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  • IBM Workplace Changes in Store

    IBM’s Lotus software division is readying a host of improvements that will bring its fledgling Workplace messaging and collaboration platform closer to feature parity with its flagship Lotus Notes and Domino product line. While company officials maintain that Workplace and Notes and Domino will remain separate product lines running on parallel development tracks, the planned…

  • Novell Open Source Carries on Without Stone

    The abrupt resignation of Novell Inc. Vice Chairman Chris Stone this month may have a negative impact on the company’s relationships with the open-source and Linux communities. Stone, an executive with Novell since March 2002, was the force behind the Waltham, Mass., company’s push into Linux and open-source software, as well as its acquisitions of…

  • Web Conference Pricing Shaking Out

    Pricing for hosted Web conferencing services still runs the gamut—from limited seats and minutes per room per month with per-minute overage charges to pay-by-the-minute services. In general, however, the pricing foci of new Web conferencing systems has been on flat, per-month usage pricing or pairing Web conferencing with other services, such as instant messaging or…

  • 3Com Recommits to Switches

    This week 3Com Corp. will roll out the elements it needs to compete in the large-enterprise network market but still needs to gain recognition as a contender. The Marlboro, Mass., company will introduce its terabit-speed Switch 8800 core LAN switch, along with 10 Gigabit Ethernet modules for its Switch 7700 and SuperStack 3 3870 distribution…

  • GXS, Sterling Expand Beyond EDI for B2B

    A pair of EDI stalwarts are ramping up process integration services as complementary solutions for business-to-business customers. Global Exchange Services Inc. and Sterling Commerce Inc., which between them move billions of supply chain documents through hundreds of thousands of trading partners, plan to add enhanced process integration as a service to better enable collaboration. For…

  • HP Polishes Multifunctions

    Hewlett-Packard Co. is expanding its Total Print Management strategy for the enterprise with new multifunction printing devices and management software. The Palo Alto, Calif., company last week unveiled several multifunction devices that will ship later this month. For enterprise workgroups, HP’s LaserJet 4345mfp can print and copy at 45 ppm (pages per minute) as well…

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