A new study by IDC finds that enterprise Linux server usage is moving beyond its traditional bastion of Web serving and moving into Unix and Windows strongholds such as application serving and database serving.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2003
AMD refreshed its line of multiprocessor chips for servers and workstations this week with the introduction of the AMD Athlon MP 2600+.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 05, 2003
A federal appeals court on Monday stayed a district court judge's order for Microsoft to distribute Sun's Java Runtime Environment with Windows XP.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 04, 2003
Microsoft pulled the Windows NT 4.0 version of a security patch it issued in December because the patch was causing systems to crash.
- By Scott Bekker
- February 04, 2003
Chipmaker AMD will launch its 64-bit server and workstation processor, the AMD Opteron, on April 22 in New York City. The launch date synchronizes the alternative to Intel's 64-bit Itanium family with the first general release of a 64-bit Windows server operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 31, 2003
Microsoft .NET Passport users will get better privacy protection, due to an agreement between European Union regulators and Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 30, 2003
IIS 6.0 isn’t in final form yet, but that doesn’t mean it’s not in use. In fact, one of the largest managed hosting companies in the world has been using it for two years now—and not just on a test network.
- By Keith Ward
- January 30, 2003
A U.K.-based security firm is estimating that economic damage from the SQL Slammer worm is already over $1 billion, making it the ninth most damaging malware attack yet in the firm's estimation.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 30, 2003
A Microsoft legal document put a late 2004 expected ship date on the next client version of Windows, code-named "Longhorn," putting in black and white what Microsoft officials have been telling partners, customers and reporters in private conversations.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2003
While Microsoft has been promoting the security focus of Windows Server 2003 since delaying the operating system release in 2002 for a code review, Microsoft uncovered some specific security features in the OS for the first time last week. Newly disclosed security settings and features include details of some of the services that are disabled or running with reduced privilege by default, a Security Configuration Wizard tool that will be available this summer and new documentation for administrators configuring systems and networks for security.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 29, 2003
Fujitsu Limited late last week joined the growing number of hardware vendors building massive server systems based on Intel's 64-bit Itanium processor family.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2003
Microsoft this week pushed back the support deadline for its Windows NT 4.0 Server products by a year to the end of 2004. So-called "extended support," which includes security support and paid incident support, will be available until Dec. 31, 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 28, 2003
The SQL Slammer worm, exploiting a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000 patched by Microsoft six months ago, flooded the Internet with traffic and infected about 35,000 hosts over the weekend.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 27, 2003
Microsoft on Wednesday formally appealed a federal judge's order to start distributing Sun's Java Runtime Environment with every U.S. and German copy of Windows XP and Internet Explorer by June 4.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 23, 2003
Veritas Software this week unveiled version 9.0 of its Backup Exec for Windows Servers. The software is retooled to support Windows Server 2003, to back up Exchange servers more quickly, for faster setup and with browser-based, remote administration.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 23, 2003
Microsoft alerted users to a critical unchecked buffer vulnerability in a service that is enabled by default on Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4.0 domain controllers. The alert was one of three security alerts that Microsoft sent to users on Wednesday night.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 23, 2003
Altiris released an updated version of its IT asset management suite that integrates more smoothly with common databases and provides users with new ways to look at their IT inventories.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 23, 2003
Microsoft made its highly anticipated move into the customer relationship management market on Tuesday with the North American launch of Microsoft CRM.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 22, 2003
Microsoft has agreed to buy Web conferencing services provider PlaceWare Inc. and plans to add the company's assets to a new Real-Time Collaboration Group inside Microsoft's Information Worker business.
- By Scott Bekker
- January 22, 2003
IBM this week disclosed significant changes to its eServer iSeries line of mid-range servers. Once known as the AS/400 line, the servers primarily run IBM's OS/400, but they can be outfitted with Windows and Linux, as well. New to the iSeries are the addition of a new
sub-$10,000 system and the introduction of support for On/Off Capacity
Upgrade on Demand (CUD).
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 22, 2003