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USING STREAMING MEDIA FOR CRM

ROBOTS MAKE MORE CASH THAN CITY TRADERS

OPEN SOURCE MOVES TO PHONES

Special Linux Supplement

CALDERA PREVIEWS FORUM 2001
Caldera International Inc, moving beyond "UNIX" and "Linux" to what the next generation of solution architectures will be, announced its executive keynote speakers for Forum 2001.

EMULEX FIBRE CHANNEL HOST BUS ADAPTERS SELECTED BY HP
Emulex Corporation, a leading supplier of storage networking host bus adapters (HBAs), announced that its LightPulse LP8000, LP9000 and 2Gb/s LP9002L HBAs have been selected by Hewlett-Packard Company to provide Fibre Channel connectivity to HP's network storage appliance solutions running in Linux environments.

LPI DELIVERS ITS SECOND LEVEL LINUX CERTIFICATION
The Linux Professional Institute (LPI) announced the completion of its Level 2 certification exams. The exams, which cover the intermediate level of the LPI certification program, will be made available September 4 in beta form at a special price.

OPEN SOURCE MOVES TO PHONES
Linux backers are hoping their open-source operating system will end up being the dark horse in the smart-phone operating system race -- especially if the other contenders continue to straggle.

DATA UNDERDOGS
While open source databases have scored some recent successes, they won't pose a serious challenge to mature commercial databases until they have added some essential reliability and management features.

Features

Analysis & Commentary

INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT NELSON, VP & RESEARCH DIRECTOR, GARTNER
by Alan Beck, editor-in-chief
Gartner's Scott Nelson presented a keynote address at TDWI's Anaheim Conference entitled "Data Warehousing and CRM: Fad or Future of the Industry." Following is an exclusive interview with Mr. Nelson.

USING STREAMING MEDIA FOR CRM
The most critical relationship in business is with the customer. In fact, there is an entire industry known as Customer Relationship Management (CRM). However, the way we manage business relationships is changing as the Internet changes how we interact with our customers.

ROBOTS MAKE MORE CASH THAN CITY TRADERS
Robots can make more cash than people when they trade commodities, according to Jeffrey Kephart at IBM's research centre in Hawthorne, New York. Kephart says his team's findings could have a much greater impact than the famous victory of IBM's Deep Blue supercomputer over chess supremo Gary Kasparov.

PATENT SEEMS DESIGNED FOR DEBATE
The battle to capture the attention of consumers and to influence how they spend money has resulted in an entire industry called customer relationship management. The idea is to help companies attract new buyers, identify valuable customers and win consumer loyalty.
Leading Edge R&D

TAKING WEB RESEARCH TO A NEW DIMENSION
Online research has proved an efficient and effective medium for market researchers, and the volumes of data collected online are full of valuable information that can help organizations to ultimately develop more profitable relationships with customers.

SCHLUMBERGER OILFIELD SERVICES SELECTS EGAIN
Schlumberger Oilfield Services, the international petroleum service giant, is working with Oil and Gas Companies to combat a "$40 billion" industry-wide problem using a self-service knowledge management solution from eGain Communications.

GX TECHNOLOGY STRENGTHENS OIL AND GAS EXPLORATION EFFORTS
Linux NetworX, a provider of powerful and easy-to-manage cluster computing solutions, announced that seismic imaging solutions company GX Technology has purchased an 84-processor Evolocity cluster to be used in its oil and gas exploration efforts.
Business & Money Trail

FLUOR, BECHTEL TAKE EQUITY POSITIONS IN ESSI
Fluor Corp and Bechtel Enterprises Holdings Inc announced that they have established equity positions in ESSI LLC, a leading provider of data warehousing and application integration solutions.

PeopleSoft DOING WELL IN A SLUMP
Not every tech company is suffering. PeopleSoft, whose customer-relationship-management, supply-chain, human-resources, and financial-management apps are designed to make companies more efficient and cut costs, reported a great second quarter.

Top Of The News

Storage
DataCore Software Marks Year of Explosive Growth
Peer-To-Peer
Backplane/BAG Announce Partnership

Short Takes

On The Market
HyPerformix Announces Performance Innovation Practice
Oracle Helps Customers Get Clustered
Financial Watch
ACS Awarded Shared DW System Contract by New Jersey DHS
Sagent, Bridge Medical in 3-yr OEM Pact
SPSS Enabling Technologies Division/Azerity Form Alliance
People & Positions
SPSS Names Davidson / Schohn, vice presidents

Quote Of The Week

"Without pinpointing where you draw the line -- from the books I like to sexual preferences -- at some point people raise legitimate concerns that these technologies become so pervasive that they require some thinking on the other end about protecting the information being gathered by these devices." -- John Hines, professor of cyberlaw, Northwestern University

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