InfoWorld articles from June 2002

InfoWorld archives from June 2002

Sun plays with MS puzzle - Star Office 6.0 aims to relax Microsoft Office's grip on the desktop.
June 3, 2002... AS MICROSOFT FACES the cost-related controversy surrounding its Software Assurance licensing scheme, Sun Microsystems is hoping renewed interest in its gently priced StarOffice 6.0 suite will finally give it traction in the enterprise. ...

Wish on a star come true - With rich new features and a low price tag, StarOffice 6.0 may be the Office alternative the enterprise has long awaited.(Evaluation)
June 3, 2002... WHEN YOU THINK of office productivity suites, the word "choice" probably does not spring to mind. For years, Microsoft Office has had the upper hand and majority market share when it comes to creating and supporting business documents. ...

Crossing over to Linux - CrossOver Office lets users work with familiar MS apps on lower-cost Linux desktops, but with a small performance hit.(Evaluation)
June 3, 2002... MANY BUSINESSES TODAY are examining the possibility of employing Linux- based desktop systems. Because Linux has a reputation for excellent stability and very low cost, it is an attractive notion to many organizations. But those investigations...

Mastering the moment - In a pressure-cooker economy, CTOs are being paid well to maintain control over IT spending and to align technology and business goals.
June 3, 2002... About two months into his job as CTO of Oxygen Media, Curtis Brown made a dramatic presentation to the company's senior managers that demonstrated just the kind of bottom-line thinking they wanted to hear. Brown's due diligence on the state...

A title by any other name.
June 3, 2002... Recruiters go head to head on the CIO-CTO debate THE DOT-COM ERA saw the growth of the CTO title, because Internet technology was so clearly entwined with the prevailing business model. Post-meltdown, CTOs are still in demand because...

On the money.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... From record layoffs to salary cuts, it's been a tough two years for IT professionals. The outlook for the 2002 IT job market is mixed. Copyright (c) 2002 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Tough times - The recession hit the IT industry hard, making for a difficult year. Still InfoWorld readers have held fast and are cautiously preparing for a better, but not stellar, IT job market.
June 3, 2002... JEFF SKRYSAK FEELS pretty lucky these days. He's two years out of college and working as a senior Internet developer in Rosemont, Ill., for a large multinational company that manufactures fluorescent and HID (high intensity discharge) ballasts....

Steeling for Web services - B-to-B vendors struggle for traction while grooming solutions for Web delivery.
June 3, 2002... LOOKING TO BRING e-marketplaces and e-commerce applications into the realm of Web services, Commerce One, Ariba, i2 Technologies, and VerticalNet are working to arm their wares with the necessary protocols. Commerce One is currently...

Intel dumps plan for Infiniband - Chipmaker nixes plans to sell Infiniband HCAs but assures architecture support.(host control adapters)
June 3, 2002... INTEL CANCELLED PLANS to sell chips for Infiniband products, saying that the ecosystem around Infiniband has matured to a point where its products are not required for the technology to move forward. Intel had earlier said that it planned...

Planet Tivoli's new orbit - Company sets sights onWeb services, grid computing environments.
June 3, 2002... AT PLANET TIVOLI this week in Washington, Tivoli will announce new monitoring solutions for managing middleware and operating systems suited for distributed Web services and grid computing environments. Tivoli also plans to cement itself as...

Edge networks lead dollar fight - Carriers, vendors wrestle over edge, IP networks at Supercomm.
June 3, 2002... EXPECT TO HEAR much about "ROI" and "next generation" equipment as a host of networking vendors battle for scarce service provider dollars at the annual Supercomm conference in Atlanta this week. Driving the current wave of technology on...

Taking the A train - D-Link Systems' Air Pro wireless LAN hardware offers blistering speed and all the limitations of 802.11a.(Evaluation)
June 3, 2002... D-LINK'S NEW 802.11A series of WLAN (wireless LAN) products is one of the first 54Mbps solutions to enter the marketplace. Such products will be welcomed by companies that need the five-fold speed increase over earlier wireless products. But...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: All my children.
June 3, 2002... AMBER IS STILL a bit shaken from being told that we have eight children in our future by the psychic Layla. "Amber, psychics don't always get the details right," I said. "Maybe it means that Apache will father eight little puppies someday."...

To the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
June 3, 2002... Infrastructure and Ike REGARDING ABOVE THE Noise (May 20), the old-line, vested interests in existing communications technology might want to take a close look at what happened to railroads as a result of the interstate highway system.... ...

THE OPEN SOURCE: From Peru, with love - A Peruvian congressman dismantles Microsoft's arguments against an open source-friendly bill.(Dr. Edgar David Villanueva NuOez)
June 3, 2002... IF YOU HAVE been monitoring the technology news abroad, you may have noticed an interesting fact: Countries across the globe, including Germany, France, and China, are actively considering using open-source software in government work. It...

WINDOW MANAGER: Now search this - There's a new way to query Window Manager columns, and that's just the beginning.(Column)
June 3, 2002... IN A FAMOUS fable, Goldilocks found that a big bowl of porridge was too hot, a little bowl was too cold, but a medium-sized bowl was just right. For a long time, I've felt the same way about searching the Web for tips. Poring through...

SECURITY ADVISER: Return of the P.J. - Secure instant messaging gives the people (even wary IT managers) what they want.
June 3, 2002... WELL, I'M BACK in the saddle again. It's been a wonderful spring, even for Detroit fans. I've been spending more of my time thinking about collaboration than security, so don't be shocked if my thoughts this week veer a little off the usual...

STORAGE INSIDER/CTO TEST CENTER: Leap of faith - Disk storage technologies help storage administrators trust their tape backup routines.
June 3, 2002... THERE'S A LITTLE storage industry group out there called the Enhanced Backup Solutions Initiative (EBSI) that knows what really bugs storage network administrators about their backup routines. Whereas similar groups such as Storage Networking...

WIRELESS WORLD: SMS standing tall - Short messaging service is aptly making the transition from a consumer service to a business solution.
June 3, 2002... A COUPLE OF pubs in Dublin, Ireland, sending free drink vouchers to their customers using SMS (short messaging service) may not sound like big news, but when you get behind the novelty of it, you discover something far more newsworthy. For...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: ONE up on .Net - Solaris 9 is dressed to kill -- .Net, that is. Sun's generosity is laudable, but watch out for the fine print.(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... AH, THE DELIGHTS of a buyer's market. It's a lousy time to be looking for work, but those few, employed IT planners can salve their pink slip jitters by shopping for bargains. The deals are really stacking up: Macromedia's $900 J2EE (Java 2...

CTO CONNECTION: Tracking telco tremors - In this era of economic instability, it pays to keep a watchful eye on the financial health of your providers.(Column)
June 3, 2002... THIS WEEK I'M writing about something boring and unsexy, but important to the success of your company: the risk of doing business "over the wire" in the current economy. We write frequently in InfoWorld about the growth of the xSP market, Web...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: No service, with a smile - When great customer service is bad business, and bad service is the very best business strategy.
June 3, 2002... ONE OF THE MORE mystifying value propositions in recent memory was Wilford Brimley's tag line in his series of Quaker Oats commercials. "It's the right thing to do," he explained. It was the first, and with any luck the last, time I've heard...

THE GRIPE LINE: Draconian DMCA - In practice, the law shuts down ISPs instead of offering protection against copyright infringement by their users.(Digital Millennium Copyright Act)
June 3, 2002... IN SPITE OF the many controversies surrounding the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), its defenders continue to insist it works the way Congress intended. But let's take a look at the effect it's actually having day-to-day in the real...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Stop the war - Hollywood and Silicon Valley need to stop digging deeper trenches and figure out where they have mutual interests.
June 3, 2002... IT'S THE NEW Hatfields and McCoys -- the entrenched monopolists vs. the disruptive technologists. Up in the Hollywood Hills sit the content owners, the music and movie studios. It's instructive that we used to call them the record and film...

ABOVE THE NOISE: The next big thing: Tools IT can use - Vendors need to produce enterprise software that is easy to deploy and maintain.(Editorial)
June 3, 2002... EVERYBODY IN THIS industry seems to be waiting for something that may never happen again. That thing, of course, is a general turnaround in the economy that lifts all sectors. But when you think about it, the general lift in the economy that we...

Geared for portal patrol - ID and security management bolster enterprise portal frameworks.(Sun Microssytems introducing Sun ONE 6.0, others developing software)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... AS PORTALS GAIN prominence in the enterprise, companies such as Sun Microsystems, Netegrity, and Computer Associates are looking to deeply embed security and identity management tools into portal frameworks as a means of extending policy and...

My workplace or yours? CleverPath Portal 4.0 scores with flexible deployment for IT and easy content sharing for end-users.(Evaluation)
June 3, 2002... CORPORATE PORTALS SERVE two very important purposes: They consolidate data from various sources behind a common, easy-to-use interface, and they provide an effective way to ensure that the knowledge acquired by individual employees becomes a...

Web services progress.(Progress Software and Sonic Software)
June 3, 2002... THE PROGRESS COMPANY this week will detail its Web services strategy at its Exchange 2002 user conference in Chicago. The product road map includes a set of integration technologies for the company's OpenEdge platform and a repository-based...

UDDI seeks its place - Slow to get rolling, UDDI evolution depends on Web services uptake.(Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration)
June 3, 2002... IS UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) a bust or is it just in an embryonic stage? These questions are being pondered as the Web services directory specification continues to evolve. Adoption rates have not skyrocketed...

Salesforce.com boosts campaign management.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
June 3, 2002... CRM company Salesforce.com this week added closed-loop campaign management to its online wares, allowing companies to calculate ROI for each campaign. The Campaign Management module allows companies to generate leads at a lower cost and to work...

Openwave Systems lands SignalSoft.(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Wireless application developer Openwave Systems announced this week it has agreed to purchase location-based wireless service provider SignalSoft for $59 million. Under terms of the first deal, Openwave, which offers applications for wireless...

Trillian gains ground.(according to Jupiter Media Metrix)(Brief Article)
June 3, 2002... Trillian IM service is rapidly gaining users because of its ability to interoperate with all the players, according to a report released this week by Jupiter Media Metrix. The Trillian service boasts 610,000 users, a 77 percent increase since...

XML weaves app trend - Collaboration capabilities draw enterprise applications together.
June 10, 2002... AS ENTERPRISES increasingly look to expose corporate data as XML across a range of software applications, a common XML framework is emerging to support the development of collaboration capabilities. Although collaboration has traditionally...

Appmail pulls it together - Zaplet Appmail System 2.0 puts a familiar e-mail face on collaborative business processes.
June 10, 2002... MANY COLLABORATION TOOLS fall short of expectations because they really don't take into account the way people work. For most distributed organizations, e-mail becomes the de facto tool of choice because of its simplicity and ubiquity. The...

The bottom line on ROI - The economy headed south and the board tightened the purse strings, compelling CTOs to think about ROI from the CFO's viewpoint. And that's not likely to change even as the economy improves.
June 10, 2002... SCOTT PREBLE HAS A name for when he appears before his company's top echelon to present his IT investment plans. He calls it "going for the gold." Preble, senior vice president and director of technology architecture and strategy for...

Trading on growth - The CTO of Island ECN keeps pace with an explosion in trade volume.
June 10, 2002... IN THE FINANCIAL INDUSTRY, traffic is high, downtime is deadly, and real-time data and communications are critical. But in the ECN (electronic communications network) segment of financial services, the pressure is multiplied because the...

CTOs' place on the org chart.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... CTOs rank high within the organization with 87 percent reporting to the company's chairman, CEO or president. On average, CTOs have a high ratio of direct and indirect reports to total number of corporate employees. Copyright (c) 2002...

App dev on the Web services path - Developers face decisions on how best to use Web services tools.
June 10, 2002... WEB SERVICES HOLD the potential to change many things about software, not the least of which is how it is developed. Despite vendors' claims that Web services are more evolutionary than revolutionary, experts agree that the emerging...

Connecting with Web services - There's more than one way to perform loose coupling, and they're evolving.
June 10, 2002... WEB SERVICES ARE A SPECIES of componentized software. As such, the usual design patterns apply. Components need well-specified interfaces, and they must be reusable. More so than most conventional components, however, Web services tackle...

Altering app dev.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Adding Web services into the application development cycle leads to streamlined deployment and smoother integration. Related Articles:App dev and Web services package Copyright (c) 2002 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

IBM unifies Eclipse tools - Open-source environment to ease integration despite patchy industry support.
June 10, 2002... IBM THIS WEEK will attempt to boost the fortunes of its Eclipse open- source environment by announcing tools that allow developers to create applications and plug-ins for WebSphere, DB2, CrossWorlds, MQSeries, and Tivoli. Surrounded by...

MS builds TrustBridge - Microsoft details Web services security, identity model with VeriSign, IBM.
June 10, 2002... MICROSOFT HAS DETAILED new software to make Web services more secure. Code-named TrustBridge and slated for availability next year, the software springs from work Microsoft has done with IBM and VeriSign. TrustBridge is designed for sharing...

Oracle in talks to buy HP middleware.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... 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 report. HP's middleware includes products it acquired from...

IBM touts vertical focus.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... IBM on Monday will build on its business process integration strategy with a set of WebSphere-branded middleware products aimed at vertical industries. WebSphere Business Integration for Industries will tackle business process integration...

Platform, Sun strengthen grid play.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Platform Computing and Sun Microsystems are separately touting grid computing initiatives. Platform Computing on Monday will officially announce Version 5 upgrades to its LSF (Load Sharing Facility) and MultiCluster software. Sun has rolled out...

WLAN overboard - Instability, shortcomings plague Orinoco Wireless LAN Manager.(Evaluation)
June 10, 2002... NOW THAT COMPANIES are embracing wireless networking, the problem arises: How do you manage all of those access points? For the most part, access point management solutions were designed in simpler times, such as when you might have only a...

IBM targets carriers.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... IBM announced at Supercomm this week plans to help telecom carriers build applications and networks for the next generation of services. Central to the strategy is IBM's SPDE (Service Provider Delivery Environment), a framework built on open...

AirDefense lands.(Brief Article)
June 10, 2002... Newly launched AirDefense announced this week its IDS (intrusion detection system) appliance that targets potential abuse of wireless devices and access points across wireless LANs. The IDS will be available this month, starting at $9,000. ...

IBM hints at taking Wi-Fi access national.
June 10, 2002... AS THE PRESENCE of IEEE 802.11x access points increases in airports, restaurants, hotels, homes, corporate campuses, and other public access locations, IBM and others are beginning to talk about the creation of a single, virtual WLAN (wireless...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: It's a dangerous world.
June 10, 2002... AFTER A WEEK-and-a-half worth of constant company, Amber and I decided to escape by taking Apache the pooch for a walk in the woods. Only thing is, it wasn't exactly what we had hoped. Instead, Amber fell and cut her leg rather badly, needing...

To the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
June 10, 2002... Race matters I'M SURE YOU'LL get plenty of letters from this week's column (see Survival Guide, May 27). Racism is one of those things that shouldn't be and yet still is. It's tough for people to face that. Interestingly enough, my...

THE OPEN SOURCE: Painful rescue - Commercial-software rescue CDs are great, as long as you don't mind losing all of your personal data.
June 10, 2002... LAST WEEK, a friend had a problem that brought to light one of the benefits of open source. He was trying to install a dual-boot Linux and Windows XP system on his laptop and discovered the function of the rescue disk -- the hard way. You...

WINDOW MANAGER: Readers cook spam - Until spammers have been sued out of existence, tipsters have several other solutions.(Column)
June 10, 2002... I WROTE IN my April 22 column that Windows users can stop spam by suing the advertisers (see "Sue a spammer today," http://www.infoworld.com/printlinks). The laws of states such as California and Washington provide fines up to $1,000 per...

SECURITY ADVISER: Safety first - You already need a license to drive a car and carry a gun. Is it time to put trigger locks on computers?(Column)
June 10, 2002... WE LIVE IN A funny world. If I go out and buy a handgun, or want to drive an automobile, the government puts up a number of regulatory hurdles. But the toughest part of buying a computer and an operating system is remembering which credit card...

STORAGE INSIDER/CTO TEST CENTER: Shifting shape - Small design changes are yielding big benefits in a wide range of storage devices.
June 10, 2002... SQUEEZING EVERY OUNCE of performance from a storage network keeps the brightest minds in our industry searching for that perfect combination of software code, processor power, and I/O. But a surprising amount of increased performance can be...

WIRELESS WORLD: Chasing a lost package - Human error can mar performance of even the most advanced wireless tracking technology.(Column)
June 10, 2002... LESSON ONE: In the never-ending war between humankind and machine, humans will always find a way to defeat the "system." OK, United Parcel Service lost an overnight package sent to me. I missed the first delivery attempt; the second never...

ENTERPRISE STRATEGIES: And access for all - Engineering accessibility into products, sites, and organizations is just good business sense.
June 10, 2002... WE'VE LEARNED TO embrace diversity in race, culture, and gender; we're finally turning the corner on sexual preference. Yet physical impairment, age, and mental illness are still considered acceptable reasons to exclude prospective employees or...

CTO CONNECTION: Revenue is your business - Don't make the mistake of thinking profitability is somebody else's job: the CTO is a revenue driver.
June 10, 2002... OF THE MANY things a CTO must do to be successful, the one that can never be pushed to the back burner is simple: Maintain an unrelenting focus on helping your company produce revenue and profits. On a purely superficial level, this sounds like...

SURVIVAL GUIDE: Paying the rent - Just because software rental can work doesn't necessarily mean it's a payment plan that will work for you.
June 10, 2002... IT ISN'T AS if this is a new idea. Rental software models are hot these days, not because customers are clamoring for them, but because software vendors want more revenue and are determined to persuade us all that this is an inescapable...

THE GRIPE LINE: Maintenance madness - Readers weigh in on maintenance schemes that seem to have more to do with generating revenue than providing service.
June 10, 2002... IT MANAGERS have it all wrong. Most believe that software maintenance programs are supposed to protect their investment in the software they've installed, but what's actually being maintained is the software publisher's revenue stream. Our...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Memo to Bill Gates - It's time, Bill, to commit to the common good by fighting those who would lock the door to the Internet.
June 10, 2002... DEAR BILL, I know you're a busy man -- probably the world's busiest man -- but I need your help. And not the help Word offered me when I typed the above salutation, either. "It looks like you're writing a letter," the paper clip announced....

ABOVE THE NOISE: Standards activists are making a mark - IT executives recognize they must keep vendors from dominating the process.
June 10, 2002... THERE'S A NEW WAVE of activism in IT circles that is long overdue. The first hint of this newfound sense of confidence among IT executives was manifested in the formation of the Liberty Alliance, which seeks to ensure that standards around...

Shirt-pocket Java - RIM brings Java development to the BlackBerry 5810 wireless handheld.(Evaluation)
June 10, 2002... THREE YEARS AGO, when we first tested a two-way pager, we didn't notice its squinty display and cramped keyboard. Instead, we saw a tiny, battery-powered, programmable system with a built-in wireless modem. The potential for custom...

Competitors set sights on RIM.(Product Announcement)
June 10, 2002... ALTHOUGH FAR FROM a market leader in number of units sold, the Research in Motion BlackBerry device is credited with setting the standard for what users, both corporate and consumer, want in a handheld device. The diminutive RIM...

Command performance - Vendors prep their testing and monitoring tools for Web services.
June 10, 2002... FOCUSED ON CREATING forums for Web services to thrive among volatile enterprise infrastructures, application testing and measurement vendors are reshaping their offerings into critical components of systems management. Leading the charge,...

Chasing suite success - The pendulum swings as ERP vendors embrace Web services.
June 17, 2002... DETERMINED TO RETAIN the upper hand in the evolution of complex enterprise application suites, top-tier ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendors are aggressively embracing Web services to create a new generation of tightly integrated...

Much noise, little change - Microsoft's Commerce Server beefs up internationalization and analytics, but only leans toward .Net.
June 17, 2002... WHEN PUTTING TOGETHER a large commercial site, the cutthroat business climate doesn't allow much time for experimentation and invention. The smartest way to implement e-commerce best practices isn't to derive them, but to buy them. ...

Following the digital trail - Computer forensics experts uncover digital evidence on policy and security breaches.
June 17, 2002... JOHN SUIT, CTO of Linthicum, Md.-based SilentRunner, a spin-off of contracting giant Raytheon, found himself dealing with a problem no CTO wants to face. While a manager at Raytheon, it was discovered that some intellectual property had been...

Rising above risk - Increasingly complex security solutions complicate CTOs' defense of the enterprise.
June 17, 2002... ONCE EVERY THREE months, Charlotte, N.C.-based ASP Elogex undergoes a security attack, an assault that may come from a network probe, an email virus, or any one of a number of the quickly multiplying security threats that are currently...

Securing the future.(HP's Rich Demillo speaks on IT security)(Interview)
June 17, 2002... The task of securing the enterprise may seem daunting, but HP executives say there is real reason for optimism SECURITY HAS BECOME a game of wits where the good guys try to react to the latest move by the bad guys to break into something....

Enterprise security.(Brief Article)
June 17, 2002... The CTO must increasingly wade through complex security solutions to prevent costly incidents. Copyright (c) 2002 InfoWorld Media Group Inc.

Toshiba builds Wi-Fi agenda - Wireless Net service to offer seamless voice, data links.
June 17, 2002... IN A MOVE intended to take wireless computing to the mainstream, Toshiba week after next will announce plans to launch a nationwide wireless service that spans corporate and consumer applications. The service -- named Itsumo, the Japanese...

Novell heats Web services agenda - SilverStream buy to offer enterprises simplified integration options.
June 17, 2002... ATTEMPTING TO STRENGTHEN its Web services plans, Novell this week bid to purchase SilverStream Software, just days after joining the UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration) Advisory Group. The $212 million acquisition of...

Sun to unlock app toolkit - Web services wares designed to unify enterprise application development.(Sun ONE )
June 17, 2002... SUN MICROSYSTEMS on Wednesday will unveil the Sun ONE (Open Net Environment) Developer Platform, a set of servers and tools to advance the company's Web services wares. The package will feature Sun's new UDDI (Universal Description,...

The fast track to 10GbE - 10-Gigabit Ethernet is catching on fast, thanks to steadily lower costs.
June 17, 2002... MORE THAN THREE years after it was initially proposed as a standard, 10GbE (10-Gigabit Ethernet) was finally ratified last week by the IEEE. At a meeting in Washington, The 10 Gigabit Ethernet Alliance's (10GEA) proposed specification was...

Core makes an Impact - Core Security Technologies' penetration testing tool provides an easy, effective way to assess network security.
June 17, 2002... PENETRATION TESTING is a standard method for evaluating an organization's network security posture. These assessments can be performed from the standpoint of a malicious insider on the corporate network or a malicious outsider trying to...

ABOVE THE NOISE: Don't fight security cancers with aspirin - The tools are finally available for IT managers to build truly secure infrastructures.
June 17, 2002... WHEN IT COMES to security, we have met the enemy and it is most definitely us. That concept may be hard to swallow for a lot of people in IT, given the fact that they spend a large percentage of their time thwarting attacks from both...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: The healing game.(Microsoft's Windows XP)
June 17, 2002... IT DIDN'T TAKE Amber's leg long to heal, and now she is actually expressing thanks that I took such good care of her. "Now that I am better, I am going to make you whatever you want for dinner, Bobby, to repay you." Not bad. The saga of...

To the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
June 17, 2002... Simplifying software THIS IS THE clearest crystallization I've seen of a principal that I've believed in for 25 years (see Above the Noise, June 3). Out of college I started working for the consulting division of Arthur Andersen (way, way...

WINDOW MANAGER: Spam war escalates - Windows users have a choice between questionable and effective ways to stop unwanted e-mail.
June 17, 2002... IN MY APRIL 22 column, I wrote that Windows users can stop spam by suing spammers (see "Sue a spammer today," www.infoworld.com/printlinks.) Some states, including California and Washington, impose fines of as much as $1,000 per spam message....

THE OPEN SOURCE: United, we stand - UnitedLinux could be a contender, as long as its creators don't forgot their open-source roots.
June 17, 2002... ON MAY 30, four Linux vendors, SuSE, Caldera, Conectiva, and TurboLinux jointly announced UnitedLinux. They intend to create a commonly branded OS base that will become the foundation for their various corporate server offerings. Each vendor...

SECURITY ADVISER: Web privacy matters - Without guaranteed privacy for transactions, e-commerce will be the next victim of the war on terrorism.
June 17, 2002... IF E-COMMERCE fails to achieve its potential, Attorney General John Ashcroft will bear part of the responsibility. That's a sweeping statement, even from me, but here's the back story. A couple of weeks ago, he said, in effect, that...

STORAGE INSIDER/CTO TEST CENTER: The 3Par challenge - A new player with a revolutionary box threatens to change the enterprise storage game.(3Par's InServ Storage Servers)
June 17, 2002... IMAGINE A SIMPLE, modular, scalable enterprise storage system with 192 Fibre Channel ports that can interconnect all your mixed-vendor storage servers and implement every storage management function your heart desires in as few as two mouse...

WIRELESS WORLD: MS: Love to fear 'em - Without any partners, will Microsoft hit a home run or strike out in the wireless industry?
June 17, 2002... THE SUBJECT THIS week is MVNOs (mobile virtual network operators) and Microsoft. The concept is that companies that don't own bandwidth lease it from those that do, add some unique value, and then sell subscribers the wireless service targeted...