Y2K demand drops as the Milliennium approaches
Published: 1st September 1999 | By: Dave Singleton
Demand for Y2K Skills is dropping fast, although August featured a small rise in demand. This data is based upon analysis of more than 200,000 online Job adverts which named Y2K, sampled over the last 7 months, averaging around 30,000…
COMPAQ New Directions
Published: 1st September 1999 | By: Martin Brampton
Michael Capellas has now been CEO of Compaq for six weeks, following substantial losses and the resignation of former CEO Eckhard Pfeiffer. He and his executive team have been outlining their plans for carrying the company forward. Compaq is a…
Informix Dynamic Server Universal Data & the Web
Published: 1st August 1999 | By: Rob Hailstone
Here we concentrate on the features and options that are fundamental to web-enabled and e-commerce applications, as well as those requiring extended-relational capabilities. We look particularly at the additional requirements of On-line Transaction Processing when it is extended by the…
Informix i.Informix
Published: 1st August 1999 | By: Robin Bloor
This review considers Informix’s specifically Internet directed line of business products. These are i.Sell, which is a Shopping Mall application, and i.Reach, which is designed to support the creation of a corporate information repository.
Oracle, A review of Oracle’s strategy & recent developments
Published: 1st August 1999 | By: Robin Bloor
Recent announcements from Oracle show a consolidation of its strategy and products aimed at the Internet technology marketplace. The company is continuing to put in place a very broad and far reaching technology infrastructure, positioning the company as more of…
IBM San Francisco Framework (e-Components)
Published: 1st August 1999 | By: Robin Bloor
IBM’s e-Components (previously known as the San Francisco Framework) is a business level, component framework providing processes and services implemented in Java. It is targeted principally at IBM’s Value Added Reseller (VAR) market. Following development work spanning the last two…
Candle Corporation
Published: 1st August 1999 | By: Martin Brampton
Candle is a provider of software and services to enable the connection, integration and management of applications on mainframes and distributed systems.
NT and Unix neck and neck in the operating Systems Race
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Dave Singleton
It is now basically a two horse race in the operating systems markets by volume – but that is nothing new. What the numbers show us is trends. Demand for both NT and Unix is growing
Year 2000 will not kill IT investment next year
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Dave Singleton
We sampled between 10,000 and 11,000 IT job adverts per month over the last 5 months. Demand for Y2K skills is dropping – no surprise there as we approach the millennium. But, what is interesting is how small a proportion…
Shakeout in the Tools Market
Published: 1st July 1999 | By: Dave Singleton
As has been obvious for some time now, many well-known tools vendors are not making any money in the UK. We measured demand for tools by looking at demand for skills in those tools. In all we sampled more than…