eWeek articles from August 2001

eWeek archives from August 2001

Code red lessons, big and small.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 6, 2001... IT managers and users alike who were affected by the Code Red worm have gone through the latest round of requisite security "lessons learned." Those include: Stay on top of security news, install your patches, monitor server activity and err on...

The Dow insecurity average.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... At the end of 1999, when Intel became a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, I chastised that financial reporting company for reducing the value of this once-respected measure of economic health. "Exxon's oil in the ground and...

Smart travel is the best travel.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 6, 2001... In this summer of our discontent, it's hard to see any sign of the drastic cuts corporations are making in business travel budgets. The last plane I took met the "very full" standard set by the flight attendants, at one point there was a line...

Economic heat dries up IT salaries.(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Layoffs aren't the only things it professionals need to contend with these days. After soaring for several years, the growth rate for IT professionals' salaries has moderated, according to a salary survey from Matrix Resources Inc., an IT...

IT pros are prone to say sayonara.(many leaving current employers)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... A lower salary growth could be the reason that more than half of IT professionals are leaving their employers relatively quickly. The IT Market Compensation Study from People3, a subsidiary of Gartner Inc. in Bridgewater, N.J., shows that the...

E-biz building blocks - Enterprises start tinkering with nascent Web services.(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
August 6, 2001... Give Tim Hilgenberg some new toys, and like any good IT leader, he'll find a way to build a better e-business. Just recently, Hilgenberg, chief technology officer of applications at Hewitt Associates LLC, has begun toying with the emerging...

Web services need standards.(vendors moving to propose Web standards)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)
August 6, 2001... Even today, with vendors touting web services as loudly as street corner newspaper hawkers, their success will depend largely on the ability of those competitors and software developers to develop more standards on which they can agree, experts...

E-mail bill may fail to curtail spamming.(Government Activity)
August 6, 2001... In my last column, I discussed the pending unsolicited commercial electronic mail act of 2001 (H.R. 95) and compared its potential effectiveness with the ineffective Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, which dealt with junk faxes. n The...

SAS70: Key to web security? Standard may be waste of time-not seal of approval.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 6, 2001... Pamela Fusco had no idea what she was getting into when her company decided to go through an SAS70 audit of its security practices and procedures. Director of systems security operations for Web hosting provider Digex Inc., Fusco figured she...

Pushing out to hinterland.(Filanet InterJak 200 communications server)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... Telecommuters and branch office workers can sometimes fall behind the IT curve because of their remote locations. To give service providers a way to deliver value-added services to small and remote offices, Filanet Corp. has launched a...

PowerPoint on the Palm.(Documents to Go Professional Edition 4.0 co-launched by Palm Inc. and DataViz Inc)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... In a novel colaunching effort, Palm Inc. and DataViz Inc. last week announced Version 4.0 of DataViz's Documents to Go software. Documents to Go Professional Edition Version 4.0 enables users to view Microsoft Corp.'s PowerPoint files on...

From FCto SCSI.(Crossroads Systems' Crossroads 8000 storage switch)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... A new storage switch from Crossroads Systems Inc. provides midsize enterprises with large-scale Fibre Channel-to-SCSI flexibility. The Crossroads 8000, announced last week by the Austin, Texas, company, features eight SCSI device ports, a...

Keeping an eye on e-mail traffic.(Network Associates' WebShield e500 anti-virus appliance)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... With e-mail being the Trojan horse by which most computer viruses enter the system, the danger of infection increases as the amount of e-mail traffic jumps. McAfee, a division of Network Associates Inc., last week introduced its WebShield...

Broadband for the masses hits the market.(Net to Net Technologies' Sirius S_D2000-6 and S_D2000-12 MicroDSLAMs)(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... Net to Net's access multiplexer stretches DSL's range to outer reaches Shrinking world Is your business park too remote for a DSL? Net to Net Technologies Inc., a Portsmouth, N.H., provider of Ethernet-based IP broadband access products,...

Firewall/VPNs come of age.(Technology Information)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Securing your virtual private network will get easier and less expensive in the coming years as firewall/VPN duets hit the market in ever-increasing numbers. In the Special Report that starts at right, Senior Analyst Cameron Sturdevant sums up...

Web Service Development.(WebCollage's WebCollage Syndicator 2.2)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
August 6, 2001... Sidestepping a standards fracas Solid core standards for web services are here, but none has been adopted for Web interface and services developers. Some organizations might opt to wait out the uncertainty, but those that can't now have a...

Fast security to go - New firewall/VPN wares push speed, ease management.(Nokia IP740 and SonicWall GX650 firewall/VPN appliances)(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
August 6, 2001... IT managers can choose among a fast-growing crop of capable Gigabit- speed firewall/VPN appliances that push the price and manageability envelope. One thing that became clear during eWeek Labs' tests of two products in this category is that,...

WebCollage fills interim in Web services.(WebCollage Syndicator 2.2)(Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 6, 2001... Web services are coming-at least they are if companies such as IBM, Microsoft Corp., Sun Micro- systems Inc. and every other Web application, server or portal vendor have anything to say about it. However, although solid core standards such...

Windows XP and the PC's 20th anniversary.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... So the pc is 20 years old now, although of course nothing from Sinclair, Tandy, Commodore, Altair or Apple figures in anyone's counts. MTV has also hit the score mark, and, like the PC industry, the music industry is awash in commercialism and...

Leave security to insiders.(Hardware Review)(Evaluation)
August 6, 2001... Protecting networks from outside attack is far too important to just run "by the numbers." Although a lot of discussion about firewall and VPN appliances involves performance numbers-and these are critical-IT managers should be even more...

Choice of JVM isn't in Microsoft's plans.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... In a recent online column about microsoft's decision not to ship its Java Virtual Machine with Windows XP, I wondered whether we might be moving toward a more modular Windows-a Windows in which Microsoft omits components such as an MP3 encoder...

Pings&Packets - Searching the industry for technical connections and returning analysis in byte-size packages.(News Briefs)
August 6, 2001... Stepping out in a Web venue After nearly two years, some decent efforts are finally emerging in the Web database space. In particular, Caspio's Caspio Bridge (www.caspio.com) Web-based database stands out for its friendly Dynamic HTML...

Supply chain as strong as its weakest link - Startups Apexon and SupplyWorks strengthen supplier management.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... After installing expensive supply chain optimization software from big- name vendors, some companies are turning to niche development efforts to get full use of those investments. Startups Apexon Inc. and SupplyWorks Inc. are working to...

Seeing the future in optical - Smaller equipment vendors pursue next- generation networking strategy.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... While major telecommunications infrastructure companies hit by the general spending slowdown are refocusing on tried-and-true technologies, smaller vendors are pressing ahead with next-generation networking, particularly optical communications....

Motorola zeros in on wireless carriers.(plans to sell off Integrated Information Systems Group to General Dynamics)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Continuing to streamline operations and shift focus to serving wireless carriers, Motorola Inc. last week announced plans to sell the company's Integrated Information Systems Group to defense contractor General Dynamics Corp. for $825 million....

Intel CEO optimistic in weak economy - But the company plans price cuts, and others such as Compaq, HP, IBM forecast PC sales to worsen.(Craig Barrett)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Intel Corp. CEO Craig Barrett earlier this month hit an optimistic note in an otherwise dour period for the PC industry, saying several times during a business tour through Asia that the embattled industry has bottomed out and is poised for a...

Upgrade manages products in real time.(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... An upgrade to Entigo Corp.'s Reality sell-side e-business software looks to make it easier for global manufacturing companies to implement sell-side private exchanges, as well as market and sell their products through channel partners, company...

SilverStream flows into Web services.(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... Silverstream Software Inc. last week continued its push into the Web services arena, rolling out a portable Web services engine and tools as part of the latest point release of its application server. SilverStream Application Server Version...

Looking for signs of rebirth in technology.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 6, 2001... How many times can you have the conversation regarding hope for an uptick in the technology business? If my trip to the West Coast last week is any gauge, the answer is many more times than you care to. In cabs, restaurants and airport lounges,...

Mariners in the Far East.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... The Japanese love technology, and they love the Seattle Mariners. Now, Amazon.com and Major League Baseball are using technology to pump up the team's presence in Japan. Amazon last week launched the Seattle Mariners Store at its Japanese...

Coders will vie head-to-head.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... So you think you're a top-rate programmer? Starting next month, you can see how you fare against your peers. TopCoder, a company that hosts weekly programming competitions on its Web site, will hold its Invitational Programming Tournament...

Google names Schmidt CEO.(Company Operations)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Eric schmidt's move from Novell to Google is complete. In March, Schmidt, while still CEO at Novell, was appointed chairman of Google's board of directors. Last week, Schmidt was named CEO of the popular search site, soon after leaving the same...

Allchin: Staying the course on XP.(Product Development)
August 6, 2001... Microsoft exec addresses issues surrounding forthcoming launch of OS As the countdown to mi cro soft Corp.'s Oct. 25 launch of Windows XP marches on, the product and the Redmond, Wash., company continue to face scrutiny from competitors,...

Banner days for handhelds - Expected boom in wireless ads spurs debate.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 6, 2001... With interest in that tiny bit of real estate above your PDA or cell phone keypad heating up, service providers and industry advocates are debating standards for the coming onslaught of handheld advertisements. Among the first to weigh in...

Oracle widens Web reach - 9i JDeveloper goes to beta, extends company's wares in Java development technology, services.(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... The 9i version of Oracle Corp.'s JDeveloper application takes aim at Sun Micro systems Inc. and Microsoft Corp., expanding the software company's offerings in Java development technology and Web services. The Redwood Shores, Calif.,...

Citrix, Sybase tune portal offerings.(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... Two portal vendors are boosting their offerings with new capa bilities. Citrix Systems Inc. last week bolstered its XPS portal by adding information-sharing capabilities through integration with eRoom Technology Inc.'s namesake collaboration...

Metricom to auction assets - Without an investor, Ricochet service must be suspended, hurting companies such as Compaq.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Unable to find anyone to invest enough into the company to save it, Metricom Inc. announced that it will suspend its Ricochet wireless Internet service and that it plans to auction off its assets this week. The assets include all patents...

Need2Buy partners for PTN solution.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Need2buy Inc. has taken the expertise it garnered running its own public e-marketplace and turned it into an option that enables electronics manufacturers to set up Web-based private trading networks. The Westlake Village, Calif., company,...

Ballmer stirs crowd with 'monster mash'.(Company Operations)(Column)
August 6, 2001... Images of "young frankenstein" came rushing back to the Whiskered One last week as he watched a video clip of Steve Ballmer that was making its way around the Web. n The footage shows Ballmer, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Peter Boyle's...

Litter box Lynx.(Humor)(Column)
August 6, 2001... Have some industry gossip? Found a funky Web site? Contact Rumor Central at spencer_katt@ziffdavis.com or call (781) 393-3700 www.kazaa.com A Winamp plug-in and P2P file sharing app for finding and downloading media files, including...

BSA members defend tactics.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 6, 2001... The business software alliance has been storming across America with its Truce Campaign for the past year, leaving countless businesses quaking in its wake-but that's of little concern to the group's members. The massive mail campaign,...

Wireless LANs dealt new blow - Security goes from bad to worse.(Technology Information)
August 6, 2001... A new attack that can compromise the encryption cipher used on wireless networks has many users and security experts questioning the future of a technology that has long been touted as the future of enterprise computing. The latest blow to...

IBM takes aim at b2b's big 6 - Company to appoint executives to oversee relationships with key e-biz leaders, such as Ariba, SAP.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Ibm is honing its business-to-business pitch by focusing its energies on six key partners. Beginning this week, the company will appoint a set of executives to work more closely with B2B and enterprise software leaders Ariba Inc., i2...

Microsoft nets site content - Repackaged Content Management Server competes well in midtier market.(Product Announcement)
August 6, 2001... Just when you thought your product waters were safe, Microsoft Corp. enters. High-end content management vendors such as Interwoven Inc. and Vignette Corp. won't suffer any Microsoft-induced bites in their market share, but low- to midtier...

Sun, Hitachi target EMC Management.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Hitachi data systems and sun Microsystems last week announced resale, integration and development deals aimed at the high-end storage space now dominated by EMC. The deal involves Sun's distribution of high-end Hitachi hardware; the licensing,...

HP's OpenView unit to buy Trinagy.(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 6, 2001... Hewlett-packard's openview unit made a play for the high end of the network performance management market last week when it announced its intention to acquire Trinagy. With the acquisition of the privately held Trinagy, which has 125...

A race against time - Microsoft's Supreme Court petition seen as delay tactic.(release of Microsoft Windows XP OS)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... Microsoft Corp.'s attorneys are picking up the pace of their legal maneuvering as the Oct. 25 ship date for Windows XP draws closer. Legal experts say the Redmond, Wash., company's latest gambit-its petitioning of the U.S. Supreme Court...

E-services becoming land of the giants.(HP Consulting's services)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 6, 2001... As the boutiques that once dominated e-consulting fade, larger players, such as Hewlett-Packard Co., are moving in on multiple fronts to secure a bigger share of what remains. In an interesting twist on the transformation of the industry,...

Code Red II: Worst may be yet to come.(Technology Information)
August 6, 2001... As the Code Red II worm tore through the Internet last week, infecting servers at Microsoft Corp. and causing outages around the country, security experts worried that this latest attack is just a dry run for crackers gearing up for something...

Making best of data center slowdown - Brokers work to fill up space in emptying data centers, matching customers with hosting companies.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 6, 2001... Not long ago, IT administrators looking to outsource servers to a hosting company had only expensive services from a handful of name- brand providers to choose from. But the struggling economy and dot-com crash changed that. These days,...

IP networking development on the rise.(Company Financial Information)
August 6, 2001... Even as the major telco vendors struggle to sell into large legacy networks, a growing interest in quick, easy and affordable advancements in IP telephony is fueling development at a number of startup companies. In the same week that Cisco...

Holiday shopping, Microsoft's way.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... PC builders need freedom to maneuver during the coming winter holiday season. We urge Microsoft not to burden OEMs with a massive, generic Windows XP configuration that could easily intimidate prospective PC buyers by imposing too many ties to...

Don't get thrown for a loop.(provide easy to use customer services)(Industry Trend or Event)
August 13, 2001... You've surely heard the conjugation "I am firm, you are obstinate, he is pigheaded." Similarly, IT architects often seem to be saying, "I am in the loop, you are a system bottleneck, he is an error-prone manual operation." The proper task of IT...

IBM goes with the B2B flow.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... We knew the internet was going to change everything. We just didn't know by how much. It's not exactly what we had in mind, but the future is here, now. So we might as well deal with it and make the most of it. n Some technology companies...

Large enterprises stick with e-com ...(report by eMarketer)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Although many independent e-marketplaces are struggling to survive, large global enterprises have not given up on business-to-business e- commerce, according to a recent report by research company eMarketer Inc. The New York-based company...

... but others take traditional routes.(research results on e-commerce and XML ususage)(Industry Trend or Event)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... But where large global enterprises tread, the bulk of companies are loath to follow. Recent research from the Computing Technology Industry Association's E-Commerce Standards Board found that nearly half of all businesses eschew e-commerce and...

Survival course - A few independent e-markets bucking the trend, thrive.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 13, 2001... There's no doubt about it. Once the darlings of investors and New Economy gurus, business-to-business e-marketplaces have fallen on hard times. Analysts expect their numbers, estimated at about 1,000 or more last year, to plunge to a few...

Telecom trades - Arbinet thrives by giving flexibility to buyers and sellers of voice capacity.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... Psst. want to buy or sell some telecom routing capacity? For you buyers: today only, real cheap. For you sellers: Don't worry, it's all anonymous. Nobody's going to tell your muck-a-muck retail customers you slid some capacity under the table...

Powering up - Already profitable, Altra energy trading exchange expands its services.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... Post-dot-com conventional wisdom has it that, among independent business-to-business e-marketplaces, first-mover advantage was a myth and profitability a pipe dream. Try telling that to Paul Bourke, CEO of Altra Energy Technologies Inc....

A winning mix - E-marketplace ChemConnect pulls ahead of competitors with key merger.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... When, in June, independent e-marketplace ChemConnect Inc. announced plans to merge with chemical industry consortia-backed exchange Envera LLC, it could have easily been seen as an act of desperation, an admission of defeat. But it was far from...

PKI without the hassle.(public key infrastructure)(CertCo CertSigner)(Company Business and Marketing)(Brief Article)
August 13, 2001... Pki implementations come with hefty time and financial investments. A New York company said it has a way around them. CertCo Inc. last week released an electronic-signing product that is designed to perform all the functions of a full...

Oracle on air with e-biz suite.(Oracle Mobile Enabled E-business Suite)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... Oracle corp. has a plan to make all its applications accessible via wireless devices. To that end, the Redwood Shores, Calif., company this month announced the release of its Mobile-Enabled e-Business Suite. For now, customers can satisfy...

Tivoli's hits on CD companion.(electronic documentation)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... If you use technology from Tivoli Systems Inc., there is now a new way to get technical support without having to go online. The Austin, Texas, en ter prise, an IBM company, has released the Tivoli Knowledge Toolkit, a CD containing Tivoli...

Bringing policy to the forefront.(NTP Software Quota and File Sentinel)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... NTP Software this week will launch a policy-based version of its storage management tool, Quota & File Sentinel. The new version, 3.0, installs on networks using push technology and doesn't require any rebooting. New functionality...

Routers will give enterprises answers.(RouteScience PathControl)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... RouteScience's PathControl helps to manage Internet traffic Questions answered Enterprises that need to find a better way of figuring out which of their Internet service providers is delivering the best performance or want to be sure that...

Oracle9i takes all-in-one approach.(new DBMS)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... More is better. oracle seems to have taken this adage to heart, as the latest renditions of its database platform prove. In this week's Cover Story, eWeek Labs West Coast Technical Director Timothy Dyck put Oracle9i Database through its paces...

Two ways to balance the load.(product overview)(Brief Article)(Buyers Guide)
August 13, 2001... Server load balancers, which help stop Web traffic jams before they start, are imperative for most enterprises. Technical Analyst Francis Chu compares a hardware device, Radware's Web Server Director Pro, with a software-based system, Zeus...

Oracle's new edge - Oracle9i hones Swiss Army Knife database strategy.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
August 13, 2001... Oracle Corp.'s corporate strategy is to make its database be all things to all people, an approach that has produced the Swiss Army Knife of data management. In eWeek Labs' tests of Oracle9i Database, we found a database that will probably do...

Imitation, innovation in database industry.(Industry Trend or Event)
August 13, 2001... Given its critical nature to large organizations, the database market is appropriately slow to change. In fact, the big trend in the database industry over the past two years has been the bundling of existing technology into established...

Pings&Packets - Searching the industry for technical connections and returning analysis in byte-size packages.(Product Information)
August 13, 2001... Operating systems Red Hat to add journaling The first public beta of Red Hat Linux 7.2 was just posted, and the big- gest change for server use will be the operating system's default use of the ext3 file system, the next version of the...

Balancing the Web server load - Hardware-and software-based systems compete on much more than raw performance numbers.(Radware's Web Server Director Pro 7.10 and Zeus Technologies Zeus Zeus Load Balancer 1.3)
August 13, 2001... Server load balancers have become a critical infrastructure component for ensuring optimal performance of large Internet or intranet sites. Raw performance numbers are a useful comparison metric, but load balancing and management features and...

Living could be easy in HP's cool town.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... Laying aside privacy and compatibility concerns, what if a paramedic arriving on the scene of an accident automatically had immediate access to the medical history of an unconscious victim?Hewlett-Packard's Cool Town concept-turned-demo-center...

Oracle takes low-rent tack for database.(Oracle9i)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... When I last wrote about Oracle, I was a bit confused about why the company's code name for Oracle9i was the "last database." I'm no more clear on the subject, but I do have some insight on where Oracle is heading with its next database. The...

Antara.net's FlameThrower on fire.(Antara Flame Thrower 2.0)(Product Information)
August 13, 2001... As shown by eWEEK labs' tests of web server load balancers from Radware Inc. and Zeus Technology Inc. (see review, Page 52), Antara.net's Flame- Thrower II can be a formidable testing tool, capable of generating thousands of HTTP connections to...

Feel the power of the computer grid - The networks are now used for research, but commercial grids are not far away.(Technology Information)
August 13, 2001... Imagine if computing power were as easily accessible as electricity. Businesses essentially would be able to tap into a vast network of supercomputers and pay only for the power they use, rather than spend millions of dollars on the hardware...

Database options expand - Embarcadero unveils Sybase edition of SQL Debugger; Great Plains bundle to support Postgre SQL.(Great Bridge WebSuite)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... Companies looking for evidence of database life beyond Oracle Corp., IBM and Microsoft Corp. can be optimistic after news from third-party vendors supporting Sybase Inc. and the University of California at Berkeley's PostgreSQL. ...

ProActivity ups process analysis ante.(ProActivity 4.0)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... Analysis of business processes and management of those processes today are done with different sets of software. With an upcoming version of its business process analysis platform, ProActivity Inc. is looking to the day when those distinctions...

Microsoft sharpens vision around C#.(an interview with Anders Hejlsberg, chief designer of C#)(Company Business and Marketing)(Interview)
August 13, 2001... Anders Hejlsberg, chief designer of C#, gives his views on programming languages, Web services As Microsoft Corp. prepares the final release of its Visual Studio .Net tool set, its vision for Web services and the .Net platform on which...

Network tools aid in collaboration.(its Entomo SmartHub/Supplier Relationship Management 2.4 and Need2Buy's proprietary Parts Cleanser)(Product Announcement)
August 13, 2001... Need2buy Inc. and Entomo Inc. have each developed software to help manufacturers and their materials suppliers better collaborate and communicate electronically. Need2Buy, an online marketplace for the electronics industry, used i2...

Helping users reconnect - MegaPath, Axcelerant and other companies locate service providers for DSL subscribers.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... Derek Breiland has been through this before. Just five months ago, when NorthPoint Communications Inc. went out of business, Breiland, communications services manager at Fastenal Co., in Winona, Minn., turned to his ISP (Internet service...

IBM expanding program for providers.(XSP Prime)(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... Trying to keep pace with the evolving service provider industry, IBM this week will announce the expansion of its ASP Prime project into the wider-ranging XSP Prime program. The ASP Prime program, which began in the spring last year and...

Trying to keep the door open - MSP concept still alive despite string of closings.
August 13, 2001... The trickle of closings among management service providers is poised to become a torrent in the coming months as consolidation among MSPs accelerates. But the gloom apparently hasn't dampened enthusiasm for the MSP concept at large. The...

Policing the virus defenders - TruSecure's Cooper advocates a board to monitor release of virus threat info.(Industry Trend or Event)(Interview)
August 13, 2001... Russ Cooper has been on the Internet security scene for more than 20 years and has never been afraid to speak his mind. In the wake of the recent Code Red attacks, Cooper, surgeon general at Tru Secure Corp., in Reston, Va., and moderator of...

Domino, WebSphere ties strengthened.(Company Business and Marketing)
August 13, 2001... A move by Lotus Development Corp. to strengthen the ties between its Domino development platform and corporate parent IBM's WebSphere application server and DB2 Universal Database may lead to more scalable collaborative e-commerce applications,...