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...past couple of years, IBM has rounded out its software portfolio, leaving the applications side of the business to specialists like J.D. Edwards, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel and focusing instead on the "middleware" market that glues those business applications together. With the savvy leadership of software chief Steve Mills, IBM's database and application server product WebSphere has gained market share, even winning a key, much contested contract with eBay. J.D. Edwards, an enterprise software company focused on the fast-growing market among medium-size businesses (those with 100 to 1,000 employees), recently decided to standardize all its applications...
...perhaps it could find links among the government's vast terrorism-related intelligence warehouses and enhance the government's ability to prevent the next attack. After 9/11, many tech companies saw opportunities for both patriotism and profit. Oracle offered to donate the software to create a federal identity database. Siebel Systems CEO Thomas Siebel boasted to a House subcommittee that had his company's software been used by law-enforcement and intelligence organizations before 9/11, "there may have been a different outcome...
...Siebel emphasizes that in uncertain times, she wants to help students find their artistic voice. “In a sort of Mad Max world, I want students to learn to use their voice visually whether or not they can find a venue to use it. I hope that if there were no galleries to show art that people would continue making it. The vitality of the art is that it comes from within, from a very authentic and real place...
...Siebel began her work Resurrection: Soon Darkness Will Give Way To Light (2002) in an attempt to get to know her grandfather, John Colin Vaughan, whom she never met. He took part in the failed 1903 Ziegler Expedition to the North Pole, which prior to Siebel’s efforts had never been researched. She reconstructed the journey from photos, drawings, film and her grandfather’s journal, and turned the story into a series of 16 etching and monoprint collages—eight of which hang in the Carpenter Center as a part of the New Faculty Exhibition...
Siebel’s grandfather’s journal entries, which Siebel has printed onto many of the collage panels, beg for visual representation, with references to such things as “the tantalizing water sky” and incredibly vivid passages: “Halfway to the polynia we came to some remarkably old ice. All about us was a chaos of piled up blocks, a great deal of it a dirty yellow which I fancied might easily be matched by mixing burnt sienna with charcoal gray.” These works show how the origins...