eWeek articles from May 2002

eWeek archives from May 2002

States' Strategist: ISVs Must Adapt.
May 1, 2002... WASHINGTON, D.C.--In a video deposition taped last month, a key strategist for the states in the Microsoft Corp. remedy case said he'd met with Microsoft competitors to help craft the states' remedy proposal and called it "tough luck" for ISVs...

Zander to Step Down at Sun.
May 1, 2002... Ed Zander, who has become almost as visible a face at Sun Microsystems Inc. as Chairman and CEO Scott McNealy, will retire as president and chief operating officer July 1. McNealy will take over Zander's duties starting then, regaining the...

SMS Gains Handheld Support.(Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 (Topaz)to be beta tested)
May 1, 2002... The long-awaited Topaz version of Microsoft Corp.'s Systems Management Server is due to officially enter beta testing this summer with better support for mobile users. The Systems Management Server 2003 release of the software deployment...

Hewlett Won't Appeal Ruling.(of Judge William Chandler lll)
May 1, 2002... Walter Hewlett will not appeal a Delaware judge's dismissal of his lawsuit against Hewlett-Packard Co., ending his long proxy fight to block the computer maker's $19 billion buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. Hewlett issued a statement...

RIM Extends BlackBerry's Data Features.(Research in Motion adds Mobile Data Service)
May 1, 2002... Research in Motion Ltd. is speeding up efforts to extend the capabilities of its BlackBerry devices beyond basic e-mail access. The Waterloo, Ontario, company this week announced plans to add new data features to its BlackBerry Enterprise...

AOL Picks Google as Search Engine.
May 1, 2002... America Online Inc. will turn to Google Inc. to provide search technology and targeted paid listings on its different properties, the company announced Wednesday. The multi-year deal calls for AOL to deploy Google's search engine on its...

States, Witness Battle Over Definitions.(Stuart Madnick deifinitions of interoperability" and "commingling in question)
May 1, 2002... WASHINGTON, D.C.--A lawyer for the states Wednesday tried to paint an MIT professor as being too friendly to Microsoft Corp., saying the witness's definition of such technology terms as "interoperability" and "commingling" were too broad. ...

HP, Compaq Deal Approved, IVS Says.
May 1, 2002... Hewlett-Packard Co. today announced that it will complete its $19 billion buyout of Compaq Computer Corp. and that the merged companies will formally launch as the new HP on May 7. The declaration accompanied the company's announcement that...

IBM Adds Hybrid OLAP in DB2.(DB2 OLAP Server 8.1)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... IBM announced Wednesday that its DB2 OLAP Server would support both combined multi-dimensional and relational analysis for the first time. The new 8.1 version of the product, which combines IBM's DB2 database with Hyperion Software Corp.'s...

States Challenge Microsoft Witness.(Stuart Madnick)
May 1, 2002... WASHINGTON--Lawyers for the non-settling states on Wednesday continued to challenge definitions made by Microsoft Corp.'s technology witness on various terms relating to the remedy proposals in its antitrust case. The states continued in...

OpenOffice.org Releases First Suite.(OpenOffice.org 1.0)(Product Announcement)
May 1, 2002... The OpenOffice.org community on Wednesday released the first version of its free office productivity suite, OpenOffice.org 1.0. The software, available for download at www.openoffice.org, shares the same code base as Sun's upcoming...

Web Vandals Hit Government Sites.
May 2, 2002... A new crew of Web vandals that has taken to defacing government and bank Web sites has hit several new, high-profile targets. The crew has posted a lengthy portion of a database apparently taken from a U.S. Geological Survey computer, which...

Palm Names COO President of Solutions Group.(Todd Bradley)
May 2, 2002... Palm Inc. on Thursday officially named a president for its Solutions Group, the latest step in separating the hardware division into a company separate from the software division. The new president is Todd Bradley, formerly the executive...

Tibco Upgrades ActiveExchange Platform.(ActiveExchange 3.0)(Product Announcement)
May 2, 2002... While most companies today may be comfortable deploying small Web services inside the enterprise, moving outside the firewall is another issue. Tibco Software Inc. is addressing the security and complexity concerns of deploying Web services...

Trio to Showcase Service Monitoring Tools at N+I.(Networld+Interop to feature products from InfoVista, BMC Software Inc. and Micromuse Inc.)
May 2, 2002... Twin themes of integration and service monitoring will converge on Networld+Interop from the management software providers rolling out new offerings at the Las Vegas show next week. Performance reporting provider InfoVista will demonstrate...

Microsoft: Digital Media No Competition.(RealNetworks' media players)
May 2, 2002... WASHINGTON, D.C.--Digital media software does not have the potential to provide platform competition to Microsoft Corp.'s Windows, despite the recent testimony from an executive with RealNetworks Inc., according to the vice president of...

Too Many Cooks for SMS?(Microsoft Management Summit touts Systems Management Server 2.0)
May 2, 2002... LAS VEGAS, NEV - Despite the mention of Unix and Linux here and there, the first Microsoft Management Summit, which I attended earlier this week in Las Vegas, was entirely about Microsoft, with NetIQ and Altiris, the summit's organizers of the...

Expert Witness Says 'Unbound' Windows Impossible.
May 2, 2002... WASHINGTON, D.C.--The states' proposal calling for Microsoft Corp. to deliver a modular, or "unbound," version of Windows is impossible, according to the company's technical expert witness. Stuart Madnick, a professor of information...

HP Ready to Roll Out New Company.
May 2, 2002... With the bitter six-month proxy battle behind them, Hewlett-Packard Co. executives are ready to roll out a new and much bigger company next week that includes all the assets and liabilities of Compaq Computer Corp. The Palo Alto, Calif.,...

States Target Microsoft, RealNetworks Battle.(Microsoft launches Windows Media Player desktop video software)(Product Announcement)
May 2, 2002... WASHINGTON D.C.--Despite Microsoft Corp. claims to the contrary, lawyers for the states on Thursday said the software giant sought to ratchet up its competition with RealNetworks Inc. by tightly integrating the Windows operating system with its...

'Deceptive Duo' Strikes Again.(at Gartner Inc.)
May 3, 2002... The Deceptive Duo, a Web defacement crew that has struck several government and banking sites in the last week, on Thursday defaced a site belonging to Gartner Inc., an IT research firm. As of 4:45 p.m. EDT Thursday, the site located at...

Service Helps Small Businesses Integrate With GXS.(GE Global eXchange Services)
May 3, 2002... The first in a series of announcements around Web services, GE Global eXchange Services said Wednesday that it is offering Web services transaction capabilities for small and midsize businesses. The new capabilities are designed to help...

Red Hat to Drop StarOffice 6.(Sun Microsystems to start charging for it)
May 3, 2002... Sun Microsystems Inc.'s decision to start charging users for its upcoming StarOffice 6.0 desktop office productivity suite is coming at a price: Linux sales and service company Red Hat Inc. has decided not to use StarOffice 6.0 in any of its...

Lotus to Address Developer Concerns.
May 3, 2002... IBM's Lotus Software division plans to address its developers' growing concerns that it is abandoning its Domino platform at the company's DeveloperWorks Live conference next week in San Francisco. Although Lotus is not expected to make...

Cisco Unveils 14 Routers, Pair of Acquisitions.
May 3, 2002... Cisco Systems Inc. this week launched 14 new routers along with a host of enhancements that target the branch office and remote worker market as well as the largest enterprises and service providers. The new routers broaden the company's...

Wheelhouse Pulls Plug on Services Business.
May 3, 2002... Wheelhouse Corp. is winding down its CRM services business and looking for a cash infusion to keep its fledgling software business going, the company confirmed Friday. "We certainly have cut back dramatically," said a somber Frank Ingari,...

Career Coach.(Column)
May 3, 2002... Career Coach is a column that gives IT professionals a chance to pose questions about training, certification, salaries or any other career-related issues to eWEEK's panel of IT managers, hiring and training experts. Dear Career Coach: I...

JDBC Driver Connects Java Apps, SQL Server.(Microsoft SQL Server 2002 Driver for JDBC)(Product Announcement)
May 3, 2002... Microsoft Corp. this week released a new driver for its SQL Server 2000 data management system that allows developers to connect Java applications to the database. The SQL Server 2002 Driver for JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) is...

How Secure Are Wireless Terminals?
May 3, 2002... An anonymous message on a security mailing list about credit card numbers flying through the air unencrypted has touched off a wave of hysteria over the security of the wireless point-of-sale terminals used in many large retailers. The...

Manugistics, Avolent to Announce Alliance.
May 3, 2002... Manugistics Inc., a supply chain management software provider, is honing a new message of Enterprise Profit Optimization that combines SCM and supplier relationship management with pricing and revenue optimization. At its Envision 2002...

Death by a Thousand Differences.(Column)
May 3, 2002... As a general rule, more choice is good. I make my living informing you, the reader, of new choices you may have not considered before. Choices keep our industry fresh and encourage the untried path in the hope it may lead somewhere promising....

NMCI Making Headway.
May 3, 2002... The Navy got the go ahead this morning from the Department of Defense's Chief Information Officer, John Stenbit to move forward with the next phase of the Navy Marine Corp. Intranet. The outsourcing project, worth potentially $6.9 billion...

Users Lukewarm on Hitachi Storage Rollout.(Hitachi Freedom 9980)
May 3, 2002... Enterprise storage customers say they do not expect to be impressed when Hitachi Ltd. rolls out its new Freedom 9980 high-end storage monolith and TrueNorth software next week at the Networld+Interop tradeshow in Las Vegas. Customers of...

HP Finally Closes Compaq Deal.
May 3, 2002... After more than seven months of contentious debate and high-profile court battle, Hewlett-Packard Co. on Friday announced that it has completed its $19 billion buyout of longtime rival Compaq Computer Corp. Together, the companies have more...

Without a Spec, No Code Is Correct.
May 6, 2002... When management wants to measure something now or predict something yet to occur, a software developer will probably have to come up with the final form of the algorithm that yields the answer. With last week's announcement of consumers'...

Meanwhile, Down in Atlanta ...
May 6, 2002... While next month's Supercomm 2002 is likely to have the uneasy feel of a picnic at a funeral, the annual telecom extravaganza remains a must for most equipment makers, both old and new. About 800 suppliers are scheduled to show their stuff...

A New Design for a New Tech Climate.(eWeek redesigns format)
May 6, 2002... The economy, technology and the world have changed dramatically over the last two years. Where once the stock market seemed to have no top, now we try to determine if we are bouncing off the bottom. Where once companies rushed to buy technology...

Networking: Finding Its Pulse.(NetWorld+Interop 2002)
May 6, 2002... For many years, networking looked like a sure thing. Whatever the state of hardware and software, those assets had to be connected--the faster, the better. So how to explain the ongoing, near-death experience of nearly all sectors of...

License Deals: Buyer Beware.
May 6, 2002... Remember software assurance, Microsoft's controversial enterprise license agreement that purports to offer corporate customers big savings if they'll just commit in advance to buying a certain volume of Microsoft products and paying an annual...

Mcnealy's New Priorities.
May 6, 2002... As Sun Microsystems Inc. grapples with the loss of several senior executives, including President and Chief Operating Officer Ed Zander last week, the company must devise a business plan that returns profits and satisfies customers. ...

HP, Compaq Beginning to Merge Assets, Liabilities.
May 6, 2002... With all the drama and intrigue of the bitter six-month proxy battle behind them, Hewlett-Packard Co. executives are finally ready to roll out a new and much bigger company that includes all the assets and liabilities of Compaq Computer Corp....

SevenSpace/Nuclio, MSP Business Take Serious Hits.
May 6, 2002... Although it provides services for some of the biggest names in corporate America, users are keeping a wary watch on enterprise MSP SevenSpace/ Nuclio Corp., which has spent the past month cutting workers and slashing services. The...

The Buzz: May 6, 2002.
May 6, 2002... Virus Creator Gets 20 Months He let loose a computer virus that did $80 million in damage, and now David Smith will spend the next 20 months in jail for it. Smith, who created the Melissa virus, pleaded guilty to state and federal...

Waiting for Broadband.
May 6, 2002... When Etienne Handman wants to buy a Cisco Systems Inc. router, he doesn't call Cisco or one of its resellers. Handman first clicks through deals on online auctioneers such as eBay Inc. to see what kind of deal he can get on used equipment. ...

Sen. McCain to Call Bells' Bluff.
May 6, 2002... The Bells' vow to expand their data infrastructures in exchange for restricting rivals' access to their networks is getting much attention in Congress, which is grappling for ways to bolster the lagging telecommunications sector and expand...

Networking Gear Hot Ticket on eBay.
May 6, 2002... It's a long way from collectible pez dispensers and beanie babies, but networking equipment worth thousands of dollars per router and switch has become a hot item on the online auctions of eBay Inc. The category is so hot, in fact, that an...

Sonicwall, Certicom Laying Off Work Forces, Restructuring.
May 6, 2002... SonicWall Inc. and Certicom Corp. last week announced major layoffs and corporate restructurings, continuing a trend that has seen several major security vendors reshuffle their organizations in recent weeks. SonicWall, a Sunnyvale, Calif.,...

Watchdogs on Way Out?
May 6, 2002... While much of the high-tech industry has spent the last several months focusing on security--for their information as well as their physical assets--a small but growing number of influential executives has been working toward the long-term goal...

Congress Looks to Amend Security Bill.
May 6, 2002... Eager to make it easier for enterprises to turn over to the government private communications that run over corporate networks, Congress is poised to begin tweaking long-pending legislation that would exempt such communications from public...

Battle Lines Drawn.
May 6, 2002... Database vendors such as IBM and Oracle Corp. seek to expand far beyond simply managing relational data. In their efforts, they're raising a fundamental question for enterprises: Should information as far-flung as e-mail, documents, multimedia...

Geekspeak: May 6, 2002.(Bill Gates speaks in Microsoft's defense)
May 6, 2002... In court testimony last month, Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates asserted that the computer industry in 1983 was dominated by vertically integrated providers but that the industry now is far more competitive across...

Nielsen Picks From Sun Menu.
May 6, 2002... How do you roll out a major enterprise application in a timely and cost-effective manner when simply deploying and testing the hardware for the new system can take months and add way too many dollars to the final project cost? For Kim...

Blue Titan Web Services App Targets Networking Features.
May 6, 2002... Blue Titan Software Inc. is rolling out software designed to add a networking layer to Web services, where applications and data can be shared and combined. Officials with the San Francisco company, which released two versions of its new...

IBM Strengthens Ultradense Blade Server.(IBM eServer Blade Center)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 2002... IBM has joined the growing ranks of computer makers who have announced high-density "blade" servers in the last year, but the company hopes to gain an edge on rivals by offering a beefier blade. Blade servers, first introduced last year,...

Intelligent Enterprise Content Comes to Fore.(from Documentum)(Product Announcement)
May 6, 2002... As enterprise content expands with the Web, so has the need to make that content better organized, easier to access and integrated with other sources. To meet this need, Documentum Inc., in Pleasanton, Calif., released last week Content...

Peoplesoft Upgrades Portal.(Enterprise Portal 8.4)
May 6, 2002... PeopleSoft Inc. announced last week the next generation of its Enterprise Portal software, with two new components, including an Intelligent Content Manager component and Web services integration. ICM provides the ability to predict a next...

Sprint-Hosted E-Mail Service Lets IT Have Control.
May 6, 2002... Sprint PCS group last week announced a new corporate wireless e-mail service designed to be managed by a company's IT department but still hosted by the carrier. The Sprint PCS Business Connection Enterprise Edition offers access to...

Sniffing Out Rogue Wireless Lans.
May 6, 2002... With the price of 802.11b wireless access points dropping fast, it's not surprising that unsanctioned WLAN connections are popping up like weeds on corporate networks. That's a problem for network managers because most wireless LANs that...

Microsoft, Real Trading Fire.
May 6, 2002... In the eighth week of the trial to determine what penalties should be imposed against Microsoft Corp. for its anti-competitive behavior, the Redmond, Wash., company continued its counter-attack against allegations made by rival software...

Wireless LAN Security Crackdown.
May 6, 2002... Cheap and provocative, WLANs are making their way onto production networks through the back door. Tech-savvy employees pick up a system at Circuit City and share the wireless LAN among department colleagues like a box of doughnuts--with about...

802.11a and 802.11g Evolve the WLAN Space.
May 6, 2002... Ten or so megabits per second is more network speed than most business users need, but this hasn't stopped the march of wired networking gear from there to 100M bps to Gigabit Ethernet to 10 Gigabit Ethernet. That same need for...

Spec Groups Eyeing New SCSI Standard.(T10 Working Group's serial-attached SCSI standard)
May 6, 2002... Although most big storage vendors tout the advantages of networked storage, direct-attached systems still dominate, and they use the traditional SCSI standards. The newest technology is serial-attached SCSI (SAS), which is a way of using...

P3P Is Good Step, Not a Solution.(World Wide Web Consortium's Platform For Privacy Preferences 1.0 standard)
May 6, 2002... Last month, the World Wide Web Consortium released Platform For Privacy Preferences 1.0 as a recommendation. The release of P3P as a W3C standard will be a nice step toward improving the way that privacy information is provided by Web sites,...

A Helpful Switch in HBA Tests.(Nishan Systems' IPS 3300 Multiprotocol Storage Switch)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
May 6, 2002... Although Nishan Systems' $29,995 IPS 3300 Multiprotocol Storage Switch is largely unchanged from the version I tested last year (eWeek Labs' May 14, 2001, review of the IPS 3300 is at www.eweek. com/links), Nishan has made one important...

Blueprints for Sun's New Direction.(Sun Microsystems' new Reference Architectures)
May 6, 2002... Sun Microsystems Inc.'s new Reference Architectures won't make a plug-and-play affair out of the arduous process of ordering a complete Internet messaging implementation or constructing an enterprise-class data warehouse. However, both of these...

iForce to Help Sun Out of Box.(creating pre-built systems tailored to companies' needs)
May 6, 2002... Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Reference Architectures provide powerful e-mail and data warehousing systems, but the company must bring more solutions to market if it wants to melt its reputation as just a big-box vendor. The company's iForce...

IBM Wallops BEA in Faux Benchmark.(application server)
May 6, 2002... The application server space, once on the verge of drying up, is revving up once again to be a full-fledged slugfest. Customers don't really care about the slugfest part--they're just looking for some deals--but everyone appreciates the...

Jobs Romances the Enterprise at WWDC.(Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference)
May 6, 2002... SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs reached out to the enterprise during his Monday keynote speech to Mac and Unix developers at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference here. In addition to a promised "confidential...

CBDTPA Legislation Should Be Opposed.(Column)
May 6, 2002... When people argue about the prospect of mandatory digital rights management technologies, like those proposed in Sen. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings' Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act (S.2048), the dispute typically turns on the...

Manugistics Buys Western Data Systems.
May 6, 2002... Manugistics Group Inc. on Monday bought privately held Western Data Systems, a company known for its asset optimization software. The announcement came the same day Manugistics released version 7 of its namesake platform. With revenues...

One Large Pepperoni, Hold the Secrets.(National Security Agency)
May 6, 2002... Other than those walking the secret halls of the National Security Agency, James Bamford, author of two books on the NSA, probably knows more about the agency than anyone else. During a recent speech at the Computers Freedom and Privacy...

HP Readies Product Roadmap.
May 6, 2002... Hewlett-Packard Co. will herald the "new HP" Tuesday morning at a news conference in Cupertino, Calif., hosted by HP Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina and ex-Compaq Computer Corp. Chairman and CEO Michael Capellas. The company will also have...

Integration Offerings on Display at N+I Show.(InfoVista S.A.)
May 6, 2002... Network operators looking to ease the integration and use of operations support and monitoring tools are getting special attention from vendors readying new products and services this week. Performance reporting provider InfoVista SA is set...

Alcatel Eyes the Enterprise.
May 7, 2002... LAS VEGAS -- Though a strong worldwide supplier of equipment to telecommunications carriers, Alcatel is highly interested in supplying equipment to enterprise network customers as well. That was the message delivered by Serge Tchuruk,...

Straw Partners.
May 8, 2002... "No, I don't do that sort of thing, but I got a guy who does." If you're a homeowner and have ever dealt with a contractor, you've probably heard that line or, something similar, a hundred times. To get a big job, most contractors are more...

Microsoft Bringing Project App to Enterprise.(Microsoft Project 2002 project management software)(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2002... Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday at NetWorld+Interop in Las Vegas that the next version of its Microsoft Project project management application is in final code and will be generally available next month. With this release, Microsoft...

Cisco on the Plus Side.(3rd quarter)(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... Cisco Systems Inc. continued a slight rebound in its third quarter ended April 27, increasing sales 2 percent and posting a slight profit after suffering wide losses last year. The San Jose, Calif., networking company, which announced...

Error in MS Protocol Could Compromise Security.
May 8, 2002... Microsoft Corp. has already identified at least one protocol and two APIs that it plans to withhold from public disclosure under a security exemption in the federal antitrust settlement proposal agreed to in November, according to Jim Allchin,...

IBM to Open Up at DeveloperWorks.
May 8, 2002... As some 4,000 developers from 42 countries gather in San Francisco this week for IBM's annual technical developer conference, developerWorks Live, they will hear a lot about IBM's view on open standards-based integration. "Whether we're...

Wireless LAN Chipset, Access Points Unveiled by Intel.(Intel PRO/Wireless 5000 LAN Dual Band Access Point)(Product Announcement)
May 8, 2002... LAS VEGAS -- Intel Corp. on Tuesday demonstrated an internally-developed dual-band wireless LAN chipset, an indication that the company no longer plans to continue depending on third parties for WLAN silicon as it does now. At the...

Microsoft's Troubling Lessons for Schools.
May 8, 2002... A couple of weeks ago, I came across a troubling page on Microsoft's Web site, titled "A Guide for Accepting Donated Computers for Your School." Here's the passage that caused my consternation: "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed...

IBM Pushes Open Standards.
May 8, 2002... SAN FRANCISCO--IBM executives on Wednesday talked up the need for open standards-based integration across all applications and platforms while, at the same time, announcing a host of new product offerings. As expected, Steve Mills, a senior...

EMC Seeks More Independent Board.(Brief Article)
May 8, 2002... SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass.--EMC Corp. will soon have a more independent board of directors and will launch a new low-end product with partner Dell Computer Corp., officials said during the company's annual shareholder meeting here on Wednesday. ...

Chambers: Productivity Key to High-Tech Turnaround.(Cisco Systems CEO, Pres John Chambers)
May 8, 2002... LAS VEGAS--Buoyant a day after his company reported positive earnings, Cisco Systems Inc. President and CEO John Chambers during his keynote today here at NetWorld+Interop lauded the ability of increased productivity to pull high technology out...