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Unisys Shows ES7000 to Government

April 19, 2000

Business Objects Announces Support for IBM DB2

Keyware Introduces Biometric Toolkit

Cubularity Brings Something New to OLAP World

Windows World: Windows 2000 Licensing Slowing Down

The demand for Windows 2000 seems to be settling down after an initial spike that may have been related to an early adopter rush to obtain Microsoft Corp.’s flagship business operating system.

FOSE: Ballmer Sings Praises of XML for ‘e-Government’

WASHINGTON -- Microsoft Corp. president and CEO Steve Ballmer peddled XML as a key to what he called “e-government” interaction with its constituents during his keynote today to open the 24th annual Federal Office Systems Expo (FOSE) here.

StoragePoint.com Creates File Manager for WAP

April 18, 2000

Microsoft Gains Endorsement with Exodus Agreement

Microsoft Corp. today announced an agreement with Web site hosting company Exodus Communications Inc. under which the companies claim they will work together on a number of fronts.

Dell Rolls Out New 4-way Servers

Dell Computer Corp. began taking orders today for a pair of four-way, rack-optimized servers with enough memory capacity to max out the capabilities of Windows 2000 Advanced Server.

FOSE Trade Show Set to Open Tomorrow

The 24th annual Federal Office Systems Expo (FOSE) kicks off tomorrow in Washington, DC, and with it come many of the major vendors in the IT industry, eager to peddle their wares to various federal agencies and offices.

Compaq, SNI partner for Storage Utility

Compaq Computer Corp. and StorageNetworks Inc. have announced plans to partner on storage systems. SNI will deploy Compaq’s SAN solutions for use in the SNI Global Data Storage Network (GDSN), a play for providing storage services to the enterprise.

Stratus to Bring Fault Tolerance Down to Windows 2000 Servers

Stratus Computer Systems is wedging its fault tolerant computing technology, which serves as a pillar of high-end financial transaction systems, into commodity Wintel servers.

Tranxition Makes Migration Tool Available

April 17, 2000

SAS Likely to Go Public

On the same day SAS Institute released the news that its 1999 revenues surpassed $1 billion, CEO Jim Goodnight announced to attendees of a customer conference that the company is likely to go public sometime during the next year and a half.

Our Window

To the people sitting on the opposite side of the network from administrators, software upgrades can be like getting wisdom teeth pulled. It’s better in the long run, but it's awfully painful while it happens.

Nothing But Net/Mark McFadden: Bandwidth Battles

The next revolution on the Internet is being fueled not by a killer application but by a revolution in bandwidth. Instead of a new technology, such as instant messaging or e-commerce, the next breakthrough will be in the way we connect people and networks together.

Microsoft Releases Multilanguage Version of Windows 2000

Microsoft this week came out with the first cut of its Windows 2000 Professional, MultiLanguage Version. The client OS is designed to simplify Windows 2000 rollouts, usage and support in multinational corporations and multilanguage organizations.