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  • HP, Yahoo to offer custom corporate portals

    Posted December 27, 2000 - 1:39 pm

    The service will give employees personalized access to both internal and external information online.

  • There It...Isn't

    Posted December 27, 2000 - 1:08 pm

    IN PROGRAMMING, ALL revolutions look the same: For any single language and application domain, people figure out the most common or important sequences of tasks. Then someone writes a new command structure and representation scheme (the programming language) that standardizes those sequences and allows them to work well with each other. A good analogy is the evolution of text, from handwriting to moveable type to books to libraries: Typesetting simplified and organized handwriting; bookbinding did the same for printed characters; libraries for books. Programming evolved exactly the same way, from machine code to assembler to Fortran to C.

  • Propel's CEO, Steve Kirsch, talks about creating a standard platform for developing and deploying e-commerce applications

    Posted December 27, 2000 - 11:50 am

    e-commerce applications. Founder and CEO Steve Kirsch, also founder of Infoseek, spoke recently with e-commerce reporter Geneva Sapp about Propel's direction and vision.

  • Developers talk reusability and new methodologies at SD 2000 Conference

    Posted December 27, 2000 - 11:42 am

    THE ISSUE OF time restraints -- and how programmers are abandoning traditional methodologies and adapting to meet them -- was a key theme at the Software Developers (SD) 2000 Conference and Expo in San Jose, Calif., this week.

  • Novell and partners focus on integrated network plans

    Posted December 27, 2000 - 11:37 am

    NOVELL NEXT WEEK will unveil its "one Net" marketing message and demonstrate several new technologies at its BrainShare conference in Salt Lake City, hoping to finally put to rest complaints about marketing shortcomings that have plagued Novell in past years.

  • Instant E-Commerce

    Posted December 27, 2000 - 11:09 am

    Take care when choosing off-the-shelf solutions.

  • The money pit

    Posted December 27, 2000 - 9:48 am

    Could IT have prevented the largest, most expensive, most complex public works project in the history of the United States from becoming a byword for poor and possibly felonious project management?

  • Trading places

    Posted December 26, 2000 - 6:06 pm

    Thomas Koulopoulos, president and founder of The Delphi Group, a Boston-based e-business consultancy, answered readers' questions on CIO.com about his area of expertise, business-to-business portals.

  • Terabytes to the max

    Posted December 26, 2000 - 4:56 pm

    Trendlines The New the Hot the Unexpected

  • Digital rights management vendor extends reach

    Posted December 26, 2000 - 2:31 pm

    U.S. DIGITAL RIGHTS management specialist ContentGuard Inc., known for its work in the electronic books space, Tuesday made good on its commitment to broaden its reach to cover other media.

  • CA, EDS offer free Y2K desktop software

    Posted December 26, 2000 - 1:32 pm

    The tool will search networks and compare apps to a 250,000-item database of Y2K-ready hardware and software.

  • Firewall fixes posted

    Posted December 26, 2000 - 12:59 pm

    TWO SECURITY COMPANIES whose firewall offerings were incompatible with Windows 2000 Service Pack 1 have fixed the problems with updates.

  • Excel driver opens Office 97 security hole

    Posted December 26, 2000 - 12:54 pm

    The problem lies with the ODBC driver within Excel 97, Microsoft says; a fix is on the way.

  • Technology's Promise

    Posted December 26, 2000 - 10:20 am

    TECHNOLOGY THIS.

  • Bob Young: Red Hat's chairman is confident about facing off against the Microsoft juggernaut

    Posted December 26, 2000 - 9:43 am

    With the formal launch of Windows 2000 last week by the industry's most powerful force, Microsoft, it is conceivable to think that leading members of the Linux OS community might be at least a little edgy. Not Bob Young. As chairman of Red Hat, the leading distributor of Linux, Young remains steadfast in his belief that the momentum his open-source operating system has established will continue unabated despite the media storm that Windows 2000 figures to create. Young sat down with InfoWorld Editor at Large Ed Scannell to discuss the impact Windows 2000 might have, or lack, among users and developers.

  • Getting Your Cookies Back

    Posted December 26, 2000 - 1:00 am

    * Editor's Note: Due to email client compatibility issues, the

  • Red Hat launches Linux e-commerce server

    Posted December 22, 2000 - 3:14 pm

    The software is based on the Apache Web server and RSA encryption engine.

  • IPass offers VPN testing

    Posted December 22, 2000 - 3:04 pm

    The remote access network service provider is trying to help users set up complex virtual private networks.

  • IT proceeds with caution

    Posted December 22, 2000 - 2:04 pm

    BRIAN JAFFE has read all the articles and reviews, he's heard years' worth of hype and sales pitches from Microsoft, he's watched the betas come and go, and he's heard all the arguments, pro and con.

  • Sun-Netscape renames, refocuses Internet products

    Posted December 22, 2000 - 12:00 pm

    Sun-Netscape Alliance officials have rebranded Internet infrastructure and electronic-commerce software products with the name iPlanet and fleshed out more details about their product plans.

  • Intranet Marketing 101

    Posted December 22, 2000 - 11:49 am

    IN EARLY 1995, A COLLEAGUE AND I BUILT an intranet for our employer, a small management consulting firm. The term "intranet" had not yet been coined, but our goal was to create a Web site accessible only to the company's employees around the world. Teaching ourselves HTML, as well as the eccentricities of pre-Netscape server software, we put the company newsletter online, along with photos and bios of all the principals.

  • IBM to upgrade Net.Commerce

    Posted December 22, 2000 - 10:26 am

    Version 3.2 will support XML and offer content creation tools.

  • CA e-commerce focus sharpens

    Posted December 21, 2000 - 5:37 pm

    Computer Associates announced an 'e-nfrastructure' product line aimed at companies doing business online.

  • CA prepackages "thinking" software agents

    Posted December 21, 2000 - 4:16 pm

    ISLANDIA, N.Y. -- Computer Associates (CA) next week at the eBusiness Conference & Expo will announce that its Neugent "thinking" software technology will be released in three prepackaged versions aimed at predicting specific problems commonly faced by online businesses, according to a CA official here Tuesday.

  • AOL opens-source code for Web server

    Posted December 21, 2000 - 3:42 pm

    Software code for AOLserver is available for downloading and modification.

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