Co-developed platform will boost the information society Paris (October 06, 1998) – IBM and France Telecom announced today that they have formed a partnership to revolutionise the way consumers and businesses access and use the Internet. Together, the two companies will build an open-standard software platform that will facilitate the development of a new generation […]
Domino-Powered Solutions Run on Netfinity Servers; Provide Full Set of Workflow and Communications Tools for Retail Business Processes Cambridge, MA (October 05, 1998) – Lotus Development Corp., CFT Consulting, IBM and National Computer today announced the availability of a complete process management solution for retailers on IBM Netfinity servers running Windows NT. The solution is […]
N/A Somers, N.Y (October 05, 1998) – VF Information Services of Langhorne, Pennsylvania for VARBusiness magazine.* GPC/OPC Results – CDRS-03, DX-03, DRV-04, Light-01, and AWadvs-01 are weighted geometric means of individual viewset metrics. The viewsets were developed by ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) with the assistance of the OPC (OPENGL Performance Characterizations) member companies. Larger values […]
N/A Somers, N.Y (October 05, 1998) – IBM today introduced a new, more powerful microprocessor, the POWER3, that performs like eight chips in one.The chip, which performs up to two billion operations per second, is the next generation of the technology that powered the Deep Blue supercomputer to its historic victory over chess grand master […]
VPN capabilities expanded for delivery of e-business applications San Francisco (October 01, 1998) – IBM today expanded its virtual private network capabilities for delivery of e-business applications by announcing an ADSL service pilot program, new fixed site price option for frame relay-based offerings and SafeWord Authentication for IP remote access to the IBM Global Network.IBM […]
N/A N/A (October 01, 1998) – Groupe Bull and IBM announced today they have extended their agreement to include development of PowerPC based UNIX systems and the AIX operating system. The new agreement builds on existing agreements between the companies that go back six years.Bull and IBM engineers will develop systems using PowerPC chips and […]
IBM Adds Java-Based Interactive Media to E-Commerce Servers and Announces Public Beta of Toolkit Somers, NY (September 30, 1998) – IBM today announced the adoption of IBM HotMedia, its Java**-based rich media toolkit, by the industry’s leading merchant servers, including IBM Net.Commerce*. In addition, the IBM HotMedia toolkit beta is now available for creative new […]
N/A N/A (September 30, 1998) – IBM and The Boeing Company announced today that Boeing has awarded IBM a comprehensive information technology contract, valued at more than $2 billion over 5 years.The outsourcing agreement builds on an existing 10-year contract with McDonnell Douglas signed in 1993. Under that contract, IBM Global Services provided computing and […]
N/A N/A (September 30, 1998) – AT&T Solutions, a professional services subsidiary formed in early 1995, is one of AT&T’s fastest-growing units, with more than 800 clients and $2.5 billion in contracts for new long-term business signed in 1998. The BANC ONE contract raises its backlog of long-term business to nearly $5 billion. AT&T Solutions […]
N/A Armonk, NY (September 29, 1998) – Today IBM announced the third release of its IBM SanFrancisco* application business components for Java**. With this new release developers can now rapidly build Accounts Receivable/Accounts Payable applications, as well as simultaneously track transactions in multiple currencies, which is essential for applications that support the new Euro currency.In […]