RETHINK IT back issues from March 2005:
Adobe reinvents itself in order to thrive in new markets.(Adobe Systems Inc.)(Company Profile)
Mar 01, 2005; ... At the start of the year, Adobe Systems, best known for its publishing products such as Acrobat and a history closely tied to Apple, created the new position of chief operating officer, as though to embody in a new job title its major change of focus of the past year. Adobe is no longer ...
SAP's plans for the future are based on NetWeaver 2004.(User)
Mar 01, 2005 ... With Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft finally a done deal, SAP's honeymoon period, in which it was able to exploit customer uncertainty about the future of its rivals' application products, is over. However, it still has plenty of opportunities to take advantage of the fears of ...
Major players concentrate on reorganization and refocusing.(Editorial)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Apple and Adobe were once almost inseparable names. Now, as Apple revives itself around the iPod, becoming, primarily, a consumer brand, Adobe is going in the opposite direction, seeking to shift its business further into the enterprise sector. Best known for its professional and consumer ...
HP chief Fiorina dismissed.(News Review)(Hewlett-Packard )(Carly Fiorina )(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... HP chief Fiorina dismissed Hewlett-Packard announced last month that its board of directors has dismissed Carly Fiorina as the company's chairman and chief executive officer. Fiorina, who has been HP's CEO for the past six years, is to be replaced on an interim basis by HP's ...
SAP buys maintenance firm.(News Review)(TomorrowNow)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... SAP buys maintenance firm SAP has announced that it has acquired a Texas-based maintenance firm for PeopleSoft platforms in a move to attract customers from its main competitor, Oracle. The move comes a clay after Oracle CEO Larry Ellison predicted that his company would retain at least ...
Google launches video search.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Google last month launched a video service that will search TV stations and guide users to where they can watch them. The Google Video beta enables users to search across the closed captioning content of a growing number of TV programs that Google began indexing in December ...
IBM and BEA expand services for service-oriented architectures.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... IBM and BEA Systems are expanding their consulting services for companies ready to build service-oriented architectures, which leverage web services standards to integrate information technology systems to support business processes. IBM has introduced a new SOA roadmap called ...
Microsoft promises beta 1 of Longhorn by June.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... At a development conference, Microsoft officials last month said a full beta of the next Windows client will arrive by June. The so-called Longhorn is far less of a major upgrade than originally expected, but Microsoft also said it will try to share more sourcecode, such as that for forms ...
Lenovo goes with Atheros rather than Intel.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Lenovo, the Chinese PC maker that is to take over IBM's PC business (if US federal regulators do not scupper the deal), has chosen Atheros chips for its own range of laptops in preference to Intel's Centrino, which is dominant in the notebook market. Although the decision does not signify ...
Sun starts to open up Solaris.(News Review)(Solaris 10 operating system )(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Last month, Sun Microsystems finally started making its Solaris 10 operating system into an open source distribution as it had been promising. In addition to the standard process of letting anyone use the code in exchange for sharing any changes with the community, Sun is also ...
Cisco switch integrates with HP blades.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Cisco Systems' latest Gigabit Ethernet switch is designed to work inside Hewlett Packard's blade servers, the companies have announced. That helps customers save data center space. HP already has such a blade add-on from Nortel ...
SAP plans new architecture by 2007.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... By 2007, SAP plans to have all its applications running on a new platform, to be based on the company's NetWeaver integration platform. The new technology, which the company is simply calling Business Process Platform, will lead to an "industrialization of the software industry" similar to ...
New Broadcom chipset signals a radical change of direction in the WLan switch market.(Analysis)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Broadcom has announced a chipset that could reinvent the WLan switch market completely. Just as many functions once carried out by appliances, such as security, have been subsumed into the centralized switch, now Broadcom aims to go a step further and embed the switch into an appliance, ...
Intel reorganization stresses convergence execution ahead of vision.(Vendor)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Intel has announced a major reorganization that reflects its strategy of converging computing and communications, but which appears to sideline its greatest wireless champion, chief technology officer Pat Gelsinger. Intel's president Paul Otellini, who takes over from Craig Barrett as CEO ...
Compuware surprises with 20% rise and biggest return for its investors.(Rethink Top 50)
Mar 01, 2005 ... As usual in Rethink 50 we like to look at the underlying reasons for key moves in the way the financial markets view the major suppliers of enterprise IT, and this month we can see that no fewer than five companies have moved in share price by more than 20% of their value, four going up ...
Sun sets up grid division.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Sun has set up a new division specifically for grid computing and has outlined some of its plans to allow customers to purchase computer time, utility-style, over the network on an on-demand basis. The Sun Grid will cost clients $1 an hour for-each microprocessor used and $1 per ...
IBM plans WebSphere enhancements.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... IBM will bulk up the standards-based integration tools in the next version of its WebSphere server software, reflecting the consistently strong demand among corporate customers for software to glue disparate systems together. Codenamed Pyxis, the next edition of WebSphere will ...
IMS promises a radically new future for IP-based networks.(internet protocol multimedia subsystem)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Whichever specific technology becomes dominant in the fourth generation network, it is certain to be IP-based, and be able to integrate wired and wireless systems transparently to deliver advanced multimedia services to the home, enterprise and mobile device. Until very recently, this has ...
Should Apple license its operating system or should it keep its revenue spinner close to its chest?(Analysis)(Apple Computer Inc.)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Phil Leigh of publication Inside Digital Media has been floating the idea for some time that maybe it's about time that Apple licensed its operating system to both Hewlett Packard and perhaps to Sony, and any other major corporation that thinks there's a business in the Mac format. He ...
SAP works with Mercury.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... SAP is to integrate a component of Mercury Interactive's LoadRunner performance optimization product into its NetWeaver platform. The LoadRunner component will give SAP's global technical support team the ability to do a remote test for a customer before the customer goes live ...
Compuware updates Java automation tool.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Compuware has updated its flagship OptimalJ 3.3 automated Java development tool and made two additions to its tools line-up. The new version of OptimalJ increases the amount of a user interface that can be generated automatically from a model. Compuware is a survivor ...
US telecoms face a shake-up after the merger of AT&T and Cingular.(Vendor)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The face of US telecoms has changed dramatically in the past year. Following the consolidation of the cellular sector with the mergers of Cingular Wireless with AT&T Wireless, and then Sprint with Nextel, the most dramatic of them all has been agreed--the acquisition of AT&T by SBC, one of ...
IBM misses the magic $100bn revenue figure again--but only just.(Mainframes)
Mar 01, 2005; ... MARKET OVERVIEW In December I wrote that IBM was trying desperately to hit the magic $100bn revenue figure for 2004--a target first set back in the 1980s for the end of that decade. Well, it missed again, but only by $3.5bn this time. However, by the end of 2005, with the sale ...
IBM shows roadmap for Lotus Domino.(News Review)(International Business Machines)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... At its annual Lotusphere conference last month, IBM has extended its collaboration vision with an increased focus on tools. It is expected to unveil a new version of Domino Designer, the visual, script-oriented programming tool used to build Notes and web-based applications. Also on tap ...
Red Hat to make major Linux update.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Red Hat plans to launch a major upgrade to its flagship Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system that will mark the first time the software has fully supported the Linux 2.6 kernel. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 (RHEL 4.0) will be the most significant upgrade to Red Hat's Linux ...
i2 readies new supply chain tools.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... i2 Technologies is readying new tools for retailers in the areas of demand planning and inventory management, according to a company executive. Meanwhile, customers such as Payless, Woolworth Australia and Best Buy are making use of some of the hundreds of new workflows already ...
CA unveils major enhancement to Desktop DNA.(News Review)(Computer Associates )(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... Computer Associates has unveiled the Unicenter Desktop DNA rII, the first update of its desktop management offering since it bought Miramar Systems in March 2004. Desktop DNA captures application and system settings, user profiles and data files of individual employee computer ...
Open source database leaders named.(News Review)(MySQL and FirebirdSQL )(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... MySQL and FirebirdSQL are tied for the lead in open source database market share with each being used by just over 50% of customers (as many organizations run different databases for different tasks). Speciality ...
Dell leads PC industry growth.(News Review)(personal computers)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... The PC industry racked up another quarter of double-digit growth to close out 2004, thanks to Europeans and corporate buyers. Shipments of PCs grew by 13.7% worldwide in the fourth quarter, according to figures from market researcher IDC, while rival Gartner said units increased ...
Three reports talk up wireless VoIP.(News Review)
Mar 01, 2005 ... A good indicator of how hot a market is, could be the number of research reports published in a short space of time. Last month, three highlighted the subject of voice over Wi-Fi. Infonetics Research believes wireless VoIP is already spreading steadily in the enterprise and will ...
IBM acquires Corio.(News Review)(Brief Article)
Mar 01, 2005 ... IBM is buying Corio, one of the only remaining application service providers from the dotcom boom. IBM will spend $182m for the company, most of whose competitors either went out of business, were ...