Stories about: E*Trade

Fifteen million shares of hosting provider Rackspace Hosting began trading under the symbol "RAX" on the New York Stock Exchange Friday for US$12.50 a share.

From business intelligence to CRM, from scheduling and e-procurement to database management and data governance, there is no shortage of enterprise applications available to help businesses make their processes more efficient. Choosing can be difficult, however: Do you go open source? Software-as-a-service, or in-house deployment? Every vendor has a sales pitch. Here are 10 worth watching.

The first thing you need to know about Rock Phish is that nobody knows exactly who, or what, they are.

Several IT executives at the LinuxWorld Summit last week reinforced the idea that Linux now has the technical brawn and industry support to accommodate the most demanding business applications in environments such as finance, airline reservations and stock trading.

Sun Microsystems' Java road show hit Toronto Wednesday and about 400 developers showed up to hear about the latest advances in Sun's developer tools.

Australian IT managers are hoping the marriage between storage software vendor Veritas and security firm Symantec will spawn a superior product; however, many of Veritas' customers still seem blissfully unaware the merger is going ahead.

With thousands of online orders taking place over the Internet daily, E*TRADE Australia needed to address bottlenecks in the company’s database before they became a problem. To ensure customer orders got to market just as quickly as they were placed, E*TRADE Australia turned to VERITAS Software for help in identifying the root causes of performance issues in its complex e-commerce applications.

If its recent acquisitions, new products and sharp rise in share price are any indication, Macromedia, creator of the popular Flash technology, is showing that there's still plenty of money to be made developing software for the Internet. Today, Macromedia's Flash technology is used on more than 95 percent of all computers linked to the Internet.

Microsoft's planned release of the Windows .NET Server 2003 operating system drew cheers and jeers at the Comdex trade show, where a panel of developers and technology experts faced off in a debate over Microsoft's emerging Web-based development platform.

Microsoft Corp. Monday released long-awaited software that will allow applications designed around its .NET platform to run on portable computing devices. It also made available a test version of its suite of software development tools that can be used to build mobile applications.

Network executives say the latest slippage in the ship date for Windows .NET Server 2003 is unfortunate but not bothersome, and see the operating system as the beginning of a whole new way to integrate resources and share information within a company and with business partners.