InfoWorld.com articles from July 2005

InfoWorld.com archives from July 2005

In Brief: Micromuse to acquire GuardedNet; Also in Brief: Apache announces XMLBeans 2.0; Nortel appoints new chairman; W3C issues XKMS 2.0 as Recommendation; StorageTek service expands data protection options; Nsite launches free process-automation service; Meditech, BridgeHead enhance backup and disaster recovery.
July 1, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff Micromuse has entered into an agreement to acquire GuardedNet for $16.2 million in cash. The acquisition of privately held GuardedNet will broaden Micromuse's portfolio in the area of security information and event...

Desktop search finds the enterprise; X1, ISYS, Google, and Verity jump into corporate desktop search market .
July 1, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore This week X1 Technologies threw its hat in the ring for enterprise desktop search, joining big name vendors such as Google, Verity, Autonomy, and a host of smaller players all chasing the red-hot market for PC...

IBM adds range partitioning to Viper; Feature adds speed, ease of use.
July 1, 2005... Byline: Ed Scannell Hoping it will persuade Oracle database users to migrate over to DB2, IBM will add range partitioning to the next version of the product, code-named Viper, expected to go into widespread beta in August or September. ...

Microsoft, Siebel push partners to improve products; Business partners to ramp up CRM offerings.
July 5, 2005... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz As the competition for CRM customers intensifies, enterprise ISVs are turning to business partners to create value-add features and services for their offerings. When Microsoft announces Version 3.0 of its CRM...

In Brief: AirDefense announces wireless LAN analyzer; Also in Brief: Yahoo launches cell phone shopping in Japan; Samsung to invest $618 million in memory chip lines; Micromuse to acquire GuardedNet; Apache announces XMLBeans 2.0; Nortel appoints new chairman; W3C issues XKMS 2.0 as Recommendation.
July 5, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff AirDefense on Tuesday introduced AirDefense Mobile, a wireless LAN analyzer that coordinates with the company's AirDefense Enterprise product to perform real-time assessments of all 802.11 a/b/g wireless activities...

Contact Networks unlocks relationship data; ContactNet 4.0 application aims to turn employee contacts into corporate knowledge.
July 5, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore Contact Networks on Tuesday rolled out ContactNet 4.0, a knowledge-management, search, and collaboration application designed to help enterprises find and use employee relationships with outside contacts and...

Microsoft: Indigo patents would not affect interoperability; Developers would not need to pay fees for building apps that call on the technology.
July 5, 2005... Byline: Paul Krill Microsoft said its willingness to file patents on its planned Indigo Web-services technology will not affect the software's ability to interoperate with other vendors' software. Developers, meanwhile, will not need...

Sun’s Keller: No plans to join Eclipse; Status quo remains, with company promoting NetBeans.
July 5, 2005... Byline: Paul Krill Joe Keller is vice president of marketing for Java Web Services and Tools at Sun Microsystems, responsible for driving the company's product direction in these areas. Previously, he was involved in the company's iPlanet...

ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: Will Exchange 12 be par for the Redmond course? Messaging platform could bring promising VoIP integration, but may lack active-to-active server clustering.
July 7, 2005... Byline: Oliver Rist Why is it that geeks don't much golf? I seem to be largely alone amongst my geek colleagues in my unexplained need to spend five or six hours a weekend beating the tar out of a little white ball. Nevertheless, golf has...

In Brief: Blue Titan, IBM partner to boost SOA; Also in Brief: SEC closes investigation of Business Objects; SOA Software to support Oracle Fusion Middleware; AirDefense announces wireless LAN analyzer; Yahoo launches cell phone shopping in Japan; Samsung to invest $618 million in memory chip lines; Micromuse to acquire GuardedNet.
July 8, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff Blue Titan Software is participating in IBM's SOA initiative and will leverage the IBM Global Services organization, Blue Titan said this week. The two companies will jointly sell into Blue Titan accounts in...

Borland CEO Fuller steps down; Company says revenues are falling short.
July 8, 2005... Byline: Paul Krill Borland Software CEO Dale Fuller has stepped down, to be replaced on an interim basis by Executive Vice President and COO Scott Arnold. The Fuller resignation, announced late on Thursday afternoon, comes on a day...

Interview: Viper set to strike; IBM general manager Janet Perna talks about the upcoming beta of the next version of DB2.
July 8, 2005... Byline: Ed Scannell With the delivery in 2006 of the next version of DB2, code-named Viper, IBM's quest for a database that hooks up structured and unstructured data and that supports queries by SQL and Xquery might reach its end. At least...

Apache faces Web services security spec roadblock; Open source organization to meet with Microsoft, IBM.
July 8, 2005... Byline: Paul Krill Apache officials hope to iron out licensing issues with Microsoft and IBM pertaining to the WS-Security specification, so that Apache can add the technology to its open source Axis SOAP stack. Axis is envisioned as a...

SECURITY ADVISER: The sorry state of IM security; Keep a sharp eye on your buddy list: IM and p-to-p threats are headed through the roof.
July 8, 2005... Byline: Bob Francis A few weeks back I told you about a "friend" of mine who got hit with an IM bug. It was quick, painful, and pretty much fit the definition of "as much fun as a sharp stick in the eye." Apparently my friend is not...

Sprint in deals with Good Technology and Seven; Partnerships will bring push e-mail and Lotus support.
July 11, 2005... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz Wireless carrier Sprint announced a deal on Monday with Good Technology and plans for another on Tuesday with Seven, both of which will extend Sprint's data services into the enterprise. In the deal with Seven,...

In Brief: Motorola targets India, Taiwan for R&D centers; Also in Brief: McAfee's Foundstone delivers Web services testing tools; PayPal launches services in China; Blue Titan, IBM partner to boost SOA; SEC closes investigation of Business Objects; SOA Software to support Oracle Fusion Middleware; AirDefense announces wireless LAN analyzer.
July 12, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff Motorola plans to open a new research and development center in India this week and has just launched a new broadband communications technology center in Taiwan. The company declined to provide details on the Indian...

IBM to add blogging tools to Workplace; Forthcoming Workplace 2.5 and Workplace Designer 2.5 gain blogs with enterprise features.
July 12, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore IBM on Tuesday revealed plans for two new corporate blogging tools it plans to add to the forthcoming Version 2.5 of its Workplace collaboration platform and Workplace Designer development tools. In addition to...

IBM, Zend deliver on PHP plans; Borland, Macromedia also promoting development tools.
July 12, 2005... Byline: Paul Krill IBM and Zend Technologies on Tuesday are delivering on previously stated plans to help developers deploy applications to IBM databases via PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor). Zend Core for IBM, which is based on PHP 5...

BMC CTO: IT still matters; Bishop cites need for operational efficiencies and increased service levels.
July 13, 2005... Byline: Paul Krill SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Contrary to a report published in 2003, IT still does matter, BMC Software CTO Tom Bishop said at the BMC Remedy User Group 2005 conference on Wednesday morning. Noting that last year's conference...

Entrust, Trustgenix link authentication with federated identity; Product integration announced at Catalyst Conference.
July 13, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore Security vendors Entrust and Trustgenix on Wednesday announced an alliance designed to strengthen the security of federated identity management relationships. The companies made the announcement at the Burton Group's...

HP rolls out improved identity suite; Enhanced OpenView focus is on federation, compliance.
July 13, 2005... Byline: Ed Scannell Hewlett-Packard beefed up its OpenView identity management suite of applications on Wednesday with a number of federation and compliance features, and also announced it has agreed to extend its existing technical...

SOA Software tightens security in XML VPN; XML VPN Version 4.3 can act as a proxy for external Web services.
July 13, 2005... Byline: Bob Francis SOA Software on Wednesday announced Version 4.3 of its XML VPN product adding several new packaged security features. "As companies move away from expensive proprietary integration mechanisms toward XML, Web...

In Brief: IBM offers free technologies to universities; Also in Brief: National Semiconductor to close Singapore chip plant; Motorola targets India, Taiwan for R&D centers; McAfee's Foundstone delivers Web services testing tools; PayPal launches services in China; Blue Titan, IBM partner to boost SOA; SEC closes investigation of Business Objects.
July 14, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff IBM announced an initiative to give universities free access to emerging technologies developed in IBM Research labs. The new Academic License program aims to accelerate development skills around open...

Open source collaboration server gets a lift; Red Hat, Novell sign agreements with Open-Xchange.
July 14, 2005... Byline: Ed Scannell The fortunes of Open-Xchange, creator of an open source collaboration server, got a boost on Thursday when it announced a distribution deal and partner agreement with two companies that are each other's archrival:...

Amazon.com turns 10; E-tailer's success has been helped by strong tech, customer service.
July 15, 2005... Byline: Juan Carlos Perez When Amazon.com opened its online bookstore 10 years ago, it faced an uncertain future as it set out to prove that a retailer that sold exclusively via the Internet could succeed against established competitors...

In Brief: MicroStrategy releases MicroStrategy 8 on 64-bit Linux; Also in Brief: IBM offers free technologies to universities; National Semiconductor to close Singapore chip plant; Motorola targets India, Taiwan for R&D centers; McAfee's Foundstone delivers Web services testing tools; PayPal launches services in China; Blue Titan, IBM partner to boost SOA.
July 15, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff MicroStrategy has announced the release of MicroStrategy 8 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. MicroStrategy 8, the latest release of the company's business intelligence platform, was introduced earlier this year. Adding...

SECURITY ADVISER: Rethinking the data security box; IBM leaves its (blue)prints all over new data governance council.
July 15, 2005... Byline: Bob Francis Computer security can be a difficult problem to get a handle on, so sometimes it takes some creative thinking. I would say it involves "thinking outside the box," but that's a little too trite and overused. I think...

SMBs gain Exchange alternatives; Kerio, Ipswitch, Meeting Maker unwrap e-mail tools for small and midsize business.
July 18, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) looking for options to deploying a Microsoft Exchange messaging environment will now have more to choose from as new offerings from Kerio Technologies, Ipswitch, and Meeting...

Intel releases new Itanium chips with faster bus; New processors carry 667MHz front-side bus.
July 18, 2005... Byline: Tom Krazit As expected, Intel took the wraps off two new Itanium 2 processors Monday that will tide the company over until the expected launch of its first dual-core Itanium processor later this year. The Santa Clara, California,...

Netli accelerates Web services; NetLightning for Web Services speeds machine-to-machine traffic delivery over the Internet.
July 18, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore Netli on Monday rolled out a new service designed to speed the delivery of Web-services traffic over the Internet. NetLightning for Web Services is an application-specific optimization service that uses...

Pantech to sell Windows Mobile smart phone; Handset based on Windows Mobile 2003, XScale chip.
July 18, 2005... Byline: Martyn Williams, IDG News Service Pantech will begin selling a Windows Mobile-based smart phone in South Korea later this month, the company said Monday. The PH-S8000T is based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition...

Rackspace aims Red Label at enterprise Linux users; Hosted services include MySQL, JBoss, Apache.
July 18, 2005... Byline: China Martens Rackspace Managed Hosting unveiled Red Label, a bundle of Linux software and services running on Dell servers aimed at enterprise users, the company said Monday. The move came in response to demand from high-end users...

Symbol unveils rugged mobile device; MC1000 goes after the low end.
July 18, 2005... Byline: Ed Scannell Symbol Technologies on Monday made a concerted effort to attack the low end of the mobile-computing market, introducing a Windows CE-based hand held device targeted at SMBs in the retail and manufacturing markets. ...

In Brief: Riverbed adds MS SQL support to Steelhead; Also in Brief: MicroStrategy releases MicroStrategy 8 on 64-bit Linux; IBM offers free technologies to universities; National Semiconductor to close Singapore chip plant; Motorola targets India, Taiwan for R&D centers; McAfee's Foundstone delivers Web services testing tools; PayPal launches services in China.
July 19, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff Riverbed Technology has announced Version 2.0 of its Steelhead wide-area data services (WDS) solution. The new version of the application accelerator offers application-level support for MS SQL, in addition to...

IBM, Laszlo bring rich Internet apps development to Eclipse; Big Blue also buys e-forms vendor.
July 19, 2005... Byline: Paul Krill IBM and Laszlo Systems on Tuesday announced they are teaming to link the OpenLaszlo rich Internet application development system to the open source Eclipse platform. Although previously available on the IBM...

LinkedIn expands into paid services; LinkedIn for Groups lets organizations display logos in profiles and search results.
July 19, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore The business-networking site provider LinkedIn on Tuesday launched an organizational directory service for groups such as professional organizations, alumni associations, and industry-conference organizers. ...

Strong PC demand lifts Intel Q2 results; Otellini cites rapid transition to notebooks.
July 19, 2005... Intel rode a wave of stronger-than-expected PC demand to post a solid increase in second-quarter revenue and net income, the company announced Tuesday. Revenue was $9.2 billion, up 15 percent from last year and in line with analyst expectations...

In Brief: Novell helps agencies comply with Homeland Security requirements; Also in Brief: Software AG offers real-time replication for Adabas; Web Standards Project forms DOM Scripting Task Force; Riverbed adds MS SQL support to Steelhead; MicroStrategy releases MicroStrategy 8 on 64-bit Linux; IBM offers free technologies to universities; National Semiconductor to close Singapore chip plant.
July 20, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff Novell announced a solution that enables federal agencies to comply with the requirements mandated by Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12). HSPD-12 requires a standard identification card for...

IBM boosts search in WebSphere Commerce Server; New versions enable spidering within popular search engines.
July 20, 2005... Byline: Ed Scannell IBM next month will ship new versions of its WebSphere Commerce Express server aimed at both large and small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). The versions will come with a search-engine optimization feature that enables...

Sun to resell Interwoven ECM products; Move allows Sun to sell content management as integrated part of an infrastructure stack.
July 20, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore Interwoven and Sun Microsystems expanded an existing partnership on Wednesday with an announcement that Sun will resell Interwoven's line of ECM products. Under the deal, the two companies plan to co-sell Sun's...

Sun plans to make all its software free; President Jonathan Schwartz says company has been investigating “how to deliver our products and technologies for free”.
July 21, 2005... Byline: Paul Krill Stanford, Calif. -- Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz on Thursday cited the company's plans to eventually offer all of its software for free as a way to build communities around its technologies. ...

ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: Communicator's not the only IM game in town; Alternatives such as Lotus Sametime are also bringing VoIP to instant messaging.
July 21, 2005... Byline: Oliver Rist Thinking about avoiding VoIP for just one more year? It's a great technology, but with several competing standards, a rickety interoperability record, and so many implementation models that it can make your head spin,...

STORAGE INSIDER: Old news but good news; Mario's quick post-vacation check shows vendors still pushing the limits on storage.
July 21, 2005... Byline: Mario Apicella Well, I'm back from vacation (thank you if you noticed I was away), and I'm catching up with what happened in the storage world. As usual, there are plenty of new things to talk about, one of which is the new Texas...

In Brief: DataViz ships new editions of RoadSync; Also in Brief: Novell helps agencies comply with Homeland Security requirements; Software AG offers real-time replication for Adabas; Web Standards Project forms DOM Scripting Task Force; Riverbed adds MS SQL support to Steelhead; MicroStrategy releases MicroStrategy 8 on 64-bit Linux; IBM offers free technologies to universities.
July 22, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff DataViz is now shipping its RoadSync solution for Palm Powered handhelds and smartphones. Based on Microsoft's Exchange ActiveSync protocol, RoadSync provides secure, wireless, and direct synchronization with...

Web services chugging along; Impediments remain, but are being addressed.
July 22, 2005... Byline: Paul Krill Web services has had its ups and downs since its rise to prominence early in the decade. Although the vendors backing Web services are confident they are properly addressing any kinks, Web services remains hobbled by...

SECURITY ADVISER: Spamming spammers sparks ethics queries; Blue Security puts the "George and Charlie" defense to work.
July 22, 2005... Byline: Bob Francis Blue Security's plan to fight spam with spam has gotten me thinking. Blue Security is a startup security firm that's taking the fight against spam to the spammers by enlisting end-users to create a Do Not Intrude...

Yahoo snags widget tool Konfabulator; Widget engine lets developers create and run mini applications.
July 25, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore Yahoo on Monday announced it has acquired Pixoria, a maker of mini applications, or widgets, that be customized to provide information such as Wi-Fi signal strength, stock prices, and traffic conditions. ...

In Brief: CA acquires e-mail security vendor Qurb; Also in Brief: Zultys announces wireless IP phone; DataViz ships new editions of RoadSync; Novell helps agencies comply with Homeland Security requirements; Software AG offers real-time replication for Adabas; Web Standards Project forms DOM Scripting Task Force; Riverbed adds MS SQL support to Steelhead.
July 26, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff Computer Associates International on Tuesday announced the acquisition of Qurb, a privately held provider of e-mail security software. The acquisition extends CA's security solutions portfolio with Qurb's technology...

Corvette uses mesh network to win at LeMans; Motorola and GM partner for high-speed test of mesh.
July 26, 2005... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz In a high-speed proof of concept, Motorola, partnering with General Motors, came in first and second in the GT1 Class at the 24 Hours of LeMans endurance race last month, using a mesh network to transmit...

FAST prepping desktop search, platform upgrade; FAST ESP 5.0 due by end of the year.
July 27, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore Fast Search & Transfer (FAST) by the end of the year plans to launch its entry into the hot market for desktop search as well as deliver an update to its Fast Enterprise Search Platform (ESP). FAST is working on...

Handheld shipments continue to slide; Palm shipments down 30 percent, Hewlett-Packard drops 39 percent.
July 27, 2005... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz For the sixth quarter in a row of year-over-year comparisons, worldwide handheld device sales declined. Second quarter 2005 shipments decreased by 20.8 percent compared to second quarter 2004, according to IDC. ...

IBM and Avaya team up for VoIP; Product integration brings Avaya audio and VoIP technology to IBM's collaboration tools.
July 27, 2005... Byline: Cathleen Moore IBM and Avaya announced a partnership on Wednesday designed to bring integrated audio and VoIP to Big Blue's e-mail, IM, and Web conferencing products. The agreement is an expansion of an existing partnership...

Microsoft delivers Windows Vista beta; Beta 1 chock-full with security features.
July 27, 2005... Byline: Ed Scannell After four long years of talking the talk, Microsoft on Wednesday gave the outside world its first official look at its next generation operating system, shipping Beta 1 Release of the recently renamed Windows Vista....

In Brief: Vodafone shows new 3G phones from Sharp; Also in Brief: BenQ shareholders approve Siemens mobile deal; CA acquires e-mail security vendor Qurb; Zultys announces wireless IP phone; DataViz ships new editions of RoadSync; Novell helps agencies comply with Homeland Security requirements; Software AG offers real-time replication for Adabas.
July 28, 2005... Byline: InfoWorld staff Vodafone Group's Japanese arm unveiled on Thursday two new 3G cell phones from Sharp. The 703SH clamshell, at 107 grams, will be the lightest 3G handset in Vodafone's line-up. It's also relatively compact for a 3G...

Dell adds Exchange services; New services program is designed to help businesses migrate to Exchange Server 2003.
July 28, 2005... Byline: Bob Francis Dell on Thursday announced a new professional services program that helps companies upgrade to Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. The new pre-configured server, storage, and software packages and professional migration...

Security vendors enter bidding war for vulnerabilities; TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative to offer reward for discovery of new vulnerabilities.
July 28, 2005... Byline: Bob Francis As security personnel met at this week's Black Hat Conference in Las Vegas, there was easy money to be made at the security vulnerability table. Earlier this week, TippingPoint, 3Com's security division, announced...

STORAGE INSIDER: Storage vendors wink at SMBs; New line of FC gear from QLogic promises easier management, lower prices.
July 28, 2005... Byline: Mario Apicella One of the most captivating recent pieces of storage news may be the new, petabyte-size DMX-3 Symmetrix from EMC -- especially if you work for one of the few companies that need that kind of capacity and scalability....

ENTERPRISE WINDOWS: Microsoft offers a view to Vista; Better security and manageability is on the horizon, but are customers ready for yet another version of Windows?
July 28, 2005... Byline: Oliver Rist People are wondering: Why Vista? I think Microsoft chose this new name for its forthcoming OS carefully, precisely for its banality. It has neither logo presence (as does Mac OS X, with its titanium lettering) nor...

SECURITY ADVISER: Hacking for dollars; TippingPoint is seeking -- and paying for -- tips about new vulnerabilities.
July 29, 2005... Byline: Bob Francis Last week's column on the possible ethical queasiness caused by spamming the spammers -- not to mention sending my friends George and Charlie on a perpetual snipe hunt -- apparently struck a chord. Most readers...