Digital Government

Boole enhances multiplatform management

Boole & Babbage Inc. last week enhanced its systems management offering for the multiplatform distributed environment by adding support for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT and Novell Inc.'s NetWare and offering a host of new functions and applications. Ensign Release 3 (R3) gives Boole & Babbage a str

Digital Government

GTSI, IBM top fiscal '95 sales charts

Government Technology Services Inc. and IBM Corp. climbed to the top of the General Services Administration's multipleaward schedule program in fiscal 1995. GTSI, which led the PCoriented Schedule B/C, and IBM, which led the large systemscentered Schedule A program, were lifted by a rising tide

Digital Government

Informix acquires Illustra for complex data management

Informix Corp. accelerated its development of database software for managing complex data with the acquisition late last month of Illustra Information Technologies Inc. Informix plans to build a Universal Data Engine by integrating its Dynamic Scalable Architecture with Illustra's objectoriented d

Digital Government

Second shutdown hurts vendors, agencies

Information technology providers last week reported dampened profits and displaced personnel as the partial shutdown of the federal government stretched into its third week. The impact of the longest government closure in history has made itself felt around the Beltway and beyond. So far services v

Digital Government

Laptop dilemma calls for a bit of business sense

A desktop computer for every student or a laptop for every student?