Recent Articles
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Symantec Eyes One-Stop Shopping
Looking to solidify the company’s place at the top of the security heap, Symantec Corp. executives are considering a new pricing model in which enterprises using Symantec’s managed services would pay a single price for all the products and services they purchase from the company. The pricing plan, which has been under consideration since before…
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Microsoft Exec: Windows, Linux Squeeze Unix
Linux distributions continue to amass on the border of Windows Server’s enterprise territory, but top executives at Microsoft Corp. are not blinking. That’s because the real battle for software growth this year, they say, will center on low-cost, high-volume x86 hardware and drawing enterprises away from proprietary Unix. Officials for the Redmond, Wash., company contend…
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VOIP to Make Mainstream Move at CES
Devices necessary for making VOIP (voice over IP) work in new ways will make their debut at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. These products include a chip-level solution that will soon find its way into end-user products, as well as a new technology line and some end-user products that are…
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SBC Plans Set-Top Box with Web Links
SBC Communications Inc. is merging home entertainment and digital content through the television set-top box. The San Antonio, Texas-based telecommunications provider on Monday announced a joint venture with equipment maker 2Wire Inc. to deliver a new home entertainment service and set-top box by the middle of the year. It will be available to customers using…
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Vertical Route Works for IBM
IBM continues to push its vertical middleware strategy with new solutions for specific industries—and is winning deals that competitors can only envy. Customers can expect more this month, as IBM is expected to deliver a new health care solution using WebSphere Business Integration software as the core of the company’s Health Care Collaborative Network Solution.…
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Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish
I’m a big believer in, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So it is that I have a 100-Mhz Pentium server still working in my office. I’ll bet you a lot of your customers are the same way. I know integrators who are still supporting users running dBase, FoxPro and Clipper applications running on—brace…
