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RSS appsSAS joins Candle for ebusiness apps
News The SAS Institute and integration company Candle have joined forces to offer ebusiness applications. The joint venture will provide software and services to companies looking to develop an ecommerce strategy. [07 Mar 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Microsoft, Citrix, CA and Sterling
Comment It cost $1bn to develop and its release date slipped several times, but it's here now. The build-up to the release of Windows 2000 has been more muted it was for Windows 98, which itself never reached the heights of Windows 95. [20 Feb 2000]
PC apps provided link to digital phones in $500m deal
News Phone.com has bought Paragon Software for $500m in stock. WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) browser company Phone.com will use Paragon's synchronisation technology to link PC applications such as Lotus Notes and Microsoft Outlook to... [08 Feb 2000]
ASPs bring high-end apps to SMEs
News The Application Service Provider (ASP) model will provide the SME market with applications currently well beyond their price range, according to a report from research house Ovum. Mary Hope, co-author of the report and a senior... [04 Feb 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Compaq's direct intentions, SAP's turnaround and the lack of apps for Windows 2000
Comment If Microsoft does not have the application companies on its side, Windows 2000 will find itself lacking sufficient reasons, in terms of convincing killer apps, for end users to migrate. But the move has hit a number of... [16 Jan 2000]
Corel makes Linux run Windows apps
News Corel plans to release a version of its Linux operating system that lets users run Windows applications. The company says it has used technology from GraphOn to integrate Windows into Corel Linux. Corel says its the technology will let... [07 Jan 2000]
Phoenix apps fall into the fire
News Phoenix International Life Sciences has dropped out of the commercial applications software business. Instead, the company claims it will concentrate on pre-clinical research. Half of the 50-strong development team will be kept on to... [06 Jan 2000]
Relativity and NITT partner to Web-enable legacy apps
News Relativity Technologies and NIIT have signed an agreement to offer consultancy and software to companies looking to Internet-enable legacy applications. Relativity will provide its RescueWare ebusiness product for migrating legacy... [22 Dec 1999]
Ford opens app development centres in Europe
News Ford has announced it is to open two European centres with IBM to develop applications and reduce the time it takes to get apps ready for use. The centres, one in Cologne, Germany and one in Ford's plant at Aveley, Essex... [14 Dec 1999]
ASPs and the end of client/server
Comment Apps on taps' is a phrase you will hear on an increasingly regular basis. When it comes to change, IT departments are in the firing line more than any other. Almost every piece of software installed on the network needs... [14 Dec 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: PDAs, ASPs and the end of magnetic disks
Comment He is reported to have said, "Unless I am fired, we will never sell Oracle apps to other ASPs. Palm Computing's new Palm VII PDA is claimed to be the first of the new generation of palm-tops to give true... [11 Oct 1999]
Microsoft launches hosted office apps scheme
News Microsoft has announced it will target the small business market with a range of hosted office applications. The company's president, Steve Ballmer, said the strategy will include the renting of Office 2000 applications via a dedicated... [24 Sep 1999]
To buy, or not to buy? The ASPs think renting is the answer
Comment "Five years from now, if you are a CEO with a head for business, you won't be buying computers anymore. You won't buy software either. You'll rent all your resources from a service provider. That's the view of Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun... [20 Sep 1999]
Thin-client apps reduce network costs
News IT managers who deploy thin-client applications within their networks are reducing the cost of running them by up to 80 per cent, according to research from Gartner Group's Datapro unit. Based on interviews with 25 IT managers, the... [02 Jun 1999]
HP sets out e-services vision
News Ann Livermore, CEO of HP's enterprise computing organisation, outlined three trends that are driving the e-services marketplace: the rise of "apps on tap," an explosion of next-generation portals and the emergence of a... [19 May 1999]
