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August 11, 1997
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Techview: Does The Mac Still Matter?
The financial world is clearly happy with the recent Microsoft "investment" in Apple Computer. Apple's stock is up. Some of the business press is casting Bill Gates in the role of savior. Others see the investment as an effort to preserve Microsoft's lucrative Macintosh software market.


Reviews and Techviews from past issues:

  • Drawn To A Conclusion (August 11, 1997)
    InfoModeler 3.1 goes beyond documenting-it expands the role of data modeling tools.

  • SmartFind/2000 Makes Fast Work Of Year 2000 Bugs (August 11, 1997)
    Micro Focus tool helps neutralize the date-field problem in Cobol code.

  • Build The Perfect LAN (August 4, 1997)
    Products from Network Tools, ImageNet, and NetSuite help take the pain out of designing networks.

  • Bring Your Apps To The Net (July 28, 1997)
    Merging Web and terminal applications is a logical step. Here are some quick ways to do it.

  • First Look: Big Pictures In Less Space (July 28, 1997)
    Recently released monitors offer more display are but take up less room.

  • Its Master's Voice (July 21, 1997)
    Speech-recognition software has come a long way-but is it ready for mainstream use?.

  • Apple Adds Juice (July 21, 1997)
    Mac OS 8 is faster, but not much else has changed.

  • Line Up For Data (July 14, 1997)
    Microsoft Message Queue delivers manageable message-based trans action processing to Windows NT.

  • Visible Means Of Support (July 7, 1997)
    Building a support architecture for enterprise systems before they roll out reduces the risk of project failure.

  • First Look: Smalltalk-Flavored Java (July 7, 1997)
    VisualAge For Java free of usual C++ bias.

  • TNG 2.0: Ahead By A Generation (July 7, 1997)
    Computer Associates takes the lead in the distributed systems management field.

  • Who's Minding The Cache? (June 30, 1997)
    The right storage selection is critical for high performance of your data warehouse.

  • First Look: Complete Access (June 30, 1997)
    FTP's lastest Network Access Suite offers sound connectivity.

  • Faxing Across The Net (June 23, 1 997)
    Don't be so quick to bury the fax-the Internet has given it a new, cheaper lease on life.

  • Novell Delivers Proxy Cache Server Beta (June 23, 1997)
    Component of BorderManager promises dramatic improvements in Net access.

  • The Right Monitor For You (June 16, 1997)
    Don't make picking a monitor an afterthought-a wise choice will pay off in productivity and long use.

  • Push Your Web Pages (June 9, 1997)
    Netscape's Netcaster and Microsoft's CDF make it easier than ever to join the push revolution.

  • Browsers For E-Mail (May 19, 1997)
    Extended Web browsers from Netscape, Microsoft, and Apple deliver mail clients with corporate power.

  • Get The Message (May 12, 1997)
    Lotus cc:Mail and Novell's GroupWise give users more ways to get their E-mail, while protecting their investments in previous releases. Is that enough to keep customers loyal?

  • Keep Out Prying Eyes (May 5, 1997)
    Kerberos and public key systems can each keep your systems secure. Which is best for you?

  • Rating The Push Products (April 28, 1997)
    The Internet may become your company's primary source of personalized news. These nine push clients have the technology to make it so.

  • Mining For Gold (April 21, 1997)
    A raft of data mining tools offers a wide range of features for digging up business opportunities. Here's how to find the best product for you.

  • Keep The Power On (April 14, 1997)
    Uninter ruptible power supplies save data from corruption and ultimately save companies time and money. How much capacity do you need?

  • Microsoft Takes On Transactions (April 7, 1997)
    Microsoft Transaction Server extends the DCOM object model to database transactions.

  • Two Paths To RAD (March 31, 1997)
    The differences between updates of Microsoft's Visual Basic and Borland's Delphi development tools are subtle but important.

  • Reliability In Clusters (March 24, 1997)
    Emerging technologies for linking Intel servers promise low-cost fault tolerance.

  • Open Your Store Today (March 17, 1997)
    Depending on your technical expertise,one of these Web storefront products will put you in business-fast.

  • Rethinking Systems Management (March 10, 1997)
    Consider people, processes, and technology when implementing an enterprisewide solution

  • A Suite For The Wired (March 3 , 1997)
    Lotus' latest upgrade to SmartSuite has many Web features and a 32-bit version of 1-2-3, but not much else is new.


  • Techview: It's Time To Sell Java On Merit (August 11, 1997)
    Sun Microsystems' push for Java world domination has suffered some recent setbacks-or at least that's what it looks like on the surface.

  • Tech View: Going Nowhere Faster (August 4, 1997)
    The platform strategies recently laid out by Microsoft and Intel--if you believe that they won't change by next week--have us all happily computing on Windows-based platform s at processor speeds reaching 1 GHz by the year 2000.

  • Tech View: Hot Air About Vaporware (July 7, 1997)
    The rhetoric coming from Microsoft executives these past few weeks makes it fairly easy to deduce the company's latest strategy for dealing with Java.

  • Browsing Legacy Apps (March 10, 1997)
    I've said before that Web browsers are the terminal emulators of the '90s. It's even more true now.

  • Network Support Blues Revisited (Nov. 11, 1996)
    Good vendor technical support is hard to find. Finding good, free vendor technical support is close to impossible.

  • Network Support Blues (Nov. 4, 1996)

  • Jyacc's Tuxedo Still Fits (Oct. 7, 1996)

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