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Project 2002 MICROSOFT Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. has announced its foray into the enterprise project management (EPM) space with the launch of the next generation of its project management software, Project 2002. EPM solutions are designed to help organisations manage, track and analyse multiple projects across the enterprise, increasing operational efficiencies while decreasing costs. With these solutions, Microsoft aims to target the huge market for EPM solutions that comprises e-governance projects, IT services companies and the IT departments within large enterprises. Currently, the Microsoft Enterprise partners will be providing these solutions in India. Microsoft has launched this in India with support from PMI chapter and PriceWaterhouse Coopers. According to a research conducted by the Project Management Institute in the USA, 94 per cent of the respondents of survey conducted among the enterprise segment deemed EPM solutions strategic to a company’s goals. According to the same study, EPM solutions have been found to have a direct implication on customer satisfaction and overall productivity with an increase of 33 per cent and 61 per cent, respectively. According to a report issued by IDC in 2000, the EPM market was pegged at $ 5 million, with a projected growth of $ 2.1 billion by 2004. AMD-IBM demo AMD announced the 64-bit enablement of IBM’s DB2 database software for the upcoming AMD Opteron processors based on AMD’s Hammer technology. The enterprise-class database solution features a DB2 database on a SuSE Linux operating system, and was successfully enabled to support x86-64 technology in two days. DB2 version 8 common client interface architecture enables the operation of existing 32-bit, x86-based applications with direct access to DB2’s 64-bit database environment. As a result, enterprise customers will be able to optimise their 32-bit investment and performance while incrementally migrating to a 64-bit environment, as their business requires. IBM and AMD will demonstrate DB2 for Linux on the upcoming AMD Opteron processor based on Hammer technology at LinuxWorld, San Francisco, August 13-15. CodeWarrior software Metrowerks, a Motorola company, rolled out CodeWarrior software development tools at 3,000 of the Indian Computer Institute Association (ICIA) member institutions. The schools are using CodeWarrior development tools to teach students Java programming, as well as programming for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems. In addition to supplying software tools, Metrowerks also developed a series of instructor-led video courses for the ICIA covering Java programming and object technology. Metrowerks' cross-platform CodeWarrior compilers support C, C++, Java and assembly programming languages, while allowing programmers to build applications from one unique integrated development environment. NetMail XE 3.1 Novell, Inc., a business
solution company, launched Novell NetMail XE 3.1, a low-cost, secure and
uncomplicated alternative to Microsoft Exchange for small businesses
with Windows networks. NetMail XE is an open-standards-based messaging
solution for Windows servers that gives small businesses easy-to-use
e-mail, calendaring and scheduling across the Internet. The
small-business version of Novell NetMail, NetMail XE provides smaller
organisations with an in-house e-mail system that doesn't require an
expensive and complicated back-end system but allows customers to use
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