Software Quarterly

Network-Centric Computing

Sony Music Corporation executives march to the beat of the same drum. Peugeot and Citroën automakers sell geoterrestrial vehicles via extraterrestrial means. Dayton, Ohio, health care professionals fire off X-rays and patient records across an entirely digital network. Sound out of this world? Like a Nicholas Negroponte tome gone haywire? Actually, it's anything but...


Notes Release 4:
It's As Easy As C, C, C


The pundits said the Internet would kill it. PC Week's John Dodge says it's "the most complete Internet strategy for corporations." The man behind the team behind the method behind the madness behind Release 4.0 of Lotus Notes says he's just trying to have a good time.


Managing a Systems
Management Merger

Tivoli Systems' CEO and general manager Frank Moss likes solving puzzles -- and the next one he solves just might be that of managing your far-flung enterprise. His latest conundrum? To create instant, decisive leadership in the management of networked computing on a global scale. Read how the Tivoli Management Environment is likely to help.

IBM Software Servers:
A Consultant's Perspective

Patricia Seybold Group consultant Michael Goulde pulls no punches as he surveys IBM's new lineup of Software Servers. Some choice excerpts: "IBM is establishing a comprehensive, open, and cross-platform approach to development and deployment," and "The IBM Software Servers give the company a unique opportunity to establish an advantage over Microsoft and potentially neutralize Oracle as well." Likely to open a few windows in Redmond?

Happiness is a Smart Network

IBM's AnyNet allows SNA applications to run over a TCP/IP network and allows sockets applications to run over an SNA network. This story features two companies -- California-based Pacific Bell and Bank Al-Jazira of Saudi Arabia -- who have implemented successful heterogeneous network strategies.

Object Lessons in
Object Technology
Off to School at OTU

"Milk the cow. Make the cow an object and tell the cow to milk itself. Declare milk an object and instruct it to de-cow itself." A postmodern parable? Nope, just another day at Object Technology University's little red schoolhouse.

The Database Customer
(No Matter Whose)
Is Always Right

J. D. Edwards and Company's customers don't care how big the engine is. They just need to be reassured that it's going to keep going...and going...and going. Learn how DB2 provides the necessary horsepower to keep PeopleSoft, Komatsu, and and other software vendors' virtual V-12's purring like a kitten.

Innovations

See who'll be helping the Playa Vista project step into the technology-linked community of the 21st century. Learn which children's software package won product of the year honors. Find our how Lotus and Digital Equipment plan to integrate groupware and messaging products on the Alpha platform. And do it all in Innovations.

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