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By John Pallatto The aggressive use of CASE technology is allowing Unum Corp. to reduce development time for large applications, allowing for rapid production of prototypes and the reuse of […]

CDC Disbands ETA; Cyber to Unix MINNEAPOLIS -- Control Data Corp. last week not only dropped out of the super-computer business it helped found, but has decided to switch from […]

Technology Integration, Agents Of Change And A New IS Culture Technology integration's toughest challenge is in the people arena. Ed Mahler, Du Pont's future computer technology visionary, says that technology […]

Third World markets for 32-bit workstations Apollo Computer Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass., is very active in the developing world, with manufacturing plants in China and in India. ELECTRONIC BUSINESS recently […]

Technology Integration and Culture Change: Part II The exponential growth of technology cannot be prevented and, at best, can only be delayed in the short run. The core issue is […]

DEC Builds German Exchange, Teams with Arthur Andersen FRANKFURT, West Germany -- DEC has made a major foray into the West German banking industry by combining efforts with Arthur Andersen […]

Needed: A Clear Vision While DEC prepares to roll out another series of VAX and RISC-based systems next month, DEC users are faced with the quandary of just what they […]

IBM's 1989 PS/2 product plans manifest the firm's four-pronged strategy to accelerate the state of corporate microcomputing, according to sources inside and close to IBM. Chief among the company's objectives […]

Air Force Mulls Third ULANA Award Although the Air Force has awarded its sweeping Unified Local Area Networking Architecture (ULANA) contracts to two vendors, LAN installations that were put on […]

A Close Look at an IBM Interhost Link Problem There is a problem in the realm of IBM connectivity that many people do not like to talk about. It's of […]

The True Cost of Moving When office-space planners say they need more sophisticated PC CAD packages, they don't mean software to perform 3-D solids modeling. What they want is computer-aided […]

Trends in Technology Will Affect Business Strategies Computer technology continues with its rapid advances, giving organizations significant opportunities to gain competitive advantage. Many strategically oriented corporations have used improvements in […]

IBM Embraces Two Interfaces Steve Jobs' NextStep or Bill Gates' Presentation Manager--which will be IBM's user interface of the future? A little bit of both, probably. That's what George Conrades, […]

Tool Maker Streamlines Global Data Entry Closing the monthly books on time can be difficult for any company, but when operations are scattered around the globe, geographic and monetary complications […]

City Planners Meet Budget with Project Software The city of Greensboro, N.C., has PC-based, project-management software to thank for the timely completion of Bryan Park, the Civic Cultural Center, Southeast […]

IBM Officials Predict PostScript To Become Part of SAA Strategy PostScript should eventually become part of Systems Application Architecture (SAA), IBM's sweeping strategy for integrating applications across its diverse computer […]

Program for Macs Organizes Trip Intineraries MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--City to City, a new software program that runs under the Apple MAcintosh application HyperCard, brings order to the often chaotic process […]

Developers Vow Loyalty to DOS in an OS/2 World For all of the good that OS/2 promises to bring--and the promises are many--the immediate reality is somewhat more confusing than […]

Is Token-Ring Fast Enough for Boeing? WASHINGTON--At 4M bits per second (bps), the Token-Ring LAN would seem to be fast enough to handle even the largest of network jobs. But […]

For Good or Ill, Get Ready To Take the OS/2 Challenge Most of you have been following the OS/2 situation closely. IBM's and Microsoft's new operating system has lots of […]

Enfin Software Corp.'s Goal Solutions, a new goal-seeking add-in program for Lotus 1-2-3, is the first of its kind in two categories. Goal Solutions is the first of more than […]

By Evan O. Grossman BOSTON -- Six months after purchasing workstation maker Apollo Computer Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) last week laid bare its strategy for merging the two companies' workstation […]

By Tara Sexton NEW YORK -- An IBM official used the recent UnixExpo here to assure users that interoperability between the company's AIX and SAA environments is not a pipe […]

I hope you didn't strain your back picking up this issue of PC Week. As you've undoubtedly noticed, it's bigger and heavier than usual. Contrary to what you might think, […]

RM set up for 486 machines Research Machines (RM) has announced its plans for a machine based on the 80486 processor. The company intends to ship the AT-bus machine before […]

User group for Clipper to start up An independent user group has been set up for users of Nantucket's dBASE rival Clipper. The group, which is to get assistance from […]

PC manufacturers opt for multi-processing capability. A number of PC manufacturers are preparing machines based on multi-processor 486 technology. Compaq's forthcoming DeskPro 486 will use a multi-processor version of Novell's […]

Education Connects Micros to Broadband Network Despite budget cuts that hit the agency hard three years ago, the Education Department has been able to connect 400 microcomputers to a broadhand […]

Prime Tells Court of Strong Takeover Bids After fending off a hostile takeover bid for eight months, Prime Computer Inc. is taking the offensive. The Natick, Mass., minicomputer manufacturer disclosed […]

At a private Comdex briefing, IBM,s President of the Entry Systems Division, Jim Canflavino, demonstrated a 486 version of the Model 70 A2 1. He stressed that he was not […]

By Madeline Epstein There's a hint of Big Blue in AT&T's new reseller programs -- maybe because the company's new reseller/sales vice president learned the ropes at IBM. Dick Cundari, […]