InfoWorld.com articles from June 2002

InfoWorld.com archives from June 2002

AirDefense torpedoes wireless threats; IDS appliance safeguards enterprise WLANs.(intrusion detection system)(wireless land area networks)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Brian Fonseca AIRDEFENSE TOUCHED DOWN on Monday, announcing its company launch and a new IDS (intrusion detection system) appliance that targets the rapid proliferation and potential abuse of wireless devices and access points...

Startup bets on XML for integration; Enosys touts software's real-time capabilities, XQuery functionality.(Enosys Software Inc.)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Carolyn A. April STARTUP ENOSYS SOFTWARE officially launches on Monday, rolling out a suite of data integration software that company officials claim features the first commercially available engine based on the XQuery standard....

IBM brings self-healing to databases; DB2 tools improve management, reporting capabilities.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Ed Scannell TRYING TO ADVANCE the cause of its autonomic computing and Project eLiza initiatives, IBM on Monday rolled out two new database tools intended to lower administrative costs and improve performance through self-managing...

Rambus revs up RIMM 4200 memory; Single-channel module is high-performance companion to Pentium 4.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel MEMORY INTERFACE COMPANY Rambus on Monday gave high-performance PC users a reason to celebrate with the introduction of the Rambus RIMM 4200 memory module. The RIMM (Rambus inline memory module) 4200, and Rambus memory...

Broadening RosettaNet's reach; SilverStream joins movement to connect smaller suppliers to b-to-b consortium standards.(trading networks based on RosettaNet consortium's electronic-business standards)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Carolyn A. April SILVERSTREAM SOFTWARE ON Monday will unveil an integration software package intended to help smaller electronics companies more easily create trading networks based on the RosettaNet consortium's e-business...

Interview: StorageNetworks exec on the importance of listening to customers; CEO Peter Bell discusses the advantages of being a pure-play storage software vendor.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel PETER BELL, CEO of StorageNetworks, knows his company is in the right market at the right time. While a recent wave of storage hardware vendors such as Hitachi and Fujitsu have urgently tried to re-make themselves into...

AMD working to improve Opteron; Unveils prototype 4-way server with 64-bit chip.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Martyn Williams TAIPEI -- ADVANCED Micro Devices (AMD) unveiled a prototype four-way server using its 64-bit Opteron microprocessor Monday, amid questions surrounding the chip's current performance levels. Opteron is the brand...

Supercomm: Cerf calls for new broadband regulations; Internet pioneer attacks lack of competition.(WorldCom Inc. executive Vint Cerf addresses telecommunication regulations at Supercomm conference)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson ATLANTA - COMPETITION between different broadband technologies doesn't exist for many Americans, and U.S. telecommunication regulations should be changed to allow for more competition among providers of the same kind...

Dell buys services company Plural; Dell acquires app dev, integration and deployment consulting.(application development)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Joris Evers IN A MOVE to bolster its professional services business, Dell Computer bought Plural, a closely held 13-year old New York company specializing in consulting, application development and integration, the companies said...

HP developing Crusoe-powered Tablet PC; HP opts for Transmeta chip in forthcoming device.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Tom Krazit HEWLETT-PACKARD WILL RELEASE the Compaq Evo Tablet PC by the end of 2002, and the device will be powered by a 1GHz Crusoe chip from Transmeta, the two companies announced Monday. Tablet PCs are computers about the...

German government promotes Linux; Partners wtih IBM to increase security, reduce costs.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: John Blau THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT plans on Monday to announce a partnership with IBM for the vendor to supply the open-source Linux operating system to federal, state and local governments, according to a message posted on the Web...

Supercomm: IBM, Inktomi team on streaming media; Partnership targets content delivery networks.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson ATLANTA - IBM and Inktomi on Monday teamed up to help large corporations provide high-bandwidth applications, including streaming media as well as key business applications such as ERP (enterprise resource planning),...

Intel shows off new mobile processors; Chip maker demos new P4, Banias mobile processors at Computex.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Martyn Williams TAIPEI -- INTEL demonstrated two new mobile processors, one coming soon and one a little under a year away, at the Computex Taipei 2002 exhibition, which opened Monday in Taiwan. The nearer of the two chips to...

Buying likely to remain sluggish, says Computer Associates International CEO; Kumar says customers are accustomed to slower spending.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Stacy Cowley IT BUYERS ARE showing fewer jitters about purchases but are still not spending on future capacity, Computer Associates International (CA) chief executive officer Sanjay Kumar said Monday during a quarterly meeting here...

Mac lovers get Office updates; Microsoft also makes MSN Messenger available for Mac.(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Matt Berger MICROSOFT ON MONDAY fortified its Office desktop software suite for Apple Computer's Mac OS X operating system with the release of its first pack of updates and security fixes. The company also unveiled a new...

Microsoft unveils latest Mira prototypes; Detachable monitor devices still due by year's end.(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Martyn Williams TAIPEI -- MICROSOFT has taken the wraps off the latest prototypes of Mira mobile monitors at the Computex Taipei exhibition, which opened here Monday. Announced first in January this year, Mira technology allows...

Securities and Exchange Commission, Microsoft settle over accounting issues; Microsoft must cease and desist 'cookie jar' accounting practices.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt THE U.S. SECURITIES and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Monday that it reached a settlement with Microsoft over accounting violations in which the company misstated its income, and ordered the software maker to...

Bertelsmann keen to acquire Napster assets; Napster declares bankruptcy.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: John Blau NAPSTER FILED FOR Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Monday, just two weeks after its major creditor, the German media group Bertelsmann, had agreed to acquire the troubled Internet music service. A Bertelsmann official,...

Fireclick turns up Netflame; Retail tool speeds content delivery.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Stacy Cowley NEW YORK - E-commerce ASP (application service provider) Fireclick released Monday an add-on package for its Netflame2 service for speeding content delivery to and tracking the activities of online shoppers. Aimed...

PoliVec automates policy auditing; Upgraded policy auditing tool scan PCs for up-to-date patches.(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello THE NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR'S task of keeping users in compliance with company computing policies may have gotten a bit easier Monday when PoliVec released version 3.0 of its Scanner automated policy auditing tool. ...

SAP to focus on integration at user show; SAP to tout convergence of ERP, CRM, SCM, at Sapphire.(enterprise resource planning)(customer relationship management)(supply chain management)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Heather Harreld AT ITS ANNUAL Sapphire user conference this week, SAP is expected to focus heavily on the reduced total cost of ownership that can be attained by enterprises that tap their ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor...

SUPERCOMM: Authentication critical in cars, GM exec says; Identity management needed to indentify owners, drivers.(General Motors Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson ATLANTA - AUTHENTICATION is a key problem to solve before use of the Internet in cars can reach its full potential, General Motors Chief Technology Officer Anthony Scott said here Monday at the Supercomm conference....

SUPERCOMM: Vendors push innovations to weak industry; Show sees next-generation backbone, metropolitan and access network equipment.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson ATLANTA -- A telecommunications industry looking for the light at the end of the tunnel is converging here this week at the annual Supercomm conference and trade show. Hard times and consolidation in the...

Expedia considers USA Interactive's take over bid; USA Interactive also bids for Ticketmaster, Hotels.com.(Ticketmaster Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt HOPING TO BOLSTER its e-commerce business, USA Interactive is making a $4.5 billion unsolicited bid for the portions of its Expedia, Ticketmaster and Hotels.com subsidiaries that it doesn't already own, reports...

Avaya unveils new CRM tools; Multimedia Contact Center suite supports Web chat, online collaboration.(customer relationship management)(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello WITH AN EYE toward giving its users more ways to interact with their clients, Avaya on Monday announced the release of its new Multimedia Contact Center CRM (customer relationship management) suite, which helps...

Supercomm: Open platform key to profit, Barrett says; Intel CEO says telecom industry doldrums will pass as new services emerge.(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson ATLANTA -- THE telecommunications industry needs to turn to open interfaces and a modular architecture in order to drive costs down and deliver new revenue-generating applications for customers, Intel CEO Craig...

IBM's microelectronics unit sheds 1,500 jobs; Big Blue to refocus its chip divisions on services.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Tom Krazit IBM ANNOUNCED MORE layoffs Tuesday, this time in its microelectronics unit, which manufactures and distributes memory, storage networking and PowerPC chips. A total of 1,500 jobs, representing 7.5 percent of the...

Hewlett-Packard plans to sell off middleware products; Fate of Bluestone offerings in question.(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: James Niccolai and Ashlee Vance HEWLETT-PACKARD IS ABOUT to sell off its middleware assets and exit the business, looking instead to partnerships to meet its customers' middleware needs, HP executives said Tuesday. The company...

Citrix Systems eyes out-of-the-box portal; NFuse Elite touts point-and-click access, fast ROI [return on investment].(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Cathleen Moore SINGING A DIFFERENT tune in the crowded market for enterprise portals, Citrix Systems this week introduced a portal access server designed to deploy quickly and without a team of service consultants. NFuse Elite...

Microsoft seeks converts to .Net; Company releases beta of Java-to-.Net tool.(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Paul Krill DECLARING THAT IT is more Web services-ready than the rival Java camp, Microsoft on Tuesday released a second beta version of JLCA (Java Language Conversion Assistant), a tool for Java developers to transition to...

Dell offers NAS-to-SAN scalability; Add-on feature enables PowerVault NAS systems to attach to Dell/EMC SANs.(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel DELL ON MONDAY will officially announce that the company can now extend its NAS (network attached storage) products outward into SAN (storage area network) configurations. With the addition of Fibre Channel HBAs (host...

Gartner: Poor IT asset management leads to waste; many companies don't know understand what they have, report says.(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt HARDWARE, AS IT turns out, can be a lot like relationships: sometimes you don't know what you've got until it's gone. At least, that's the conclusion drawn by researcher Gartner, which released a report Tuesday...

Microsoft's vision of .Net Framework; Distinguished Engineer Anders Hejlsberg discusses .Net's evolution.(Interview)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Steve Gillmor and Mark Jones AS MICROSOFT'S DISTINGUISHED engineer of its developer division, Anders Hejlsberg has been a central figure in the development of Microsoft's .Net Framework. The author of Borland's Delphi and .Net's...

Fiorina: Most layoffs will be done by November; CEO says no pay raises for her and Capellas until at least 2003.(Carly Fiorina, Michael Capellas;)(Hewlett-Packard)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Stacy Cowley HEWLETT-PACKARD WILL FINISH its planned 15,000 layoffs by the end of its 2003 fiscal year, with 10,000 of those layoffs completed by November of 2002, Chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina said Tuesday in her opening address...

Supercomm: IBM to help telecom carriers build next-generation apps, networks; Open-standards SPDE framework is at core of IBM's strategy.(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson ATLANTA -- IBM plans to help telecommunications carriers build applications and networks for the next generation of services, the company announced here Tuesday at the Supercomm conference as it kicks off a strategy...

Intel's Itanium 2 processor wins wide support; HP, IBM, others ready products for summer launch.(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel INTEL AND SEVERAL partners are ramping up chipsets designed to optimize the company's upcoming Itanium 2 64-bit processor. Not only will Intel offer its own E8870 chipset for Itanium 2, but compatible Itanium 2...

Intelliseek boosts search with Coreintellect buy.(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: InfoWorld.com staff BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE VENDOR Intelliseek on Tuesday acquired Coreintellect, a Dallas-based provider of competitive intelligence technology and enterprise search products. Intelliseek officials in Cincinnati said...

Oracle to boost Linux profile; Partnership with Red Hat and Dell to be detailed.
June 4, 2002... Byline: Paul Krill ORACLE, RED HAT, and Dell will gather at Oracle headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., on Wednesday to tout a partnership based on the Linux operating system as part of the unveiling of "Unbreakable Linux." The...

Oracle spat with California over database deal heating up; $126 million worth of licenses subject of dispute.
June 4, 2002... Byline: TODD R. WEISS, Computerworld AFTER SOME SIX weeks of state hearings, the verbal barrage continues outside the hearing room in the dispute between officials at Oracle and California's state government over Oracle's sale of $126...

Planet Tivoli: Tivoli Systems Inc. displays hubris, pushes autonomic computing model. Conference stresses value of integration of systems management.(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Brian Fonseca WASHINGTON DC -- General Manager of IBM Tivoli Software Robert LeBlanc on Tuesday touted the merits of his systems management company's revitalized customer efforts and assured attendees at the Planet Tivoli...

Apple releases previews of QuickTime 6, Broadcaster; Multimedia products support MPEG-4 digital compression.(Apple Computer Inc.)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt AFTER AN ALMOST four-month delay over licensing terms of the MPEG-4 technology, Apple announced the first public release of its QuickTime 6 multimedia player and QuickTime Broadcaster software Tuesday. The...

Rational focuses on testing enhancements; Tools suite upgrade set for release.(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Paul Krill RATIONAL SOFTWARE ON Tuesday will announce upgrades to eight different tools suites, with the focus on testing and developer enhancements. The suites will be released collectively under the label Rational Suite...

Supercomm: Sun updates Netra line, bundles Web server; New server aimed at telecommunications market.(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Ashlee Vance SUN MICROSYSTEMS LAUNCHED a new server aimed at telecommunications customers Tuesday. It said the system shows substantial performance gains over past products, and rolled in some Sun infrastructure software at no...

Wal-Mart leads charge for supply chain standard; Retail giant, others eye UCCnet plan.(Uniform Code Council)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz MAJOR RETAIL CHAINS, including Wal-Mart, have been quietly working behind the scenes to implement a single data synchronization standard between trading partners for product definitions and item data. The...

Intel readying new XScale chip for cell phones; Next-generation processor code-named Manitoba to launch later this year.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Martyn Williams TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- Intel is preparing to strengthen its XScale processor lineup for cellular and smart phones later this year with the launch of a next-generation processor code-named Manitoba, according to company...

Hitachi buys IBM's hard drive business for $2B; IBM will not be involved in joint company's board operations.(Hitachi Data Systems Corp.)(International Business Machines Corp.)(Brief Article)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Kuriko Miyake IBM AND HITACHI have reached a final agreement to combine their hard disk drive (HDD) units into a new company majority owned by Hitachi, the two companies announced Tuesday. Hitachi plans to purchase the majority...

Interview: An insider's view on storage; Venture capitalist Jo Tango of Highland Capital Partners discusses trends, industry myths.(Brief Article)(Interview)
June 4, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel WITH HIS FOCUS on storage, the datacenter, and distributed computing investments, Jo Tango, general partner with venture capital firm Highland Capital Partners, sees IT from a unique vantage point. The industry insider sat...

CERT [Computer Emergency Response Team] warns of another [BIND] Berkeley Internet Name Domain problem; DNS (Domain Name System) software flaw could make parts of Internet vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Joris Evers A FLAW IN a software tool used to translate text-based Internet domain names into numerical addresses could make parts of the Internet vulnerable to DoS (denial-of-service) attacks, the Computer Emergency Response Team...

Interview: LeftHand Networks simplifies IP storage networks; CEO Bill Chambers discusses the implications of Network Unified Storage.(Interview)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel INVENTIVE IP STORAGE company LeftHand Networks has a new idea for reducing the complexity of networked Fibre Channel storage called NUS (Network Unified Storage). Developed by the Boulder, Colo.-based company and improved...

Collaboration tools target projects, product design; Quovix, VirtualDesign.Net roll out offerings.(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Cathleen Moore COLLABORATION VENDORS QUOVIX and VirtualDesign.Net introduced products this week targeted at solving specific issues with project development and product design. Software provider Quovix rolled out a...

SAP extends reach through webMethods; Enterprise apps giant inks deal for integration adapters, modules.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Carolyn A. April IN ANOTHER MOVE to open up its stable of software, SAP on Wednesday inked a deal to use webMethods' range of adapters to integrate with non-SAP applications. The enterprise application giant has agreed to...

Avaya to abandon hardware heritage; Voice player turns to developing software for industry-standard servers.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Tom Sullivan LEAVING BEHIND THE company's network hardware past, Avaya officials have revealed their long-term strategy is to evolve into a software entity developing products that run on industry-standard hardware platforms. ...

Verizon launches downloadable application service; Carrier partners with Qualcomm on the BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) platform.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz AT THE BREW 2002 Developers Conference in San Diego, Verizon announced that it will use Qualcomm's BREW (Binary Runtime Environment for Wireless) platform to offer subscribers downloadable business and...

Caterpillar awards Information Technology project to Accenture; Information Services system to address support, services needs.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Juan Carlos Perez MIAMI - IT services provider Accenture will deploy a revamped information system for heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar and provide related support and services, the companies announced Tuesday. The...

SuperComm: Cisco enhances enterprise IP; Cisco Unity Bridge extends Avaya message systems to unified messaging software.(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson ATLANTA -- ENTERPRISES will be able to extend advanced features of existing Avaya Octel message systems to the Cisco Systems Unity voice-message and unified-messaging software with the advent of Cisco Unity Bridge...

SuperComm: Carriers can boost productivity, Chambers says; Telcos can help customers become virtual organizations, Cisco CEO says.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Stephen Lawson ATLANTA -- TELECOMMUNICATIONS carriers can play a major role in the transformation of companies into virtual organizations that outsource all but their own expert capabilities, Cisco president and chief executive...

EBay adds wireless rebidding service; Bidders can receive alerts when outbid, then rebid via SMS.
June 5, 2002... Byline: Stacy Cowley A NEW SERVICE introduced Wednesday allows eBay bidders to receive wireless alerts when they are outbid on auction items and to quickly rebid via a cell phone equipped with SMS (Short Message Service). Wireless...

Oracle on target for fourth quarter; Ellison labels analysts "irresponsible".(Larry Ellison)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Matt Berger REDWOOD SHORES, CALIFORNIA - Squashing rumors that Oracle might miss analysts' earnings targets for its fiscal fourth quarter, its chairman and chief executive officer Wednesday said the company is on queue to meet Wall...

New IE flaw enables remote PC attacks; Attack exploits IE's built-in gopher client.(Online Solutions Inc. identifies flaw in Microsoft's IE 5.5 and 6.0 web browser; protection identified)(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2002... Byline: David Legard ANOTHER SECURITY FLAW identified in Microsoft's IE 5.5 and 6.0 Web browsers has the potential to give a remote user access to a host computer, according to security company Online Solutions. The attack exploits...

Copyright protection debate engulfs digital TV; Proposed HDTV standard draws fire from civil liberties groups.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt THE FIERY DEBATE over how to protect content online moved from the well-charred subject of music to digital television this week, thanks to a proposal by a computer and consumer-electronics group to create a...

SuperComm: HP focuses telecom efforts; Creates new unit for telecoms.(Network and Service Provider)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Scott Tyler Shafer ATLANTA -- ON the day Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina revealed plans to lay off 15,000 employees by the end of its fiscal year 2003, the company also announced the creation of a new business unit designed to...

Open-source group unleashes Mozilla 1.0; Development group finally pries lid off open source browser.(web browser suite announced)(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt OPEN-SOURCE DEVELOPMENT GROUP Mozilla.org finally unleashed its long-awaited Mozilla 1.0 browser suite Wednesday, after four years of toil and testing. Mozilla 1.0 boasts a Web browser, an e-mail reader and a...

SuperComm: Nortel refreshes carrier lines; Touts new edge switches, enhanced IP VPN.(Nortel Networks Corp.)(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Scott Tyler Shafer ATLANTA -- HOPING to garner attention from the large number of service providers gathered at the annual SuperComm conference here, Nortel Networks on Tuesday made a slew of announcements hyping new products,...

Oracle rolls out Linux database clusters; Oracle9i Database Release 2 to foster open-source, Intel-based clusters.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel ORACLE, DELL, AND Red Hat on Wednesday announced that the companies have teamed to make it simpler for customers to deploy Linux-based database clusters atop industry standard hardware. The Oracle9i Database Release 2,...

Digital rights management no cure-all, execs say; 'No silver bullet' for stopping piracy.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Cara Garretson WASHINGTON - DESPITE the promise of digital rights management (DRM) technology to protect copyright works, software executives on Wednesday told members of the U.S. House of Representatives there is no silver bullet...

SAP CEO details new breed of apps; Plattner unveils apps to span companies, tie business processes.(SAP AG announces new applications functions of web application server)(Product Announcement)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Heather Harreld ORLANDO, FLA. -- SAP delved further into details of its Web services strategy Wednesday with announcements of new functionality in its Web application server while unveiling a new breed of enterprise applications...

Sun patches two Solaris holes; Holes could allow attacker to control system.(Sun Microsystems)(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Sam Costello SUN MICROSYSTEMS RELEASED a patch that closed two security holes in its Solaris operating system Tuesday. The holes could have allowed an attacker to take control of vulnerable systems. The vulnerabilities affect...

UK gov't renegotiates Microsoft fees; Eyes open source software to replace Microsoft.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Laura Rohde EMBOLDENED BY ITS renegotiated software licensing agreement with Microsoft, the U.K. government is debating the possibility of using open-source software to complement or even replace some of its Microsoft software. ...

WorldCom may cut 16,000 jobs; Cuts to come from network operations.(Brief Article)
June 5, 2002... Byline: Joris Evers WORLDCOM MAY CUT 16,000 jobs, or about 20 percent of its workforce, in an effort to turn around the ailing company, according to a report in the online edition of USA Today published Tuesday. Details of the cuts are...

3Pardata Inc. simplifies Fibre Channel; Modular hardware/software product scales to 376TB.(Product Announcement)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel INVENTIVE STORAGE STARTUP 3Par on Monday will officially launch a new storage product designed to supplant mammoth Fibre Channel arrays built by companies such as EMC and Hitachi. Targeted at the enterprise, 3Par's...

Microsoft exec calls for innovative Web services apps; Software guru hails existing SOAP, XML Schema.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Paul Krill SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Rather than expect dramatic evolutions, programmers should utilize the Web services "plumbing" already in place, such as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and XML Schema, and focus on applications,...

EMC cDorp. omes down to Earth. Storage giant to cater to smaller businesses with Dell-built systems.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Dan Neel NEW YORK -- With an admission that the EMC of old was something of a one-trick pony for high-end storage, company officials on Thursday said to expect a wider reach into the middle and lower-end storage markets. ...

Epistemic turns OLAP inside out; Company brings analytics process to data, rather than data to the process.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Tom Sullivan BOSTON-BASED EPISTEMIC IS rethinking the way OLAP is used and essentially bringing the analytics process to the data across a variety of data sources, rather than bringing the data into the process. With Version...

Intel lowers revenue forecast; Soft demand in Europe blamed.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Ashlee Vance INTEL HEDGED ITS second quarter revenue forecast lower Thursday, citing soft demand for its chip technology in Europe as the cause. Intel, based in Santa Clara, Calif., now expects to report total revenue between...

Sources say Oracle considering HP middleware buy; Bluestone app server eyed to counter slow database sales.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: James Niccolai and Paul Krill ORACLE IS IN discussions with Hewlett-Packard to buy its middleware assets, a move that could provide a much-needed boost to Oracle's application server business, industry sources said. HP...

Adobe Acrobat gets close with MySAP; Acrobat will be integrated with mySAP.com to ease the use of documents on Net.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Laura Rohde ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE PROVIDER SAP and Adobe Systems, maker of desktop publishing software, will jointly develop software to increase the ease and speed with which corporate customers can use forms and documents over the...

Platform, Sun strengthen enterprise grid play; Sun leverages resource management tools; Platform expands clustering capabilities.
June 6, 2002... Byline: Ed Scannell and Dan Neel PLATFORM COMPUTING AND Sun Microsystems are each separately working to move grid computing towards wider enterprise adoption. Platform Computing on Monday will officially announce Version 5 upgrades to...

Microsoft builds Web services TrustBridge; Software due next year will allow sharing of user identities across business boundaries.(Product Announcement)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Joris Evers MICROSOFT CORP. ANNOUNCED new software on Thursday that will allow organizations to more easily share information stored in computer systems with business partners and customers. The software, code-named TrustBridge...

Microsoft builds Web services TrustBridge; Issues of trust and Liberty Alliance presence linger.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Joris Evers, Ed Scannell, and Brian Fonseca MICROSOFT ANNOUNCED NEW software on Thursday that will allow organizations to more easily share information stored in computer systems with business partners and customers. However,...

Conference highlights Web services growth potential; Attendees assess positives, shortcomings, expectations of the emerging model.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Paul Krill SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- Growing demand for Web services became evident at the XML Web services One Conference & Expo here this week as attendees analyzed the opportunities and challenges ahead. Despite broad industry...

US lawmakers blast FCC [Federal Communications Commission] on ultrawideband policy; Lawmakers claim FCC regulation stifling new technology.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Cara Garretson WASHINGTON -- CONGRESSMEN criticized the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for potentially stifling a new technology by taking too conservative an approach to how they regulate commercial use of...

Self-service applications for sourcing gaining traction; analysts say customers want control, lower costs.(Product Announcement)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz WITH CORPORATE BUDGETS remaining tight, strategic sourcing providers are responding by offering their enterprise customers self-service e-sourcing applications rather than full-service solutions. In July,...

SuperComm: Not very super so far; Attendees feel show is lacking in new technology.(Brief Article)
June 6, 2002... Byline: Scott Tyler Shafer ON THE OFFICIAL second day of one of the largest annual communications and information technology conferences in the U.S., exhibitors were receiving a less-than-optimal amount of foot traffic through their...

E Ink shows prototype wafer-thin flexible display; Displays aimed at cell phones, PDAs expected to launch in 2004.(Personal Digital Assistsants)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
June 7, 2002... Byline: David Legard E INK HAS demonstrated a range of prototype "electronic paper" display screens with a thickness of just 0.3mm -- half the thickness of a credit card, the company said Thursday. The display is built on a steel foil...