Database and Network Journal articles from April 2001

Database and Network Journal archives from April 2001

Database and network news & products: maximising Oracle 8i and Designer 6.
April 1, 2001... Following Oracles OpenWorld conference in 1998, plans were drawn for iWorld, a completely re-engineered and web enabled product. Several objectives were defined from the outset in order to determine the technology stack for iworld. These...

EU data protection laws out of date.(News and Products)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Application Service Provider (ASP) industry is leading a call for the European Commission to urgently review its data protection laws following a major new Europe-wide research study published today. The report from the-ASP Industry...

Archiving assessment workshop findings.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... Large corporate databases are causing high-growth corporate applications to under-perform by up to 20 percent is one of several significant findings from Princeton Softech's Archiving Assessment Workshops, held over the past few months...

Shareplex version 3.0.(News and Products)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Quest Software, has released of SharePlex version 3.0 to eliminate downtime via Oracle database replication. SharePlex log-based replication technology reduces the impact of both planned and unplanned downtime by offering an accessible replica...

Legato Cluster Solutions.(News and Products)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Legato Systems, claims two industry firsts for high availability solutions. The first company to offer a high availability clustering solution with support for Solaris 7 and 8 on Intel and Spare platforms and availability of a new Legato...

MySQL code enhancement.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... NuSphere MySQL has contributed a significant code enhancement to MySQL, providing for a database running on Linux, with more complex transactional capabilities that expand business application possibilities for MySQL. A development team...

PowerDesigner 8.0 design tool.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... PowerDesigner 8.0 provides an environment for data modelling, Unified Modelling Language (UML) modelling, and enterprise-class repository capabilities. It is claimed to be the only known product currently available that allows collaboration...

Guide to cutting telecom costs.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... Alternative Networks (ANL), has compiled a guide for operations and finance executives looking to save money on their telecoms costs and IT infrastructure. The company has produced the guide in response to customer queries about the best ways...

ITU launches next generation optical network.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector has approved new world standards for next generation optical networks that will provide ultra-high capacity using Dense Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (DWDM). The new standards are a result of...

Telelogos products for Linux.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... Telelogos has launched Linux versions of its MediaTransfer range. With this new Linux version, MediaTransfer, available for Windows 2000, NT and 9x, AIX, HP/UX, Unix-Sco, offers a range of client and server solutions enabling networks of...

Certification for ISP professionals.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... Juniper Networks, Inc. has introduced the Juniper Networks Technical Certification Programme (TCP). a programme made for Interact professionals in large-scale Interact Service Provider (ISP) environments. The Juniper Networks TCP is targeted at...

Saratoga joins Red-M.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... Saratoga Systems, developer of customer contact management software, has an alliance with Red-M, developer of Bluetooth networking solutions. Red-M is using Saratoga's customer relationship management software product, Avenue, to help its...

Ubicom and Red Hat support device networking designers.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... Ubicom Inc., and Red Hat, Inc. are to develop a port of the Red Hat GNUPro embedded development tools to the Ubicom IP2000 family of Internet Processors used to provide Internet connectivity in home appliances, security systems, remote...

Legato NetWorker Snapimage.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... The Legato NetWorker Snapimage Module provides two performance solutions for NetWorker 6.0.1 in one product: Snapimage is designed to enable users to protect active file systems containing many small files in less time, with less application...

Silex Comms. formed.(News and Products)
April 1, 2001... SILEX Communications Ltd will be the representative for CSR's (Cambridge Silicon Radio) Bluetooth technology and for Cambridge Consultants Ltd's (CCL) software, IP and design services. They will also represent Comodo, developers of hardware...

ORATEUR 2.(Network Products)
April 1, 2001... ORATEUR 2 is an open modular platform for operators, ISPS, ASPS, integrators, telecom equipment suppliers and major corporations. It allows them to develop, a range of telecommunication services: access control, pre-paid and post-paid cards,...

XML Intranet Publisher.(Network Products)
April 1, 2001... XML Intranet Publisher, is capable of authoring and publishing in XML, HTML, RTF and WML formats in a package targeted directly at the desktop user rather than the specialist IT developer. It enables users to create documents once only in XML...

Whatsup Gold 6.0.(Network Products)
April 1, 2001... Ipswitch, Inc., has released WhatsUp Gold 6.0, the latest version of its network mapping and monitoring software. This provides network administrators and engineers with tools for diagramming and viewing network maps, together with an ability...

Asita LineSpeed.(Network Products)
April 1, 2001... Asita LineSpeed embedded solutions are designed to offer maximum virtual private network throughput, together with a scalable migration path for ISPS, ASPS, telcos and corporates. The Asita LineSpeed family of networked security solutions is...

Free availability of Domain Detective.(Network Products)
April 1, 2001... Quest Software, has announced the immediate free availability of Domain Detective, a reporting tool designed to help network administrators, inventory users, and groups on Windows networks. With over 75 reports available, including detailed...

New migration program.(Network Products)
April 1, 2001... The Quest Enterprise Migration Program (EMP), is a special promotion designed to help network and exchange administrators expedite Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 migrations. From the end of June, Quest will make the new version of FastLane...

SQL Anywhere Studio 7.0.2.(Network Products)
April 1, 2001... SQL Anywhere Studio 7.0.2, is now available as an international release for all supported languages including English, German, French and Japanese on a single CD. It is iAnywhere Solutions' development platform for small-footprint data...

PhotoSuite Mobile Edition for Palm PDAS.(Network Products)
April 1, 2001... MGI Software, have announced PhotoSuite Mobile Edition, that allows users to store, view and beam photo and video files on colour and greyscale Palm OS handhelds. MGI PhotoSuite Mobile Edition software includes a desktop component for Windows...

ASP Consortium new wireless initiative.(Wireless Products)
April 1, 2001... The ASP industry is fast migrating to wireless, which will account for more than 15 per cent of the total ASP market in less than a year's time, according to a new trade group set up to champion the new business model. The inaugural meeting of...

RadioScape 3G UMTS tool.(Wireless Products)
April 1, 2001... RadioScape Ltd, has released their Radiolab 3G UMTS system-level design tool, a set of design modelling elements for the emerging cellular standard. The toolset consists of a Simulinko blockset, several reference systems and supporting...

Classroom wireless.(Wireless Products)
April 1, 2001... Wireless in the classroom' is offered by Centerprise Int. Its latest wireless networking solutions from Symbol Technologies enables numbers of laptops and desktop computers fitted with a wireless network card to be run from any point, which is...

Wireless advertising solution.(Wireless Products)
April 1, 2001... Trivanti's Advanced Advertising Server (T-AAS) is a wireless advertising solution aimed at supporting the growing number of advanced devices, such as smartphones and PDAS, as well as simple mobile phones. T-AAS allows mobile Internet sites and...

Unlimited high-speed wireless Internet connections.(Wireless Products)
April 1, 2001... Tele2, has launched an Internet connection for business Wireless-DSL Unlimited. The new service provides customers with unmetered broadband Interact access, making high-speed Internet connectivity affordable for both small and medium sized...

Pavdata IR system.(Wireless Products)
April 1, 2001... Service providers worldwide can it is claimed provide customers with a broadband Internet service without obtaining local loop network access or buying radio licenses. PAV Data Systems, has developed a system using broadband optical...

Company performances in year 2000.
April 1, 2001... Many companies in the Software Industry are currently trying to pursue a course of logical business development against a financial background beset by the responses of the frustrated speculators who cannot distinguish between losses and...

E-commerce news and products: e-commerce for the masses--Craig Mills, Commercetest.com.
April 1, 2001... E-commerce is here to stay! Companies and the general public are increasingly discovering the benefits of trading online--in spite of all the bad publicity. This enthusiasm is stimulated by the increasing ways for the public to access the...

24 hour culture key to e-business success.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... An entrenched nine-to-five culture is the greatest obstacle to successful e-business in the UK, Attenda says. The company has identified that one in five e-commerce sites are left unattended for at least 14 hours a day--even though online...

Silverstream to support Java 2 Platform.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... SilverStream Software, Inc. is to support the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) Connector Architecture 1.0 specification. The J2EE Connector Architecture, which is part of the forthcoming J2EE 1.3 standard, is a specification for...

Balanced Scorecard European Summit 2001.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... 22/24 May, Radisson SAS, Nice, France. Business Intelligence presents the Balanced Scorecard European Summit 2001, led by founders of the Balanced Scorecard Drs. Robert Kaplan and David Norton. A powerful conference programme me will offer best...

Documentum Open Source Code Integration.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... Documentum, says that Open Source Code Integration (OSCI) will enable Documentum 4i ebusiness Platform users to manage source code objects required for complex Web pages in the same repository as their content. Under OSCI, Documentum maintains...

Convera alliance with Cast Systems.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... Convera, is to combine its technology with CAST Systems, an ecommerce development and software infrastructure provider to the financial services industry. Previously, potential customers within the financial services marketplace had to work...

SEAGULL to Resell WebSphere.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... SEAGULL, provider of software using Web to host, Wireless to host and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI), is to become a certified reseller of IBM's WebSphere products. These include WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Studio, and...

GlobalCommerce to offer Entegrity.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... GlobalCommerce, is to include the Identrus-certified Entegrity TSP (Trust Services Platform) to bring digital signature messaging system (DSMS) capabilities to its CERTfi online identity-verification solution for Identrus applications. CERTfi...

Netegrity and BroadVision alliance.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... Netegrity specialist in solutions for managing e-business and BroadVision, provider of personalised e-business applications, are to integrate BroadVision One-To-One applications with Netegrity's SiteMinder platform businesses and e-marketplaces...

Mobile Desktop.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... Exchequer Software has publicly launched the Mobile Desktop system which allows Exchequer's Enterprise accounting software package to be run over the Internet. Field and home users of Mobile Desktop will benefit from secure access to their...

Sybase Enterprise Portal 2.0.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... Sybase Enterprise Portal 2.0 (EP), ex-tends integration beyond the corporate walls to include trading partners, exchanges and mobile users for personalised access to portal-based information, applications and services anytime and anywhere....

Collaborative commerce system.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... Scalds Connectivity Solution. enables companies, subsidiaries, customers, partners, and suppliers to be connected in a matrix of collaborative commerce, extensive customisation. The system uses the combination of iScala Managers, automated...

OpenSTA-free open source tester.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... CYRANO, has released OpenSTA a free and open source software distribution for project managers, QA managers, test engineers, and development staff to perform load and stress testing of ebusiness applications. OpenSTA (Open System Testing...

PortalBuilder 3.0.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... Actinic Portalbuilder 3.0. portal development and management tool provides a scalable platform to a community of ecommerce stores from one site. New features in version 3.0 include using post code searches to let a portal visitor identify which...

AbiliTec-customer data software.(E-Commerce News And Products)
April 1, 2001... AbiliTec from Acxiom Corp. is linking software which facilitates enterprise-wide Customer Relationship Management by creating a single, view of a company,'s individual customers, across multiple business lines. It is designed to be able to link...

Security supplement: strong user authentication: solving security's weakest link.
April 1, 2001... Why strong user authentication (SUA)? Security isn't complicated, it can be defined very simply as: WHO can be granted access to WHAT. Any security system, whether for a small business or for a large multinational organization, must solve...

How dependent are you on the internet?
April 1, 2001... Every company these days is dependent on the Internet to a greater or lesser extent. You may use it just for e-mail, or you may have a company intranet. You may have regular Internet links for communicating with other businesses, suppliers or...

Privacy code protects Internet users.(Security News)
April 1, 2001... A new privacy code that protects Interact users from unjustifiable surveillance by law enforcement agencies was ratified at LINX 32 (London Internet Exchange) The code of best common current practice (BCP) was formulated over the past year by a...

U.S. Patent protects Arcot core software.(Security News)
April 1, 2001... Argot Systems, Inc., has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 6,170,058 covering its core "Cryptographic Camouflage' Technology. The patented software technology accomplishes it is claimed the strong authentication of an end-user's identity over a...

UK companies suffer from Web site vanity.(Security News)
April 1, 2001... According to a survey of 113 IT and e-commerce managers commissioned by Attenda, one in ten large companies in the UK actually believe that the look and feel of a Web site is more important than the security protecting it. Statistics also...

Norton AntiVirus supports windows me.(Security News)
April 1, 2001... The Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition now includes support for the Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me) operating system. Symantee's Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition, is a key component of Symantec Enterprise Security, a modular...

Voice authentication solutions.(Security News)
April 1, 2001... Personal Digital Assistants (PDAS) that permit access only in response to their J rightful owner's voice? Simple, reliable solutions of this kind could, it is claimed, soon be demonstrated as a result of a new licensing agreement between...

ASIC--security processor.(Security Products)
April 1, 2001... SonicWALL Inc., have a new high performance security processor, the custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) which will be incorporated into SonicWALL's Interact security appliances to create a hardware platform for integrating...

Virus defense system for Postfix e-mail gateways.(Security Products)
April 1, 2001... Kaspersky Labs, have introduced the beta-version of the first virus protection software for Postfix e-mail gateways. Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Postfix integrates into the Postfix e-mail processing system running on Linux, FreeBSD or BSDI...

Virus Protection Plan for email.(Security Products)
April 1, 2001... An improved Virus Protection Plan (VPP) for email systems, has been developed to offer protection from all forms of Internet email-home virus. Anti-Virus engine updates can now be transmitted and implemented automatically if required-even...

CertainT 100.(Security Products)
April 1, 2001... The Radware CertainT 100 provides high speed on-line SSL transactions, enabling web servers to operate at peak efficiency by relieving network web servers of CPU intensive SSL encryption and decryption calculations associated with e-commerce...

Magistr: blends virus and worm with multilevel polymorphism.(Virus Notes)
April 1, 2001... Kaspersky Labs has warned computer users about the discovery of a new extremely dangerous computer virus "Magistr," which spreads via e-mail and local area networks, and uses a set of nifty techniques to hide its presence in infected computers...

Kournikova worm through net.(Virus Notes)
April 1, 2001... Sophos Anti-Virus, has warned users to be wary of a new in-the-wild worm that poses as a picture of the popular Russian tennis pin-up, Anna Kournikova. The worm has been widely reported as infecting users around the world. The worm, known as...

Government decides: patents for internet trading and computer software.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... The Government's decision on patents to protect computer programs and internet trading methods has been announced. This follows the recent consultation 'Should Patents Be Granted for Computer Software or Ways of Doing Business?'. The key...

ITU World Policy Forum consensus for Internet Protocol Telephony.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... The International Telecommunication Union's third World Telecommunication Policy Forum closed with the adoption by government and industry of four "Opinions" that reflect the common understanding on Internet Protocol (IP) Telephony.' The...

12bp delays launch of video streaming.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... French company, 12bp is delaying the on-line launch of its video streaming technology which will enable low-bandwidth, real-time internet transmission of full screen video. Since its original patent application, the 12bp technology has been...

Trial for UK DSL services.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... Bulldog Communications, has begun trials of its wholesale DSL service. The trials will provide a select group of Internet and application service providers with high speed, DSL access. The company is one of the first in the UK to trial the...

Free on-line security check.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... BTopenworld, the mass market Internet business of UK-based telecommunications carrier British Telecommunications (BT), has signed an agreement with Internet Security Systems (ISS) (Nasdaq: ISSX) to trial Online Scanner, ISS's vulnerability...

BUPA acquires first dot com--Clicklocum.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... BUPA, has acquired clicklocum Limited, a dot.com company that provides quality locums for the pharmacy market, Clicklocum was launched 11 months ago in response to two mare needs: * A requirement for additional locums to staff the increased...

Three email addresses per suffer.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... The average Internet surfer now has three email addresses, according to NetBenefit. With many people now purchasing domain names for use as email addresses, the company has carried out research, which suggests that the average web surfer owns...

Demon Net Launch service.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... Thus plc has launched a service to help SoHo (Small office, Home office) users design Web sites that will attract and retain customers online. Under its Internet brand, Demon, it has introduced a user-friendly package called Demon Net...

Sun Systems 5.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... A New financial and business management software suite designed for use by local government and other non-profit organisations is available from, Systems Union Group plc. The software has a new Windows interface and maintains...

Applications environment management software.(Internet Focus)
April 1, 2001... CYRANO, is preparing to deliver the first end-to-end WEB applications Environment management (WAE) software. Using a new approach to software testing that provides users with the opportunity to have a single software solution for all testing,...

OMG endorses model driven architecture.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... At February's Technical Meeting in Iryine, California, USA, the Object Management Group's member representatives voted to endorse the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) as the group's architectural direction, expanding the scope of the standards...

Companies say 'Trust' crucial to ASP choice.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... New research, by the e-initiative Group, presents current perceptions of the UK ASP (Application Service Provision) market and emphasises trust as the crucial factor for businesses choosing an ASP supplier. 59% of respondents named three...

PC year-on-year market growth only 5.4% for Q4 2000.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... According to preliminary data from IDC, the PC market failed to record a healthy performance in the final quarter of the year, with year-on-year growth limited for the quarter to 5.4% and only 9.5% for the full year 2000 in Europe, Middle East,...

Adidas rescue.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... Switching to Progress technology and Progress ASP EN ablernent (ASPEN) partners, enabled sportswear manufacturer adidas America to launch its B2B2C ecommerce web sites on time, despite the collapse in July last year, of its original...

Data Downlink expands into Europe.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... Data Downlink, provider of business information services, are expanding their European presence with the establishment of a new office in Paris, France. The Paris office opening will help drive Data Downlink's European operations, in particular...

CityPlanner.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... Travel InfoSystems, has completed the development of CityPlanner, a new multi-modal urban journey planner. The demo site, based around the Central London public transport network, is now available at http://www.travelinfosystems. com/cityplan....

Sourceforge.net supports 100,000 developers in first year.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... Open Source Development Network (OSDN.com), say that SourceForge.net, the world's largest ASP for Open Source developers, now supports over 100,000 registered users. Since its official launch exactly one year ago, SourceForge.net has expanded...

Centre for Pervasive Computing.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... I-Logix Inc. have launched its "Center for Pervasive Computing." at http://www.pervasivecenter.com. The I-Logix corporate Web presence, is geared to ensuring that embedded developers have a single respected source for all material that closely...

Postcode iD.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... ICR Group Limited and GB Information Management have a joint venture to offer a voice driven, fully automated name and address system called POSTCODE iD. The product, developed as a result of recent advances with speech recognition technology,...

Virtual business school on web.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... European-internet, has developed the new website for The Business Campus, a new development using the Internet as a communications medium to operate 'distance learning'. The Business Campus is a virtual business school, providing e-learning in...

Psion guide to mobile usage.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... Psion has launched a guide to help companies manage the roll-out of mobile devices securely and successfully in the workplace. Having spoken to IT directors concerned about how to integrate mobile devices and applications into office systems,...

Staffware eBanking.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... Staffware ebanking, is a new solution designed to transform existing ebanking services provided by financial institutions by enabling banking organisations in the retail, wholesale and investment sectors to fully automate their existing...

SearchandMatch and Mediapps provide IT intelligent source.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... SearchandMatch Limited, announced a partnership with Mediapps, the SearchandMatch database is now integrated into Net.Portal, Mediapps product. Net.Portal can now it is claimed, deliver to its users real-time market knowledge of the latest...

First ITU standards use new accelerated approval process.(IT News)
April 1, 2001... The first two ITU standards using its new fast-track approval process called alternative approval process (AAP) have been successfully approved. This new procedure was adopted by the recently-held World Telecommunication Standardization...

Resonate Commander.(Management Products)
April 1, 2001... Resonate Inc. has a new set of active service level management solutions to offer end-to-end service levels of e-business applications. The Resonate Commander Solutions address the performance needs of todays e-business through monitoring,...

Alibre-product design service.(Management Products)
April 1, 2001... Alibre Inc. is to offer a Web-based mechanical collaborative product development (CPD) service for global manufacturers, in the UK. By combining 3D solid modeling with Internet connectivity, the Alibre Design CPD service frees design,...