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Cisco Targets Verticals With Networking Suites
Cisco Systems Inc. is stepping up efforts to target vertical industries with a tailored set of networking suites that feature a range of partners providing value-added applications and services. The San Jose, Calif., company last week launched its first formal networking solutions targeted at the transportation industry, but it also has its sights set on…
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BEA Gets on Service Bus
WASHINGTON—Despite predictions that IBM and Microsoft Corp. will dominate the emerging ESB space, BEA Systems Inc. is quietly working on delivering enterprise service bus capabilities for Web services in a product slated for release early next year. During an interview at the BEA Federal Technology Symposium here last week, Alfred Chuang, chairman and CEO of…
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IBM Packages Compliance Tools
In its drive to assist companies facing compliance with more than 100 national and international rules and regulations, IBM on Monday rolled out three new software packages designed to ease the tracking and management of compliance-related data. The applications are built around three principal IBM software packages—Content Manager, Tivoli and Lotus Workplace. The first, called…
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Microsoft Releases Source Code on SourceForge
On Monday, Microsoft released some of its code under an open-source license, and posted it on SourceForge, the open-source code repository. To date, Microsoft has made its source code available under a variety of licensing mechanisms, all under its “shared source” umbrella. But until today, the company had not released code under what is commonly…
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Navy Marine Corps’ Intranet at Half-Speed
To Marine Corps Sgt. Marco Garcia, the Navy Marine Corps Intranet sounds like a great project, in theory. “They sold me on it,” he says, when he attended training in December on the new network. “The transition itself, though, seems to be a problem.” Turns out, that assessment is an understatement. The project being deployed…
