Oracle this week formally signalled its intentions to wade into what it calls "content management."
- By Scott Bekker
- July 20, 2001
Microsoft attributed its ability to rake in money during a financial quarter when many companies struggled to the growing acceptance of its business software.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 20, 2001
Microsoft is stripping Java support from its forthcoming Windows XP operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 18, 2001
Microsoft Operations Manager hit general availability Wednesday. The NetIQ-licensed technology complements Systems Management Server and the Active Directory for managing Microsoft environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 18, 2001
The Department of Justice won't appeal the U.S. Court of Appeals decision in the Microsoft antitrust case. Instead prosecutors want the case fast tracked in the District Court. Meanwhile, New Mexico settles with Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2001
Over the weekend, Web sites running Microsoft Corp.’s IIS Web server platform became the targets of widespread Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 17, 2001
In order to improve its network security, Microsoft turned to Lumeta Corp., a security startup headed by Bill Cheswick, former Bell Labs security researcher. Lumeta had created a process for comprehensive mapping of an intranet.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 16, 2001
Microsoft Corp. today changed its Windows XP licensing agreements to give OEM manufacturers the freedom to remove some icons and other shortcuts from Windows XP’s desktop and “Start” menu.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 12, 2001
Unisys Corp. used its ES7000 platform to notch yet another benchmark record today, registering the world’s best results in the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s (TPC) TPC-W benchmark.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 12, 2001
The Magistr-A virus is still hitting the enterprise hard. Sophos recently released its top 10 virus list for June, based on customer reports to its antivirus center.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2001
Anyone who has been responsible for purchasing enterprise software doesn't need to be told that salespeople understate the costs for installing and customizing that software. Analyst firm Meta Group has come up with a rule-of-thumb multiplier for those claims.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2001
A Gartner survey finds 42 percent of users check business e-mail on vacation.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2001
EMC entered a global alliance this week with Avanade, the joint venture consulting organization between Microsoft and Accenture.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 11, 2001
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) yesterday released a public working draft of version 1.2 of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Although it features several new enhancements to the SOAP 1.1 draft that preceded it, SOAP 1.2 is for the most part a maintenance release.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 10, 2001
In the wake of the U.S. Appeals Court decision in the Microsoft antitrust case, users should expect business as usual from Redmond, according to a recent analysis from Meta Group.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2001
Microsoft's roadmap for .NET calls for much .NET integration to be done by early 2002. Redmond, and others, expect the technology to really take off in terms of widespread adoption around 2003.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2001
DEC veteran Greg Scott draws parallels from the OpenVMS-Unix days to the current Windows-Linux wars.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2001
Industry observers disagree about whether the Web services model needs to succeed for .NET to have an impact.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2001
Cautious about the hype but hopeful for the model, ENT readers indicate a growing support for XML-based Web services.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2001
Microsoft Corp. plans to market a pre-release version of its forthcoming Windows .NET Advanced Server - dubbed, appropriately enough, Windows Advanced Server Limited Edition - as part of an overall effort to ratchet-up Advanced Server adoption rates among its customers.
- By Scott Bekker
- July 09, 2001