Recent Articles
-
Learn to dominate your market niche
OK. So maybe you’re not seeking total world domination, just domination of your world–your market niche. TWD Central has the strategies to get you there. Take a cue from the lesson books of Ziff Davis Channel Zone’s marketing and management specialists. An IT Guide to Market Dominance Don’t let your offering become a commodity with…
-
Veritas Buys Ejasent for $59 Million
Targeting improved application virtualization capabilities, Veritas Software Corp. on Wednesday announced it had reached agreement to purchase Ejasent Inc. as part of a $59 million all-cash transaction. The sale is set to be completed by the end of the month. Veritas said it plans to beef up its utility computing cache by adding Ejasent’s UpScale…
-
Contract Watch: Big Consultants Put on Notice
It took Pete Rose 14 years to come clean and admit that he bet on baseball. Unlike Rose, IBM Corp. took a matter of months to uncover and admit its own wrongdoing. Big Blue has fired three executives who were allegedly involved in a bribery scandal within IBM’s Korea unit. The computing giant since November…
-
Apple’s Jobs Intros G5 Xserve
Addressing a performance gap between Apple Computer Inc.’s server line and its desktop models, CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday cut the ribbon on Macworld Expo San Francisco with a PowerPC G5 version of the company’s Xserve rack-mounted server. Jobs also ushered in a new Mac OS X version of Microsoft Office and introduced a smaller…
-
Macromedia’s Newest VP Looks to ‘Light Up’ Mobile Devices
Macromedia Inc. Tuesday announced the appointment of Juha Christensen, a former Microsoft Corp. executive, to the position of vice president of the company’s mobile and devices division. Christensen and Macromedia Vice President of Products Norm Meyrowitz spoke with eWEEK Senior Writer Darryl K. Taft about why Christensen came to Macromedia and the opportunity that lies…
-
Java Tools Community Forms
A group of leading Java software companies Tuesday banded together to create the Java Tools Community (JTC), with the notable absence of two major players: IBM and Borland Software Corp. The JTC effort—led by Oracle Corp., BEA Systems Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc.—includes 10 founding companies intent on increasing Java “toolability” by promoting and developing…
