InfoWorld articles from November 2003

InfoWorld archives from November 2003

Borland advances ALM goals.(application life cycle management)
November 3, 2003... Borland plans to detail several key pieces of its ALM (application life cycle management) strategy at its BorCon developer conference this week in San Jose, Calif. One week after Microsoft touted several forthcoming tools at its own...

SCO Says IBM Can't Enforce GPL.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... The SCO Group asserted that IBM does not have the right to enforce the GPL software license that governs Linux. "The GPL is enforced by the Free Software Foundation such that enforcement by IBM or others is waived," SCO claimed. A lawyer...

Linux 2.6 Creeps Forward.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Version 2.6 of the Linux kernel crept a little closer to reality as the Open Source Development Lab made available a test version, called Test9, to "test, validate, and enhance" it in preparation for the finished version due late this year or...

Microsoft Turns Off IM.(Brief Article)
November 3, 2003... Microsoft plans to disable the Windows Messenger Service and activate the Internet Connection Firewall by default on Windows XP machines to protect computers from malicious attacks. The changes are targeted for release in Windows XP Service...

Compliance tools meet government regulations.
November 3, 2003... With the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Patriot Act mandating corporate adherence to reporting guidelines, vendors across such diverse segments as ERP, search, document management, and security are flooding the marketplace with compliance toolsets....

MPC aims for SAN supremacy.(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 3, 2003... MPC has long been a contender in the desktop and server market, but always sitting just behind the other players, such as Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and IBM. The MPC DataFrame 310fc may help change that; MPC's latest SAN array, combined with...

UpdateExpert manages patches painlessly.(St. Bernard Software's UpdateExpert 6.1)(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 3, 2003... The recent Sobig virus and MSBlaster worm illustrate the importance of patch management in today's sophisticated hacking environment. While not all patches relate to significant system vulnerability or stability issues, IT administrators need...

Macromedia flexes Web development.(Macromedia Flex)(Brief Article)
November 17, 2003... Looking to bring graphical Web development to enterprise developers, Macromedia will introduce this week Macromedia Flex, a presentation server and application framework for building rich Internet applications using existing tools, design...

Weblogs address authentication, security.(Traction Software's TeamPage 3.0 and Socialtext's Workspace)(Brief Article)
November 17, 2003... Weblog vendors are steering the technology toward corporate collaboration needs with the addition of security, personalization, and integration features. This week Traction Software plans to roll out Release 3.0 of its TeamPage Weblog...

Dell Adds to Management Tools.(Dell Management Pack for Microsoft Operations Manager, the Dell Update Packages for Microsoft Systems Management Server, and the Dell Deployment Toolkit)(Brief Article)
November 17, 2003... Dell last week announced three additions to its OpenManage line of system management tools. The software is designed to provide better integration between Dell's hardware management products and Microsoft's management software. The tools are...

Motorola Buys UWB Wares.(acquires tremeSpectrum)(Brief Article)
November 17, 2003... Motorola will apply its resources to drive down the size, cost, and power consumption of UWB (ultra-wideband) wireless network chip sets using technology from XtremeSpectrum, the assets of which it acquired last week. Both companies have been...

CSO Council Formed.
November 17, 2003... A group of information security professionals has formed a Global Council of CSOs in an effort to better address online security challenges. The group seeks to improve online security by bringing together expertise from academic, corporate, and...

BI reporting tools improve.(MicroStrategy's Report Services, Actuate Software's MAO and QlikTech's QlikView 6.02)
November 17, 2003... BI vendors MicroStrategy, Actuate, and QlikTech are reinforcing their reporting tools with simplified deployment, centralized management, and better data presentation. MicroStrategy will unveil this week its new Report Services, designed...

PeopleSoft, Salesnet pursue hosted CRM.
November 17, 2003... Attempting to carve out unique slices of the CRM pie, PeopleSoft and Salesnet this week will announce extensions to their hosted CRM services. PeopleSoft will announce the addition of two former J.D. Edwards application suites -- renamed...

KXEN fills the need for BA speed.(Analytic Framework 3.0.2 )(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 17, 2003... Despite the fact that BI gives data-mining pros the opportunity to answer strategic questions, it's not a very interactive or iterative process. That's the domain of BA (business analytics). But even BA tools require you to know the right...

Major vendors to push Linux to the desktop.
November 24, 2003... Next year just may be the year that desktop Linux emerges as a viable alternative to Windows. Inspired by stirrings among corporate users for desktop Linux and with Microsoft's forthcoming Longhorn operating system not expected on desktops...

Sun eyes open source app server.(Brief Article)
November 24, 2003... Sun Microsystems is hatching a plan to offer versions of its application server and Web server under an open source license. Making the servers open source is a way to get them into more developers' hands, Sun said, and as a result companies...

OASIS approves SPML 1.0 spec.(Service Provisioning Markup Language 1.0)(Brief Article)
November 24, 2003... OASIS last week ratified SPML (Service Provisioning Markup Language) 1.0, which provides an XML-based framework for allocating system resources within and between organizations. SPML defines provisioning of digital services such as user...

Tech job losses slow in 2003.(according to AeA Study)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)
November 24, 2003... Although job losses continue to hit the U.S. technology sector, the rate of the unemployment is slowing, the American Electronics Association (AEA) said last week. An annual study by the AEA showed that employment in the U.S. high-tech industry...

J2EE 1.4 spec certified.(Java Community Process executive committee )(Brief Article)
November 24, 2003... J2EE 1.4 is now official, Sun announced last week. The Java Community Process executive committee approved Java Specification Request 151 -- which features J2EE 1.4 -- by a 16-0 vote earlier this month. Highlighted in J2EE 1.4 is...

PalmSource deal aims for enterprise wireless market.(Brief Article)
November 24, 2003... A new PalmSource initiative to port thousands of third-party Palm applications from a desktop synchronization model to an OTA (over-the- air) architecture for downloading could help prop open the door to Palm-based wireless applications in the...

Novell's exteNd still a work in progress.(Novell exteNd 5.0 beta)(and related article)(Software Review)(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 24, 2003... Novell's exteNd is an umbrella product; its name spreads over several individual components that play separate roles in creating or deploying J2EE applications. The center of the exteNd solar system is the exteNd Application Server. It is...