Notable holdout Sun Microsystems Inc. is now on the Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification bandwagon.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2002
Microsoft will support eight-node failover clusters in Windows .NET Enterprise Server. Microsoft made the post-Beta 3 change to support Exchange Server and multi-site, disaster tolerance scenarios.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2002
Microsoft delivered the last major language for its Visual Studio .NET integrated development environment on Monday, posting the gold code of the Visual J# .NET language to the Web some four months after releasing the rest of the developer kit.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 01, 2002
Microsoft is urging customers using Commerce Server to immediately install a patch for four newly discovered vulnerabilities -- two of them involving critical code execution problems.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 27, 2002
Oracle reached a key milestone this week with its Oracle9i database by producing an audited benchmark of its Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on Windows servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 27, 2002
One of the first essential tools to emerge for Windows 2000 and Active Directory environments got a refresh this week. FullArmor Corp. is shipping version 3.0 of its FAZAM 2000 solution for the tricky task of managing Group Policy objects.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 26, 2002
IBM is taking steps to stop spam at the server, preventing users from needing to manage it manually or with spam management tools. The server-side enhancements will come in the next version of IBM's Lotus Domino messaging and collaboration server.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 26, 2002
Hewlett-Packard this week introduced new products based on its HP OpenView IT management framework that included solutions and plug-ins for managing service level agreements, Web services and storage.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 26, 2002
Microsoft is working with hardware companies to get security hardware into new systems to be used by a future version of Windows, possibly the Longhorn release, according to published reports.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 25, 2002
For once, there was a firestorm in security and Microsoft wasn't at the center of it. The problem involved the Apache Web server. A vulnerability disclosed last week allowed a denial-of-service attack and even made remote code execution possible on some operating systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 25, 2002
Adding another company to its integration portfolio, IBM Corp. bought directory integration software vendor Metamerge. IBM did not disclose how much it paid for the private company based in Oslo, Norway.
Macro code-executing vulnerabilities in Word and Excel prompted Microsoft to issue a cumulative patch for the ubiquitous Office applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 20, 2002
This time its Intel's close partner on Itanium, HP, claiming the big performance boost from the second-generation Intel architecture 64-bit chip. HP ran a 64-bit Windows server on Itanium 2 at a technology conference for the securities industry.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 20, 2002
The district court judge in the federal antitrust case against Microsoft gave her first concrete indication that the consent decree hashed out between Microsoft and the federal government may be in trouble.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 19, 2002
Microsoft has decided to put its Java Virtual Machine, based on an aging version of Java, back in Windows XP via the first Windows XP Service Pack.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 19, 2002
Sun Microsystems took a page from Microsoft's book on Wednesday by making its application server middleware free.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 19, 2002
For those of you anxiously awaiting Windows 2000 Service Pack 3, the suspense should soon be over.
Microsoft reports that the service pack is in the Release Candidate 1 stage with availability scheduled for "this summer."
- By Scott Bekker
- June 18, 2002
The third-party ecosystem around Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server grew on Tuesday when Sybari unveiled an anti-virus and content filtering solution for the document store in Microsoft's enterprise portal server.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 18, 2002
Two more software vendors publicly announced their support for Web services recently. Novell Inc. and Data Junction Corp. both joined the likes of Microsoft, IBM, Sun and Information Builders as companies whose plans include support for the Web services protocols in their products.
Microsoft issued a raft of new security fixes Wednesday evening. The most serious was a problem arising from an unchecked buffer in Microsoft's Remote Access Service Phonebook leaves several Microsoft business-class operating systems open to a critical vulnerability.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 13, 2002