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The Bloor Perspective: SCO's Tarantella gamble; Nokia's threat to the old world order; and the IT industry gets the business message
Comment Although the first IA-64 processors are rolling off the production line for developers, mass production is not expected to start until next year - leaving Monterey playing the waiting game. Could the cornerstone of SCO's... [12 Dec 1999]
Forget share options, there's a sassier approach to building staff loyalty
Comment The 200-acre wooded campus houses around 2,700 employees, including developers, technical support staff and sales. Work a 35-hour week leave the office at 4.30pm have lunch with your kids have your own private office... [26 Nov 1999]
The Bloor Perspective: Intel and Linux; Orange and WAP; and Team Tandem make a comeback
Comment In conformance with the GPL (Gnu Public Licence), it is available free of charge to the Linux development community on Intel's Web site, allowing developers to customize the driver to meet their individual company needs. [01 Nov 1999]
IT expenditure: the errors of focusing on TCO
Comment He believes that IT has traditionally sat underneath finance directors, who tend to be better at managing costs than being imaginative business developers. Charles Wang is one of the great survivors of the IT industry. [05 Aug 1999]
Linux Special: No sex please, we're arguing over Linux GUIs
Comment Given that we're unlikely to see a sex scandal involving open source developers any time soon - they're too busy championing world beating technology to indulge in anything so trivial - the sure-fire way to provoke a... [25 May 1999]
Defeat could spell success for Microsoft
Comment It plans to have four discrete divisions which deal with four specific types of customer: consumers, enterprise, knowledge workers and developers. Jim Allchin, who currently oversees the Windows business, will look after... [24 Mar 1999]
XML: The future of...everything?
Comment Developers create their own tags to describe the data, and any tag can be understood by XML as long as it complies with certain parameters. But XML's future is still in the hands of the developers. To... [26 Nov 1998]
The Trials of Microsoft: An overview
Comment Sun's position was looking good, until last week, when a coalition of 14 other Java developers - including HP, Siemens, and, you guessed it, Microsoft - revolted over Sun's alleged hyper-control of Java. [16 Nov 1998]
Technical jargon - who needs IT?
Comment Of course, developers within IT departments will need certain technical skills, and all departments need those people. Take a look at the IT job ads in your daily newspaper or weekly magazine. To the uninitiated, the... [27 Oct 1998]
The last days of Alpha
Comment Digital suspected as much in its final years of independence, software developers know it, and Compaq knows it too. Compaq is back, boasting super efficient servers based on the super fast 575MHz, 64bit Alpha EV6 processor. [22 Oct 1998]
Will Netscape lose the Web server war?
Comment It's freely available over the Internet and has been tweaked by developers to produce tailored versions for specific applications. Netscape is currently waging war in the Web server market. Web servers are a cornerstone... [25 Aug 1998]
Why Linux is a safe bet for business
Comment Linux has the backing of millions of developers, who download and update new applications for it. The decision by Informix, Oracle and Netscape to start developing server software for the Linux operating system (OS) - as... [03 Aug 1998]
Web portals: here today, gone tomorrow?
Comment Portal developers are unwilling to disclose this information, but Yahoo and Yellow Pages agreed that specialist content is always the most valuable. Web publishing is well known as an industry of trial and error, but its... [29 Jul 1998]
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