InfoWorld articles from May 2003

InfoWorld archives from May 2003

FCC proposal could boost Wi-Fi - More bandwidth may result in higher density of use, channels for apps.
May 26, 2003... With the Federal Communications Commission proposing to nearly double 802.11a's available bandwidth, Wi-Fi is on course to become as available as the air it travels through. Posted last week, the FCC proposal would add 80 percent (255MHz)...

BAM bolsters data visibility.(business activity monitoring)
May 26, 2003... The lines between data and process integration are blurring as vendors link traditional business intelligence with enterprise application integration. BI and EAI vendors are tying message feeds with analytics to provide real-time visibility...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Power to the people - EDS iceberg and the HP no- way.
May 26, 2003... Thanks to a flood of mail from you readers, I'm waging war on my editor to keep the personal side of my column alive as long as I can. Bad news, though; even before leaving for England, Amber is out of my life. Apache bit her pretty face, and...

SCO Drops Own Linux, Issues Users Warning.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... The SCO Group announced it was abandoning its Linux business and warned commercial Linux users they may be liable for intellectual-property violations that, it alleges, exist in the Linux source code. Thewarning claimed that Linux's source...

IBM Updates Rational tools.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... IBM Rational on Tuesday plans to unveil products and enhancements that boost collaborative development. Such products include Rapid Developer, a rapid application development environment for building J2EE applications; XDE Tester, for testing...

NCR Boosts Warehouse.(Brief Article)
May 19, 2003... NCR's Teradata division shipped Teradata Warehouse 7.0.1, with new product functionality and services that enhance availability for frontline business users. The new version features enhanced node protection and fail-over through two new...

Netegrity and Tivoli expand ID reach.
May 19, 2003... Identity management vendors, including Netegrity and Tivoli, are bringing new products into an increasingly crowded arena. Pushing its solidarity and integrated functionality, Netegrity will launch a new version of IdentityMinder this...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: More with less - It gets worse at EDS.
May 19, 2003... My evil editor claims to be fed up with my personal saga, the one you readers love so. And since Amber is crossing the puddle to merry England, the timing seems right to bid my own tale farewell and dedicate space solely to the gossip...

WASP gives Web services development some sting.
May 19, 2003... WASP Server and Developer tools handle real-world Web services management Although most of the Web services examples in tutorials and books are green-field developments -- that is, started from scratch with little or no concern for...

HP vision short on experience - Adaptive Enterprise plays catch-up with IBM.
May 12, 2003... Hewlett-Packard calls it the Adaptive Enterprise, but in reality it's an elaborate strategy that's long on business process re-engineering vision and short on real-world experience. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company has found itself in...

Microsoft touts PCs, Longhorn, CE - Company shows off technologies that boost user experience.
May 12, 2003... Microsoft showed off a future model for PCs, the successor to Windows XP, and an upcoming iteration of Windows CE, all of which the company hopes will improve how users interact with computers. One analyst sees the move as a way to boost...

Check Point injects firewall with AI - Application Intelligence brings security to app layer.(Check Point NG with Application Intelligence)
May 12, 2003... Check Point Software Technologies announced today Check Point NG (Next Generation) with AI (Application Intelligence), a new feature in its firewall products that melds security components into a single point of enforcement. Despite its...

Big Guns Launch Utility Salvo - HP, IBM, Sun aim to usher in new era of computing.(utility computing)
May 5, 2003... The starting gun has been fired, and IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Sun are racing toward utility computing by rolling out products designed to give enterprises more efficient computing resources. Meanwhile, software vendors Computer...

CM braces for Sarbanes-Oxley - IBM, Documentum bolster records management, retention.
May 5, 2003... Content-management vendors are rolling out tools that help enterprises comply with new and forthcoming regulations governing storage and retention of specific records. One piece of legislation with a looming fall deadline, the Sarbanes-...

F5 brings traffic management to blades - Company pulls security, packet inspection into BIG-IP Blade Controller software.
May 5, 2003... F5 Networks is extending its presence in the emerging blade-server management market with new security and packet-inspection enhancements to its BIG-IP Blade Controller software. Not typically considered a network-management software...

EIM strikes payment errors - Best-of-breed, apps makers boost incentive management.(enterprise incentive management)
May 5, 2003... Vendors are forging incentive wares that put the reins of compensation firmly in executives' hands. Best-of-breed EIM (enterprise incentive management) players Motiva, Callidus Software, and Centiv are casting their products to link more...

REALITY CHECK: Some immodest proposals - ISVs must rethink the practice of profiting from software maintenance and support.(Column)
May 5, 2003... "The risk of fire, the risk of terrorism, the risk of theft are far, far less than the risk of upgrade." I wish I'd said that, but I didn't. It came from a member of the audience during a panel discussion about software maintenance and...

Windows Media Services 9 raises bar for Apple, Real Media - Microsoft adds no-tears streaming-media server to Windows Server 2003.(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 5, 2003... Managing streaming-media servers isn't child's play. Just the chore of managing the content hosted on the server can be daunting, especially when the content changes frequently. Coordinating announcements, advertisements, and popular content...

Microsoft's platform play hits the big time - Windows Server 2003 is technically solid, with performance and capacity gains that deflate arguments against adoption.(Product/Service Evaluation)
May 5, 2003... With each new release of Microsoft's server operating system, pundits are moved to declare that this one is the first Windows truly suited to the enterprise. And it is especially tempting to hang that tag on Windows Server 2003. Windows...