Novell Updates Instantme, Net Publisher
Novell Inc. Tuesday made some changes to its Novell instantme IM (instant messaging) and Net Publisher technology aimed at extending both products further into the e-business arena.
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IBM, Akamai Expand Relationship
IBM Corp. and Akamai Technologies Inc. on Tuesday unveiled plans to incorporate Akamai's Akamaizer technology into IBM's WebSphere e-business platform in an effort to improve performance and speed of content distribution through WebSphere.
Reformatting Content for Digital Commerce
Despite the varied faces among the new crop of online marketplaces, all require the same foundation: content. In providing descriptions and data about products and services being offered through an exchange, content is a vital link between buyers and sellers.
IPlanet eyes e-business platform market
Recognising the importance of application integration in the e-commerce world, iPlanet last week launched its Internet Service Deployment Platform, giving service providers and enterprises a pre-integrated software base on which to build their e-business.
BackWeb Touts App Server for Push
Setting its sights on creating a single infrastructure to manage multiple types of content delivery via push technology, BackWeb Technologies Corp. next week will introduce its Universal Push Initiative and BackWeb Push Application Server.
Webvan Senior VP Takes on Retail Challenge
It has become a common tale in Silicon Valley, perhaps less of a myth than one might imagine: a meeting of minds at a local restaurant and a single "what if?" idea that turns into a business exploding onto the technology scene. In the case of Webvan, it took two months of weekend meetings at a Los Altos, Calif., restaurant for Peter Relan, now senior vice president of technology for the online grocery delivery service, to buy into founder Louis Borders' vision of a company that could bring groceries right to people's doorsteps.
Global Strategy Offers Hope for Sick Dot-Coms
Despite its pessimistic overtones, the dot-com shakedown may have a silver lining for consulting services willing to jump into the fray and lend a helping hand to dying Internet companies.
Personalized Wireless Portals Readied
Combining unified messaging with wireless access to corporate systems and applications, Cisco Systems Inc., and NHancement Technologies Inc. are creating a "personalized communications hub, or PCH, a portal that will connect users with the information they need via audio or data devices.
Novell Aims at Content-Delivery Market Space
Novell Inc. has taken its Internet services vision into the content-delivery and acceleration area, launching Novell Content Exchange, a service that accelerates content moving between the origin server and CDNs (content delivery networks).
Novell Tackles Web Content Management
Novell Inc. has taken its Net services vision into the content delivery and acceleration area, launching Novell Content Exchange, a service that accelerates content movement between an origin server and the CDNs (content delivery networks).
More Portal Products Readied
The enterprise portal market has come alive with new companies and new features in existing products, with Verity Inc. and Sybase Inc. the latest to boost their wares, offering a corporate portal and wireless portal access, respectively.
Yahoo Aims at Enterprises
The corporate portal market will gain two new members with different approaches next week as Yahoo Inc. and Octopus.com Inc. make their forays into the business portal arena.
DEN initiative moves forward
The DEN (Directory-Enabled Networks) initiative last week added some new schemas to its list of specifications, pushing along its goal of interoperable directory services for networks.
Microsoft updates Office developer tools
Microsoft has presented new development toolsets for building Microsoft Office-based workflow and collaboration applications that also integrate with the Exchange 2000 messaging platform, and SQL Server 7.0. Office 2000 Developer Edition Version 1.5 will include Workflow Designer for Exchange 2000 server, Workflow Designer for SQL Server, and a copy of Office Premium according to Anders Brown, product manager for Office 2000 Developer.
Novell reorganises amid poor Q2 results
Novell in the US is reeling after last week announcing poor second quarter results and a company reorganisation designed to improve performance. For Novell users, who have weathered their share of ups and downs with the company, it is more of the same all over again.