Intel this week made available faster and more powerful Xeon MP processors, the high-end 32-bit processors that power four-way and larger industry-standard servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 06, 2002
IBM Corp. is immediately refreshing its Intel-based server line with new silicon from Intel. IBM's quick work advances Big Blue's already significant lead in delivering eight-way Xeon MP servers while main competitors HP and Dell continue to deliver eight-processor boxes populated with 900-MHz Pentium III Xeon processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 06, 2002
Yes, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's opinion on Friday to uphold most parts of the antitrust settlement and alter others only slightly looks like a clincher for the case. But when it comes to the courts, it ain't over 'til the … no wait, it's never over. The sad fact is that by the time situations like this get dragged into the courts, nobody ever really wins. The ensuing years tend to be a long-drawn out process of derivative actions, endless court dates and uncertainty.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 05, 2002
The long-awaited ruling in the settlement phase of the Microsoft antitrust case is in.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly approved the terms of the settlement Microsoft agreed to with the Department of Justice and the nine states a year ago.
- By Scott Bekker
- November 01, 2002
Licensing confusion, and more salary survey feedback.
- By MCP Magazine Readers
- November 01, 2002
Computer Associates Int’l Inc. (CA) this week announced version 9 of BrightStor ARCServe Backup. CA bills ARCServe 9 as a significant redesign of its flagship backup product for Windows, Linux and NetWare.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 31, 2002
The flaw results from an unchecked buffer in Microsoft's PPTP
implementation. The bulletin was one of three security bulletins
released by Microsoft's security team on Thursday. The other
newly patched vulnerabilities involve Internet Information Server
and Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 31, 2002
Microsoft will offer a revamped version of its healthcare industry extension to Microsoft BizTalk Server, the BizTalk Accelerator for HIPAA, on Dec. 1.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 30, 2002
It was popular wisdom after the terrorist attacks of September 2001 that Corporate America would wake up to its vulnerability and quickly spend additional billions on security and business continuity solutions, products and services.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 30, 2002
The beta version of Office 11 Microsoft released last week will only run on Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Microsoft officials say there has not been a final decision on whether to freeze out Windows 9x and Windows ME users from the final version of the Office suite, which is scheduled to ship in mid-2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 30, 2002
Windows 2000 received the Common Criteria security certification on Tuesday after Microsoft invested millions of dollars and three years of effort to gain the certification.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 29, 2002
Unisys Corp. on Monday introduced several pre-configured database bundles that it says will enable customers to rapidly deploy and support large database environments. The new systems, which feature Microsoft’s Windows 2000 Datacenter Server hosted on Unisys’ Intel-based ES7000 servers, are also outfitted with SQL Server 2000 and matched with storage capacity from EMC Corp.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- October 28, 2002
Intel was one of the loudest, largest and most active early backers of InfiniBand. That's why the chip giant's decision over the summer to discontinue work on hardware products involving the fledgling server interconnect technology was widely viewed as a very bad sign for InfiniBand.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2002
The massive Distributed Denial of Service attack earlier this week against the backbone of the Internet has created a classic game of "Is the glass half empty or half full?"
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2002
Analysts at market research house IDC are throwing cold water on the idea that the revolutionary phase of Web services -- delivering software as services -- will take hold soon. According to IDC, that development is at least 10 years away.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 24, 2002
An Israeli security firm, GreyMagic Software, documented nine new vulnerabilities in recent versions of Internet Explorer, eight of which the firm calls "critical."
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2002
Microsoft updated the componentized version of Windows XP this week with the delivery of Windows XP Embedded with Service Pack 1. The SP1 release brings expanded foreign-language support, the Microsoft .NET Framework, remote boot and diskless operation.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2002
Microsoft's Office 11, which will include a major overhaul of the Outlook e-mail client and XML integration across the product line, went into its first beta testing phase this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 23, 2002
Stratus Technologies upped the ante on uptime guarantees this week with an offer promising 100 percent uptime on Windows servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2002
Microsoft used its recent financial earnings report to highlight momentum in its server and business products. Strong performers, according to the company, included SQL Server Enterprise Edition, Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP Professional.
- By Scott Bekker
- October 22, 2002