Computer Associates International Inc. and Axent Technologies Inc. will gain key partnerships with systems integrators, new technologies and greater bulk in the federal government market with their planned acquisitions.
Among the varied sources of valuable information on the Internet from which channel members Ñ systems integrators, value-added resellers and applications developers Ñ can glimpse future business opportunities or develop a strategy for working with the government, one of the more interesting is the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer. (FLC; www.federallabs.org).
AlcatelÕs proposed $2 billion acquisition of Xylan Corp. gives the networking company new punch in the federal market as it tries to expand, increase support services and compete with giants like Cisco, Lucent and 3Com, company officials said.
When Gary Sorkin and three co-founders started ComTeq Federal Inc. in 1994, they didnÕt expect to be shooting for $100 million in sales in their sixth year of operation.
With the fourth quarter earnings season almost over, publicly traded commercial and federal IT service companies have reported earnings generally in line with expectations.
With the fourth quarter earnings season almost over, publicly traded commercial and federal IT service companies have reported earnings generally in line with expectations.
In September 1995, an independent auditor reviewing Hadron Inc. doubted the company could survive much longer. By late last year, the Alexandria, Va., technical services company had wrapped up its first acquisition. Now itÕs hired a local investment bank to hunt for more.
A lot of people consider Microsoft Corp. simply a desktop and consumer company. However, within the last year and a half, the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant has made a concerned push into the enterprise with the planned release later this year of Windows 2000 and recent release of SQL 7, an enterprise- ready database.
A variety of researchers are exploring a range of interesting problems that the Internet could be used to solve. One of the more intriguing efforts is the work of Norman Johnson, a technical staff member in the theoretical division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M.
A variety of researchers are exploring a range of interesting problems that the Internet could be used to solve. One of the more intriguing efforts is the work of Norman Johnson, a technical staff member in the theoretical division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M.
No one writes their own word processor software anymore, and executives at Integral Systems Inc. are betting the same will hold true for software used to control and track satellites.
While the commercial sector steadfastly pursues its Holy Grail-like quest for the ultimate Internet business model, the federal government, specifically the Defense Department, is focusing on the more mundane yet valuable task of promoting a policy for its World Wide Web sites.
Earlier this year, the Computer Science and Technology Board of the National Research Council convened a workshop on information technology literacy (www2.nas.edu/cstbweb/55d6.html).
In a dizzying ride that would give any investor vertigo, Network Solutions Inc. stock gyrated widely Nov. 13, at one point jumping $9 a share, but ended the day basically where it started at $68. For the year, the company with a stranglehold on Internet addresses, sanctioned for the next two years by the Commerce Department, is up over 420 percent.
