eWeek articles from June 2003

eWeek archives from June 2003

Lining Up for Linux Handouts.(SCO Group)
June 1, 2003... The old rap against academics is: Those who can't do, teach. The enterprise corollary must be: Those who can't market, sue. The latest exemplar is SCO Group, which claims to have obtained the intellectual property that originated with...

Schadenfreude in Seattle.
June 2, 2003... From: spencer_katt@ziffdavis.com Sent: Monday, June 2, 2003 5:12 AM To: eWEEK readers Subject: Laws may liberate Munich's Linux "Ich bin ein Penguiner," caterwauled Herr Katze from the wall of Building 34 of Microsoft's...

WebFocus Getting Smarter.(Information Builder's Gerald Cohen)(Interview)
June 2, 2003... Information Builders Inc., a leading vendor of business intelligence software, is implementing a two-phase rollout of its flagship product, WebFocus 5. Gerald Cohen, who founded the New York company in 1975 and remains its president and CEO,...

IT Must Build Value.
June 2, 2003... Can there be joy in joining databases? Absolutely. Especially when the new joins and resulting reports give your corporate execs information to beat the competition. It's the stuff that can make you a company hero. Susan Jones is an...

Sitting Pretty at Last.(NextWave Telecom Inc. )
June 2, 2003... NextWave Telecom Inc. still has no definite plans for its controversial spectrum licenses, but at least the company finally has some definite choices. And apparently the company is wasting no time. Last week, NextWave was reportedly in...

Ximian Rolls Out New Linux Desktop.(Ximian Desktop 2.0)
June 2, 2003... Linux desktop and server solution provider Ximian Inc. will on Monday announce the next major version of its Linux desktop software, Ximian Desktop 2 (see eWEEK Labs' review). Ximian is taking aim at some of Microsoft Corp. Windows'...

Microsoft: IT Still Has 'Strategic' Role.(according to Paul Flessner of Windows Server division)
June 2, 2003... DALLAS--When Paul Flessner, senior vice president of Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Server division, takes the stage Monday morning to give the keynote address to the 9,000-plus attendees at the Microsoft TechEd conference here, he will be pushing...

Salesforce.com Unveils Intuit, Great Plains Integration.
June 2, 2003... With its sforce launch slated for this week, hosted CRM service provider Salesforce.com got a head start on its application integration push, announcing pre-built accounting adapters for Intuit QuickBooks and Microsoft Business Solutions-Great...

PeopleSoft Buys J.D. Edwards.
June 2, 2003... The number of major enterprise software players out there decreased by one today as PeopleSoft Inc. announced a deal to buy rival J.D. Edwards & Co. in a deal valued at about $1.7 billion. The deal, which has been approved by the boards of...

Crypto Maker Changes Course.(Ntru CryptoSystems Inc. )
June 2, 2003... New leadership at security developer Ntru CryptoSystems Inc. is hoping a new services and consulting strategy will help mitigate the damage caused by problems with the company's core encryption algorithm. Once one of the premier cryptography...

Siemens Pushes for a 'Unified Domain'.(LifeWorks marketing program)
June 2, 2003... Siemens Information and Communication Networks Inc. at SuperComm in Atlanta on Monday will bring a fresh perspective to the voice over IP-driven march to converged communication. Claiming that first-generation VOIP didn't bring the cost...

Microsoft Fights On; Loses Munich.
June 2, 2003... Microsoft Corp.'s battle to counter the growth of open-source software is costing the company millions of dollars, but Linux is still beating the software company in lucrative Windows deployment deals. The Redmond, Wash., company's latest...

This eWEEK: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... Just when IT execs were beginning to get the idea of how to pitch their operations as profit rather than cost centers again, along comes the chore of retrofitting systems to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. It's a task that, as Dennis...

Microsoft Initiatives Strengthen Office.
June 2, 2003... DALLAS--Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a range of new initiatives to augment its Certified Partner Program and that it hopes will help a wide range of its industry partners develop and deploy Microsoft Office System-based productivity...

HP Aims New Desktop PC at SMBs.(HP Business Desktop d325)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Hewlett-Packard Co. on Monday rolled out a new desktop PC aimed at small and mid-sized businesses and the public sector. The HP Business Desktop d325, available immediately, has a starting price of $499. For $669, users can get a PC that is...

IBM Builds Bridge for DB2.(IBM Cube Views)
June 2, 2003... IBM has developed a metadata product that will help enterprises that use a variety of third-party reporting tools access data from its DB2 database. The product, called Cube Views and due this week, serves as a bridge between third-party...

Cisco Addresses WLANs.
June 2, 2003... Cisco Systems Inc. and Atheros Communications Inc. are each introducing new products that address WLAN administrators' biggest concerns: management and security. Cisco will announce this week the Structured Wireless-Aware Network, a series...

Blade Pioneer RLX to Push Software Solutions.(Douglas Erwin)
June 2, 2003... RLX Technologies Inc. is taking a new tack in the blade server industry it helped pioneer, this time on the strength of its software. Less than three weeks into his tenure as The Woodlands, Texas, company's third chairman and CEO, Douglas...

The Buzz: June 2, 2003.
June 2, 2003... eBay Ordered to Pay $35 Million in Dispute A federal jury in Virginia ruled last week that eBay's fixed-price selling model infringes on a patent and ordered the online auction company to pay $35 million. Patent law experts said the...

Chip Set Spurs PC Rollouts.
June 2, 2003... Intel Corp.'s release of its Springdale chip set last month was accompanied by a flurry of new desktops from computer makers hoping the new performance improvements may provide a spark in an otherwise-flat industry. Dell Computer Corp. and...

Web Services Get Managed.
June 2, 2003... As more companies roll out web services as a way to simplify integration of existing systems, several companies are developing tools to help users monitor and manage those services. One in particular, startup Service Integrity Inc., this...

Remedy Updates Automation Suite.(BMC Software's IT Service Management 5.5)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... BMC Software's remedy unit released last week a new version of its IT Service Management automation suite that emphasizes service management and business agility. ITSM Version 5.5 includes enhancements across its four applications,...

Microsoft Pushes Back 'Yukon' Release.
June 2, 2003... DALLAS--Microsoft Corp. has pushed back the release of the next version of SQL server, code-named Yukon, which will now ship in the second half of 2004 rather than the first half as previously expected. Paul Flessner, the senior vice...

Clancy Urges CIOs: Seek Out the 'Smart People'.
June 2, 2003... WASHINGTON--In a rambling and somewhat odd keynote speech at the Gartner IT Security Expo here Monday, author Tom Clancy urged the assembled security specialists and CIOs in the audience to seek out experts in other fields and apply their...

Sun Moves to Bolster JCP Ties.
June 2, 2003... With the JavaOne Java developers conference next week, Sun Microsystems Inc. is moving to further empower and unite the Java community. The Santa Clara, Calif., company has made several moves recently to strengthen the Java fellowship,...

Rural Areas to Get Broadband.(in southwestern Virginia)
June 2, 2003... Telephone companies have been promising for years to extend broadband networks to rural America's businesses and neighborhoods if only federal regulators would cut them some breaks. Tired of waiting for industry lobbyists and policy-makers in...

IBM Rolls Out Last Power4+ Unit.(IBM eServer p615)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... IBM last week rolled out the eServer p615, the last of the Unix-based pSeries systems to be equipped with the company's Power4+ chip. With the 1.45GHz Power4+ processor, the one- or two-way p615 offers many of the same capabilities as...

Tool Kit Extends Router Security.(Juniper Networks J-Protect Toolkit )
June 2, 2003... Looking to add more versatility and flexibility to its line of core routers, Juniper Networks Inc. is rolling out a security tool kit that includes a variety of protection capabilities. The enhanced functionality is delivered via Juniper's...

Idiocy Imperils the Web.
June 2, 2003... You people are such idiots! Not you, of course. I mean those other people, the ones who make it so easy for every simple, standard virus to propagate across the Web. Twice in the last few weeks, I've had the same experience. I receive a...

Time to End Gridlock.(grid computing and processing)
June 2, 2003... Believe it. Grid computing is on its way. But even though the case for grids is strong, it may be years before we're able to reap the benefits of grid processing. Corporations are finally figuring out that the pervasive Pentium IIIs- and...

A Separate Peace (Or Was That Piece?).(Microsoft and AOL Time Warner)(Column)
June 2, 2003... Microsoft and AOL have kissed and made up, patching the differences that stemmed from the hardball tactics that made Internet Explorer king of browser mountain. The $750 million that the deal will cost Microsoft is a great bargain,...

CPI Tightens Call Management.(Conference Plus Inc.)
June 2, 2003... Upgrades to Conference Plus Inc.'s teleconferencing infrastructure will allow enterprises to customize calls for enhanced security and efficiency. CPI last week unveiled an audio bridge from Spectel Inc., a developer based in Dublin,...

Review: PatchLink Update 4.0.(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 2, 2003... PatchLink Update 4.0 earned an eWEEK Labs Analyst's Choice award because it covers a wide range of systems and does so in a manner that will likely help most IT managers stay on top of the myriad patches released every day. (Check out eWEEK...

IT Losing Steam?(Industry Overview)
June 2, 2003... Railroads in the 1860s and information technology in the 1990s: In their heydays, their growth fueled tremendous economic expansion. But by the end of their boom eras, both industries began crumbling under overinvestment and overcapacity. ...

Data Minus Knowledge.(DARPA's LifeLog)
June 2, 2003... On June 23rd, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will receive the first round of proposals for the development of "LifeLog," which it describes as a system that will "trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events,...

Review: UpdateExpert 6.0.(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 2, 2003... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY UpdateExpert 6.0 St. Bernard Software's UpdateExpert 6.0 is the only product of the four eWEEK Labs tested that uses an optional agent. This provides the option of additional security, such as encryption, when communicating...

Review: HFNetChkPro 4.0.7.5.(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 2, 2003... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY HFNetChk Pro 4.0.7.5 Shavlik's tight relationship with Microsoft shows: Its agentless HFNetChkPro effectively patches every major and most minor Microsoft products, and the product is effectively integrated with Microsoft's...

Fujitsu Revs Low-End Servers.(Fujitsu Technology Solutions PrimePower 250 and 450)
June 2, 2003... Fujitsu Technology Solutions Inc. is bringing mainframelike capabilities into the low end with the next generations of its two entry-level PrimePower servers. Introduced last week, the Solaris-compatible PrimePower 250 and 450 systems...

Upgrade Heals Configurations.(ConfigureSoft's Enterprise Configuration Manager 4.5)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... ConfigureSoft Inc. this week will join the self-healing fray with a new release of its Enterprise Configuration Manager. ECM 4.5 adds the ability to automatically detect Windows server and workstation configurations that don't comply with...

State Security.(a talk with Richard Clarke)(Interview)
June 2, 2003... During his 30 years in Washington, Richard Clarke evolved from a State Department staffer into the nation's top counterterrorism official. Along the way, he developed a reputation for knowing how to get things done and also became a polarizing...

SCO: Following the Money.(Column)
June 2, 2003... Watergate source Deep Throat was right: "follow the money." the furor surrounding ownership of intellectual property in Unix and Linux is not about technology or even ideology. It's about the money--specifically, the business interests that are...

Intel Revs Up Centrino.(Intel Pentium M (1.7GHz))(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... Intel Corp. is speeding up new Centrino processors while cutting the prices on existing chips. The Santa Clara, Calif., company on Monday unveiled a 1.7GHz Pentium M, a low-voltage 1.2GHz chip and an ultra-low voltage 1GHz processor. ...

Be a Bulldog IT Buyer.
June 2, 2003... I'm a CIO, but I might as well be an investigative reporter. Why? Running an IT operation is about much more than just getting products to work as promised. Increasingly, it's about finding things out, such as whether your vendors will...

JBuilder's Gains Impressive.(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 2, 2003... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY JBuilder 9 JBuilder 9 is a surprisingly significant upgrade to Borland's exemplary Java development environment, incorporating project life-cycle management technologies acquired by the company since the last release of the...

Iomega Builds in More NAS Capacity.(Iomega P850m)(Hardware Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
June 2, 2003... EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Iomega P850m Iomega's P850m appliance is a good choice for Windows shops looking for a high-capacity storage system for data backup or server consolidation tasks. The system has a competitive price, but upfront cost is still...

Is Microsoft to Blame for SQL Slammer?
June 2, 2003... DALLAS--Microsoft Corp. and its customers need to take joint responsibility for security issues such as the SQL Slammer worm, which brought down systems all across the world earlier this year, several large enterprises said here at the TechEd...

New Help in the Hunt for Rogue Wireless Access Points.(from Gauadent Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 2, 2003... WASHINGTON--Managed security provider Guardent Inc. on Tuesday plans to announce a new service that will enable enterprises to discover and monitor rogue wireless access points on their networks. The new offering will be delivered as part...

UDDI Rises From Basement to Board Room.
June 2, 2003... I spoke late last week with representatives of Avanade, BEA, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sonic Software and Systinet in a round-table session on the status and prospects of Web services: the technologies, the standards, and the development...

Interwoven Buys MediaBin.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2003... Interwoven Inc. announced Monday that it has entered into an agreement to buy its digital asset management partner MediaBin Inc. in a cash and stock deal worth approximately $10 million. The companies have worked together since last October...

NaviSite Extends Service Delivery Platform.
June 3, 2003... A remade not-your-father's NaviSite Inc. Tuesday will introduce a collaborative applications management platform that will serve as the underpinning of a new series of managed services. The planned NavisSite A-Services, the first of which...

Sobig Virus Makes Mutated Comeback.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2003... June got off to a rough start for IT security professionals as the Sobig virus made a mutated comeback and spread rapidly both here and abroad, according to experts. The virus watchers at e-mail security vendor MessageLabs raised their...

WS-I Basic Profile: Why Wait?(Industry Overview)
June 3, 2003... DALLAS--While the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) is working toward a basic profile for interoperability of Web services, customers should not wait but should use tools that are available today. During a session at the...

Gartner Revises Server Market Data.(Industry Overview)
June 3, 2003... Gartner Dataquest Inc. has revised U.S. server market data dating back to 2001, a move that has resulted in Hewlett-Packard Co.'s numbers for the last quarter in 2002 moving from an increase to a decline. According to the new numbers...

MS Delivers 'Soup-to-Nuts' Development Platform.
June 3, 2003... DALLAS--Microsoft Corp.'s theme of the potential of IT was not lost on the developer. Paul Flessner, Microsoft's senior vice president of the Windows Server System division, laid out a vision of the company's role in the enterprise IT...

Microsoft, VeriSign Team Up on Security.
June 3, 2003... DALLAS--Microsoft Corp. and VeriSign Inc. Tuesday announced an agreement to deliver new solutions for securing online information, particularly in remote access situations. At the Microsoft TechEd conference here, the companies announced...

AT&T Pledges Improved Customer Experience.
June 3, 2003... ATLANTA--AT&T Corp. plans to spend $500 million this year to make it easier for enterprise customers to do business with it, holding out the prospect that dealing with this telephone company won't be clouded by the battles that have come to...

BellSouth, Cisco Team to Offer IP Services.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2003... Illustrating the expanding junction of voice and data technologies, BellSouth Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. said they will collaborate to deliver beefed-up managed telecom services to enterprise customers in the southeastern United States. ...

Sun Boosts Power, Cuts Costs on Low-End Servers.
June 3, 2003... Sun Microsystems Inc. is pumping up the power and cutting the costs in two of its low-end and midrange servers, another move in its aggressive strategy in that space. The Santa Clara, Calif., company equipped its eight-way Sun Fire v880...

Investor Group Buys Baan.(led by Cerberus Capital Management L.P. and General Atlantic Partners L.L.C. )
June 3, 2003... An investor group led by Cerberus Capital Management L.P. and General Atlantic Partners LLC today announced that it is buying enterprise software developer Baan from Invensys PLC for $135 million. The group, which represents $14 billion in...

Vendors Upgrade DSL Gear, Standards.
June 3, 2003... ATLANTA--Despite its rocky young history, digital subscriber line technology is being marketed in new ways to businesses for all communications services, including data, voice and video. Tuesday at the Supercomm show in Atlanta, 11 DSL...

Readers Respond: Idiocy Imperils the Web.(Letter to the Editor)
June 3, 2003... Mr. Rapoza, Thank you for writing this article (Idiocy Imperils the Web). You managed to sum up 5 years of frustration into a light, one page read. I'm tempted to hang the article in my cubicle, but I doubt the suits would appreciate it. I...

HP, Intel Aim Server at Telecom Space.
June 3, 2003... Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. are pushing industry-standard computing into the telecommunications space. At the SuperComm show in Atlanta on Tuesday, Intel unveiled its carrier-grade TIGPR2U server, powered by dual 2.4GHz Xeon...

Microsoft's Charney Renews Battle Cry.
June 3, 2003... DALLAS--Microsoft Corp.'s chief trustworthy computing strategist called on the industry to help out with securing the Internet, and he also introduced a new product and new Microsoft initiatives to assist in the effort. Scott Charney, who...

Microsoft Sheds Light on 'Yukon' Delay.
June 3, 2003... DALLAS--Microsoft Corp., influenced by customer feedback, is delaying the release of the next version of SQL Server database, code-named Yukon, so that it can do the necessary quality assurance and because the Visual Studio .Net team has asked...

Lucent Boosts Services Profile.
June 3, 2003... ATLANTA--The Bell Labs component of Lucent Technologies Inc. Tuesday unveiled research in progress that the company's services unit will soon market to telecommunications carriers. The research focuses on ways to recover wasted bandwidth, help...

BellSouth's Ackerman: Deregulation Will Spur Investment.
June 3, 2003... ATLANTA--While faring far better than most of their start-up rivals in recent years, the Regional Bell Operating Companies are not attracting the kind of investment capital they are accustomed to, and they are looking to the government to...

Microsoft Making Security Inroads.
June 3, 2003... DALLAS--When Microsoft Corp. is faced with a hard problem, it can call on Microsoft Research to help furnish answers. Security remains a hard problem, and Microsoft Research is providing some core technologies to help deliver Microsoft's answer...

Marimba Eases Windows Migration.(Marimba Windows Migration module for the company's Desktop/Mobile Management product family)
June 4, 2003... Marimba Inc. on June 16 will launch the second major release of its 1-year-old Windows Migration tool with a series of enhancements that emphasize a streamlined graphical user interface, improved inventory scanning and better integration with...

Salesforce.com to Offer Hosted Development Tools.
June 4, 2003... Salesforce.com plans to extend its business model from providing hosted customer relationship management applications to providing hosted development tools with the release of its sforce online application development utility, launched at the...

Startup to Launch Low-End Storage Alternative.(Zetta Systems Zetta Server 2.0)
June 4, 2003... After years of witnessing storage companies come and go, one customer has decided he knows better for the network-attached storage niche. Zetta Systems Inc., a seven-person company expecting to be at 50 by the year's end, next month will...

IBM Moves on Storage Virtualization.(SAN Volume Controller and SAN File System/StorageTank products)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2003... IBM on Tuesday announced product details for its long-awaited storage virtualization products, due this summer. Virtualization is the management of disparate hardware as a single pool, but over the past few years has been limited to minor...

Palm to Buy Handspring.
June 4, 2003... Handheld computer company Palm Inc. on Wednesday announced plans to buy rival Handspring Inc. in a stock deal worth about $169 million. Palm, of Milpitas, Calif., also announced final approval for the spinoff of its PalmSource software...

MySQL Takes Over SAP DB Development.
June 4, 2003... Open-source database developer MySQL AB is riding high, scoring venture capital wins in a tight-fisted economy, fueled by a recently announced partnership that will result in the company's takeover of development of SAP AG's open-source...

Agilent Demos PCI Express Testing Tools.(Agilent E2960 test series)
June 4, 2003... As the industry continues its migration from parallel to serial interconnect technology, the need to test the new I/O buses will continue to grow. That's where Agilent Technologies Inc. comes in. At the 2003 PCI-SIG Developers Conference in...

The Changing Face of NAI.(Network Associates Inc)(Interview)
June 4, 2003... WASHINGTON--This year has been nothing if not eventful for Network Associates Inc. The first five months of 2003 have seen the Santa Clara, Calif., security vendor restate several years of earnings due to an accounting issue, endure...

Microsoft Patches Critical IE Flaws.
June 4, 2003... Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday released patches for two critical flaws in Internet Explorer that enable an attacker to run code on a vulnerable PC. These two vulnerabilities are also the first to potentially affect the recently released...

BellSouth Eyes Bigger Piece of Managed Services Pie.(Brief Article)
June 4, 2003... ATLANTA--BellSouth Corp. is planning to lift an ever-increasing burden of networking duties off the enterprise shoulder as it continues to upgrade its regional MPLS network. By the third quarter of this year, the company will add ATM and...

What If Companies Just Asked?(Column)
June 4, 2003... I finally figured out what bugs me about how my private information is used and abused by businesses large and small, legit and not-so-legit. Somewhere in the rush to the Internet, some dope decided it would be a good idea to cloak data use...

Precise Beefs Up SQL Server Tool.(Precise/Indepth for SQL Server 1.5)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2003... Precise Software Solutions Inc. is beefing up Precise/Indepth for SQL Server, its application performance monitoring software for Microsoft Corp. SQL Server databases, the company announced on Wednesday. Precise/Indepth for SQL Server 1.5...

Ballmer Memo Cites Linux Threat.
June 4, 2003... Microsoft Corp. officials on Wednesday again expressed concerns about the threat Linux and open-source software poses to the company's business. In an annual letter sent to all Microsoft employees by CEO Steve Ballmer following the...

Apple Preps Mac OS X Server Security Update.
June 5, 2003... Apple Computer Inc. is preparing to release a security update to Mac OS X Server, sources said. The patch will reportedly update Mac OS X's installation of Apache 2.0, fixing a security vulnerability. The company Wednesday seeded a...

Siebel Announces Upgrade, BoldFish Acquisition.(Siebel Systems Inc's Siebel 7.5.3)
June 5, 2003... Siebel Systems Inc. announced a new point release focused on performance improvements at its European User Week conference in Cannes, France, Wednesday, one day after announcing the acquisition of e-mail marketing software company BoldFish Inc....

IBM Ships 'Invisible' Database.(IBM releases DB2 Express)
June 5, 2003... IBM on Thursday released DB2 Express, a no-click, quiet-as-a-mouse, self-installing version of its DB2 UDB (Universal Database) that's aimed at small to medium-sized businesses. IBM DB2 Universal Database Express Edition for Linux and...

'High Risk' Virus Spreading Rapidly.(the Bugbear virus)
June 5, 2003... A new variant of the dangerous Bugbear virus is on the loose and has begun spreading rapidly. Bugbear.B is quite similar to the original virus except that the new version contains a keystroke logger and is capable of changing its appearance to...