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* As users and vendors continue their quests for more tailorable applications made up of vertical business objects, early implementations are starting to debut. The folks backing Java and the […]

When it comes to directory services, bigger vendors don't mean better products. LAN operating system giants like IBM, Microsoft, and Novell are lagging behind Banyan Systems, Hitachi Computer Products, and […]

Single-console network management gets in the way of using your staff economically. Distributed platforms are on the way, but make sure the one you pick covers all the bases. By […]

IBM's announcement of a moderately parallel future for the S/390 architecture was greeted with moderate enthusiasm and lots of questions. IS managers wondering whether IBM would phase out its current […]

It's the most important of data-processing tasks; it's the most mundane of data-processing tasks. A fundamental chore since the earliest days of computing, data backup is still as tedious and […]

So what if many early users of DB2 couldn't find their own grandmothers in the NYC phone directory? DB2's still selling like hotcakes. And a whole new software support industry […]

Why SAA Will Play on Local Area Networks When it appeared early in 1987 in largely theoretical form, IBM's Systems Application Architecture promised to lead the computing world into the […]

The Ins and Outs of AD/Cycle Essential to the advance of knowledge over the last 200 years has been a common frame of reference and a standardized system of measurement. […]

Vendors like Digital, IBM, and HP stand firmly behind the DCE. However, boosting DCE's interoperability and portability features has not gotten in the way of product differentiation One of the […]

That satori saved Wayne Beaton from the tar pits; he's now a senior technologist at The Object People, an Ottawa-based consulting firm that specializes in Smalltalk development and training. Must […]

It's always been a lot easier for users and vendors of information technology to define a closed system than an open system. Getting a grasp on the meaning of open […]

Inside IBM's System View At IBM, the creators of System View have set a task for themselves not unlike that confronting Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. They have weathered the glamour […]

New Tools To Integrate The Office It's the last decade of the twentieth century, and corporate IS managers are still working under standing orders from on high to stop wasting […]

By Staff EPC IS standard passes the test Staff The EPC Information Services (IS) Working Group completed interoperability testing of the new RFID software standard for IS. 'EPC IS enables [...]

IBM has yet to set--or even to hint at--pricing for a new silicon-based transistor that will be the heart of next-generation super-fast communications chips operating at 100 GHz. But analysts [...]

Sony, Toshiba and IBM enter a new era in high-speed network computing In an attempt to seize the computing high ground, IBM Corp, Sony Computer Entertainment and Toshiba are jointly [...]

Microphotonics expands the limits of silicon IC technology 7:16 am, the #9007 TGV pulls from Paris Gare du Nord headed for London. Picking up velocity, it hurtles through the French [...]

Xerox Corporation says its renewed focus on color and new technology will help transform its core business and drive a migration from black-and-white to color documents in every market the [...]

Sony Computer Entertainment has teamed up with IBM and Toshiba to develop a new chip code-named Cell, which will be used for Play Station 3 as well as other consumer [...]

* IBM and Intel are working separately on powerful new microchips for computer servers and communications gear. The chips will be up to 10 times faster than versions currently available. [...]

Motorola says it will work with IBM and Toshiba to bring Bluetooth wireless technology to personal computers. Bluetooth is a short-wave radio link that enables electronic devices such as cell [...]

Intel and IBM share their multimedia vision Five years from now, the electronics industry and its customers will look back at 1989 as the year in which a brave new […]

PC technology update Personal computers have quickly become familiar items in factory and plant applications. But, in keeping with the rapid pace of this technology's evolution, new machines and new […]

The ISDN Ingredient With very few exceptions, IBM's performance as a supplier of telecommunications products has been singularly unimpressive. But with its traditional dp business under intense pressure, the company [...]

IBM is making moves to support the Integrated Services Digital Network standards. IBM has helped in two Western Europe ISDN trials with European communication service suppliers and plans to do continue such support. The company is also planning to release products to support the private network and different types of terminals, said industry sources. IBM's subsidiary, Rolm Corp., has a Rolmlink private-branch exchange (PBX) product that integrates voice and data. The product is already installed in over one million lines in the United States. Rolm will also be introducing a European ISDN PBX, say industry analysts. Industry sources predict that IBM plans to introduce an ISDN-based terminal series for its Office Master family of products. A sidebar on IBM's views of ISDN technology is included.

What's Ahead For IBM's On-line Systems Today, the IBM world of on-line systems primarily consists of CICS and IMS/DC. Once, both CICS and IMS/DC tried to do everything for everybody, […]

Promise and Promises What would you do if you were IBM? After years of spectacular growth, your revenues have suddenly slowed to a crawl and profits have actually taken a […]

Many significant wares are still two years away SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks are finally closing in on commercial reality, but the product plans of major […]

IBM's PowerPC seen as spoiler SAN JOSE, Calif. -- 'And the losers now are later to win,' sang Bob Dylan in the '60s. Today, those words could equally describe the […]

Ironically, it may be Apple that at last gives PCs a window into IBM's midrange-based databases--and Apple Macs too, of course. When IBM and its first PC rival, Apple Computer […]

As PCs become increasingly commodity-like and ever cheaper, major suppliers are attempting to differentiate their systems by building in more features, placing greater emphasis on software and seeking out new […]

Since its introduction in 1988, IBM's AS/400 has been the little engine that could. Thanks mostly to the midrange system's proprietary but easy to use OS/400 operating system, and an […]

When the Object Management Group (OMG) announced its specifications for the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Corba) standard for distributed object-oriented applications, it was flanked by several companies and consortiums […]

LAS VEGAS -- At the recent Comdex/Fall trade show, IBM announced that the release of OS/2 version 2.0 would be late, fueling analyst speculations that Big Blue might not catch […]

In a bid to derail rival desktop standard bids, IBM and Apple Computer last week formed a coalition under which the two companies plan to build Unixbased desktop systems using […]

Although it vows to support IBM's System View when it finally materializes, systems software leader Computer Associates says it has a better answer for your systems management problems-and it has […]

MS-DOS emulation on Unix comes of age As the recession continues, many of those responsible for purchasing and implementing computer systems for corporations are striving to cut costs. One area […]