER ITS RELEASE by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), TCP/IP's multivendor network management technology, has obliterated competitive network protocols and laid […]

In The Past, the word on the street has been that IBM's Intelligent Data Printer Stream (IPDS) technology lags in software sophistication, costs too much, and is difficult to program. […]

IBM'S RISC-BASED RS/6000 WORKSTATION was intended for the scientific/technical market, we thought. It was introduced as a contender in the RISC/UNIX workstation market, a market largely owned by competitors such […]

Regarding the recent rash of defections of senior Digital officials, the terms 'coup' and 'purge' have been thrown around as loosely as confetti at a New Year's Eve party. Nobody […]

By year-end 1991, IBM had placed more than 45,000 RS/6000s in commercial applications, predominantly in server and multiuser configurations. (RS/6000 sales into technical markets, by contrast, tend to involve more […]

IBM'S MIDRANGE PRODUCTS always have had competition, but the popular AS/400 line has managed to hold its own against most outside competitors. Now, however, the challenge to the AS/400 appears […]

LARRY Gustin is a numbers man, but he stumbled onto a presentation graphics package for his System/36 almost a year ago and has been hooked on graphics ever since. Gustin […]

With revenues and profits from product sales slipping in a weakened economy, OEMs have focused on services for corporate growth. Right now, an ongoing conflict is taking place between system […]

IF GRAPHICS WAS THE PREMIER desktop technology of the 1980s, then media integration, or multimedia, will be the premier desktop technology of the 1990s. Says who? Says Digital, Apple, Sun, […]

DURING THE PAST DECADE, computer-assisted scientific visualization reshaped science, allowing scientists to see the previously unseen. However, the technology could be implemented only by scientists with sophisticated computer programming skills. […]

In September 1989, T.H.E. Journal compared the features of automated scheduling (media management) systems in great detail. Since then, two more systems have emerged. These new packages will be described […]

As I promised in my September column, this month we'll talk about Digital's client/server strategy, specifically from a viewpoint of applications and databases. A couple of months ago, I would […]

CASE TOOLS are not new. Used for some time in the mainframe world, they have been available for AS/400 applications for at least five years. Yet in spite of the […]

The slump in the computer industry seems to have bypassed technical workstations, especially in the federal market, in the view of workstation vendors and industry analysts. 'We've got a very […]

BY ANY ESTIMATION, IBM's AS/400 has been a successful product. Three years old, the AS/400 generates sales of about $14 billion a year. Although the market for midrange computers is […]

On Aug. 1, a new five-year semiconductor trade agreement between Japan and the United States went into effect, replacing an existing pact signed in 1986 and removing $164 million in […]

It's Valentine's Day. You're one of DEC's most loyal highend hardware clients, and you haven't received so much as long-stemmed rose from your favorite computer maker. You've head the rumors. […]

Pointing Devices The vagaries of keyboards are just a fact of life for us old-timers who learned to type on Remington manual typewriters. But today's programmers, graphics artists, editors, engineers […]

The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals in the government's antitrust case against Microsoft Corp. has spawned the expected flurry of coverage, comment and spin, but little light has […]

Arrogant and stupid is a dangerous combination. In war, it can get lots of people killed. In business, where many like to use the metaphors of war, it can lead […]

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson slammed his gavel down on Microsoft Corp. Friday, March 31, after US financial markets closed. Seems he was worried about the effect his ruling might have […]

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson's ruling this month that Microsoft Corp. violated antitrust laws and abused its monopoly power is unlikely to have any immediate impact on PC prices […]

The Internet browser war is heating up. You'd think it was a political campaign, what with all the name-calling and eyegouging. Even users are getting jerked around with FUD (fear, […]

NORCROSS, Ga. - The nightmare of every business is that its mainstay will become a commodity. Wayne Cape awoke to that bad dream about five years ago when competitive pricing […]

DALLAS -- Sterling Software, a $411.8 million EDI provider, went on a buying binge last month, snapping up two companies in two days. First, it went for the big-ticket item […]

Network industry analysts and SNMP application developers have detected a shift in momentum from Hewlett-Packard's HP OpenView management platform, the current market leader in terms of third-party applications and site […]

ATLANTA -- If you're not a subscriber to disaster recovery services provided by Sun Data Systems or SunGard Recovery Services, then you might have been confused by the similarity of […]

* HORSHAM, Pa.- 'IBM today announced a powerful new family of easy to use computer systems to provide business solutions for the biggest, fastest growing segment of the world's economy: […]

MONETT, Mo. -- When the history books are written about the early 1990s, one thing that will show up is the forging of alliances with competitors. Organizations in all lines […]

SOMERS, N.Y. -- Most companies are tight lipped when it comes to admitting how many computers they have sold. One of the least outspoken is IBM, which has been known […]

Only time and the flow of purchase orders will tell whether European users believe that Alpha systems offer them something Digital's competitors do not, giving DEC the commercial success it […]

For the last couple of years the global recession has plagued several countries in Europe with varying degrees of severity. Its indicators, such as job layoffs and slowed commercial activity, […]

When it comes to midrange computers, many people just don't get it HORSHAM, Pa. -- That's the view of Bob Mann, president of Acknowledge. Especially when it comes to perceptions […]

Claims new systems' cost of ownership is fraction of 3090s and AS/400s * PALO ALTO, Calif.--HP uncovered details of its code-named Emerald project on May 20, revealing the firm's concerted […]

New marketing and support channel formed for AS/400 9402s * WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--IBM doubled the base of Plug'N' Go solutions last month while expanding its turnkey system concept to include […]

FDDDI has seemingly transcended its role as a high-speed backbone and is now moving briskly toward the desktop. With its newfound ability to run over shielded and unshielded twisted-pair, FDDI […]

With 1991 revenues of $125.8 million, Systems Center Inc. is a profitable, medium-sized independent systems and network management software firm. Its products support within an IBM-oriented environment the management of […]

Welcome to workstation wars revisited. Over the past several weeks, the battle for the workstation market has heated up again. This time tthe fray is taking place at the low […]

The second wave of Token Ring integration technology from SunConnect (Mountain View, Calif.) highlights the company's newly aggressive strategy for connecting its SVR4-based networks with classic IBM environments: PC LANs […]

When they are flying high, humans have a tendency to get a bit cocky. It's a common flaw of the species. They don't seem to be able to do much […]

Standards Battle Could Tip World Balance Although the Persian Gulf crisis has captured our attention, events there are not very likely to restructure the world order. Iraq is much like […]

Zenith Still Has te Most Micros Installed in Government Offices A report by Computer Intelligence, a La Jolla, Calif., market research company, showed that while IBM Corp. still reigns supreme […]

Agencies Likely To Get DBMS, Survey Shows Of large-system software most likely to be installed at federal sites, database management systems topped the list with 65 percent of sites, a […]

UNIX Is Favored Over OS/2 In a recent survey, more than twice as many government sites planned to use UNIX during the next two years as intended to use OS/2. […]

Leading ERP vendors, fiscal 2003 Vendor Est. market share Computer Sciences Corp. 15% Northrop Grumman Corp. 12% Lockheed Martin Corp. 8% 0racle Corp. 8% Accenture Ltd. 7% Science Applications International […]

In its first few days of trading on Nasdaq, ManTech International Corp. has seen its share price rise from its opening of $16 to $19.90 Feb. 11. The stock began […]

PC Spreadsheets After a 1-1/2-year delay, Lotus Development Corp. has started shipping Release 3.0 of its top-selling spreadsheet. But has the market bypassed Lotus? Some of 1-2-3 Release 3.0's new […]