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IT suppliers

• August 06, 2003 06 Aug'03

  Cisco 'cautiously optimistic' about future

  Cisco Systems reported an increase in net income on slightly lower net sales for its fourth quarter compared with last year and...

• August 04, 2003 04 Aug'03

  Portal standards approach completion

  Portal suppliers are stitching in standards-compliant APIs for delivering content and applications into the portal framework as...

• August 04, 2003 04 Aug'03

  EMC adds high-end array and connectivity options

  EMC has upgraded its Symmetrix DMX disc array line with a high-end model plus native support for IBM's Ficon mainframe...

• July 18, 2003 18 Jul'03

  Oracle-PeopleSoft tangle puts price pressure on suppliers, says SAP

  The dispute between Oracle and PeopleSoft is placing pricing pressure on suppliers throughout the enterprise applications market,...

• July 09, 2003 09 Jul'03

  Deutsche Telekom and IBM team on video delivery system

  Deutsche Telekom has teamed with IBM to implement a digital media content hosting and delivery system which, they believe, what...

• July 08, 2003 08 Jul'03

  Siebel restructures to cut costs

  Customer relationship management software supplier Siebel Systems plans to cut a layer of its operating hierarchy and reduce...

• July 07, 2003 07 Jul'03

  Enterprise modelling tools aim to cut costs

  Systems management suppliers are forging business activity monitoring-based modelling capabilities to streamline executive...

• July 02, 2003 02 Jul'03

  Firms unite on IT plan to fix £200m errors

  Gas and electricity suppliers have agreed to design and implement an integrated billing system to stem a £200m a year loss from...

• July 02, 2003 02 Jul'03

  Microsoft releases iSCSI initiator

  Microsoft has released its iSCSI initiator, giving the IP storage standard a much-needed shot in the arm and suppliers the green...

• June 30, 2003 30 Jun'03

  Cisco aims for IPv6 firewalls

  Attacking one of the key problems early adopters have had with IPv6 (Internet Protocol Version 6), Cisco plans to beef up...

• June 18, 2003 18 Jun'03

  Mercury unveils business optimisation for SAP

  Business optimisation supplier Mercury Interactive will unveil Optane for SAP at SAP's Sapphire 2003 conference in Orlando,...

• June 11, 2003 11 Jun'03

  Oracle and IBM team on XQuery Java specification

  Oracle and IBM have submitted a joint request for a specification that will define how Java applications query databases using a...

• June 10, 2003 10 Jun'03

  Cisco wins injunction against Chinese router firm

  A US judge has temporarily blocked Chinese router company Huawei Technologies and two related companies from distributing...

• June 09, 2003 09 Jun'03

  Market outlook Rationalisation is the future, say suppliers

  System rationalisation is the driving force behind IT spending in the current climate, according to the Ovum Holway survey of...

• June 09, 2003 09 Jun'03

  Microsoft's SQL delay downgrades rental option

  Microsoft's decision to push back the release date of the next version of SQL Server has highlighted the problems suppliers face...

• June 09, 2003 09 Jun'03

  IBM bolsters WebSphere's J2EE muscle

  IBM and a collection of business partners are to boost WebSphere's integration capabilities by announcing more than 300 adapters...

• June 04, 2003 04 Jun'03

  Siebel acquires BoldFish

  Customer relationship management giant Siebel Systems has acquired e-mail and e-messaging technology supplier BoldFish.

• May 27, 2003 27 May'03

  Oil company spin-off wins software patent

  Kalido, the software supplier spun out of Shell's in-house IT operation, this week received a patent for its datawarehouse...

• May 19, 2003 19 May'03

  Power firms promise new IT to address electricity billing errors

  Electricity suppliers have promised a major IT investment programme to improve customer systems, after a report revealed that...

• May 19, 2003 19 May'03

  Users watch as Baan sale draws closer

  Baan users will be keeping a sharp eye on the outcome of the sale of the ERP supplier by parent company Invensys in the coming...

• May 16, 2003 16 May'03

  i2 battles to boost customer loyalty

  Supply chain management software supplier i2 Technologies has unveiled a series of initiatives to boost user confidence.

• May 15, 2003 15 May'03

  BEA reports Q1 growth in revenue and earnings

  Application server supplier BEA Systems has reported growth in both earnings and revenue for its first quarter, although revenue...

• May 12, 2003 12 May'03

  Analysts warn suppliers will not be able to meet IT tsar's deadlines

  IT suppliers do not have the capacity to deliver the £2.3bn national IT programme for the health service within the ambitious...

• May 06, 2003 06 May'03

  Salesforce.com makes profit and expands offerings

  CRM software supplier Salesforce.com has become profitable in its first financial quarter.

• May 02, 2003 02 May'03

  Networld+Interop: Switch suppliers tout 10 Gigabit Ethernet platforms

  Two switch suppliers have announced 10 Gigabit Ethernet platforms at the Networld+Interop show.

• April 23, 2003 23 Apr'03

  IBM offers tool for biotech searching

  IBM has made available free web services tools that automate and streamline searching of National Center for Biotechnology...

• April 22, 2003 22 Apr'03

  Baan up for sale - costly migrations loom for UK users

  Major UK manufacturers are left in limbo as parent firm Invensys puts Dutch ERP supplier on the market.

• April 14, 2003 14 Apr'03

  IBM: web services spec not ready for standardisation

  A specification for web services choreography and business processes introduced by Microsoft, IBM, and BEA Systems last August...

• April 14, 2003 14 Apr'03

  IBM touts its technology durability

  IBM officials last week hailed the supplier's On Demand computing strategy and emphasised that customers can count on the...

• April 10, 2003 10 Apr'03

  Xerox and 1stLegal partner on digital record-keeping service

  Xerox and legal and financial services software supplier 1stLegal are partnering on a content management offering that will help...

• April 07, 2003 07 Apr'03

  Cisco upgrades Catalyst 6500 switch line

  Cisco Systems unveiled six modules and other technology upgrades for its Catalyst 6500 Series switches, including a processing...

• April 04, 2003 04 Apr'03

  IBM DB2 bugs take bank systems down for four days

  Failures in an IBM DB/2 database have caused a major crisis at leading Danish bank Danske Bank.

• April 03, 2003 03 Apr'03

  BAE Systems expects e-trading to save millions

  BAE Systems is implementing an electronic trading system linking it with 15,000 suppliers and predicts it will deliver £2.5m a...

• April 03, 2003 03 Apr'03

  Interwoven CEO resigns

  Interwoven's president and chief executive officer, John Van Siclen, has resigned. The content management software supplier also...

• March 26, 2003 26 Mar'03

  Government should get users on board for NHS IT, say suppliers

  The government needs to get user buy-in if its ambitious plan to overhaul NHS IT is to succeed, according to executives at...

• March 25, 2003 25 Mar'03

  Sainsbury's adopts supply chain alert technology

  Sainsbury’s is rolling out new software within its supply chain, which will alert both the supermarket chain and its suppliers...

• March 06, 2003 06 Mar'03

  IBM opens European engineering support centre

  IBM has opened an engineering support unit in Europe modelled on the one launched last October in the US, in an effort to push...

• March 04, 2003 04 Mar'03

  Cisco switches link factory with back office

  Cisco Systems has unveiled a "ruggedised" line of switches based on IP and Ethernet in a move aimed at unifying factory floor...

• February 25, 2003 25 Feb'03

  Documentum unveils eRoom product

  Enterprise content management supplier Documentum unveiled the first integrated product to result from its acquisition last year...

• February 19, 2003 19 Feb'03

  Microsoft faces new court case

  Microsoft is facing a second antitrust case in Europe after a consortium of companies, including rival suppliers Sun Microsystems...

• February 19, 2003 19 Feb'03

  IBM expands subscription levels

  IBM is to extend its range of subscription levels, along with new support options, for its developerWorks Toolbox subscription,...

• February 18, 2003 18 Feb'03

  Users keep watch as Baan sales plummet

  A plunge in sales at ailing ERP supplier Baan has pulled down results at its parent company Invensys and led to speculation that...

• February 07, 2003 07 Feb'03

  Special Report: IBM Software Forum

  CW360 rounds up the news from San Francisco

• February 07, 2003 07 Feb'03

  EDS insists it still has a presence at Ford

  Electronic Data Systems claimed yesterday that IBM and Dassault Systemes have not replaced it as the supplier of choice for motor...

• February 06, 2003 06 Feb'03

  Siemens sees co-operation as way to beat Cisco

  Siemens has no regrets about its decision to sell edge router manufacturer Unisphere Networks to Juniper Networks, even if the...

• January 29, 2003 29 Jan'03

  JD Edwards releases CRM 2.0

  Mid-market supplier JD Edwards has released version 2.0 of its CRM software, a package the company's CRM strategy head called...

• January 23, 2003 23 Jan'03

  Software blamed for ATM cash giveaway

  Coventry Building Society is in "ongoing discussions" with supplier Alaric after a glitch in the firm's software resulted in cash...

• January 16, 2003 16 Jan'03

  Suppliers line up for NHS contracts

  The Department of Health is examining the responses from potential suppliers interested in providing the technology backbone for...

• December 05, 2002 05 Dec'02

  NHS IT tsar wants proof

  NHS IT tsar Richard Grainger has warned suppliers that they must prove their ability to take part in the Government's ambitious...

• December 02, 2002 02 Dec'02

  Confidence slips again among IT suppliers

  IT directors could find anxious suppliers offering bargains after a survey showed a significant decline in business confidence in...