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Tales from the Trenches: Network Nemesis

Only a hunch saved the day.

Tales from the Trenches: Screams from the Server Room

Mix a $50,000 server, NetWare, and a nitwit consulting company to get a true recipe for catastrophe.

Tales from the Trenches: Growing Pains

The next time your company plans a move, you just might want to consider a change in careers.

Tales from the Trenches: All Through the Night

Wherein our hero spends the wee hours staring down servers, rustling up disks, reaching out for help, and pondering his own stupidity.

Judge: Microsoft Ruling is Vulnerable

U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, the federal judge who ordered the division of Microsoft in his response to antitrust allegations brought by the U.S. Justice Department, said on Thursday he believes that virtually everything he did in regard to the trial may be vulnerable to appeal, according to reports published Friday in the <i>Washington Post</i>.

Knosys Releases Products for Enterprise 2000

September 29, 2000

Allen to Leave Microsoft Board

Paul Allen, who founded the software dynasty known as Microsoft with his friend Bill Gates 25 years ago, will resign from corporation's board of directors at its annual meeting on November 9.

Capellas Named Chair of Compaq Board

Compaq's board of directors voted unanimously to name current Compaq president and CEO Michael Capellas as chairman of the board. Capellas replaces Benjamin Rosen, who retired from the board after 18 years.

Microsoft Changes Earnings Reports; Takes $350 Million Charge

If announcing $350 million charges against profits promised to have similar impacts on its stock position, Microsoft would probably look forward to more charges.

Datacenter Server App Testing Begins: Expect a Tiny Fraction of Apps to Clear This High Bar

And ISVs complained the Windows 2000 Professional logo certification process for applications was hard. Lionbridge Technologies Inc. this week began certification testing at its Los Angeles VeriTest lab this week of applications for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, the final member of the Windows 2000 family of operating systems.

Datacenter Server’s Catch-Up Game With Sun

A day after Microsoft Corp. president and CEO Steve Ballmer confidently talked of snaring part of Sun Microsystems Inc.’s enterprise server market share, Sun demonstrated that its technology will remain a swiftly moving target.

Mobile Information Server Final Piece of Enterprise 2000

At the launch of Microsoft's Enterprise Server 2000, the company announced an addition to the .NET server family, the Microsoft Mobile Information 2001 Server. Previously code-named Airstream, the Microsoft Mobile Information Server is a scalable mobile applications server that will provide enterprise customers and mobile network operators with a rich platform for providing real-time mobile data services to any wireless device.

EMC Announces Scaleable Storage Solutions

PartnerCommunity Creates BizTalk-driven Platform

SNA to Integrate AVR into .NET

September 27, 2000

Stratus ft6500 to Ship in February

Stratus Computer Systems has announced that fault-tolerant four-processor Stratus ftServer 6500, which supports Windows 2000 Datacenter Server as well as 2000 Server and Advanced Server, will be shipped in February, 2001.

Supreme Court Refuses Microsoft Case

Microsoft won a key round today in the legal battle that threatens to divide its assets when the U.S. Supreme Court granted a motion to return the antitrust case to the federal appeals court level.

Compaq Announces BizTalk Server Initiative

HP to Resell Unisys CMP Server

Hewlett-Packard will resell Unisys' 32-processor Cellular Multiprocessing (CMP) server designed for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.

Dell, Microsoft Introduce Supplier Advantage