Financial directors: Year 2000 is the board`s problem

Software Futures said it is organising a half-day Year 2000 seminar for financial directors on 18 March at the Sandton Sun and Towers Convention Centre. Andrew Procter, Software Futures director, said South Africa`s financial directors are burying their heads in the sand, abdicating their responsibility for the Year 2000 conversion of their business. The conference is designed to equip financial directors with practical tools and measures to manage their company`s year 2000 conversion, said Software Futures.

Essbase, Wired top data warehouse industry rankings

Lotus attacks desktop with strategic plan

I*Net/Java integration, cross platform capabilities and centralised management are the watchwords for office suite developments

Software AG releases EntireX DCOM for Digital Unix 64-bit

Current Analysis gives Red Brick 5.1 the thumbs up

EMC TimeFinder beats Year 2000 deadline

Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO), a $3.1 billion New York gas and electric utility, has successfully implemented Year 2000 testing of its applications software using EMC TimeFinder and Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) business continuance software.

CA UNICAST/2000 goes commercial

Computer Associates and Information Analysis have announced the commercial availability of UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS, a tool that reduces the manual effort required to achieve Y2K compliance for CA-ADS applications accessing CA-IDMS.

SGI, CA in strategic alliance

Silicon Graphics and Computer Associates (CA) have entered into a strategic worldwide business alliance under which CA will port and optimise its full line of core client/server products to the Silicon Graphics cache coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access (ccNUMA) server line.

SGI brings top storage vendors together

Silicon Graphics said it has facilitated the world`s first collaboration between two leading vendors in the storage industry -- EMC Corporation and Ciprico - in order to resell a wider selection of complete storage management solutions.

Red Brick ships Warehouse 5.1

Red Brick Systems is shipping Red Brick Warehouse version 5.1 on Unix and Windows NT platforms. Red Brick Warehouse is a relational database management system designed from the ground up for data warehousing.

SPL announces new release of Commander

SPL has announced Commander Decision 2.1, the new version of Comshare`s software for client/server performance measurement applications.