Network Computers and NetPCs. Sun and others said these terminal-style machines would replace desktops, remember? NCs, along with their cousin, thin-client software, now fill a vertical-market niche.
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Novell Appware. Where, oh where, is Appware? Gone, presumably, but Novell is banking on the adoption of Web services to push sales of its exteNd application server, the rebranded Silverstream application server it acquired in 2002. The IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is geared toward RAD (Rapid Application Development) and Extreme programming. Novell hopes developers will help usher exteNd into the data center.
Iridium. Chairman Robert Galvin and other Motorola execs needed a big, expensive project, and the 88 low-Earth-orbit satellite venture called Iridium filled the bill. But building ATM switches into satellites? Talk about your planned obsolescence!
Privacy Enhanced Mail. A gallant try.
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