Stories about: Riversoft

Everyone loves an underdog story, but this isn't one. BMC, CA, HP and IBM came to power in the management software market in the 1990s with tools to manage network devices and software designed to keep mainframe systems humming along. Being among the few choices at the time, the vendors dominated the market and customers endured product implementations that could run up to 18 months and spent well into the millions of dollars to get management software in place. But in too many cases, the technology didn't deliver.

A look at the greatest all time Management controversies in the history of the networking industry.

Whether in direct correlation to its sparse attendance or to simply cement the understanding that IT budget spending is still under lock and key, attendees at the Network + Interop/Comdex conference this week are expressing a desire to wrest greater value from their existing network products rather than invest in new management and application performance wares.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) used its annual customer conference last week to announce about a dozen OpenView products - mostly incremental upgrades - but attendees said they found the company less forthcoming than usual about its long-range technology plans.

RiverSoft Inc. picked up a weighty endorsement of its fault management technology when Cisco Systems Inc. agreed to license the company's Network Management Operating System for use in upcoming CiscoWorks products.

Looking to help customers host Web sites, complete online transactions and manage rack-mounted appliances, Intel last week announced a series of turnkey server appliances.

Oracle Corp., Sears, Roebuck & Co. and French retailer Carrefour AG last week announced the formation of a business-to-business online purchasing exchange that they said will be the largest of its kind in the retail industry. Called the GlobalNetXchange, the online marketplace will initially serve Sears' and Carrefour's $80 billion supply-chain purchases from a combined 50,000 suppliers, partners and distributors, the companies said.

No Plans to Use Net

A Motorola Inc. DSL product and a spate of new tools to better manage network and VOIP (voice-over-IP) Web site enhancements were among the many offerings vendors shoveled out today at a snowy ComNet 2000 conference here.