September 1994 / News & Views

Into the Enterprise Integration Strategies: Lotus vs. Microsoft vs. WordPerfect	New software releases by Lotus and announcements by Microsoft and WordPerfect reflect the different strengths and directions of each company - by Daniel Gasteiger and Rick Dobson
Color Laser Moves Toward Mainstream Color Laser vs. Color Ink-Jet	Color laser printers for under $5000 may sound like science fiction, but the reality may be appearing in offices soon. - by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Load Balancing's Inexpensive Performance Boost	As client/server computing becomes more common, network servers need to handle an ever-increasing number of I/O requests from client PCs. - by Salvatore Salamone
Photoshop and Picture Publisher Get a Face-Lift	The top vendors of image- processing software are unleashing new versions of high-end programs that have plenty of power to alter images. - by Jon Pepper
Businesses Turn to BBSes	The concept of the information highway has captured the imaginations of computer users and editors alike. - by Nicholas Baran
Seer-Sem Offers Realistic Forecasting for Programmers	One of the MIS world's many holy grails is a forecasting methodology that can be accurately applied to software projects: a software swami, if you will, to whom you could hand a project specification and who would hand back an accurate prediction of how much time or lines of code a given project would require. - by Rick Grehan
Two Ways to Cram More Data on a CD-ROM	For a lot of commercial and corporate CD-ROM software developers, 660 MB just isn't enough. - by Michael Nadeau
Apple's Mac Quadra 610 DOS-compatible system	Apple's Mac Quadra 610 DOS-compatible system (see ``Apple Provides PC on a Mac,'' January BYTE ) Apple no longer makes the system but might offer a similar but improved product for Power Macs.
Getting CISC into RISC	The RISC-versus-CISC debate is taking some interesting turns that could have a profound effect on the future of the personal computer industry. - by Bob Ryan
IMS Takes On 80x86 Emulation	International Meta Systems (Torrance, CA) is looking to make a big splash in the RISC-versus-CISC wars. - by B.R.
Bigger and Better	Call it a reverse trend. For years, major PC manufacturers seemed bent on producing the smallest and lightest ``full-featured'' machines possible. - by Jon Pepper
Inexpensive, Fast, and Slow to Acceptance Windows printers: pros and cons	Whether they're based on Microsoft's At Work or Destiny Technology's (Santa Clara, CA) WinStyler printing architecture, Windows printers can deliver high-quality output, fast printing, and, through bidirectional feedback, instantaneous, user-friendly information regarding a print job's status. - by Dave Andrews

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