Database and Network Journal articles from August 2001

Database and Network Journal archives from August 2001

A Rising Market and a Short Memory!(Column)
August 1, 2001... There was a time not long ago when the Mullard Company, as it was then, called a meeting of industry representatives to try to establish where the the electronics industry was going now that the radio and black and white TV markets seemed to be...

Enterprise Data Access Using XML.
August 1, 2001... Since XML came into being in 1998, its influence has spread like wildfire. People expect it to bring EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) to e-commerce, solve stubborn database information exchange problems, wed dissimilar information...

Wireless Java: Developing with Java 2, Micro Edition.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Wireless Java: Developing with Java 2, Micro Edition J. Knudsen, Bite-Sized Java, Princeton, NJ, USA This is the only up-to-date book on using Java for Wireless applications, and it contains lots of serious code. Although Java is...

Java Collections.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Java Collections J. Zukowski, MageLang Institute, San Mateo, CA, USA This practical book contains comprehensive coverage of the important Collection Library supplied with Java 2. Collections are now built into Java 2 because they provide...

ADO: Activex Data Objects.
August 1, 2001... ADO: Activex Data Objects ADO (ActiveX Data Objects) is part of Microsoft's philosophy of Universal Data Access (UDA), which is neither a tangible product nor technology, but a strategy for attacking the problem of data access, says Jason...

ETIo Accelerator for SQL/Teradata.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... The ETIoAccelerator for SQL/Teradata the newest addition to the ETI Solution for Teradata accelerates the transformation and exchange of data between data warehousing applications hosted on Teradata Relational Database Management Systems...

Quest Central for DB2 V1.1.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Quest Software, has released Quest Central for DB2 version 1.1, with added support for IBM OS/390 mainframe systems, DB2 version 7 and new functionality to ease the migration of databases across servers. These enhancements it is claimed,...

Online Data and Enhancement Tool.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... SynectiCs Solutions and Experian, have formed a new company called Experian Intact Limited to develop and deliver a new online data cleansing service, using a product called Intact, originally developed by SynectiCs Solutions. The Experian...

Filemaker 5.5.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... FileMaker, have a new line of database software to run on five more platforms: Mac OS X, Windows 2000, Linux, Pocket PC and i-mode designed to meet the needs of changing and more mobile workgroups. In addition to FileMaker Pro 5.5, the company...

Singleview CRM Solution.(from Lexicon Corp)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Lexicon, has unveiled a new CRM solution called SingleView. which has been designed to provide a multi-functional CRM solution that enables companies to unlock the full CRM potential of their data. This extension of Linus, SingleView provides...

First OpenSTA Commercial Module.
August 1, 2001... A Beta Program is designed to allow interested parties to participate in utilising all commercial modules for OpenSTA as they are released. The first of these commercial modules is OpenSTA DB Monitor, a module that allows users to monitor the...

VSView Reporting Edition.(from ComponentOne)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... VSView Reporting Edition from ComponentOne, adds database reporting functionality to established document previewing, printing and exporting features. It is designed for programmers who want to create Microsoft Access-style database reports for...

Oracle Health Check.(from Cannon Hill Consulting)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Cannon Hill Consulting, has launched a new Oracle Database Health Check, which aims to determine the current and future efficiency of an organisation's database in order to enhance performance. The Health Cheek produces a detailed report...

Clustering Solutions.(VERITAS Global Cluster Manager 1.1)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... VERITAS Software have new complementary clustering solutions to enable fewer administrators to manage higher levels of availability across mixed hardware or software platforms VERITAS Global Cluster Manager 1.1, enables customers to simplify...

Active Archiving Solutions.(Princeton Softech Archive for Servers 4.0, Archive for DB2 5.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Princeton Softech, have introduced Archive for Servers Release 4.0 and Archive for DB2 Release 5.0 the for active archiving market. Active archiving solves application performance problems by moving infrequently used data from production...

New Version Of Tamino XML Database.(from Software AG)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Software AG is shipping Version 2.3 of Tamino XML Database which enables native storage of data in XML format. The new version of the database offers improved performance and optimised data storage functionality. It is now available for PC,...

dbPAL Universal Database Toolkit.(It-Map International db-PAL)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... DbPAL, from IT-Map Int. is a new concept in database design and management that provides a complete suite of tools linked by an intuitive user interface which replaces the need to write SQL scripts, using instead a drag and drop icon-based...

www.infobak.net Data Protection Strategy.(Hitachi Data Storage Group)
August 1, 2001... The Data Storage Group (DSG) at Hitachi have launched a new initiative designed to prevent critical data loss for SME and home computer users. The Infobak initiative includes a web-based storage solution, a data recovery warranty and a...

Storage Networking Solutions.(Siemens Network Systems, EMC have reseller agreement)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Siemens Networks Systems Limited and EMC Corp. have an agreement in which SNSL will sell and support EMC's storage networking solutions. EMC's range of information storage systems software and services will become an integral part of SNSL's...

Multicast for Oracle 91 Customers.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Talarian Corporation provider of software infrastructure solutions for content and data delivery in real-time, have introduced a product designed to improve data dissemination from the Oracle 9i Database. Talarian and Oracle have developed a...

Inxight in Europe.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Inxight Software, who provide software for analysing, organising and navigating information on the Interact and enterprise networks, backed by Xerox has entered the European market. It is offering a portfolio of products to help companies deal...

DataGone -- Virtual `data shredder'.(PowerQuest now distributing version 2.4 in Europe)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... PowerQuest Corporation, have announced the availability of DataGone 2.4 in Europe. DataGone, a software solution that permanently removes data from hard disks, removable media and diskettes, enables businesses to purge sensitive and...

Softek SANView.(from Fujitsu Softek)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Softek SANView from Fujitsu Softek targeted at users of multi-vendor SANs is designed to simplify storage administration by offering interoperability and manageability. It proactively produces a graphical topology map providing SAN...

SAN Optimisation Software.(from Fujitsu/Softek)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Softek Storage Virtualisation is a software solution that allows IT managers to make use of the untapped storage capacity across their Storage Area Networks (SANs). The solution, `Powered by DataCom', allows storage resources to be allocated...

Multivendor-Certified San Backup-Restore.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Three data storage companies are providing a multivendor-certified Storage Area Network (SAN) hardware/software solution bundle to the mid-sized market. BakBone Soft, rare Inc. Qualstar Corp and Vixel Corp have assembled a pre-tested solution...

Syncsort's Backup Express.(Product Information)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Vixel Corporation has completed certification of its Fibre Channel fabric switching products with Syncsort's Backup Express software. Syncsort's Backup Express software product provides backup and restore functionality for Network Attached...

STORfusion.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... StorageNetworks, Inc. has announced the STORfusion service. The new service line is designed to assist telecommunications companies and computing, network, and infrastructure-based service providers to enter the data storage management services...

Profit or Loss?(Plimsoll analysis of UK software industry)
August 1, 2001... Analysing 1000 UK companies in the Computer Software industry, has revealed that the industry is set to grow at 1% over the next 12 months. Only 37% will actually see sales increase, 36% will see stagnant sales, and 27% are likely to see sales...

A New Paradigm For Mobile Computing.
August 1, 2001... When deploying mobile information systems for commerce and industry, businesses consistently ignore the fundamental adaptive attributes of the systems being developed, resulting in the implementation of inflexible mobile data systems. The...

Mobile Effeciency Drive.(IDC survey)
August 1, 2001... Enterprise demand for mobile functionality is on the verge of exploding. According to a recent IDC survey, both U.S. and European corporations are in the thick of this explosion. Approximately 21% of U.S. respondents are currently in the...

Reseller Race For Survival.(UK telecoms resellers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Less than 50% of the telecoms resellers currently operating in the UK are likely to survive the current downturn in the market, according to Alternative Networks who have identified carrier consolidation of contracted resellers as one of the...

Anymobile Transcoding Software.(from Argogroup)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Argogroup have announced a breakthrough in its efforts to enable the pervasive publishing of content across multiple mobile Interact platforms with the announcement of the release of its UbiquinoX AnyMobile transcoding software. This eliminates...

Bluetooth Market Shake-out.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Nick Hunn of TDK Systems, has warned that, as the Bluetooth industry matures, it is highly improbable that the market will support the current number of players. This statement is backed up by the fact that, at present, there are more than 20...

Bluetooth adaptor for Palm.(TDK Systems Europe' s Blue5)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... TDK Systems Europe has a clip-on device that allows PalmV users to access email, Intrances and the Internet via Bluetooth. The product, Blue5, is embedded with Bluetooth software and fits directly to the back of PalmV and Vx series devices....

Domain Dynamics acquires ET Voice.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Domain Dynamics, signal processing and voice authentication specialist, has acquired ET Voice, the voice technology subsidiary of European Telecom plc, as part of its plan to become a leading global supplier of voice authentication and word...

GlobalPulse Licence Allows Businesses To Standardise On Single Solution.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... TDK Systems Europe has introduced a corporate licence for its GlobalPulse software, which will allow IT departments to set a standard PC/PDA platform for remote connectivity needs. Multiple users will have access to remote dial-up, the Interact...

Siemens and SpectraLink Agreement.
August 1, 2001... Siemens has joined forces with SpectraLink to launch an advanced IP based wireless telephone system. Siemens Enterprise Networks will resell SpectraLink's IP-based NetLink Wireless Telephone System(NetLink WTS),and SpectraLink will integrate...

DSL Broadband Could Increase Revenue Up To 50%.(Bulldog Communications' research)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Bulldog Communications have revealed new research showing that UK ISPs believe they are missing out on 50% revenue increases due to the slow roll-out of DSL Half of the ISPs questioned stated that broadband services will enable them to increase...

Software AG Partners MobileFuture.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Software AG, is partnering with wireless Interact service provider MobileFuture to provide a mobile platform for its XML-powered e-Business and integration products. www.softwareag.co.uk

IBM Book "Going Wireless".(Review)
August 1, 2001... `Going Wireless' is written in a narrative style, and draws from hundreds of assignments around the world, accompaning a top executive as he formulates a wireless strategy for his company. It chronicles and illustrates his travels from the...

Java Based SSH2 Client -- MindTerm.(from AppGate)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... MindTerm from AppGate, a Secure Shell version 2 (SSH2) client written in Java, is being offered free of charge to private and non- commercial organisations. The source code is also to be made public, enabling software companies and other...

Wireless Mediation and Billing.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Openet Telecom, specialists in convergent mediation, have announced the integration availability of Openet's Fusion Works with the Portal Software Inc. Intranet Wireless product line. The combined software platforms are suited for...

MobileMinder For Managing Mobile Users.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... MobileMinder is a product for managing mobile user access to ebusiness websites. It enables companies to secure their mobile applications with features such as single sign-on, self-registration and password services on a range of devices such...

eWare Mobile.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... eWare has launched its eWare Mobile wireless CRM product designed to offer a functional and integrated solution for businesses to service prospects, partners and customers across an organisation It integrates support for connected and...

A Guide To Ebusiness Performance Management (EBPM).
August 1, 2001... Visual Insights The following guide aims to shed some light on the new challenges that face marketers and how they can use the Web to put themselves at the centre of business in the new economy. What's the next level in analysis for...

Real CRM Reports -- Pitfalls & Potential.
August 1, 2001... CRM claims to offer significant competitive advantage to companies that are prepared to invest in the technology, bat it has a long way to go before it even begins to live up to the industry hype, according to `Real CRM -- Pitfalls & Potential'...

Leo E-Business in UK.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Networks Unlimited AG is now selling its solution in the UK and Europe. With the LEO e-business Network, producers and resellers of all sizes can provide customers with access to a secure, turnkey e-business application within a short period of...

Seagull Number One Legacyware Vendor.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... International Data Corporation (IDC) has named Seagull as the leading US-based vendor in the legacyware market, according to a recent report entitled "Worldwide Access Integration and Middleware Forecast and Analysis, 2000 - 2005." SEAGULL...

Entegrity AssurePartner Programme.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Entegrity Solutions Corp., has launched an AssurePartner Programme, a cooperative technology, marketing and sales initiative developed to help speed c-business application security deployment. The Programme provides systems integrators,...

Survey of SME Ecommerce Dispels Dot-com Gloom.(Actinic's survey)
August 1, 2001... Actinic bas announced the results of research into the UK SME ecommerce market. the survey of 424 randomly selected businesses with 1499 staff from the retail, manufacturing and wholesale sectors was conducted by pfa Research. Overall the...

iAnywhere m-Business Studio.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... iAnywhere Solutions, has announced iAnywhere m-Business Studio, an integrated software package for extending e-Business applications, enterprise data, and Interact content to mobile and wireless devices, including smartphones, PDAs and laptops....

Borland TeamSource DSP.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Borland TeamSource DSP, is a collaborative development platform for distributed teams to deliver global e-business applications to market. The solution features a hosted infrastructure, source code management and integrated business messaging...

iView 3.0.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... iView 3.0 is an integrated software management package that detects.diagnoses and resolves e-service management problems. The iView 3.0 application suite includes several new features and modules, including: Enhanced. Architecture -- Major...

Channel Management.(MAPICS offers new CRM module for Point.Man)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... MAPICS, Inc. Channel Management has added to its Customer Relationship Management (CRM) components for MAPICS' Point. Man high tech customers. Channel Management is a set of Web-based functions that provide the sales channel with the most...

Ironside Buyer Integrator.(new addition to e-commerce suite)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Ironside Buyer Integrator, the latest addition to Ironside Order Management Suite, aims to improve the B2B supply chain by integrating back end IT systems in real-time between enterprises and their trading partners. Designed to allow...

Euro Business Ill-equiped For Remote Working.
August 1, 2001... Almost 50% of European business managers are disillusioned by their companies' inability to successfully implement new technology for enabling remote or flexible working practices. The new eEurope Report from Nextra, the Business Communications...

Elton John Internet Concert-Was Broadcast Quality The Problem?
August 1, 2001... Press coverage about Elton John's concert, broadcast live from Ephesus on Tuesday 17t'h July, suggests that far fewer people subscribed to the event than organisers had hoped for. There are many reasons suggested for the lack of ticket sales,...

EMail Management Major Litigation Threat.
August 1, 2001... The vast majority of corporate users treat email with low regard for the legal consequences, according to research conducted by IXOS. Speaking at a recent debate, experts discussed the findings and warned that this attitude is leaving companies...

NetNames To Offer Info Applications.(for UK trademark holders)
August 1, 2001... Trademark holders are now able to submit their applications for info domain names through NetNames, the first UK registrar to offer the service. The automated `Sunrise' service is available prior to domain name applications being made available...

Progress Software E-Powerment Centre.(new Progress Software UK services)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Progress Software UK is to open an E-Powerment Centre to accelerate the time software partners and end-user customers alike take to adapt their existing business applications for accessibility over the interact. The E-Powerment service, which...

Only 17% UK Web Sites Transactional.(survey shows low E-commerce use)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Research carried out by Rhetorik, indicates that UK companies continue to be besotted by the Interact, with 97% of public and private sector organisations having a corporate web site. Yet only 17% of these web sites are transactional showing...

Searchandmatch Partnership.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... SearchandMatch Limited, a software search engine providing a definitive IT information and procurement portal, has formed a partnership with smarterwork, the European e-marketplace for business services which provides SearchandMatch users with...

LINX Membership Unchanged.
August 1, 2001... Membership of The London Internet Exchange (LINX) -- which handles more than 90 per cent of the UK's Internet data flow -- has peaked at 120 Internet service providers (ISPS) In January of this year LINX announced a new record membership total...

Lyris e-mail management software.
August 1, 2001... The Lyris range of e-mail messaging and email filtering solutions is to be marketed and distributed in the UK by Guildsoft. The Lyris product range, sold solely by electronic download, comprises: ListManager offers messaging speed that...

G-Lock EasyMail 3.1 for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000.(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... G-Lock EasyMail was developed to help people run and manage mailing lists, newsletters, announcement lists and customer updates. EasyMail sends a message directly from an outbox to the recipient's mail server (without using any ISP's SMTP...

HUP Reduces E Mail Errors.
August 1, 2001... HUP, is an ultra intelligent program which identifies incorrect email addresses. It claims to catch 90% of email addresses manually typed with common errors including formatting, spelling and punctuation. HUP's software identifies dud emails in...

Reflection for the Web V4.5.(WRQs solution that provides secure web-based terminal emulation)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... The latest version of Reflection for the Web (4.5), WRQs centrally managed solution that provides secure web-based terminal emulation for host systems across an enterprise offers improvements for BP and IBM host access. New IBM emulation...

IMail Server V7.0 Adds Calendering.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... The IMail Server 7.0 for Windows NT/2000. offers new Web Calendaring which provides one of the most popular groupware features without the complexity of groupware. Also new SSL authentication policies improve the security of sending and...

K2 Enterprise.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Verity K2 Enterprise (K2E), portal infrastructure software for corporate and intranet portals integrates into corporate portals to search, classify, categorise and personalise information and data residing in internal and external repositories....

IPPS V3.0.(Interact-based software for the insurance industry)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... IPPS V3.0, is an Interact-based software solution designed to view or create insurance policies from remote locations. IPPS V3.0 incorporates features that allow insurance carriers and Managing General Agents (MGAS) to extend products and...

Password Management Solution.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Support.com and Mercury Information Technology, are to provide password management capabilities integrated with Support.com's support infrastructure solution. Support.com will integrate password management software powered by M-Tech's P-Synch...

A Honey Pot Improves Security.
August 1, 2001... Absolute security is absolutely impractical, However, setting honey pot traps can provide a valuable second line of defence. Security can seem at times like an impossible task. The threats keep increasing and changing. The data to be...

Sophos Six-Month Summary Of Virus Activity.
August 1, 2001... Sophos, has announced that it has detected and protected against 6,127 new viruses in the first six months of 2001. In the same period, calls to Sophos's customer helpdesk suggested that those viruses which demanded the most media attention...

Top Ten Viruses Reported To Sophos In July 2001.
August 1, 2001... This is the latest in a series of monthly charts counting down the ten most frequently occurring viruses as compiled by Sophos. For July 2001, the chart is as follows, with the most frequently occuring virus at number one: 1. W32/Sircam-A...

Beware Of SirCam.
August 1, 2001... Sophos Anti-Virus, has warned of a new worm which could prove highly damaging to unprotected businesses. The SirCam worm (also known as W32/Sircam-A), steals commercially sensitive or personal documents from the infected PC. It then forwards...

"SirCam" Breaks Records for Spreading.
August 1, 2001... In only six days since its detection on June 18, the network worm `SirCam" has spread throughout the world and has convincingly seized first place amongst the most wide-spreading malicious programs. At this time, Kaspersky Labs' technical...

SirCam Worm Not Scared By Anti-Virus Products.
August 1, 2001... The current assault by the new SirCaM email virus is a fresh reminder that organizations can only be safe against email attacks such as this if they have installed an email content checking gateway at email server level. Because the SirCam worm...

Anti-Virus for Palm OS.(Kaspersky Lab's)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... The Kaspersky Anti-Virus for the Palm operating system is now available for online purchase in Kaspersky Lab's Online Store. The main feature that distinguishes Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Palm OS from other similar products for this operating...

Worm "Leave" Spreads as Security Patch to Windows.
August 1, 2001... A new version of the Internet worm I-Worm. Leave that spreads as a message from Microsoft. The message contains information about a security patch for Windows and displays a bogus URL. Upon opening, the virus attempts to download a cvr58-ms.exe...

Revision Of SSL Standard To Improve Online Web Security.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The widely used SSL Interact security protocol is to receive its first upgrade in two years, thanks to a wide-ranging revision by leading Internet/ecommerce security consultancy Skygate Technology will shortly go to the Internet Engineering...

Convera Retrieval/Ware 6.9.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Convera has released Convera RetrievalWare 6.9, the latest version of its intelligent search and retrieval solution for indexing and searching a wide range of distributed text-based content. RetrievalWare 6.9 provides user and document-level...

Security for Windows NT2000.(NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator 6.3 and NetIQ Exchange Administrator 6.3)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... NetIQ, has announced NetIQ Directory and Resource Administrator 6.3 and NetIQ Exchange Administrator 6.3. designed to reduce resources to administer and secure Windows NT, Windows 2000, Active Directory and Exchange. New features include the...

Advanced NT Security Explorer 2.0 for Windows NT/2000/XP.(from ElcomSoft Company)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Advanced NT Security Explorer (ANTExp) is a password security test tool to allow NT/2000/XP systems administrators to identify and close security holes in their networks. Comment: Password hacking is one of the top ten most critical...

SelectAccess 3.0.(Baltimore Technologies)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2001... Baltimore Technologies has released SelectAccess 3.0 with enhancements to its personalisation, security and audit control features. Administrators can set policies and user role definitions that will change user access when specific role...