- AMD Licenses I/O Virtualization
Advanced Micro Devices today announced it will license its I/O virtualization technology specification. The effort is designed to encourage the technology’s widespread adoption by hardware and software developers and continues AMD’s push toward the x86 processor architecture http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6284128 . As explained by the company, the I/O virtualization technology can be ......
- Software vendors try making software license
management easier.
More than 20 software developers and the Software Publishers Association have announced a new software licensing specification designed to make it easier for corporate information system managers to comply with software license requirements. With the boom in networking technology, licensing issues have become much more complex and vendors use different ......
- Installations & Purchases.
St. John Medical Center, Tulsa, signed a contract with MasterChart, Inc. to deploy Practical Portable, a palm-sized dictation and data capture product. The Medical Center will be using the Practical Portable to collect patient vital sign information, which can be gathered right at the bedside. By entering the data into ......
- 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....
- The impact of the Y2K bug.
What is alternatively called the "Year 2000 Bug," "The Millennium Bug' or the "Y2K Crisis" combines something that in historical terms is rather young - computer technology - with a habit that is as old as humanity - procrastination. Even though it is commonly thought of as a "computer problem," ......
- Y2K: myth or reality?
Introduction The Y2K bug was due to a common source code used in computer software. Computer systems routinely were programmed for two-digit year entries to save storage space. Therefore, computers could have read 00 as 1900 and failed to recognize 2000 on January 1, 2000. At one point economist Dr....
- R U OK 4 Y2K?
While some business analysts project disaster will strike at midnight of December 31, 1999, sporting goods' larger corporate entities are doing everything in their power to ensure all systems are go ......