Sun Microsystems took a page from Microsoft's book on Wednesday by making its application server middleware free.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 19, 2002
Here Comes IBM Big Time in SMB!
- By Harry Brelsford
- 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
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
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
In an effort to show the scalability of the streaming media software to be included in Windows .NET Server, Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its joint venture with NBC, the MSNBC news Web site, has been running the beta code for more than two months.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 12, 2002
Microsoft hastily issued a pre-patch workaround for a critical vulnerability involving the handling of the Gopher protocol in several of its products after parties went public with the information.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 12, 2002
The critical security vulnerability in some of Microsoft's instant message products that prompted an analyst at Gartner to warn IT managers away from permitting instant messaging in their enterprises has reared its head again.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 12, 2002
ASP.NET came of age this week when Microsoft posted a security patch for a vulnerability arising in some Web server farm environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 11, 2002
Two years ago, Microsoft introduced .NET as the way the company would keep itself at the forefront of computing for the next decade. Since that time, Microsoft has defined and redefined what .NET is, what Web services are and how its business model would look in the new age of Web services. In this special report, ENT offers a report card on how Microsoft's .NET efforts are coming.
Microsoft fleshed out its roadmap for federated Web services on Thursday by detailing a new Windows technology for cross-company user authentication that goes by the code-name "TrustBridge."
- By Scott Bekker
- June 06, 2002
Market research firm IDC said last week that IBM Corp. remained the number one vendor in worldwide server revenue in the first quarter of 2002. It also noted the server market shrank in terms of revenue, compared to the same quarter a year ago.
Microsoft took a big step toward delivering the first service pack for Windows XP this week by releasing a beta version of the patch for select test users.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 06, 2002
Oracle put out its second release for its flagship Oracle9i database on Wednesday, and this time there's no lag for a Windows version.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 05, 2002
It may be a good time to firm up your organization's policies on use of the Yahoo! instant messaging client.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 05, 2002
Analysts at Gartner say that most IT managers aren't keeping their houses in order when it comes to asset management.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 05, 2002
At a technology conference in Taiwan, chipmaker AMD demonstrated its upcoming 64-bit processors running in a four-processor server. It was the first time AMD had demonstrated greater-than-two-processor scalability for its chips.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 04, 2002
Microsoft on Tuesday released a second beta of a tool for converting code written in Microsoft Visual J++ to the newer Microsoft C# language. The tool, called the Java Language Conversion Assistant or JLCA, is based on technology licensed from ArtinSoft, a Costa Rican company specializing in enterprise software migration and upgrades.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 04, 2002
The slippery Klez worm topped anti-virus vendor Sophos' monthly list of the Top 10 most reported viruses for the third straight month in May.
- By Scott Bekker
- June 04, 2002