IBM to unwrap Express apps
PartnerWorld showcases SMB play IBM will underline its ongoing companywide commitment to SMBs (small and medium-size businesses) next week when it introduces new versions of DB2, Notes, and Tivoli at its PartnerWorld conference in New Orleans. The new ”express” versions…
Are developers programmers or engineers?
Software project management pondered SAN FRANCISCO — Software project management suffers from confusion over project goals, developers working without supervision, and even from developers being miscast as engineers, said panelists during a keynote session at the VSLive show here on…
Migration programs launched for Visual Basic developers
ArtinSoft looks to make conversions easier SAN FRANCISCO — ArtinSoft this week is launching three consulting programs designed to assist developers with migrating applications to Visual Basic .Net, the latest version of Microsoft’s Visual Basic programming language. Migrating from Visual…
MS at open-source conference may cause protest
Opponents claim company is anticompetitive WASHINGTON — A group of free software advocates plan to protest at a Washington conference designed to promote open source and free software to governments because a representative from Microsoft is scheduled to speak there.…
Lucent designs chip for faster mobile speeds
Decoders could increase speeds 10-fold NEW YORK — Lucent Technologies Bell Labs research unit this week unveiled a new “turbo decoder” chip the company says can enable wireless transmission speeds up to ten times faster than today’s most advanced mobile…
Cyber-Ark shuts vault to sensitive data
New gateway options bolster Inter-Business Vault See correction below Cyber-Ark this week unveiled three new gateways as part of its Inter-Business Vault (IBV) 2.0 release to enable an isolated safe haven for organizations to secure and share sensitive documents and…
Gateway laptop reads portable flash memory
Supports six standards A new configuration of Gateway’s 400L notebook supports six different removable flash memory standards, as the lines between PCs and consumer electronics devices continue to blur. The 400L will be available for a limited time from Gateway…
Red Hat gains government certification
Advanced Server approved by DOD The U.S. Department of Defense Information Systems Agency has certified Linux distributor Red Hat’s Advanced Server operating system as a “Common Operating Environment,” meaning the server product meets the agency’s software security and interoperability specification.…
Office 11 becomes Office 2003
Second beta due soon The next version of Microsoft Office, now known as Office 11, will likely be called Office 2003 from the release of the second beta version early next month, according to sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans. The…
Interview: Sun clears away N1 clouds
VP Steve McKay uncovers the networked datacenter system N1 is Sun’s answer to the distributed computing architectures offered by rivals IBM and HP. But until this week’s Network Computing 03 launch, it was more marketing buzz than product reality. Steve…
