Sun shows road to Solaris 10
Sun Microsystems officials on Friday offered a sneak peak into its Solaris OS plans, touting incremental improvements in areas such as resource management expected to reach users' systems within a year.
Stories by Paul Krill
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Microsoft improving .Net Framework
By late 2003, Microsoft plans to release the next version of the .Net Framework, code-named Whidbey, a company spokesman confirmed yesterday.
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IBM reveals Informix technology plans
IBM is looking to utilise Informix technology in its DB2 database to enable real-time analysis of streaming data such as ticker-tape data, company officials said this week.
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Symantec acquires security management technology
Symantec yesterday announced its acquisition of Mountain Wave, a provider of enterprise security management software and services.
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Intel eyes RISC server vendors
Intel is charging ahead with its goal to unseat "proprietary" vendors such as Sun Microsystems to become the leader in the enterprise server space, company officials said during a press event on Friday.
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Microsoft seeks converts to .Net
Microsoft has announced availability of a second beta release of JLCA (Java Language Conversion Assistant), a tool for Java developers to provide a transition to building XML Web services based on the Microsoft .Net platform.
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Microsoft reaches out to Java developers
Microsoft has released a JDBC driver enabling Java developers to utilise Microsoft's SQL Sever 2000 database as a data management system for Java applications.
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Blue Martini offers toast to in-store app
Blue Martini Software on Monday will announce Blue Martini Retail, an in-store customer intelligence product that gives retailers the ability to offer personalized promotions to patrons on the checkout line.
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PeopleSoft buys Annuncio technology in CRM push
Peoplesoft will offer its CRM customers marketing automation software for e-mail and Web campaigns through acquisition of technology assets from Annuncio Software.
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E-tailers get low marks for customer service
Brick-and-mortar and online-only retailers struggled to quickly respond to customer service e-mails during the just-finished holiday season, according to research from Jupiter Media Metrix detailed on Thursday.
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Online sales defy downturn
Online shopping destinations report that, despite the economic gloom, they are still doing brisk holiday business and that, thanks to a variety of new bells and whistles, they are becoming more sophisticated merchants.
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FrontRange links GoldMine to Microsoft offering
FrontRange Solutions plans to announce on Monday its GoldMine Business Contact Manager product, a contact management system that features enhanced data integration with the Microsoft Outlook contact manager.
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CRM market projected at $13.5 billion
The market for CRM is expected to increase from $US13.5 billion in 2001 to roughly $27.8 billion in 2005, according to a report from Aberdeen Group.
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CRM: Dirty data plagues CRM deployment
CRM has become a hot-button topic, with companies deploying systems in the hope of providing better service and, in turn, boosting revenues.
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Despite slumping economy, e-commerce still growing
The number of Americans buying online will double from 64.1 million as of 2000 to 130 million by 2005, according to a report by research firm eMarketer.
