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At Microsoft Corp.'s recent TechEd developers' conference in Orlando, Fla., Bill Gates, chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft (www.microsoft.com), took the wraps off a new component to its impending […]

One of XML's most compelling advantages is its potential to act as a glue between disparate application or platform types. Nowhere is this advantage more pronounced than in XML's role […]

For many companies, e-business has cut the typical product development cycle from months to weeks. To avoid hair-pulling and costly mistakes or misunderstandings, many development teams are looking to project […]

Enterprise portals are a hot commodity, and vendors from all corners of the IT universe are scrambling to position their products as portal-enabling solutions. Addressing this burgeoning space, Iona Technologies […]

CRM Sends Salaries Soaring, RPG, COBOL are not dead yet If you can build or manage a customer relationship management system for your company, you are a hot commodity in […]

The broadcast industry actually has calculations that estimate the losses incurred for every second of 'dead air.' That's when an announcer takes too long of a break, or if there's […]

In the crazy ups and downs of the IT world, there was always one steady and predictable element you could count on: storage. From year to year, databases and systems […]

Business-to-business (B2B) opportunities are red hot and growing hotter. Recent studies by leading analyst houses confirm that B2B implementations are occurring at a rate faster than predicted. In a recent […]

With so much development effort focused on Internet-enabled applications, it's no surprise that many developers are focusing their efforts in this area. But, it seems, most effort at this point […]

With the launch of the latest version of Windows CE, Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) hopes the operating system will make significant inroads in the burgeoning embedded systems and small appliance market. […]

A benchmarketing battle is raging between two leading server vendors over six-way processor system performance. In March, Hewlett-Packard Co. (www.hp.com) announced its first foray into the six-way SMP space with […]

Damn the Hackers, Full Speed Ahead What's the gravity of the threat to organizations connecting their legacy systems to the Web? In discussions I've had with CIOs and IT managers, […]

The Justice Department may be chiding Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) for its monopoly-like practices, but in the end it seems we're going to be relying on Redmond for more of our […]

Microsoft's Active Directory; released with Windows 2000, helps IT and network managers get a grip on managing far-flung networks of Windows servers and clients. Large enterprises, however, typically use up […]

Finally, data mining -- that sophisticated and esoteric process that only statisticians could love -- is coming to the masses. Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com) released into beta its OLE DB for […]

As surveys show increasing interest in Linux by corporate developers, Inprise Corp. (www.inprise.com) is taking the wraps off its Kylix initiative. The high-performance Linux rapid application development environment will support […]

Massive increases in infrastructure spending, new intermediaries in business partner and customer relationships, and fierce competition mark the challenges of IT management in the near future. E-marketplaces are making a […]

Nothing screams 'legacy' louder than a text-based interface. We all know that GUIs are smarter and sexier. Case closed. However, a badly designed GUI may be just as bad as […]

February could be described as a Sterling month for acquisitions. First, Sterling Software Inc. (www.sterling.com) was acquired by Computer Associates International Inc. (CA, www.ca.com). Then, within days, Sterling Software's e-commerce/electronic […]

The world's 3.2 million Visual Basic developers recently were treated to some enticing tidbits of news from Steve Ballmer, president and CEO of Microsoft Corp. (www.microsoft.com). Ballmer, speaking to VB […]

Further strengthening its beachhead in the rapid application development market, BEA Systems Inc. (www.beasys.com) recently unveiled a Java-based commerce server on which developers can quickly build both business-to-business and business-to-consumer […]

Hewlett-Packard Co. took a giant leap into an unfilled and untested hardware niche with the unveiling of two new six-way servers, priced comparably with four-way offerings. While Hewlett-Packard (HP, www.hp.com) […]

Can AS/400 managers allow 'Net access without compromising security? Does Internet security represent the next Y2K crisis? After all, companies of all types are facing potentially momentous challenges protecting their […]

Never before has the fate of a new product from Microsoft Corp. been so tightly interwoven with enterprise resource planning (ERP). One ERP vendor in particular, SAP AG (www.sap.com) was […]

Much of the world's attention is focused on the growing battle between Windows NT/2000, Linux, and Unix - each competing for the hearts and minds of enterprise IT managers. Lately, […]

For years, traditional electronic data interchange (EDI) agreements were forged on paper. Companies signed off on agreed upon specifications for connections, protocols, and types of documents to be passed back […]

The world is still in one piece, but the battle to beat Y2K changed the way IT does business. After spending billions of dollars and working long hours into nights […]

Total cost of ownership, or TCO, has served us well as the mantra of thin-client and Web-to-host computing. However, TCO calculations only barely scratch the surface when you consider what's […]

The fast-growing business intelligence (BI) sector has given rise to numerous solutions covering data warehouses, data marts, and analytical tools. With an eye to this market, SAS Institute (www.sas.com) and […]

Typically, file sharing is a multiapplication exercise. Recipients download a file in a format such as a PDF, then launch an application or viewer to open the file. In most […]

Once again, Microsoft Corp.'s top-tier hardware partners have outdone themselves with a plethora of servers and value-added services to accompany the Windows 2000 launch. But rather than rolling out dramatically […]

Oracle Corp. recently began shipping a new release of its Oracle8i database that includes beefed up security features and built-in OLAP capabilities. In addition, the database giant slashed prices and […]

Will there be 35 flavors of Java applications in the near future? Continuing uncertainty over Java standards may splinter the market and make it harder for companies to pursue Web […]

MONTHS OF MEDIA frenzy about a potential 'Y2K meltdown' had the public panting in anticipation right up until New Year's Eve. Then, as the clock struck midnight across the globe, […]

A RANGE OF CUSTOMER relationship management (CRM) solutions have surfaced recently in the data warehouse-intensive AS/400 market, from large CRM and ERP vendors to Lotus business partners. The budding relationship […]

Web to Host Meets Thin-Client Computing While IBM and others struggled unsuccessfully to knock the Wintel alliance off its feet with the network computing concept, their efforts did succeed in […]

We have seen the future of data warehousing, and it is in support of customer relationship management (CRM) systems. But it is unclear if the two technologies will form a […]

Web seminars and Web telecasts are growing in popularity, but the technology needed to download these presentations is often cumbersome. For example, video and audio presentations usually require media players […]

The union of two leading commerce server vendors could portend a major wave of consolidation in the emerging business-to-business electronic marketplace arena. Ariba Inc. (www.ariba.com) recently announced plans to acquire […]

To anyone who has attended an Oracle Corp. or SAP event, their relationship is obvious: The two consider themselves to be neck-and-neck competitors for leadership in the ERP space. Hasso […]

IT'S NO SECRET: WE ARE CREATING AND STORING MORE INFORMATION THAN WE CAN EFFECTIVELY BACK UP AND RECOVER. TERABYTES OF DATA ARE AT RISK BECAUSE THEY ARE SPREAD ACROSS countless […]

THE DAYS OF LOADING preprinted forms into printers are rapidly disappearing, thanks to new forms software coming into the AS/400 market. One such solution, BOSaNOVA PrintBoss from Better On-Line Solutions […]

Many of you are probably relieved to have cleared the Y2K hurdle -- the mother of all maintenance projects -- and are conducting a final mop-up of any lingering, and, […]

As we pass through the Y2K portal and adjust to its immediate aftermath, new developments will reshape IT management as we know it. Next year will mark the beginning of […]

IT'S NO SURPRISE that the Internet and Web are taking electronic data interchange (EDI) market in a whole new direction. Recent findings from IDC (Framingham, Mass.) find that EDI--in a […]

IN SEPTEMBER, ERP giant SAP (Walldorf, Germany) announced that it will be offering its R/3 system through selected application service providers (ASPs), making the system accessible to end-user companies on […]

LAWSON SOFTWARE (Minneapolis) unveiled a suite of tools designed to help executives benchmark their company's HR practices. Lawson's Insight II Analytic Suite 2000 includes a Workforce Analytics component that incorporates […]

As THE IT WORLD recovers from the impact of Y2K, business intelligence/data warehouse implementations rank at the top of many AS/400 agendas. Recent surveys confirm the size of the growing […]

Most Sales Will be Channeled Through ISVs, Business Partners ABOUT THREE YEARS ago, IBM announced that it would be moving most of its sales to its business partner network, effectively […]