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Agencies peddle own Y2K fixes
The federal government roundly criticized for falling behind on the Year 2000 problem has paradoxically emerged as a provider of dateconversion services. A handful of federal agencies offer or soon will offer Year 2000 services proposing their own computers as test beds for other agencies' app
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UPS strike snags resellers' IT deliveries
Just as the federal government was gearing up for the peak buying season the United Parcel Service (UPS) strike disrupted the flow of information technology products governmentwide and promises to cause more delivery problems if the work stoppage continues. The strike which involves 185 000 UPS emp
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SAP launches public-sector push
SAP America Inc. last week launched a publicsector marketing effort targeting the federal government among other organizations with its commercially popular business application software. SAP America the U.S. arm of German softwaremaker SAP AG began exploring the U.S. public sector last year [FCW
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Agencies use browsers to link legacy systems
In a meeting of newage and oldline technologies federal agencies are exploring the use of World Wide Web gear to access legacy data and applications housed in mainframes. The Air Force NASA the Patent and Trademark Office and the intelligence community are among the federal organizations looking
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Four integrators win $180 million DLA deal
Four systems integrators last week snared awards under the Defense Logistics Agency's Systems Engineering Technical Services program a $180 million vehicle designed to provide a range of softwarerelated services. DLA selected Electronic Data Systems Corp. Litton/PRC Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. and
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Dell ventures into personal workstation sector
Dell Computer Corp. is targeting the General Services Administration schedule with personal workstations designed for computeraided design (CAD) and software engineering applications. Dell last week debuted the WorkStation 400 a product that ships with one or two Intel Corp. Pentium II processors
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Sysorex upgrades PC-2, may lure DT V buyers
Sysorex Information Systems Inc. has added Intel Corp. Pentium II PCs to its Army PC2 pact anticipating that the offering will not only appeal to Army buyers but also siphon some business away from the Air Force's Desktop V program. On PC2 Sysorex is providing a 233 MHz Pentium II bundle from IBM
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CyberMedia launches fed sales push
CyberMedia Inc. last week launched a federal marketing campaign that includes the appointment of a federal sales executive and the creation of a federally focused PC utility bundle. CyberMedia Santa Monica Calif. markets automatic service and support products for PC users. The company began explori
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Date-conversion biz lags for vendors
Although the government predicts it will spend billions of dollars fixing potential Year 2000 problems in its software programs most of the activity to date has been done within agencies with little business surfacing for product and service vendors. Federal agencies now have less than 30 months to
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Four integrators awarded services BPAs worth $100M
The Army last week awarded servicewide blanket purchase agreements to four systems integrators to provide services ranging from business process reengineering to outsourcing. Computer Sciences Corp. Electronic Data Systems Corp. IBM Corp. and Unisys Corp. were awarded the BPAs known collectively
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20-year IBM veteran is a keywitness to computer evolution
John Nyland's 20year career at IBM Corp. has given him a front row seat for computing's evolution establishing him as a key player in the company's ability to respond to recent changes in federal computing and procurement. Nyland joined IBM in 1977 when host computing and custom systems were the r
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Navy selects 13 for $250M in services
The Naval Information Systems Management Center (NISMC) last week awarded blanket purchase agreements worth $250 million to 13 vendors under its Information Technology Support Services program. BPAs were awarded late on June 26 to 13 companies that submitted quotes for the ITSS program said Cmdr. P
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Compaq to buy Tandem in latest server purchase
Compaq Computer Corp. and Tandem Computers Inc. last week inked a multibilliondollar merger agreement the latest in a series of deals linking PC vendors to midrange and highend server manufacturers. Compaq the world's largest PC maker will pay $3 billion in stock to purchase Tandem a manufacturer
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Oracle8: It's all 'about bigness'
Oracle Corp. last week began shipping Oracle8 the latest generation of the company's flagship database management technology. Oracle is positioning the product as a database manager that can take on larger databases handle more complicated queries and serve as the hub for network computing environm
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GTSI, Vanstar offer Microsoft services, warranty program
Government Technology Services Inc. last week announced it is offering packaged services from Vanstar Corp. on GTSI's General Services Administration schedule. Specifically GTSI is providing Vanstar's professional services in support of Microsoft Corp. technology. Vanstar a $2.2 billion PC reseller
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FDC willpurchaseSylvest
FDC Technologies Inc. last week entered into an agreement to purchase Sylvest Management Systems Corp. a Lanham Md. integrator specializing in networking and open systems. The pact will make Sylvest a subsidiary of FDC according to an industry source. FDC is the main operating unit of Federal Data
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Vendors unveil the first Net PCs
NEW YORK PC vendors at the PC Expo conference last week demonstrated the first products supporting the Net PC specification which aims to create a class of inexpensive and easytomanage PCs. (For more PC Expo coverage see Page 45.) The Net PC specification devised by Intel Corp. and Microsoft Co
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INDUSTRY WATCH
Iomega debuts Ditto MaxIomega Corp. last week announced Ditto Max a tape backup drive which supports 3.5G 5G 7G or 10G compressedcapacity cartridges. Ditto Max's multiplecapacity feature is designed to prevent users from outgrowing their tape backup gear as their hard disks increase in capacity.
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Army opts for BPAs to buy software, peripherals, chips
The Army Small Computer Program office last week decided to cancel plans for an indefinitedelivery indefinitequantity contract for PC software peripherals and chip upgrades opting instead for blanket purchase agreements that will be more limited in scope. The Standard System Technology Support1
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Micro Focus tool offers `windowing' support
Micro Focus last week introduced a Year 2000 software tool that embraces "windowing " an approach that offers timepressed organizations a faster way to fix the datechange problem. Micro Focus' SoftFactory/2000 tool and methodology provides an option to date expansion for preparing computer syst
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