eWeek articles from October 2002

eWeek archives from October 2002

HP, Iona Strike Up Web Services Deal.(Iona Technologies)
October 1, 2002... Iona Technologies Inc. and Hewlett Packard Co. on Wednesday are expected to announce the expansion of a strategic alliance to bundle Iona's Web services integration software on HP's Itanium-based systems, the companies said. The companies...

Symantec Revamps Security Architecture.
October 1, 2002... NEW YORK&#151Symantec Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new security architecture as well as a new set of technologies designed to correlate and filter data gleaned from dozens of sources, including competitors' products. It's a move that...

Apple's Great Leap Forward.(Column)
October 1, 2002... In my lengthy experience tracking the moves of the tech market in general and Apple Computer in particular, scoop news--especially scoop news about a company as rumor-averse as Apple--tends to arrive in fits and starts. Sometimes the Mac...

Microsoft Exec Touts Web Services.
October 1, 2002... NEW YORK&#151Web services represents the key to meeting the challenge of business agility, a Microsoft Corp. executive said in his keynote address Tuesday morning at the Fall Internet World 2002 show here. Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft's...

Data Centers Are More Than Just Showrooms.(Sun's iForce Solution Center and the IBM Design Center)
October 1, 2002... Now more than ever, thanks to the pallid economy, vendors need to make the purchasing process as easy and cost-efficient as possible to win new accounts and keep established ones. Several of the heavy hitters have figured out that large...

Athlon XP Running Out of Steam?(Product Announcement)
October 1, 2002... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Tuesday announced two faster Athlon processors, but said the chips won't be available until late November, fueling speculation that the early unveiling was spurred by growing pressure from rival Intel Corp., which...

Two More Linux Distributions Get Certified.(SCO Group's Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1 and MandrakeSoft's Mandrake Linux ProSuite 9.0)
October 1, 2002... The Free Standards Group on Tuesday will announce that two more Linux distributions&#151The SCO Group's Caldera OpenLinux 3.1.1 and MandrakeSoft S.A.'s Mandrake Linux ProSuite 9.0&#151have achieved Linux Standard Base (LSB) certification. ...

AT&T Names New President-Elect.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2002... AT&T Corp. appointed Betsy Bernard president-elect today, giving her particular responsibility for the company's business divisions, which hold the most promise for revenue growth. Bernard will become president of AT&T once it completes the...

Microsoft Flexes Lobbying Muscle.
October 1, 2002... Microsoft Corp. traditionally has steered clear of telecommunications regulators and legislators, but the software giant is raising its profile in Washington in a bid to spur rapid deployment of more affordable high-speed networks. The Redmond,...

Microsoft Buys Liquid Audio DRM Patents.
October 1, 2002... Microsoft Corp. on Monday agreed to pay $7 million for U.S. and foreign rights to a number of digital rights management (DRM) patents held by Liquid Audio Inc.&#151a move that strengthens the company's growing DRM arsenal. Liquid Audio,...

Dell Raises Q3 Sales Forecast by $200 Million.(ending Nov 1, 2002)
October 1, 2002... Dell Computer Corp. raised its third-quarter sales forecast $200 million to $9.1 billion, attributing its rising revenues to its success in drawing customers away from its rival PC makers amid what is generally viewed as a depressed industry....

Gupta Lays Out Keys to an Extended Enterprise.(Computer Associates International's Yogesh Gupta)
October 1, 2002... Success in today's business world not only requires adherence to standards for things like Web services and security, but it also encompasses a series of success factors, according Yogesh Gupta, chief technology officer at Computer Associates...

Lotus Notes and Domino 6 Debuts.(IBM's Lotus Software division )
October 1, 2002... IBM's Lotus Software division debuted the long-awaited Version 6 of its Notes and Domino messaging platform Tuesday along with three new collaboration products. During a launch event at the division's Cambridge, Mass., headquarters, Lotus...

IBM Rolls Out Smallest Desktop PC.(the NetVista S42)(Brief Article)
October 2, 2002... IBM on Wednesday unveiled its smallest commercial desktop, the NetVista S42, which while measuring about the same size as a collegiate dictionary offers largely the same functionality as its heftier brethren. "The NetVista S42 desktop is...

Bugbear Virus Still Running Wild.(computer virus)
October 2, 2002... Three days after its appearance, the Bugbear virus is still gaining momentum and has passed the venerable Klez virus as the most active in the past 24 hours. One company that tracks viruses, Message Labs Ltd., said it has seen more than...

Feds, SANS Unveil Top 20 Vulnerabilities.(top 20 Internet vulnerabilities as compiled by the FBI and the SANS Institute)
October 2, 2002... The General Services Administration today unveiled a flurry of Internet security related announcements, including an updated list of the top 20 vulnerabilities as compiled by the FBI and the SANS Institute. The list includes 10 programs in...

Locking Down Web Services.(RSA Security Inc. releases RSA BSafe SecurXML-C; and Baltimore Technologies plc announces KeyTools XML 5.1)
October 2, 2002... Two e-security software providers this week announced new products to secure Web services. RSA Security Inc., of Bedford, Mass., released RSA BSafe SecurXML-C, a software development kit that enables developers to implement XML digital...

Top 20 Vulnerabilities: The List.(Internet Security Vulnerabilities)(Brief Article)
October 2, 2002... SANS/FBI Top 20 Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities: Top Vulnerabilities to Windows Systems *Internet Information Services (IIS) *Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) -- Remote Data Services *Microsoft SQL Server...

At Long Last, Lindows.(Column)
October 2, 2002... There's been a lot of ink spilled over Lindows, the Linux-based operating system with the Windows-y name that saw its media fortunes spike when Microsoft took the firm to court over naming mimicry. These, however, are the first words I've...

Full Text of 10/02 Ballmer Memo.(Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer)(Transcript)
October 2, 2002... The following memo from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is the second in an ongoing series of e-mails from Microsoft executives to customers about important issues facing consumers, business, industry and Microsoft itself. The memo, sent on...

IBM to Face Off With Microsoft for SMBs.(software products aimed at small and mid-sized businesses)
October 2, 2002... In what looks to be a toe-to-toe face-off with Microsoft Corp., IBM will announce Thursday the first of several software products aimed at small and mid-sized businesses. Microsoft, of Redmond, Wash., offers its SharePoint Portal Server to...

Ballmer Talks Up Software and Snack Food.(Microsoft Corp CEO Steve Ballmer)
October 2, 2002... Microsoft Corp. will soon commit to a new policy to give customers "greater clarity and confidence about its support for products through their lifecycles," CEO Steve Ballmer told customers in a broad memo e-mailed out on Wednesday afternoon....

AMD Warns of Third-Quarter Loss.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2002... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. warned that it will post a higher than expected loss for the third quarter, blaming continued weak demand for its PC processors and price cuts it has had to make in order to unload rising inventories of unsold chips....

Microsoft Releases Raft of New Patches.
October 3, 2002... Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday issued a raft of new patches, including one for a vulnerability in a component of Windows that gives an attacker the ability to run any code of choice on remote systems. The vulnerability lies in an ActiveX...

Pivotal Buys MarketFirst.
October 3, 2002... The long-forecasted consolidation of the CRM software industry showed signs of picking up again after Pivotal Corp. on Thursday announced plans to acquire marketing automation software vendor MarketFirst Software Inc. Under terms of the...

Aligning IT With Business.(Mercury Interactive Corp.)
October 3, 2002... Mercury Interactive Corp. earlier this week outlined a new Business Technology Optimization (BTO) initiative intended to help IT better align its operations with business goals. The application testing and management provider, as part of...

Card Unlocks Your Office and Network.(CryptoCard Corp.)(Brief Article)
October 3, 2002... A Canadian company this week unveiled a new smart-card based authentication system capable of providing users with secure access to offices as well as their corporate networks. The system, from Ottawa-based CryptoCard Corp., comprises...

Lie Leads to Veritas CFO's Resignation.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2002... Veritas Software Corp.'s chief financial officer resigned today because he lied about having a master's degree in business administration from Stanford University, officials said. "I regret this misstatement of my educational background....

WorldCom Internet Services Restored.(Brief Article)
October 3, 2002... Toward close of business Thursday, WorldCom Inc. issued a public statement confirming the problems on its IP network, which plagued the company's Internet customers across the country. The company announced that service had been restored. ...

Exchange Joins Battle in TCO War With Domino.
October 3, 2002... Following the release this week of IBM's Lotus Software division's Notes and Domino 6 platform, Microsoft Corp. next week will unveil more of its forthcoming Titanium release at its Microsoft Exchange Conference in Anaheim, Calif. And as...

Documentum To Acquire eRoom.
October 3, 2002... Documentum Inc. announced late Thursday plans to acquire collaboration software developer eRoom Technology Inc., solidifying the bonds between the two companies. The cash-stock deal is valued at around $125 million. The companies had...

Networking Pros Get Some Respect.(Industry Overview)
October 3, 2002... Anything that goes up in a down year raises attention, so we were excited when our Q2 2002 compensation survey research revealed that average salaries for network operations professionals were up 6.4 percent over the previous 12 months,...

In Reversal, Sun to Ship $99 Solaris 9 x86.
October 3, 2002... Sun Microsystems Inc. on Friday will announce plans to release an unbundled version of the Solaris 9 operating environment for non-Sun x86 hardware for $99 for a single CPU system. After months of indecision, Sun will now ship Solaris 9...

Nortel Rolling Out VoIP Training, Certs.
October 3, 2002... Nortel Networks Inc. has released the first training course to support a series of 18 new voice-over-IP certifications, called the Enterprise VoIP Certification program. The new course, VoIP Technology (#920-801), along with corresponding...

CommVault to Move into Storage Management.(CommVault Systems QiNetix)(Product Announcement)
October 4, 2002... CommVault Systems Inc., a specialist in backup software, on Monday will announce that it's expanding its reach into storage management software with a new initiative called QiNetix. The console through which the new products will be...

EMC to Lay Off 1,300.(Brief Article)
October 4, 2002... EMC Corp. will lay off more than 1,300 workers&#151or about 7 percent of its global workforce&#151as it continues to struggle with the IT industry slump. The Hopkinton, Mass., storage giant also announced on Thursday that it expects...

Apache Fixes Flaw in Web Server.(Apache 1.3.27)
October 4, 2002... A new vulnerability in the Apache Web server gives local users the ability to terminate processes or launch denial-of-service attacks against the server. The Apache Software Foundation has released an updated version of the affected...

(Un)happy Techies Day to You?
October 4, 2002... Late September, and with the tang of apples ripening in the chilling fall air came, too, the yearly call to celebrate Techies Day come Oct. 1. This year, the chirpy press release sent a chill down my spine. "Mamas, please let your babies...

Judge Takes Reins at Crystal.(Jon Judge named CEO at Crystal Decisions)
October 4, 2002... Customers and partners of information management software maker Crystal Decisions can expect its new CEO, Jon Judge, to steer the course more than rock the boat. Crystal, a unit of privately-held Seagate Technologies, this week named Judge...

Ximian to Roll Out Red Carpet Enterprise.(Product Announcement)
October 4, 2002... Open-source desktop company Ximian on Monday will release Red Carpet Enterprise, a behind-the-firewall solution that provides users with centralized software maintenance and version management for Linux servers and workstations. The Red...

Mobil Travel Guide, IBM Ink Linux Deal.(Mobil Travel Guide selects IBM's WebSphere Application Server)
October 4, 2002... IBM on Friday announced a 5-year agreement to provide the Mobil Travel Guide with on-demand access to Linux-based server processing, storage and networking capacity from IBM e-business hosting centers in the United States. Mobil Travel...

NetApp to Offer Infiniband Connectivity.(FAS 900 Series from Network Appliance Inc)(Product Announcement)
October 4, 2002... Network Appliance Inc. on Monday will announce that it is shipping InfiniBand connectivity for the clustering feature of its latest high-end Filer, officials of Network Appliance partner JNI Corp. said on Friday. Network Appliance, of...

Ironside to Announce Quick Search Catalog.
October 7, 2002... Ironside Technologies Inc. on Tuesday will announce the release of a new online electronic catalog designed to help manufacturers and distributors augment product information within their enterprise resource planning systems. Ironside's...

Tool Kit Automates Instrumentation for J2EE Apps.(AdventNet Inc.'s ManageEngine Suite 5.0)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Instrumenting applications to enable them to be monitored and managed has never been easy, and it isn't much easier for Java 2 Enterprise Edition applications even using the Java Management eXtensions standard interface. But a small...

Intel Chip Set Supports Hyperthreading.(Intel 845GE,Intel 850E, Intel 845PE and Intel 845GV)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Intel Corp. today announced four desktop chip sets designed to bolster the performance of PCs featuring its Pentium 4 and Celeron microprocessors. Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., is the world's largest supplier of chip sets, a key PC...

TalkingNets Offers Bundled Service in D.C.
October 7, 2002... With a staff of 32 nurses and clerical workers who need to communicate among four offices and with doctors on the road throughout the day, Advanced Surgery in Rockville, Md., was accustomed to paying high local telephone charges plus additional...

Evolving Market Calls for Evolving Skill Sets.
October 7, 2002... An uncertain economy, new technologies and new business requirements add up to a job market that few can fathom. Are you better off taking a lower-paying, less demanding position, or should you hold out even longer for something appropriate to...

Messaging Upgrades Key on TCO.(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Microsoft Corp. and IBM's Lotus Software division are each touting reductions in the total cost of ownership of corporate messaging systems as the primary benefit for upgrading to their respective messaging platforms. Microsoft, at its...

Tools Seek to Simplify Vertical App Integration.
October 7, 2002... Forthcoming integration software from SeeBeyond Technology Corp., TIBCO Software Inc. and Vitria Technology Inc. give more options to users in vertical industries to connect disparate applications with less expense. SeeBeyond will announce...

IBM, Best Software Customize for SMBs.(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... IBM and Best Software Inc. are making more moves toward small and midsize businesses with scaled-down, less expensive applications. IBM last week introduced WebSphere Portal-Express, a scaled-down version of its Enterprise Portal that is...

Symantec Revamps Security Architecture.(Symantec Security Management System)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Symantec Corp. last week unveiled a sweeping new security architecture as well as a new set of technologies, which are designed to correlate and filter data gleaned from dozens of sources, including competitors' products. The Symantec...

The Buzz: October 7, 2002.
October 7, 2002... Fuji Sponsors Online School So, you want to know about storage? Maybe it's time you went back to school. Fuji Photo Film USA last week opened the online doors to Data Storage University, an interactive site that the company said has...

AMD Gets the Word Out Early on 2 New Athlons.(AMD Athlon XP 2700+ and AMD Athlon XP 2800+)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Advanced Micro Devices Inc. last week announced two faster Athlon processors but said the chips won't be available until late next month. The touting of the Athlon XP 2700+ and 2800+ chips seven weeks before their scheduled release was at...

Payroll Back In-House.
October 7, 2002... For years, few other business processes were outsourced with as much verve as the lowly task of payroll. Indeed, the function of paying employees has long been targeted as a time-consuming effort that robs a company of resources better...

Feds, SANS Disclose Top 20 Vulnerabilities.
October 7, 2002... The general services administration last week unveiled a flurry of Internet-security-related announcements, including an updated list of the top 20 vulnerabilities as compiled by the FBI and The SANS Institute. The list includes 10...

Novell Tunes Extend Tools.
October 7, 2002... Novell Inc. is moving fast to update the Extend application development suite it acquired in July as it tries to remake itself as a platform-agnostic software and services company focused on Web services. Novell this week at the Gartner...

Tool Speeds Web App Trouble-Shooting.(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Dirig Software Inc. last week announced a management tool designed to help IT find the causes of Web application failures without having to sift through reams of unrelated performance data. The Nashua, N.H., company's new Pathfinder add-on...

Microsoft: Loosen Spectrum Rules.
October 7, 2002... Microsoft Corp. traditionally has steered clear of tele- communications regulators and legislators, but the software company is raising its profile in Washington in a bid to spur rapid deployment of more affordable high-speed networks....

Rivals EMC and HP Sue Each Other for Patent Infringement.
October 7, 2002... EMC Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. last week traded patent-infringement lawsuits, claiming their rival's products illegally used technology developed by the other. The lawsuits, which were filed within hours of each other, are the latest...

Tools Facilitate Text Analysis.(Spotfire DecisionSite Posters and Insight RT)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Enterprises looking to expand customer data analysis into unstructured data will find new software to solve that business problem from Spotfire Inc. and Island Data Corp. Unstructured data is nonnumerical data, typically text, graphics, or...

Memory Key Upgrade Efforts Aimed at Enterprise Market.
October 7, 2002... Top-tier computer makers such as Dell Computer Corp. and IBM ship thousands of flash memory keys with their consumer PCs, but smaller companies are planning new features to make the small storage devices more attractive to enterprises. ...

Completing the Cycle.
October 7, 2002... The concept of automating business-to-business invoicing and payments over the Internet may be easy to grasp, but uptake of software to do it has been slow. Developers ranging from Avolent Inc. and Xign Corp. to SAP AG and PeopleSoft Inc. are...

Newisys to Use 64-Bit AMD Chip in Servers.
October 7, 2002... A startup is working on new architecture that will offer something not seen before in large enterprise-class servers--64-bit Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Newisys Inc. is designing products ranging from two-processor,...

Excelon Adds XML, .Net Support to Extensible Information Server.(eXcelon XIS 3.12, Stylus Studio 4.5)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Excelon Corp. is beefing up its support of XML and Microsoft Corp.'s .Net platform in new versions of its XML database engine and its IDE. The Burlington, Mass., company last week announced the availability of XIS (Extensible Information...

EDS Corrals Life-Cycle Management.(Teamcenter High Tech Electronics workgroup software from Electronic Data Systems Corp)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... EDS PLM Solutions has introduced software to help manufacturers stay ahead of competitors in developing products. EDS PLM--a business unit of Electronic Data Systems Corp., of Plano, Texas, which makes product life-cycle management...

Distributed.Net Team Deciphers Message Encrypted in RC5-64.
October 7, 2002... A worldwide team of volunteers, using spare computing power, found the secret key for a message encrypted with the RC5-64 cipher late last month, winning a $10,000 prize and, they said, casting some doubt on the security of messages protected...

Cashing in on Linux.(Red Hat Inc.'s Red Hat Linux)
October 7, 2002... Retail businesses can operate in hundreds, even thousands, of dispersed geographic locations and be staffed by employees with little, if any, IT training. But slim profit margins force IT directors to keep costs as low as possible. Some...

Is HP Losing Its Agnostic Faith?
October 7, 2002... In a recent address to customers and resellers, Hewlett-Packard Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina declared the controversial, $19 billion acquisition of Compaq a success and took a swipe at competitors--particularly IBM--which, Fiorina said, has...

Mac OS X 10.2 Makes Fast Break.(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Combining a thoughtfully designed user interface with components culled from the open-source community, Apple Computer Inc.'s BSD-based Mac OS X 10.2 operating system will probably fit into the mainstream enterprise desktop space better than...

Centers Let Customers Test Systems.(Sun's iForce Solution Center and the IBM Design Center)(Brief Article)
October 7, 2002... Last month, Sun and IBM each opened a showcase customer center in the San Francisco Bay area. Although the centers were built by different companies, they share the same goal: attracting and servicing clients. Sun's iForce Solution Center,...

IBM, VeriSign Security Services Target SMBs.(VeriSign Access Management Service and IBM-VeriSign Trusted e-Business Integration Solution)
October 7, 2002... VeriSign Inc. and IBM on Monday announced a set of security services designed to deliver access management and authentication technology, mainly to small and medium-sized businesses. The new offering comprises two services: the VeriSign...

IT Jobs Outlook.
October 7, 2002... ROUNDTABLESIM thought leaders hash out IT job market issues with eWeek Labs' IT Careers Center experts MODERATED BY EWEEK LABS' JEFF MOAD AND LISA VAAS David BrownVice president, information servicesCranston Print Works Co.,Cranston, R.I....

Video Editors Go Beyond Ego-Casts.(Adobe's Premiere 6.5, Pinnacle's Edition and Avid's Xpress)
October 7, 2002... Three powerful video editing applications--Adobe's Premiere 6.5, Pinnacle's Edition and Avid's Xpress--make a good corporate fit. Of the three, Premiere 6.5 is the most corporate-ready. It fully integrates with other Adobe products,...

Pharos Tool Knows Where It's At.(Pharos Science and Applications Inc.'s Pharos Portable Navigator)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Recently, I took for a spin the Pocket GPS Portable Navigator, a GPS-enabling Pocket PC add-on from Pharos Science and Applications. What stood out immediately for me about the Portable Navigator was its CompactFlash connector--a couple of...

Channeling Space, Cost Savings.(Rambus RIMM 4200)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... The rambus inline memory module 4200, which is finding its way into a variety of systems, offers superior memory for vendors building high-powered PC desktops. Rambus' 32-bit RIMM 4200, which was released in the summer, is fast because...

StormWatch Stops Attacks.(Okena's StormWatch 3.0)(Evaluation)
October 7, 2002... Okena Inc.'s StormWatch 3.0 ups the ante in the security-hardening tool space with its ease of use and large set of pre-built security lock-down rules. Administrators who want to go beyond the usual patches-plus-firewalls combination will find...

Novell Evaluating Open-Source Options.
October 7, 2002... Novell Inc. is currently evaluating its product suite to determine which of those it wants to open source and will be making a decision on this in the near future. The company has also established an Open Source Review Board, under the...

JMP Sifts Insight From Mountains of Data.(SAS Institute's JMP 5.0)(Evaluation)
October 7, 2002... When you think you know what's happening, conventional statistical software can help you decide if you're just imagining things. In enterprise settings, it's more common to have a pile of data and to wonder if useful insights are buried...

IVE Secures Apps for Wireless Access.(Neoteris Instant Virtual Extranet 2.2)(Evaluation)
October 7, 2002... Version 2.2 of Neoteris Inc.'s Instant Virtual Extranet appliance provides a simple way to Web-enable enterprise applications for secure remote access over traditional VPNs. The IVE appliance is definitely on the pricey side, starting at...

SANs Get Wired for Long Distance.(Fibre Channel over WAN technology)
October 7, 2002... For the most part, today's SANs have been limited to campus-size environments--a direct result of Fibre Channel technology's 10-km limitations. That may soon change. Fibre Channel over WAN, the process of extending storage area networks...

Microsoft to Unveil Content Management Server 2002.(Product Announcement)
October 7, 2002... Microsoft Corp. this week will officially launch the newest version of its Web site software, the Content Management Server 2002. Paul Flessner, senior vice president for .Net enterprise servers for Microsoft, will announce the launch of...

Course on iSCSI Teaches Basics, Shows Promises, Shortcomings.
October 7, 2002... With the release of several iSCSI-based products and the backing of several standards groups, iSCSI in the last few weeks has attained "viable technology" status. Now is the time for early implementers to take a close look at the innards of...

IBM's Allegro Clears Up Web Services.
October 7, 2002... We'll all eventually tire of the term "Web services," and it will go away. Until then, it will be used by every surviving tech company dozens of times per day. Then someone will figure out what the term actually means. But the date for the...

Wide-Open Internet Gets Fenced-In Feeling.
October 7, 2002... Rate the following statements on a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 is "piffle" and 5 is, "How could it be otherwise?" 1. Proponents of new media channels need to drive demand for content by subsidizing hardware sales. Example: Microsoft...