- Cleaning up the books.
CLEANING UP THE BOOKS Much to the delight of software industry number-crunchers (ourselves included), the Software Publishers Association is about to launch a new campaign to bring consistency to the way developers and publishers track financial data. Starting in the first quarter of 1990, the SPA plans to publish a ......
- Challenges for Indian software firms to sustain their
global competitiveness.
The Indian software industry has brought many laurels to the country in the last decade of the 20th century. It has placed India on the world map as far as software services are concerned and gained the mindshare of many policy makers and researchers. Many researchers view this as a ......
- Doom & gloom on the statistical
scene.
DOOM & GLOOM ON THE STATISTICAL SCENE "The software marekt," Business Week has just warned us, "is downright mushy." In a lengthy story about declining growth rates in the micro software industry, BW earlier this month reported the troublesome news that buyers aren't buying and Wall Street analysts are slashing ......
- Ed software industry well prepared for
Y2K.
Given the approach of the Year 2000, ETM surveyed a number of educational software vendors about their preparation for and expectations with respect to potential Y2K problems in the schools. In most cases, instructional software does not present many Y2K problems, since it typically does not perform date dependent calculations....
- Partners To Enable The Creation Of Embedded Linux I/O
Servers & Appliances.
Computer I/O Corp., a leading supplier of software that simplifies network access to live and real-time data streams, and MontaVista Software Inc., a provider of open source operating systems for embedded software, announced a strategic relationship that will allow embedded application developers to easily create high performance Linux I/O servers ......
- The ERP midmarket heats up
The midmarket is where the action is when it comes to ERP. In a spending report released last fall, Boston-based AMR Research found that more than one-third of companies under $500 million in annual revenue are installing new ERP systems, compared with one-fifth of companies $500 million or above. No ......
- Interface A standards could be the window to better chip-making processes
Web services technology could make it easier for semiconductor manufacturers to monitor and improve their production processes. Some industry experts even believe an emerging communication standard based on Web services could shorten the time it takes to bring $2 billion-plus chip-making fabs online. The standard, known as Interface A, was ......