Sun Microsystems Inc.'s purchase this week of Forte Software Inc. netted much more than a tool to produce Java for Solaris. But some doubt whether Sun is willing to embrace the other platforms that Forte's customers use.
Hedging on a deadline set earlier by Microsoft, Bill Gates last week said he's "pretty sure" Windows 2000 can be delivered by the end of the year.
A ruling by a federal US appellate court on Monday had both Microsoft and Sun Microsystems claiming small victories in their dispute over Java, but its users won't get a clearer sense of the language's fate from the ruling, observers said.
In February, Burlington Coat Factory Warehouse became one of the largest companies to commit to a rollout of more than 1000 Linux PCs and servers.
Next week at the Linux World Expo in San Jose, many vendors that once offered only betas of their software ported to Linux with little or no technical support will line up to provide concrete information about their products.
IBM hopes to build the market for its Linux-based Netfinity servers.
All users are saying is give interoperability a chance. At the Software Development West conference here last week, the standard-bearers of Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) both reiterated their pledge to cooperate -- but also openly needled each other.
Linux, the free, Unix-like operating system is rapidly gaining enough credibility to merit a look from users at major companies, according to a US Computerworld tracking survey.
Saddled with low oil prices and a need to cut costs, global oil giant Amerada Hess Corp is saving millions of dollars by replacing a costly IBM supercomputer with high-end parallel clusters running Linux, the free Unix variant that some CIOs still regard as a wild card.
Microsoft will ship Office 2000 to enterprise customers beginning at the end of April, and the product will reach store shelves June 10, the company announced in New Orleans at the Office 2000 deployment conference on Monday.
For all the attention that vendors and the media are showering on Linux, the inexpensive - and often free - version of Unix still is an unknown quantity among mainstream corporate IT managers in the US, a new Computerworld US survey has revealed.
An Ernst & Young LLP survey released yesterday at the National Retail Federation Conference here showed substantial growth in the number of consumers interested in buying goods online and the number of manufacturers and retailers looking to tap into that interest.
The study of 1,363 consumers, 74 manufacturers and 41 retailers found that 10 percent of U.S. households purchased goods online last year, up from 7 percent in 1997. The study offered evidence that online shopping is becoming something of a habit for people who have taken the plunge into electronic commerce.
Many developers think of Cobol as you might think of 38-year-old Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway: old, yes, but supremely effective.
Linux's enterprise credibility climbed further during the past two weeks as IBM released its DB2 database for Linux and its Transarc subsidiary announced that the upcoming version of its AFS file server will include a Linux port.
With IBM's Dec. 7 beta release of DB2, all of the four largest database makers now have products for Linux.
The promised benefits of a good intranet aren't hype; they're real. But what's just as real, intranet managers confessed at a Comdex/Fall '98 panel here last week, are the political bargains and battles to make intranets compatible with a corporate culture.