Network World Canada Staff

The rollover to year 2000 brought about several instances of quirky behaviour, and not all of them were restricted to computers.

BMC Software has announced management software for SAP

Cisco to buy Cerent for US$6.9 billion

Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp. are expected to introduce their eight-way, 550MHz Pentium III Xeon-based servers this month, promising enhanced processing power at little extra cost. The vendors hope the new hardware will help drive Intel-based servers running Windows NT and Windows 2000 into the enterprise, where they can compete with higher-end Unix machines. James Gruener, an analyst at Aberdeen Group Inc. in Boston, said the servers

Toronto-based Hummingbird Communications Ltd.

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AT&T Canada moved closer to its goal of operating a national broadband fibre network with the announced activation of the largest segment of the network to date.

As users mull whether to take the IP voice plunge or sit still with circuit-switched voice nets, another voice heavyweight has jumped into the enterprise IP telephony fray.