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To: PaulW who wrote (33201)	5/14/1998 10:04:00 AM
From: Don Dorsey	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

The "Computer Game Developer's Conference" is a show where hardware manufacturers like to show off their latest technologies, hopeful that developers of entertainment software pick it up and develop applications based on it. Everyone who has followed the PC market in the past years knows how 3D accelerator cards have changed the face of computer gaming, just the way CD-ROM has and DVD will. It was interesting to see that literally every hardware manufacturer had something DVD related to show. Every video board company had at least two new boards in the program that had hardware MPEG-2 decoders on them to allow uninhibited DVD movie playback. Those boards have usually outputs that allow you to connect your computer to your TV set so that the comparably small size of your computer monitor is not an issue any more. Not a big deal, you might think, there have been boards before. And while this is correct, it is a clear sign when every vendor is suddenly putting those decoders on their boards at literally no additional cost. Those boards will retail at around $100, complete with 2D, 3D acceleration and MPEG-2 video decoding and many of those manufacturers are currently in the process of convincing computer manufacturers to include these boards in their systems. So, just like the DVD-ROM drives, we will see these boards shipped with every PC that goes over the counter by the end of the year. dvdreview.com

To: PaulW who wrote (33201)	5/14/1998 12:30:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Tibco pushes middleware news.com By Erich Luening Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM May 14, 1998, 8:20 a.m. PT Enterprise middleware and application integration firm Tibco Software today announced a series of alliances intended to promote its middleware technology. Tibco writes software that automatically routes--or pushes--financial information, news, and other data from a publisher to an individual personal computer. The software works on corporate or public computer networks. The Palo Alto, California-based company said i2 Technologies has licensed and plans to embed Tibco's Tib/Rendezvous message-oriented middleware into i2's High Availability Demand Fulfillment and High Availability DDQ (Due-Date-Quoting) packages. The products will utilize Tib/Rendezvous to provide order promising and due date quoting. The move strengthens i2's Rhythm Global Decision Support Architecture, which enables customers to implement planning and decision support systems globally. Rendezvous is used to pass messages among various dissimilar networked applications. The software makes sure that messages are delivered across the network by storing them in a queue and forwarding them when networked systems are online and ready to receive the messages. Tibco also announced that it will be working with DiviCom to promote a combined system of DiviCom's DiviCast product and Tibco's Tib/ActiveEnterprise suite. The deal will establish a new group of MPEG2 video feature-based satellite and broadcast services such as Webcasting and corporate push technologies for companies to use and deploy a host of sales force automation, inventory control, and customer service systems. In another joint venture, Tibco will team up with Aether Technologies to codevelop palm-top wireless data delivery services. Tibco's Tib/Wireless product will allow Aether to expand its current financial product offerings beyond the Reuters market data to include multiple news and data content sources by gathering the information and distributing it over Tibco's subject-based wireless protocol. Pricing was not made available for any of these products or services.