Database and Network Journal articles from August 2002

Database and Network Journal archives from August 2002

World leaders must shape the direction of the `Information Society'. (IT News).
August 1, 2002... The transformation to the Information Society is every bit as profound as the movement from agrarian to industrial societies and just as in the past, such change has led to winners and losers. "Some countries have prospered, while others have...

OpenForum Europe calls for UK support of EC announcement. (IT News).
August 1, 2002... The European Commission have published an independent study into the pooling of Open Source Software by European administrations and declared they should share software on an open source licensing basis, to cut soaring egoverment information...

Companies guilty of reckless management. (IT News).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... As victims of short-term gains, 479 companies in the UK Computer Software industry have been identified as having `Reckless Management', according to the latest Plimsoll Analysis, 3rd Ed. 2002. "Recent corporate collapses like Enron and...

Another two years of lean times. (IT News).
August 1, 2002... Butler Group Web services and Grid technology will fuel growth in the technology industry--but not until the latter half of the decade, so batten down the hatches because it's going to be a rough ride until then, according to Martin...

UK company profitability continues slides. (IT News).
August 1, 2002... As businesses and economic commentators look for anything that might signal an economic recovery, new figures from Experian's Corporate Health Check confirm that UK corporate profitability has declined by 40 per cent in the last three years,...

IT spend in the right direction. (IT News).(FAST survey)
August 1, 2002... In the past IT has always struggled to get its foot through the boardroom door but a recent survey by FAST shows that company directors are now investing more time and money in their IT infrastructure. FAST's recent research has demonstrated a...

.Net not dead yet! (IT News).
August 1, 2002... Butler Group Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) has been wholeheartedly adopted by developers and vendors alike as a backdrop against which Application Server functionality can be defined and utilised. Consequently, J2EE dominates the...

Developers should understand wider business issues. (IT News).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Developer productivity has nothing to do with the speed one can bang out a hundred lines of code using various bells and whistles and shortcut key code combinations', according to Butler Group's latest report, `Application Development...

Internet access enemy for software piracy. (IT News).
August 1, 2002... Increased employee access to the Internet has led to a significant rise in software piracy, according to the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) annual survey of UK Corporates, as employees download illegal software. To combat this growing...

ISI Web of Science at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. (IT News).
August 1, 2002... ISI have announced that the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has adopted ISI Web of Science the Web-based resource that enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from the world's most prestigious scholarly...

UK plc blind to the potential of data. (IT News).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Two-thirds of companies admit that they don't centrally collect and consolidate the data that comes into their organisation. This includes details such as customer information and sales leads, which do gather information into central sources....

VPNs--blessing or curse? (Networks).
August 1, 2002... VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) have recently moved on to become second generation technology. From having one or two VPNs, companies are now looking to install large numbers. These numbers are likely to grow steadily and in a few years' time,...

Data analysis online service. (Database & Network News and Products).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Survey nSight enables project coordinators to run tailored surveys directly online. Using daily response summary reports, organisations can monitor progress and response rates and learn from the survey in real-time. The service is managed by...

IBM database tools. (Database & Network News and Products).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... IBM, have new software tools designed to help customers improve database performance, ease system administration, and reduce the cost of computing from rising administration costs. According to Aberdeen Group, system administration can...

Network outsourcing market doubles in two years. (Database & Network News and Products).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The number of UK IT directors choosing to outsource their Wide Area Networks has increased almost two-fold since 2000. A survey' conducted by Rhetorik, on behalf of Virtual Network Operator, Vanco found that 72% of businesses no longer run...

SGI file server storage. (Database & Network News and Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... SGI File Server, is a high-performance network-attached storage solution that centralises important data for efficient management in multiplatform environments. filesystem. It provides, it is claimed, virtually unlimited capacity by scaling to...

Openwave library to support push applications. (Database & Network News and Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... Openwave WAP Push Library, Java Edition 1.0, is designed to support the development of mobile applications. Openwave's Push technology is standards-based and is a core functionality mobile applications, including Multimedia Messaging Service...

Integrated PIM suite. (Database & Network News and Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... Critical Path Inc. has announced what it claims is the first fully integrated Personal Information Management (PIM) Suite for global carriers and service providers, offering wireless, voice, and Web access to an integrated suite including...

Pylon ProYLON pro. (Database & Network News and Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... AvantGo Pylon Application Server 5.0 and AvantGo Pylon Pro 5.0 are available for Windows Powered Pocket PC devices. These software solutions enable interactive wireless and off-line access to custom Lotus Notes databases, e-mail and personal...

Order out of chaos. (Internet Focus).
August 1, 2002... Whereas most IT managers have solutions in place to manage their software updates, outside forces are at work to undermine their good work. Chaos is caused within their once stable environments by outside forces such as constant user demand,...

802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide. (Wireless Literature).
August 1, 2002... 802.11 technology goes by a variety of names, depending on who is talking about it. Some people call it wireless Ethernet to emphasize its shared lineage with traditional wired Ethernet. Wi-Fi, from wireless fidelity, is another popular name,...

Network security with OpenSSL. (Wireless Literature).
August 1, 2002... OpenSSL is an open source library that implements the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocols to secure applications that need to communicate over a network. It is the most widely deployed, freely available...

The temptations of the Web. (Internet Focus).(SurfControl survey)
August 1, 2002... With the growth of the Web, today's employees have the world at their fingertips, but not all are gathering vital business information and emailing important clients. There are few modern businesses that could survive without the Web: an...

The case for data warehousing. (Data Warehousing).
August 1, 2002... Too much of the data warehousing literature confuses "next order" benefits, with the basic reasons why organisations implement data warehouses. A little time reading data warehouse trade material indicates that the purpose of using a data...

Internet telephone numbering system (ENUM). (Internet Focus News & Products).
August 1, 2002... The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) have announced approval of interim procedures for ENUM, the technology that builds a bridge between the public switched telephone network and the...

Telcos should focus on service. (Internet Focus News & Products).(European survey conducted by Vanco)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Telecoms companies must focus on improving customer service rather than rebuilding their financial credibility, according to IT directors across Europe. In a European survey conducted by Virtual Network Operator, Vanco, 66% of respondents said...

W3C progress. (Internet Focus News & Products).
August 1, 2002... W3C has been developing an architecture, for Web Services which takes into account the needs of users as well as technology vendors, pursuing the development of open standardized components for Web Services, as it has done for HTML, the XML...

CEOs' vision of Web technology misplaced. (Internet Focus News & Products).(Exchequer Software survey)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... Nearly 75% of CE0s think it will take another 12-18 months for Web-based technology to become essential in the workplace, according to a survey by Exchequer Software. However, the same survey also found that over 50% of middle management (such...

`IT capacity on demand' service. (Internet Focus News & Products).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... PinkRoccade UK Ltd., the IT services and infrastructure management company has launched a new shared service offering in association with Sun Microsystems. The offering is based on a combined managed services and hosting solution, and provides...

`Ready-made' Web service applications. (Internet Focus News & Products).(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... Xara Online provider Of modular Web Services, have a range of ready-made Web Applications enabling non technical webmasters or business users to enhance the functionality of their website. The applications include content management, and...

Essential NetTools 3.1. (Internet Focus News & Products).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... Esssential NetTools is suite of network tools for diagnosing and exploring networks, and monitoring network connections of computers. It includes a NetStat utility that displays all a computer's inbound and outbound network connections capable...

Routing J server v2.0 for Europe. (Internet Focus News & Products).(from Mapinfo)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... Mapinfo have announced the availability of its Java based routing engine for countries across Europe. MapInfo Routing J Server v2.0 enables developers to add routing functionality to any web-based or windows-based application. This includes the...

WebLog Expert 1.51. (Internet Focus News & Products.).(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... WebLog Expert an Internet analytics solution for site administrators analyzes web logs to generate HTML reports to provide website data. Information includes how online visitors reach a website, by identifying the referring sites, the search...

E- business data exchange-security essentials. (Security).
August 1, 2002... While media attention on privacy and security tends to focus on consumer information on the Internet, much broader issues are at the core of business success in the electronic age. Whether the concern is the protection of corporate assets,...

Cryptography. (Technote).
August 1, 2002... Cryptography is the technology of keeping information secure. Only authorized individuals should have access to sensitive information. Simple Cryptography For many centuries, various techniques were used to hide the contents of...

RealSecure top in latest NSS tests. (Security News).(RealSecure Network Sensor 7.0 from Internet Security Systems)(Brief Article)(Evaluation)
August 1, 2002... RealSecure, the intrusion detection system (IDS) from Internet Security Systems, Inc. (ISS), has, it is claimed, swept the board in the latest IDS product performance tests conducted by the NSS Group, an independent network and security product...

PDA survey says private & corporate secrets unprotected. (Security News).
August 1, 2002... One in ten peoples' bank accounts could be accessed if they lost their Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) according to the PDA Usage survey which has found that PDA owners commonly download the entire contents of their personal and business lives...

ITsecurity.com launches Security Clinic Compendium. (Security News).
August 1, 2002... The ITsecurity.com Security Clinic is a forum in which users can air their security problems--and get advice and solutions from a pool of more than 100 security experts from all round the world. The experts range from reformed hackers through...

Signify security solutions. (Security News).(Signify's Identity Management Centre 3.0)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... Signify has launched a service that enables its partners and resellers to include strong authentication solutions in their own security packages. This means the partner/reseller can offer an end-to-end security service entirely under its own...

Indian `denial of service' attack on Pakistan claimed. (Security News).
August 1, 2002... Sophos reported that a widespread internet worm was launched in an attack on the Pakistan Government's website encouraging Indian hackers and virus writers to join forces and attack Pakistan. The W32/Yaha-E worm highlights the current political...

VITAL security alert service. (Security News).(Pentasafe Security Technologies VigilEnt Intelligence and Threat Analysis Lab)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Pentasafe Security Technologies, have launched the VigilEnt Intelligence and Threat Analysis Lab (VITAL), service to advise companies of the latest security threats and vulnerabilities, and how to respond to them. VITAL is designed to...

15 security vendors sign-up to EEMA's pki Challenge. (Security News).
August 1, 2002... Fifteen security vendors have committed to test the compatible nature of their public key infrastructure (PKI) products within EEMA's pki Challenge. Ascertia, Baltimore, Cryptomathic, Entrust, Guardeonic, Microsoft, NetseT, RSA, Safelayer,...

Free live virus and hoax information. (Virus Notes).(Sophos)
August 1, 2002... Sophos has a free virus information feed service, allowing businesses, organisations and home users to display the very latest virus and Internet hoax information on websites and intranets. The live display provides employees, customers and...

Virus in a JPEG--alarm. (Virus Notes).
August 1, 2002... Sophos, have called for the anti-virus industry to act responsibly in light of the discovery of the first virus capable of infecting JPEG graphic files. The virus, known as W32/Perrun~A, was sent directly to the anti-virus community by its...

Windows 32 viruses rule the waves--Sophos. (Virus Notes).
August 1, 2002... Sophos, has detected and protected against 3,279 new viruses in the first six months of 2002. During this period, the single most prevalent virus was Klez-H, which was first reported in March 2002. All ten of the most prolific viruses in...

Filipino claims to be JPEG virus author. (Virus Notes).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Paul Glenerson B. Amurao, a 21 year old Filipino, has claimed in a media interview to be the author of the first virus to attempt to infect JPG graphic files. Amurao, who says he lives in a province north of Metro Manila, Philippines, said he...

New Anti-Virus solution for MS Exchange. (Virus Notes).(Kaspersky Anti-Virus for MS Exchange Server 5.5/2000)
August 1, 2002... The most fundamental and distinctive feature of the new version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus for MS Exchange Server is its transparent support of MS Exchange 5.5/2000. The cross-platform nature economizes time and expenses as it combines in one...

GFI email exploit engine. (Virus Notes).
August 1, 2002... GFI MailSecurity for Exchange/SMTP, GFI's new email security package, includes a revolutionary email exploit engine which detects exploits embedded in emails and shields users against any current or future email viruses and attacks that use...

Encryption Plus Hard Disk V7.0. (Virus Notes).
August 1, 2002... Encryption Plus Hard Disk 7.0 encrypts a computer's entire hard disk. It uses the Rijndael Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm with a 256-bit encryption key, designed to US specifications defined in Federal Information Processing...

Copyright management in the digital age. (Management).
August 1, 2002... Listening to and buying music online is becoming increasingly popular with consumers. So much so that Merrill Lynch forecasts the value of the online music market will explode from $8 million in 2001 to $1,409 million in 2005. But online...

Six common enterprise programming mistakes. (Monograph).
August 1, 2002... Instead of giving you tips to use in your programming (at least directly), I want to look at some common mistakes made in enterprise programming. And instead of focusing on what to do, I want to look at what you should not do. Most...

75% of FTSE companies treat UK businesses as `second class citizens'. (E-Commerce).
August 1, 2002... 75% of companies treat UK businesses as `second class citizens', potentially costing themselves billions of pounds every year. This was the key finding of the Ironside Order Disorder" Study which compared business-to-business and...

Application server vendor strategies confuse markets. (E-Commerce).(Butler Group's 'Application Server- The Facts and How They Compare' Report)
August 1, 2002... According to Butler Group's "Application Server- The Facts and How They Compare' Report, whilst the Application Server is an essential e-business component in an interact-based business strategy, vendors are confusing the market with excessive...