Mainstream support for Windows NT 4.0 Server ends on Dec. 31, a deadline Microsoft formally set a year ago and reaffirmed with a new support retirement policy in October. Support for several other more minor server products will also expire at the end of this year.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2002
Analyst firm Aberdeen Group predicts an increase in worldwide IT spending in 2003 and beyond but researchers say they don't expect to see the kind of IT spending growth of the late '90s to happen again.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2002
Storage software giant Veritas is buying application performance management vendor Precise in a $537 million deal.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 19, 2002
IBM is shipping 16-processor Xeon MP-based servers in volume. The servers, which are five months behind schedule, broaden the options for customers who are looking to run powerful Windows-based systems with more than eight processors for server consolidation or large database projects.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2002
You'd think the existence of ASP.NET on a Web site would make it a safe bet that it's a Windows server, right? Not so fast. Internet researchers at U.K.-based consultancy Netcraft find that about 1 percent of ASP.NET Internet sites on the Web are running Linux.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 18, 2002
Microsoft issued a roadmap on its Web site this week of the software and technologies it plans to deliver for the enterprise in 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 17, 2002
Unisys this week touted a new set of benchmarks that it says demonstrates the scalability and the price/performance of its flagship ES7000 Intel servers.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2002
Microsoft this week announced the newest edition to its Microsoft Systems Architecture configurations, Microsoft Systems Architecture for the Enterprise Data Center.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 12, 2002
IBM last week agreed to acquire development tools vendor Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion. The deal is the second largest software acquisition in Big Blue's history and brings up interesting issues surrounding Rational's support for .NET.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- December 11, 2002
Microsoft issued new security bulletins warning users of moderate threats due to vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 10, 2002
Intel took a step this week to make it easier for developers to use the Hyper Threading technology in its newest processors. The chipmaker released new compilers for translating C++ and Fortran code into the machine language understood by the processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2002
In rolling out Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 on Thursday, Microsoft also offered the bulk of its user base a first look at a new tool for the prickly problems of Group Policy management.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2002
Microsoft officially posted Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 to the Web for download on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 05, 2002
As Microsoft puts the finishing touches on Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 for posting later this week, the software giant also previewed new options for Client Access Licenses that should give customers a little more power to match CALs to their needs.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 04, 2002
Microsoft will post Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 this week, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. RC2 will probably be the last widely distributed test version of the server operating system before it is released to manufacturing sometime in the first quarter of 2003. General availability of Windows .NET Server 2003 is scheduled for April.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2002
Two of the nine states that sought tougher antitrust remedies for Microsoft will appeal a federal judge's decision last month to accept Microsoft's settlement with the Justice Department and reject the harsher penalties.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2002
HP updated its line of ProLiant-branded, Intel-based servers this week by making available a rack-dense, four-processor system and announcing a pair of 1U servers that will ship later this month. All three servers feature remote management and fault resilient technologies.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 03, 2002
Netcraft is trying to correct a misimpression surrounding Microsoft's two-week-old security bulletin involving Microsoft Data Access Components.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 02, 2002
The number of digital attacks in the United States rose by 13 percent in November despite an 8 percent decline worldwide, according to a London-based security firm.
- By Scott Bekker
- December 02, 2002
In early 2003, HP plans to roll out eight-processor servers based on a second-generation Profusion chipset that supports the newer Intel Xeon MP processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 27, 2002