InfoWorld.com articles from March 2003

InfoWorld.com archives from March 2003

Brocade eyes storage virtualization; ISVs to develop to the SilkWorm Fabric Application Platform.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Scott Tyler Shafer Having all but won the Fibre Channel switch battle, Brocade Communications Systems has set its sight on a new market. The switch maker today revealed seven storage management software companies have signed up to...

BEA stresses convergence; Chuang touts advantages of WebLogic 8.1.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Kissimmee, Fla. -- BEA Systems stressed convergence as the order of the day Monday at the BEA eWorld conference here, which featured the introduction of the company's WebLogic Platform 8.1 J2EE application deployment...

Fiorina touts Web services management; HP, BEA open deployment practice.
March 3, 2003... Kissimmee, Fla. - Hewlett-Packard is positioning its HP OpenView systems management software as a platform for managing Web services, with the unveiling of several programs at the BEA eWorld conference here on Monday. HP chairman and CEO...

IBM bolsters integration; Big Blue delivers new WebSphere Business Integration software.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell IBM on Monday beefed up its WebSphere Business Integration lineup, rolling out a set of tools intended to help administrators better analyze, manage, and monitor business processes across an enterprise. The new...

BEA to pour more Liquid Data; Integration technology bolstered.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Kissimmee, Fla. -- BEA Systems, fresh from announcing an upgrade to its suite of Java application deployment tools, plans to improve its Liquid Data integration technology to take advantage of the new suite, a BEA...

Intersperse adds process management; Product uses JMX technology.
March 3, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Intersperse at the BEA eWorld conference in Orlando, Fla., on Monday will announce Intersperse Management Framework Enterprise Edition 2.0 for monitoring business processes running on Java application server platforms....

SuSE, Ximian forge Linux pact; Deal designed to lower cost of enterprise Linux.(Brief Article)
March 3, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell Hoping to lower the costs associated with deploying Linux in the enterprise, SuSE Linux on Monday announced a partnership deal with Ximian that will see SuSE selling Ximian's integration and management product. ...

Kamoon bolsters process management; Knowledge management vendor buys ActionBase.(Brief Article)
March 4, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore Kamoon this week announced it has acquired ActionBase, a provider of project and process management software based in San Francisco, Calif. Designed to run on top of an e-mail system, a browser, or a portal, Kamoon's...

Microsoft shifts collaboration gears; SharePointTeam Services integrated with Windows Server 2003.(now called Microsoft Windows Server 2003)
March 4, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore Microsoft this week repositioned its SharePoint team collaboration offering with a name change and plans to tie the platform to Windows Server 2003 as well as other products such as Office 11 and OneNote. The...

Analysis: Anti-virus players sink teeth into spam; Leading vendors eye security tool consolidation.(Buyers Guide)
March 4, 2003... Byline: Brian Fonseca Charging into a heavily congested battlefield to help customers shed the escalating burden of spam infestations, AV (anti-virus) vendors are fine-tuning their security offerings to supply organizations with new tools...

BEA shows Web services allegiance; Suite backs IBM-Microsoft proposal, but not rival Sun plan.
March 4, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Kissimmee, Fla. -- Although BEA Systems has been in the somewhat-peculiar position of backing rival Web services choreography efforts, aligning with IBM and Microsoft on one proposal and Sun Microsystems on another,...

IBM delivers SOAP for CICS; Tech preview due out by month's end.
March 5, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell IBM on Wednesday announced it will offer a CICS (Customer Information Control System) SOAP Technology Preview designed to help developers build connections to its venerable CICS-based mainframe applications through Web...

Interview: CA set to move on distributed computing; CEO Sanjay Kumar, CTO Yogesh Gupta discuss pervasive computing.
March 5, 2003... Byline: Mark Jones, Ed Scannell and Brian Fonseca The distributed computing discussion has largely focused on vendors such as IBM, Sun, and HP. Now Computer Associates wants some of the action. In a conversation with InfoWorld Executive...

Web services maturity, benefits emphasized; IBM exec urges industry adoption.(Bob Sutor)
March 5, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Santa Clara, Calif. -- Web services is a maturing technology and IT shops need to recognize its benefits now, rather than holding off until ongoing standardization efforts conclude, said Bob Sutor, IBM director of Web...

SAP rolls out five offerings for SMBs; mySAP products target vertical markets.
March 6, 2003... Byline: Brian Fonseca In an effort to bolster a stronger level of specificity for its SMB (small to midsize business) clientele, SAP unveiled a quintet of new mySAP All-in-One products this week geared directly toward industry-centric...

Web standards burnout decried; Industry panel predicts return to core Internet values.
March 6, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Santa Clara, Calif.-- Over-standardization, royalty-free standards, and browser wars were on the minds of industry dignitaries serving on a panel discussing the future of the Web at the XML Web Services One conference...

IBM eyes services provisioning role for WebSphere; Apps platform providing integration.
March 6, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- IBM envisions its WebSphere application platform serving increasingly as a focal point for services provisioning. Already in place to a degree, the Service Integration Bus paradigm anticipated...

BEA eyes standards implementations; Third-parties back BEA at eWorld.
March 7, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill BEA Systems at its eWorld conference inKissimmee, Fla., this week took steps to promote two proposed standards for XML and Web services, including its own XMLBeans technology. The company also unveiled its WebLogic...

Surprising tricks that make AdWords boost your e-business; First place might not be cost-effective.
March 7, 2003... Byline: Brian Livingston Google.com's search engine now sends far more visitors to online shopping sites than any other referrer, according to an article from The Wall Street Journal on Feb. 26. Using Nielsen NetRatings figures, the...

Is e-mail private, or in the public domain? Expectations of confidentiality may not be realistic.
March 7, 2003... Byline: Carlton Vogt Many years ago -- the early 1980s to be exact -- I was working for a high-tech firm that was just installing e-mail into all our offices. It was amazing to be able to send computer-based messages to everyone in the...

Playing the Internet scales; Is this a technical or political problem?
March 7, 2003... Byline: Jon Udell The blog world was enriched last week when Tim Bray's Weblog appeared on the scene. The co-founder and CTO of Antarctica Systems, Bray co-edited the XML 1.0 specification and remains deeply engaged in Web development....

Collaxa readies Web services tool; Software backs IBM-Microsoft-BEA specification.(Collaxa Orchestration Server 2.0)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Collaxa within two months plans to release a Web services deployment tool that utilizes the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL4WS) specification backed by IBM, Microsoft, and BEA Systems. ...

InfiniBand companies to merge; InfiniSwitch, Lane 15 join forces.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Deni Connor InfiniBand Monday came back into the spotlight when two start-ups, InfiniSwitch and Lane 15, announced that they will merge. The resulting company, which will be called InfiniSwitch, will be led by AlissaNessler,...

Iona boosts mobile workers with Web services link; Mobile Orchestrator offers process integration broker.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Iona on Monday will roll out software that serves as a Web services-based process integration broker for users working while disconnected from the corporate network. Mobile Orchestrator allows users to access...

OASIS looks at Web services management; Technical committee joins with W3C, DMTF, sans Microsoft.(Brief Article)
March 10, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) plans to work with other standards organizations to define a standard way of using Web services architecture and technology for managing...

Microsoft delivers new Office beta; Beta includes One Note,InfoPath XML-based apps.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell With the second beta of Office 2003 expected to be doled out to a record 500,000 users on Monday, Microsoft continues its mission to broaden the suite's appeal to both corporate and mid-size companies by including three...

Jury turns down Internet patent claims; Plaintiff sought millions from RSA, VeriSign.
March 10, 2003... Byline: Grant Gross WASHINGTON - A jury has struck down four patent-infringement claims against two Internet security companies, and a judge threw out a fifth, in a Delaware trial in which a retired electronics engineer claimed to have...

AmberPoint buys CrossWeave in Web services deal; Integration benefits eyed.
March 11, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Web services management provider AmberPoint on Tuesday announced the acquisition of CrossWeave, an application integration provider. The acquisition, the value of which was not disclosed, gives AmberPoint enabling...

Dell signs European cluster customers; deal includes pact with Oxford University.
March 11, 2003... Byline: Nancy Weil BOSTON -- Dell Computer has signed deals with customers in Europe for high-performance computing clusters, including a pact with Oxford University, which is leading a four-institution research consortium, as well as...

IBM issues new version of Content Manager; Big Blue also updates records management software.
March 11, 2003... Byline: Tom Sullivan Somers, N.Y. -- IBM detailed new versions of its content management and records management software on Tuesday during a press event here at its corporate headquarters. Company officials also used the occasion to...

Big Blue eyes video and security integration; Services package unveiled for video surveillance.
March 11, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell and Brian Fonseca Hoping to tap the burgeoning market for digital video surveillance, IBM on Tuesday rolled out new consulting, integration, and deployment services aimed at the government, travel, and transportation...

SeeBeyond preps product suite upgrade; Integration software rebuilt around J2EE.
March 11, 2003... Byline: Stacy Cowley SeeBeyond Technology will be rolling out throughout the next four months a comprehensive upgrade of its enterprise applications integration software, rebranded as the SeeBeyond Integrated Composite Application Networks...

SuSE rolls out Linux desktop; Security, graphical interface featured.
March 11, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell Trying to broaden the appeal of Linux on the desktop, SuSE Linux on Wednesday will roll out Version 8.2 of its product that will feature the KDE 3.1 graphical interface, new security enhancements, and the latest version...

Oracle upgrades data warehouse tool; Links to database emphasized.
March 12, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Oracle on Wednesday is shipping Oracle9i Warehouse Builder Version 9.0.4, an enterprise integration tool for managing data in business intelligence applications. The software helps reduce the cost and time associated...

Web services choreography group kicks off; W3C panel to hold first meeting.
March 13, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Officials from major technology companies will gather Wednesday to begin establishing a standard for Web services choreography, which is considered crucial to the growth of Web services usage for business processes. ...

Piracy ring mop up targets Australian man; Drink Or Die group leader charged.
March 13, 2003... Byline: Paul Roberts Prosecutions continued in a year-old U.S. government sting of Internet software piracy group Drink Or Die Wednesday, as U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty announced the indictment of Hew Raymond Griffiths on charges of...

EarthLink rolls out Net phone service; VOIP service works with cable, DSL.
March 13, 2003... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt EarthLink is looking to drum up more revenue from its high-speed customers by offering an Internet phone service, which will allow subscribers to make unlimited local and long-distance national calls for $39.99 a...

Google gains visual searches; Anacubis integrates data viewer into Google Web APIs service.(Brief Article)
March 14, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore Data-visualization software provider anacubis this week integrated its anacubis Viewer technology with the Google Web APIs service to allow developers to visually explore relationships between Web sites. The...

Plattner reflects on years with SAP; Outgoing CEO admits founding Microsoft would have been easier.
March 14, 2003... Byline: Marc L. Songini, Computerworld SAP AG Thursday announced that Hasso Plattner, its co-CEO and chairman, will give up those two jobs and step away from a full-time management role at the company he helped found in 1972. Plattner, who...

Microsoft dips toe in choreography waters; Software giant surprise attendee at W3C meeting.
March 14, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill In a temporary change of heart, Microsoft on Thursday participated in an industry effort to standardize Web services choreography. Despite initial indications that it would not attend, two Microsoft representatives...

Selling downloads requires special anti-fraud measures; A few extra steps can save frustration and cash.
March 14, 2003... Byline: Brian Livingston I've received a great deal of positive feedback on the little-known tricks to reduce credit card chargebacks and fraud that I published on Feb. 12 and Feb. 19. I'm still hearing some new ideas, such as the ones I...

Whither Mono? An open-source effort worth watching.
March 14, 2003... Byline: Jon Udell In July 2001, I attended a historic session on .Net at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego. David Stutz, who recently and spectacularly left Microsoft, spoke first. He talked about the ECMA standards for C#...

Actional boosts Web services management; Console, agent technology added to platform.
March 17, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Seeking to simplify the management of Web services-based business processes, Actional on Monday will unveil policy management software, agent technology, and an upgraded version of its services broker. The product...

Search engines target Weblogs; Feedster indexes RSS feeds to make blogs searchable.(Brief Article)
March 17, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore A new crop of search engines tuned specifically to unearth information from Weblogs and other news feeds are emerging to help simplify the process of searching and navigating Weblogs. To that end, the FuzzyGroup...

Budgets, innovation top CIOs' 2003 agenda; Gartner survey reveals business trends and technology tradeoffs collide in the CIO's job.(Industry Overview)
March 17, 2003... Byline: Loretta W. Prencipe In an environment of severe cost pressures, IT executives find they must clarify business and technology tradeoffs while ensuring faster innovation, according to a recent Gartner EXP survey. For the third...

Citrix Systems expands into secure access; MetaFrame Access Suite targets end-to-end enterprise access.(Brief Article)
March 18, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore Citrix Systems on Tuesday pushed into the access infrastructure market with a new suite of products designed to consolidate identity management, application conferencing, and network services into an integrated...

Qualcomm extends Brew to download PalmOS apps; Users can install software on PDAs wirelessly.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Stephen Lawson NEW ORLEANS -- Qualcomm's Brew software download system will be extended to support wireless downloads to converged phone-organizer devices based on PalmSource'sPalmOS platform, Qualcomm said Tuesday. Using...

Industry execs discuss EDI's place in an XML world; Forum attendees ask where .Net fits into the equation.
March 18, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- EDI lives and .Net cannot be ignored, said industry executives and audience members at a panel session here Monday. Officials from companies such as Oracle, SAP, and Siebel were asked by...

App servers key to integration, Oracle exec says; Portals, Java, Web services also vital.(Industry Overview)
March 19, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Application servers utilizing Web services and Java will enable integration of multiple information systems for e-business, according to an Oracle official speaking at a conference here on Tuesday....

Consulting and integration to rebound; Market to improve in 2003 and 2004, Yankee Group says.(Industry Overview)
March 19, 2003... Byline: Juan Carlos Perez The North American consulting and systems integration markets have suffered in the past two years, as companies have significantly reduced their spending for these two types of IT services, but the situation will...

W3C seeks royalty-free standards; Final review of draft begins.
March 19, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Looking to formalize its royalty-free standards position in May, the World Wide Web Consortium on Wednesday began the final review period for its patent policy. While emphasizing royalty-free Web infrastructure...

Linux vulnerability allowing root access discovered; User could assume control.(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
March 19, 2003... Byline: Tom Krazit One of the developers of the original Linux core posted a vulnerability notice Monday with details of a flaw that could allow a local user to assume control of a Linux computer. Alan Cox, who worked with...

Gates asserts claim on mobile era; Conference seeks to accelerate conversion of Microsoft developers.
March 20, 2003... Byline: Mark Jones NEW ORLEANS -- It was hard to miss the underlying message Bill Gates delivered during his opening keynote at Microsoft's first annual Mobile Developers Conference (MDC) last night. A humorous video Gates recycled...

Microsoft exits Web services group; Panel co-chair 'totally mystified'.
March 21, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Two Microsoft officials have abruptly quit a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) panel on Web services choreography as abruptly as they had joined. The two officials, Allen Brown, who serves as one of the company's W3C...

Interview: Nokia charts enterprise app course; In a crowded market, Nokia argues it's the software that matters.(Randy Roberts)(Interview)
March 21, 2003... Byline: Mark Jones, Ephraim Schwartz, Tom Yager and Steve Gillmor Nokia is committed to the Series 60 as a platform for developing phone apps that facilitate interoperability. Randy Roberts, director of imaging devices for Nokia Americas,...

Preview spam and you'll get more; You increase spam by opening it, not by unsubscribing.(Industry Overview)(Column)
March 21, 2003... Byline: Brian Livingston I described in the past month ways to prevent e-mail addresses on your Web site from being collected by "harvester" programs that feed spammer's lists (see E-Business Secrets issues from Feb. 26 and March 5). ...

Target: iSCSI; Combining iSCSI with SATA devices creates affordable iSCSI SANs.
March 21, 2003... Byline: Mario Apicella and Scott Tyler Shafer It doesn't take a financial genius to understand that the combination of iSCSI transport and SATA (Serial ATA) devices offers the most cost-effective approach to networked storage. To understand...

Environment, behavior, and scripting; Developers are better when 'multilingual'.
March 21, 2003... Byline: Jon Udell When Chad Dickerson's column was mobbed by the Slashdot crowd, I was reminded that the role of scripting is still very much unsettled. I won't join that debate, because there are valid arguments on all sides. Scripting...

Gartner ITxpo: Real-time strategy key to enterprise survival; Research firm foresees tech recovery in 2004.
March 24, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore San Diego -- Gartner analysts at the Gartner Symposium ITxpo 2003 conference here this week are pinning economic survival for enterprises on embracing the real-time enterprise, which can allow an organization to...

Global Crossing seeks $150 million exit funding; Working capital sought.
March 24, 2003... Byline: Reuters PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - High-speed communications network operator Global Crossing Ltd. on Monday said it was seeking up to $150 million in funding to use as general working capital when it emerges from bankruptcy. It...

Versalent ships tool for browser interfaces; Existing skill sets leveraged.(Brief Article)
March 24, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Versalent on Monday released Versalent Objects 2.0, a technology for building browser-based application interfaces with the same functionality as desktop software. The product features Web services integration to deploy...

EarthLink offers accelerated dial-up access; Customers could get five-fold increase in speed.
March 25, 2003... Byline: Scarlet Pruitt BOSTON -- EarthLink will officially launch a "Plus" version of its Internet access software Wednesday which it says will enable dial-up users to surf the Net at up to five-times the standard rate. EarthLink Plus...

Gartner ITxpo: Top 10 strategic technologies; Analysts outline emerging technologies ripe with opportunity.
March 25, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore San Diego -- Although the economic slump has paralyzed most IT spending budgets, innovation continues to plug along, bringing opportunity for savvy enterprises that are willing to embrace strategic technologies at...

Gartner names top security issues for 2003; Web services, WLAN security lead the list.
March 25, 2003... Byline: Cathleen Moore San Diego -- Enterprise efforts to secure Web services and WLAN implementations will be among the top security initiatives for companies in 2003, according to Gartner research detailed here Tuesday at its Symposium...

GoldenGate upgrades data sync software; New version adds graphical view of functions.(Brief Article)
March 25, 2003... Byline: Tom Sullivan GoldenGateon Tuesday enhanced its data synchronization software. The new version, GoldenGate 7, adds conflict detection and resolution, enhanced high-speed data loading capabilities, security protection through 128-bit...

IBM to roll out integrator program; Big Blue to extend business integration accelerators.
March 25, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell At its developerWorksLive conference in New Orleans next month, IBM will extend its WebSphere Business Integration Accelerators (WBIA) program to systems integrators, a program which makes available the necessary...

MySQL says database is production-ready; Itanium 2 supported.(Brief Article)
March 25, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill MySQL on Tuesday announced that Version 4.0 of the MySQL database is production-ready and supports Intel's Itanium 2 processors on the Linux platform. The production designation means the database is ready for...

SuSE delivers Linux 8; Company will help develop TeraGrid.(Brief Article)
March 25, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell SuSE Linux on Tuesday announced it has been selected to contribute to the development of the TeraGrid, a series of interconnected clusters, which will allow thousands of scientists to share computing resources over a...

WS-I to reveal election results Wednesday; Sun seeks board seat.(Brief Article)
March 25, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill The Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) on Wednesday will reveal the two winners of new seats on the panel's board of directors, instead of making the announcement Friday as had been planned. The...

W3C boosts XML document referencing; Specific information citable.(Brief Article)
March 25, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Pointing to specific parts of XML documents is expected to become easier through a newly approved World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation, W3C announced on Tuesday. W3C issued its XML Pointer Language...

BMC boosts SQL Server database management; Company unveiling tools.(Brief Article)
March 26, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill BMC Software on Monday plans to announce management tools for Microsoft SQL Server databases that provide for a common platform for managing mixed database environments. The SmartDBA tools have a single look and feel...

Update: Sun, webMethods win WS-I election; Companies join board of Web services organization.
March 26, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Sun Microsystems and webMethods have won coveted seats on the board of directors of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), which is developing profiles and recommended practices for using Web services to...

Java object models debated; Panelists ponder issues.
March 26, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Industry panelists here Tuesday debated issues surrounding support of complex object models in J2EE Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), deemed critical to object persistence and mapping contents of an...

Oracle touts J2EE frameworks; Company exec says JDeveloper to be improved.
March 26, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Santa Clara, Calif. -- Oracle will stress frameworks and the need to make Java programming accessible to more developers in a release of its JDeveloper developer environment that the company will focus on in June. ...

IBM delivers retail toolkit; WebSphere Studio aimed at distributed environments.(Brief Article)
March 26, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell Trying to ease the developer burden of creating new business logic for a range of different applications, IBM on Wednesday announced a toolkit for WebSphere Studio developers that help them to more rapidly create...

Gaps remain in Web services; Standards are cited as critical in panel discussion.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill SANTA CLARA, Calif.-- Technology gaps remain to be filled in Web services before it can fulfill its potential as a standardized way to integrate applications, said panelists here Thursday. Executives from companies...

Sun broadens Linux backing; Company to distribute other Linux versions instead of its own.(Brief Article)
March 28, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Sun Microsystems will adopt commonly known Linux distributions for deployment on a range of Intel-based systems it is planning and will no longer offer its Sun Linux distribution. The company soon will have...

Telemetry services gaining steam; Sprint pushing high-speed wireless.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Ephraim Schwartz With its 3G CDMA network achieving national coverage, Sprint is beginning to flex its high-speed wireless muscle with the launch of PCS Telemetry Services. Telemetry allows companies to automate the uploading...

Microsoft RTMs Windows Server 2003; Final code for 64-bit SQL Server also released.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Ed Scannell Claiming it to be the most reliable and secure server operating system it has ever produced, Microsoft officials on Friday announced it has delivered the final code of Windows Server 2003 to manufacturing. In...

How to double your conversion-to-sales rate; More information is better than less.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Brian Livingston Every Web site that sells things -- and every site that earns a commission from sites that sell things -- is trying to convert lookers into buyers. No matter how many eyeballs are viewing your site, you can't pay...

MYOB: Still good advice; How to not deal with a fellow employee's 'drinking problem'.(mind your own business)
March 28, 2003... Byline: Carlton Vogt As much as I try not to become an advice columnist like Dear Abby or Ann Landers, readers keep writing in with questions that pose some interesting ethical questions. This week's question came with a subject line that...

Publishing a project Weblog; Proper tools can create useful information hub.
March 28, 2003... Byline: Jon Udell I received a number of thoughtful responses to my recent thoughts on "The conversational enterprise," including this one from Ben Ko: "As a project manager, I wish I had an authoring interface that has the same ease...

Sun, webMethods land WS-I board seats; Board may become too big for its own good.(Brief Article)
March 31, 2003... Byline: Paul Krill Sun Microsystems and webMethods will sit on the board of the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I), but questions are surfacing about the possibility of progress given the length of the board's roll sheet....

ActiveState launches anti-spam task force; Panel to focus on filtering content.(Brief Article)
March 31, 2003... Byline: Grant Gross ActiveState, a company focusing on a variety of open source-based enterprise software, has launched an anti-spam task force that it hopes will generate interest for its anti-spam product and ideas for other projects in...