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As expected, Intel last month reported disappointing results for its first fiscal quarter, prompting the chip maker to announce staff reductions of up to 3000 employees.
As expected, Intel last month reported disappointing results for its first fiscal quarter, prompting the chip maker to announce staff reductions of up to 3000 employees.
As Novell's NetWare 5.0 comes closer to its expected mid-1998 ship date, the latest beta release shows the company's commitment to implementing native TCP/IP and Java as key features to Novell's next NOS platform
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PC market down -- but don't just blame Asia; SCO's new UnixWare; Win98 to debut on June 25; Motorola gets 300MHz, sets sights on 400MHz
The $US108 per share hostile takeover bid Computer Associates International (CA) filed for Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) expired last month
Digital releases Web clustering server software; SAP pushes supply chain integration system; IBM boosts business intelligence offerings.
The Federal Government has officially signed up Glenys Roper to the permanent position of Chief Government Information Officer, previously held by Andy McDonald. Roper, who had been acting in the position as head of the Office of Government Information Technology since mid November last year, is set to hold her appointment for a period of three years.
IBM acquires GE Capital Services' outsourcing business; Network Associates to acquire TIS, be one-stop security shop; Tenix dumps Baan solution; Attachmate adds middleware consulting services.
Cisco bolsters DSL with two buy-outs; Gigabit standard delayed; ISPs may fall behind users in switch to V.90; Cabletron launches E-Commerce Web site
The federal government's price tag for millennium bug fixes may have leaped 20 per cent, according to a budget agency's report, but President Clinton's year 2000 czar said he believes "costs are under control."
A $10 million below-budget performance on anticipated exchange rate variations against the US dollar has marred an otherwise excellent six-month performance for Cisco Systems' local operation. Gary Jackson, Cisco's managing director, Australia and New Zealand, said the exchange rate performance was "a worry" and, should the Australian dollar drop to US57 cents, could start to impact on the local lower-end switching market.
JavaSoft posts tools
JavaSoft, a division of Sun Microsystems, posted its Java Commerce Client (JCC) white paper to its developers Web site late last month. JCC is part of the Java Electronic Commerce Framework, which Java Software will detail at its annual developer bonanza JavaOne in March. The company has also posted the Java Shared Data Toolkit, and Java SSL. Noteworthy is the Java Shared Data Toolkit (JSDT) 1.0, a research and development project aimed at implementing multipoint data delivery service to help developers create collaborative applications.
Microsoft Web site to address Y2K problems
After years of customer frustration with Microsoft's inattention to the year 2000 problem and the impact the millennium crisis may have on its 9000-plus products, the software company finally announced plans to put a year 2000 resource centre on the World Wide Web by mid-March.
Microsoft's Year 2000 Resource Center will list information about which of the company's products are compliant, how the products handle dates and how to work around problems. It will also offer tools to help fix individual products.