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September 8, 1997

Top Of The Week

The Great PC Price Drop
Fully functional PCs from Compaq, IBM, and others are about to smash the $1,000 price barrier. Are the new machines right for you?

Startup Cloudscape Eyes Database Market
Talent drives a new approach to enterprise data.

Oracle Tool Supports Rivals
Application modeling tool to connect with rival databases, challenge market leade rs.

Real-Time Security Arrives
Tools and services alert administrators to system attacks.

Citibank Interface Links R/3 To Electronic Banking
Product signals business interest in online financials.

PeopleSoft To Bolster Financial Applications
Vendor also readies strategy for payroll functionality across Europe.

LAN Devices To Ease Bandwidth Squeeze
Bigger pipes and smarter allocation readied by IBM, 3Com, and startups.

Web Strategy Rewritten
Netscape optimizes HTTP software for Silicon Graphics' Unix.

Distributors Get Their Own Shot At Web Sales
Improved customer service is key to online opportunities.

Streaming Video For Finance Industry
Compaq and Starlight form partnership on video and multimedia servers.

Novell Licenses Toolkit To Aid NetWare Migration
Free offering seeks to keep customers.

Wang Eyes Olivetti's Services Arm

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Trends

Security Survey: Is It Safe?
The fifth annual InformationWeek/Ernst & Young information security survey finds IT managers hiring more full-time security pros, centralizing protection, and drawing up recovery plans.

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Intranet/Internet

Web-Ready Forms
Products turn paper forms into intranet applications.

Surveys Via The Net
EZSurvey lets users use Web for studies.

Java For Delivery
Courier developing intranet app.

Internet View: Chat Waits For Standard
By Jason Levitt.

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Software

Microsoft To Add VPN To Windows NT
Users to gain secure Internet connections and lower networking costs, says vendor.

Red Brick To Add Warehousing Tools
Vendor to expand software line with query-analysis and data-loading products.

On The Grapevine
Amoco adopts intelligent filtering and cuts its data distribution costs.

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Networking

Manage IP Moves
Tools let companies track IP addresses, automate network configuration.

3Com, Bay Beef Up Management Offerings
3Com to unveil services; Bay eases software woes.

More Powerful Remote Access From 3Com, Bay
Router, LAN modem offer alternatives to telecommuters, small offices.

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Hardware

Enterprise Aim
Micron woos corporations with desktops, notebooks, new leasing strategy.

Handheld Fax And E-Mail
Cell phone combines several chips into one powerful processor.

HP Expands Low-End NetServer Line
Vendor targets small businesses, remote offices with low-priced Pentium II Model.

Post Office Taps Handhelds For Package Shipments
Data-collection devices will track delivery information by end of next year.

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IT Management

Dealing With The Data Flow
Retailer ShopKo turned to EMC's Symmetrix for robust and e fficient storage devices.

Best Way To Merge IT: Pick One Platform
Study: Best-of-breed not best approach.

Microsoft-Based Solutions
Andersen adds group that targets midsize customers for SAP implementations.

Teleservice Provider Answers Data Call
Outsourcer Precision Response uses scalable IT infrastructure to field queries and c ompile customer data for clients.

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Financials

Pilot Steers Own Course In Net Security Market
Selected servers and multilayered firewall key vendor's unique offering.

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Highlights
  • Top Of The Week
    The Great PC Price Drop

  • Trends
    Security Survey: Is It Safe?

  • Intranet/Internet
    Web-Ready Forms

  • Software
    Microsoft To Add VPN To Windows NT

  • Networking
    Manage IP Moves

  • Hardware
    Enterprise Aim

  • IT Management
    Dealing With The Data Flow

  • Financials
    Pilot Steers Own Course In Net Security Market