SoftArtisans, which already sells a reporting product that generates and delivers reports in Word and Excel, announced plans to extend its functionality to support Microsoft's new SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
Dell this week made available three networked storage systems in the Dell/EMC product lineup that replace three previous models.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 12, 2004
The patch Microsoft released on Tuesday for one of the most severe flaws yet discovered in Windows has the company under renewed scrutiny about the length of time it takes to fix security problems.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 11, 2004
If SCO Group won its lawsuit against IBM, Red Hat, and Novell over the intellectual property rights to Linux code, it would seem cause for dancing in the streets of Redmond. However, a SCO victory doesn’t necessarily bode well for Microsoft in the long run, either.
- By Joe McKendrick
- February 11, 2004
Tuesday was Microsoft's monthly patch day, and the company marked the date with three new security bulletins, including one critical new bulletin for Windows. In all Microsoft bundled four security bulletins, including one it issued for Internet Explorer last week outside its normal patch cycle.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 10, 2004
If nothing else, Juniper Networks' $4 billion acquisition of NetScreen Technologies Monday is a strong indication that the networking market segment is poised for a recovery in 2004.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 10, 2004
The worldwide server market got a slight bounce in 2003, according to preliminary numbers for the year compiled by IDC in a report published this month.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 10, 2004
Although Microsoft enjoyed early success in fending off the distributed denial of service attack programmed into the fast-spreading MyDoom.B, the mass-mailing worm is inflicting an increasing amount of damage against the software giant's servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 09, 2004
Microsoft alerted partners on Monday to an upcoming deal on Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2000, the company's enterprise software firewall that is scheduled to be replaced later this year by ISA 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 09, 2004
Although Microsoft launched its own enterprise reporting tool last week, the software giant will continue packaging the competitive Business Objects Crystal Reports tool inside the Microsoft Visual Studio developer suite for now and into the next Visual Studio release, code-named "Whidbey."
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2004
Next week, Microsoft will launch its first advertising campaign around the Windows Server System, an indication that Microsoft is committed to its latest branding of the back-end server products that run on top of Windows.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2004
Microsoft IIS slightly edges out the open-source Apache Web server in the percentage of the 1,000 highest-traffic sites that run each Web server, a new survey finds.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2004
Testers laud ability to create more seamless applications and its deeper level of report creation and management.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 04, 2004
Oracle announced lower prices for the entry-level version of its new Oracle Database 10g, which is shipping now for Unix and Linux and will be available for Windows later.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 03, 2004
Microsoft on Monday released the much-anticipated fix for a flaw that is already being exploited in Internet Explorer that allowed the widespread "phishing" attacks through e-mail.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 02, 2004
BusinessWeek Magazine, in its Feb. 2 editions, is declaring that SCO Group with its Linux lawsuits has replaced Microsoft as the most hated company in IT.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2004
Following in the footsteps of the SCO Group Inc., Microsoft on Thursday put up a $250,000 bounty for the perpetrators of MyDoom.B.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2004
The already fast-spreading MyDoom or Novarg mass-mailing virus got a boost from an effective variant that hit about two days after the original virus was discovered.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2004
Quest Software Inc. will buy privately-held Aelita Software for $115 million in a deal announced by the companies late Wednesday. The deal, a combination of two of the companies with the deepest sets of Active Directory and Windows-specific migration and management technologies, is expected to close this quarter.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2004
Microsoft posted a public beta of Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2004, the second-generation version of Microsoft's enterprise firewall and Web caching product.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2004