Stories about: Vertex

Microsoft announced Thursday the release of its Expression 2 Studio design tools, which provide application design capabilities to complement application development capabilities of the company's Visual Studio toolset.

Looking to bolster AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) and development of Web 2.0 applications, the OpenAjax Alliance on Wednesday plans to introduce a project that addresses AJAX interoperability issues.

Fujitsu Australia today announced the launch of a Web-based straight through processing (STP) service for the Australia and New Zealand insurance market. Fujitsu will leverage technology from UK-based Vertex Financial Services (formerly Marlborough Stirling), a provider of outsourced services and technology solutions, whose customers include Royal Liver and Lloyds. With this new initiative, Fujitsu aims to significantly reduce the cost of processing a life insurance case in the $25 billion insurance market.

Software engineers who attend Microsoft's annual Windows Hardware Engineering Conference later this month could get their first taste of a new Windows user permissions model that could change the way thousands of programs are developed and run. But as the company prepares for the final Longhorn development push, questions remain about its plans for a new user privileges model called Least-Privilege User Account, or LUA.

Scientists lead the effort to squeeze medical solutions from the human genome, but mainstream IT pros provide the skills needed to make it happen.

Fledgling telco Qala has gone into voluntary administration due to cash flow issues.

Drug maker Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. has commissioned the construction of a 112-processor, 110-gigaflop Linux supercomputer cluster that will be used to accelerate drug research and development.

In the face of increasing telecomms deregulation across the Asia-Pacific region, startup telco services provider QALA - launched in Australia in October last year - has previewed the first of its services.

Christa Schidzik's job as manager of systems administration at NEC Electronics Inc.'s chip design facility in Dusseldorf, Germany, is often more a resource management challenge than a technology challenge. Engineers who design CPUs and application-specific integrated circuits must lay out their complex designs and simulate the chips' program code - compute-intensive tasks that create fluctuating demands for mainframe-class power.

BOSTON (10/11/2000) - Due to a reporting error in the story "Sales Tax Program Seeks to Level Playing Field," which appeared on the IDG News Service Wire on Sept. 29, Vertex Inc.'s work in the Streamlined Sales Tax Project was inaccurately characterized. Pitney Bowes Inc. is working with Vertex in the program. The correction has been made on the wire..

While stereotypes of whingeing critics abound in Australian culture, resellers are generally more stoic and prefer to find solutions rather than complain, as Jeanne-Vida Douglas recently discovered