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New Sybase product manages multiple data types
Sybase Inc. last week introduced a new version of its database management system that enables users to manage different types of data such as audio video text and geospatial information. Adaptive Server Enterprise 11.5 which is an enhancement to Sybase SQL Server 11 also incorporates objectoriente
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DOD exec keeps his eyes on prize
Norman Brown director of the Defense Department's Software Program Managers Network has every reason to be pessimistic about the potential for helping the department get control of the cost and quality of large software projects. But amazingly he is not. Certainly the statistics offered by recent m
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SGI to debut NT product next year
In another stage of a long sweeping transformation of its technology offerings Silicon Graphics Inc. sometime next year will introduce its first workstations based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT operating system and Intel Corp. processors. The move to Windows NT is part of SGI's larger strategy to
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BPAs blitz to top of the charts (Part 1)
The Defense Department which has been a leading advocate for large indefinitedelivery indefinitequantity procurements now appears ready to abandon the "onesizefitsall" approach in favor of smaller more flexible blanket purchase agreements based on the General Services Administration's multip
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HP debuts tech models
HewlettPackard Co. this week will unveil a slew of models for its technical computer line many of which are powered by new 3D graphics subsystems based on the popular OpenGL graphics standard. Although this week's announcements primarily cover HP's Unix product line which uses HP's reduced instru
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Air Force shifts C2 apps to PCs
The Air Force Air Mobility Command is porting one of its key command and control applications from a workstationcentric architecture to a PCcentric architecture which is expected to make the software less costly to deploy and easier to manage. The Command and Control Information Processing System
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Vendors unveil a variety of mainframe-access solutions
Several vendors are rolling out products to meet what they believe is increasing customer demand for mainframe access via World Wide Web browsers. A diverse group of companies is promoting a range of technical solutions that aim to tap mainframe resources through the ubiquitous Web browsers. Networ
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Powell positions Sequent as new mainframe alternative
Casey Powell chairman and chief executive officer of Sequent Computer Systems Inc. sees a fairly welldefined market for his company. In general Powell is positioning Sequent's highend servers as a mainframe alternative. But that does not mean Sequent plans to go headtohead with the mainframe ve
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Minolta signs reseller pact with BTG
Just months after shipping its first brandname line of laser printers Minolta Corp. late last month signed BTG Inc. to sell its products on the National Institutes of Health's Electronic Computer Store contract. Minolta also is in the final stages of adding its printer line to the General Services
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Skeds loom large in IT 'open season'
Heading into the final weeks of the fiscal yearend buying season federal agencies appear to be making use of the full range of vehicles available to them for information technology products and services according to vendors. The coming weeks especially the last two weeks of September are expec
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Air Force purchase will challenge bidders
HANSCOM AFB Mass. The Air Force Electronic Systems Center which is putting together a large procurement for information technology support services said last week that its decision to award blanket purchase agreements rather than standard contracts would affect everything from how prospective bid
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Micron unveils high-end PC workstation
Micron Electronics Inc. last week introduced a new highend workstation featuring Intel Corp.'s new Pentium II chips and incorporating Micron's own highbandwidth chipset technology. The Powerdigm XSU comes with dual 300 MHz Pentium II processors 512K of cache for each processor 64M of memory and a
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Sun, Compaq servers go head to head
With Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT eating up more of the server market Sun Microsystems Inc. last week made its first major foray into the workgroup server arena with a new lowend Unix system that supports Unix and PCbased clients. A day earlier Compaq Computer Corp. unveiled two new highend mod
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Oracle and Informix focus on Windows NT as strategic platform
During the past several weeks database vendors Oracle Corp. and Informix Software Inc. have emphasized the significance of the Microsoft Windows NT platform to their longterm corporate strategies. Although both vendors have delivered products for the Windows NT platform for awhile they have focuse
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Lucent takes aim at $2B in federal opportunities
A year and a half ago telecommunications behemoth AT&T spun off Lucent Technologies Inc. and computer manufacturer NCR Corp. as part of massive restructuring. Now Lucent a giant by its own right with $27 billion in annual revenue in communications products and services is making a name for itself i
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Army pact to track supplies globally
The Army earlier this month awarded a $111 million contract to Savi Technology Inc. to supply equipment software and services that will enable the Defense Department to track supplies in transit across the globe. The Radio Frequency Identification Equipment acquisition is geared toward realizing wh
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Widespread cost cuts spur portables market
The notebook computer market is taking on new life in the 1997 buying season with a slew of price cuts by major vendors both on highend systems positioned as desktop replacements and on lowend systems running older Intel Corp. chips. In a twoweek period Acer America Corp. Compaq Computer Corp. D
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Intergraph unveils Windows NT-based graphics machine
Intergraph Computer Systems one of the biggest proponents of 'Wintel' technical computing last week unveiled a Microsoft Corp. Windows NTbased 3D graphics workstation that targets visual simulation and other applications. The TDZ 2000 does not replace an existing Intergraph product but establishe
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Micro X pursues fed market
During the last four months the federal PC market lost one vendor but picked up another. In April Austin Computer Systems owned by IPC Technologies Inc. capped off a string of layoffs by dismissing most or all of its sales staff according to people familiar with the company and apparently discontin
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Navy awards 5 BPAs
Over the last two weeks the Navy's Atlantic Fleet has awarded blanket purchase agreements (BPAs) to five vendors for PC notebooks desktops and servers that conform to the Navy's Information Technology for the 21st Century strategy. Under the new BPAs open Navywide BTG Inc. GE Capital Informatio
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