Axapta Business Management Solution Introduced in North America SAN FRANCISCO, CA (February 16, 1998) – IBM, in conjunction with Danish software developer Damgaard InternationalA/S (DIAS), today introduced Axapta Business Management Solution* for the North American market. More than the logical next generation in business management software, the Axapta solution redefines the standard in accounting and […]
IBM’s Toolkit Helps Business Partners Reduce Network Installation Time from Days to Hours SAN FRANCISCO (February 16, 1998) – As part of an ongoing effort to help its Business Partners work more effectively withsmall business customers, IBM’s Global Small and Medium Business division (SMB) today announced a Small Business Solutions Toolkit* that will simplify the […]
Offering a Boon to Small and Medium-sized Firms San Francisco (February 16, 1998) – IBM* and J.D. Edwards* have announced a network-delivered application offering that provides companies with cost-effective, reliable and secure network access to one of the industry’s leadingenterprise business software packages. The announcement was made here today at IBM’s Business Partner Executive Conference.Available […]
Nagano, Japan (February 12, 1998) – Nagano Olympic Winter Games have already drawn more Internet traffic from fans around the world than all 16 days of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Summer Games.By the end of February 12, the Official World Wide Web Site for the Nagano Olympic Winter Gameshttp://www.nagano.olympic.org”>http://www.nagano.olympic.org) had received a total of 221.9 […]
N/A (February 12, 1998) – The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced that H. Kumar Wickramasinghe has been elected as a member of the Academy for his outstanding accomplishments in nanoscale measurement systems and their application to precision metrology.“A large part of making these measurements is to do it in a nondestructive way,” said Wickramasinghe. […]
Armonk, N.Y (February 11, 1998) – IBM and CommQuest Technologies, Inc. today announced they have entered into a merger agreement. The merger will speed development of a new generation of multifunction, low-cost, mobile “information appliances,” such as single chip, watch-size cellular phones and products that combine cell phone, e-mail and Internet access functions in a […]
Yorktown Heights, NY (February 11, 1998) – IBM Research’s Bernard S. Meyerson today will receive the Eastern New York Intellectual Property Law Association (ENYIPLA) Inventor of the Year Award for 1997 at the annual ENYIPLA meeting in Albany. Meyerson is being honored for his patented and perfected method for making low-cost semiconductor chips from silicon […]
ISO Adopts QuickTime File Format as Starting Point for Developing Key Component of MPEG-4 Specification. CUPERTINO, Calif. (February 11, 1998) – Apple Computer Inc., IBM, Netscape Corp., Oracle Corp., Silicon Graphics Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. today announced that the International Standards Organization (ISO) has adopted the companies’ joint proposal to use Apple’s QuickTime® File […]
IBM Hardware and Software Best-0f-Breed In Industry-Standard Benchmarks Somers, N.Y (February 10, 1998) – IBM today announced that it has achieved a series of industry-leading business intelligence performance breakthroughs using its RS/6000 systems and DB2* Universal Database.Three separate TPC-D benchmark results, which were verified by Transaction Processing Council (TPC) auditors, ranked the RS/6000 and DB2 […]
SOMERS, NY (February 09, 1998) – IBM* today announced price reductions of up to 32 percent(1) on select IBM ThinkPad* notebooks and IBM Netfinity* servers. The aggressive pricing of some of IBM’s most popular models results from continued efficiencies achieved through its Advanced Fulfillment Initiative (AFI). AFI, which simplifies how IBM ThinkPads and Netfinity servers […]