Digital Government
Sametime 1.5 moves beyond instant messaging
The advantages of an instant messaging system are obvious, especially in busy agencies where information workers spend most of their day in front of a computer, often needing to coordinate work with a colleague who may be thousands of miles away. Version 1.5 of Lotus Sametime expands on the theme o
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Power Steering reins in project management
If your agency has had to deal with project management packages that seem almost more complicated than the project itself, relief is on the way from Cambridge Interactive in the form of the company's latest project management software, Power Steering.
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Delano e-business tool makes e-mail a solid development platform
When you think of building a World Wide Web application, chances are you don't think about building it around email. Nevertheless, Delano Technology Corp.'s eBusiness Interaction Suite takes the reliable infrastructure of email and turns it into a fullfledged applicationdevelopment platform. A
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Serious management for serious projects
Tracking large projects calls for serious software. Add geographical dispersion to the project team, and you'll need some way to connect all the players to a central management program. Netmosphere Inc. hopes to help solve that problem with the combined forces of Project Home Page 2.01 and ActionPl
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Office developer helps get the job done
Microsoft Corp.'s goals for Microsoft Office Developer (MOD) 2000 were to deliver a product that increases the productivity of developers, makes it easy to provide database access to any Office application and makes it simple to maintain and deploy resulting solutions. From our perspective, having
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ActiveProject 5.0 keeps projects on track
Managing large projects of any type typically requires expensive project management software that provides tools for tracking milestones, criticalpath elements and individual tasks. What's missing from project management software is a way to manage all of the other information necessary to complet
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NDS 8.0 offers ready network know-how
Like the mythical Phoenix, Novell Inc. has risen from the ashes as a viable, profitable company by refocusing on its core competency: networking. A major factor in the company's resurrection, Novell Directory Services lies at the heart of the company's current and future strategy. NDS 8.0 is the la
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Web development software: Tools of the trade
It's a modernday equivalent of the chickenandegg riddle: Do most agencies have their own World Wide Web sites because tools have been developed to make it easy to design attractive Web sites? Or were the tools developed to serve the growing popularity of the Web? Whatever the answer may be, the
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Livelink 8 offers variety of knowledge-sharing features
Sometimes an organization's biggest intangible asset is the corporate knowledge locked inside the brains of its employees. Open Text Corp. delivers a powerful set of tools to help organizations gather and distribute some of its employees' untapped knowledge with its Livelink 8 product. Livelink pro
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SQL Server 7.0 boasts features, power
Microsoft Corp. has packed new features and significant performance enhancements into SQL Server 7.0, which was released with much fanfare last fall. After testing the software for two months, we found it to be a solid choice for any government agency looking for a powerful Windows NT database serv
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Thin-client/server solution eases administration
With the advent of thin clients, the world of computing has come full circle. In the beginning, there were big mainframe computers and dumb terminals. Then there was the personal computer revolution, and the power was pushed to the desktop. Now we have gone back to the future with thin clients conn
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NetWare 5.0 Proves Worth the Upgrade
With its recent release of NetWare 5.0, Novell Inc. delivered on its promise of a totally revamped network operating system, which government information technology shopslongtime NetWare mainstayswill find a worthwhile upgrade. Like its competitors,
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NetWare 5.0: Worth the upgrade
With last month's release of NetWare 5.0, Novell Inc. raised the bar in terms of functionality delivered out of the box. The popular network operating system offers faster performance, several new and useful Internet features, and enhanced administration tools that together put it a notch above the
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Software tool ports Unix apps to NT
Testing by Paul Ferrill and Mark Fuller As Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT makes inroads into the highend workstation market, government users may need to port software written for Unix platforms to Windows NT. Softway Systems Inc.'s Interix attempts to make the process of porting Unixbased code as
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Testing for Year 2000 compliance
Although most federal agencies are now well on their way with replacement or remediation of Year 2000 code problems, there may still be issues with PCs and office applications. Two recently updated packages from BindView Development Corp. and WRQ are designed to help agencies test for Year 2000 com
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Novell delivers with NetWare 5.0
With the official release of NetWare 5.0 earlier this month, Novell Inc. delivered on its promise of a totally revamped network operating system, which government information technology shops longtime NetWare mainstays will find a worthwhile upgrade. Like its competitors, Novell has found a ne
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