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Porting tools ease migration to Windows NT

Although far from a cureall, application porting tools have emerged as a salve for some of the pains that agencies develop when managing mixed Unix and Windows NT environments. Porting tools help users either integrate offtheshelf Windows NT software with Unix platforms or migrate Unix applicati

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Going beyond the obvious

Project management software today provides far more functionality than its name presupposes. Secondary gains include using the technology for integrating or standardizing systems as a platform for administrating change management and as Internet connections grow for document collaboration. The conv

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Tools for Building an Internet/Intranet

Whether an organization is building an Internet or an intranet setup the technology is basically the same. Vendors have made it increasingly easy to create both types of applications. Some vendors are offering intranet 'bundles" that include the necessary hardware software and peripherals. Overall

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Market grows for technical document management

The federal technical document management market is moving ahead solidly as agencies work to handle more of their technical and engineering information in electronic format.Technical document management is a segment of the imaging market that focuses on documents such as engineering drawings bluepr

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Serving up an operating system

Overall costs and integration with legacy systems are the top concerns when government buyers pick server operating systems. This leads to several distinct choices: Unix Novell Corp.'s popular NetWare package or upandcomer Windows NT from Microsoft Corp. 'Cost ease of implementation and software

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Business surges on GSA's integration program

Systems integrators last week said they are pleased with the business they have obtained so far from the General Services Administration Schedule B/C integration contracts. GSA has awarded integration contracts to 15 companies (see chart) to provide systems integration on the multipleaward schedul

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Feds turn to OLAP as reporting tool

With budget cuts and staff downsizings, the federal government is wrestling with many of the same issues as private industry. Like Fortune 1000 companies, federal agencies are competing with fewer resources and greater degrees of accountability for performance. In this climate, online analytical p

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Feds embrace network management but seek technical enhancements

Federal users are pushing for more standards and functionality in network management products as they grapple with multivendor environments and emerging technologies such as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Federal users are real fans of network management technology more so than commercial or v

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GSA Gold Rush Redefines Roles for Integrators, Product Vendors

The General Services Administration's recent moves to reform its multipleaward schedule program has triggered a gold rush in the information technology community.

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Unix, NT vendors contend for 3-D workstation market

As federal users demand higher functionality at lower cost, vendors in the competitive 3D workstation market are leapfrogging one another in a furious price/performance battle. In 3D, the top Unix workstation vendors are battling for market share, introducing new highend 64bit models and compet