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Oracle and Microsoft Working Together a la COM+

Here's how one company's consultants used COM+ and MTS to scale its Oracle database to be available via the Web.

Get Cash Back for Passing Windows MCSE Exams

LearnKey promises a cash rebate if you pass the Win2K exams using its prep materials. Is the MasterExam product that good?

Keeping Time in Windows 2000

The Windows Time Synchronization service ensures that all your machines stay—tick for tock—on the same clock.

Return to Sender

When moving subnets from Unix JOIN to Win2K DHCP, this admin got a crash course on the intricacies of IP addressing and the pure beauty of the superscope.

Compaq Backs Away from Unisys CMP Systems

Just 2 weeks after HP publicly pulled out, Unisys loses Compaq as its flagship reseller of its 32-processor 'Wintel mainframe' systems.

Special Report: Beta 2 a Bigger Distribution Than Beta 1

Microsoft Corp.'s Beta 2 of Windows 2002 and Windows XP is a far more ambitious distribution than the Beta 1 release that preceded it. The focus is clearly on client versions.

Whistler Server: Taking Shape with Beta 2

As the Whistler server family takes shape with the recent release of the beta 2 version, it is becoming an operating system with a major overhaul of its Web serving capabilities and relatively modest improvements to deployment and management technologies. This report drills into what's new and important with Beta 2 on the server side.

Microsoft Names Whistler Server Windows 2002

Whistler is out. Windows 2002 is in. Microsoft Corp. has settled on a name for its next generation of server operating systems, the company announced Monday at a Gartner Group conference in Los Angeles.

Special Report: Windows 2002 Brings New Server Mix

In the Windows 2002 generation of servers, Microsoft Corp. is considering demoting Windows Server to a small business product and creating a Web-farm specific server edition.

Special Report: Whistler Server Takes Shape With Beta 2

As the Whistler/Windows 2002 server family takes shape with the recent release of the beta 2 version, it is becoming an operating system with a major overhaul of its Web serving capabilities and relatively modest improvements to deployment and management technologies.

Special Report: IIS Architecture Overhauled for Reliability in 6.0

Microsoft Corp's Internet Information Services team rewrote the architecture of IIS for version 6.0 to make the Web server more reliable.

Column: Don't Lose Sleep Over Windows XP

As an IT manager, you’re pretty busy. That’s why I suspect any curiosity you have about Windows XP boils down to this: Is this a business upgrade that I’m going to have to deploy or what? The short answer: It’s not looking that way yet.

Microsoft to Grow .NET With Developer Program

Microsoft Corp. launched another offering aimed at the ASP space this week with a program designed to help independent software vendors and developers build hosted applications.

Analyst: XML Spec a Coup for Hyperion

An agreement between Hyperion and Microsoft means Hyperion will serve as a bridge between Microsoft technologies and the JOLAP initiative led by Oracle, IBM, Sun and Hyperion.

Exchange Support For W2K Datacenter Not There Yet

Despite its certification logo, Exchange 2000 Enterprise Server won't be supported on Windows 2000 Datacenter Server until the first Exchange 2000 service pack ships.

Microsoft's Business Mapping Software RTMs

Configuresoft Changes Name of 9x Migration Tool

Aelita Adds Migration Tools

Embarcadero Intros SQL Tuner

NetIQ Updates Response-Time Monitoring Software