Topic: General

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:10 AM

Sun Microsystems and AMD have signed a deal which will see Sun shipping AMD Opteron processor-based Sun Fire systems loaded with versions of its Solaris, Java or Linux.
The companies also plan to include long-term joint technology development to create future hardware and software offerings

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:06 AM

SAN FRANCISCO -- High-tech's long, hard fall might be softening.
Tech-related job losses in the USA this year are expected to be less than half the 539,000 in 2002. That's because the industry has reached the bottom of its three-year slide, finds an annual economic study by the American Electronics Association released today.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 11:05 AM

Upon exiting a top Silicon Valley executive's 85-minute keynote presentation on the future of technology early Monday, a 20something Comdex attendee turned to a friend as though he'd heard it all before.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 12:01 PM

Cobol specialist Micro Focus International has enhanced its Windows Cobol development tool to achieve full integration with Microsoft's .Net Framework.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 12:00 PM

BT has activated the first phase of additional multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) nodes to extend its IP backbone in the US, Canada and Mexico.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 02:48 AM

Say "lean manufacturing" right now, and people listen. At the recent APICS show, a session titled Six Sigma Simplicity with Lean and ERP not only had a standing room-only crowd, but a few attendees--myself included--pulled up chairs in the hallway to catch this informative session. It's also the case that a survey of manufacturing executives that MSI recently conducted found lean was the No. 1 operating philosophy.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Monday, November 10, 2003 - 02:46 AM

In a slack market for enterprise software, the distributed order management (DOM) space is growing. Sales of DOM applications, which are targeted on automating aspects of the order-to-cash cycle--such as order capture, customer fulfillment, and settlement--reached $4.9 billion in 2002, and should grow to $13.3 billion by 2007, says Boston-based analyst firm Yankee Group .

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:17 PM

TREND Micro is cautioning Internet users to avoid Worm_Mimail.F, a UPX compressed mass-mailing e-mail worm and denial of service (DoS) threat which pretends to be a meeting reminder from a colleague.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:12 PM

Multimedia messaging services provider Xpedite has had its messageREACH service chosen by financial services provider Admiral.

Posted by : bpburnwal on Saturday, November 08, 2003 - 12:10 PM

Throughout the hurricane season, images of business owners scrambling to prepare for a possible disaster are commonplace, and were seen again this past September with the appearance of Hurricane Isabel. But preparations can be equally intense--and involve more than just plywood--when your business focuses on the maintenance and repair operations (MRO) of industrial companies.