InfoWorld articles from November 2004

InfoWorld archives from November 2004

Kontiki Upgrades Grid Delivery.(DMS 4.0)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Kontiki has shipped Version 4.0 of its DMS (Delivery Management System), which speeds the delivery of large files, video, and software over existing networks. DMS 4.0 simplifies deployment of Kontiki servers with a new automated XML-based...

Intuit Bolsters QuickBase.(QuickBase)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Intuit this week rolled out enhancements to its QuickBase hosted database for collaboration and data management. The updated version adds a spreadsheet-style creation tool to allow users to create business process applications on the fly, and a...

Vendors Team to Secure Mobile Devices.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... NTT DoCoMo, Intel, and IBM have published a jointly developed security specification called the Trusted Mobile Platform. It aims to provide an end-to-end security architecture for mobile wireless devices, including hardware and software...

SNIA nails down ILM definition - EMC, IBM tout information lifecycle management wares.
November 1, 2004... The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) last week detailed its vision of ILM (information lifecycle management), effectively leveling the playing field by providing vendors with a common blueprint from which to build solutions. ...

VMware previews virtual server - New software aims at dual-core chips.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Hoping to keep the heat on archrival Microsoft, VMware last week gave developers an early glimpse of a new virtual SMP product that allows a single virtual machine to work with up to four physical processors. The four-way version of VMware...

Mobile Middleware Shines at CTIA - Intellisync , VeriSign , and Openwave drive mobile device and messaging management.
November 1, 2004... Mobile middleware for messaging and management garnered the lion's share of attention from vendors at the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA) Wireless IT & Entertainment 2004 conference in San Francisco last week. ...

Vint Cerf on cyber security - TCP/IP co-author discusses the progress of IPv6 and the state of the Internet.(Interview)
November 1, 2004... Vint Cerf, known as the "father of the Internet" and MCI's senior vice president of technology strategy, spoke with IDG News Service Correspondent John Blau about the current state of cyber threats, IPv6 developments, and why he thinks the...

Microsoft extends IM lineup - LCS 2005 will allow enterprises to connect network to other companies.
November 1, 2004... Next month Microsoft plans to roll out the next version of its enterprise IM software, Office LCS (Live Communications Server) 2005. That release will be followed in the first half of 2005 by a new IM client, code name Istanbul, which will add...

REALITY CHECK: Caught in a regulatory cross fire - New legislation, both domestic and from abroad, will have significant impact on IT.(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... Here's a bit of advice for those of you planning IT budgets. For the next five to 10 years, set aside 10 percent to comply with new government regulations, both from the United States and from other governments in your major markets. In...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Voting along party lines - Many in IT claim to be independent, but their decisions follow consistent patterns.
November 1, 2004... Election time is an apt occasion for reflecting on what politicians refer to as your core values, and I hope to make that phrase meaningful for perhaps the first time. Four years turns out to be a pretty good cycle for such examinations, even...

CTO CONNECTION: When good vendors go bad - Pushy vendors getting you down? Fight back with your wallet.
November 1, 2004... The most pervasive problem in running IT is not a specific technology issue at all. It's dealing with bad vendors. Even if you have been able to reduce your IT operation down to a pure open source environment on the software side, hardware...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: Windows admin made easy - Monad, a new command shell, gives Windows a new lease on life.
November 1, 2004... System administration has always been windows' Achilles' heel. The graphical tools that simplify basic chores just get in the way when there's heavy lifting to be done. And CMD.EXE, the hapless command shell, pales in comparison to the Unix...

EDITOR'S LETTER: Many threats, one view - SEM systems help you sort real attacks from innocuous network events.(Editorial)
November 1, 2004... When is too much information a bad thing? When, by its very volume, it obscures the truth. Let's say, for instance, that you're in charge of network security. Getting data about possible attacks and vulnerabilities isn't a problem. Intrusion...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Oracle gives no raise, Gates gets no praise - Waiting out the election.
November 1, 2004... The election madness will finally end on Tuesday (or get much worse, depending on the need for recounts). Me, I'm casting my ballot and setting up a lawn chair outside the polling place to watch the fistfights. Whether you're Left, Right, or...

Product Previews.
November 1, 2004... palmOne's latest Treo incarnation, anti-spam that blends in Sender ID, troubleshooting for Active Directory, and policy-based security from St. Bernard By InfoWorld staff palmOneUpgrades Treo With Faster Chip, Better Display With...

Developers aim to rid source code of bugs - Dawson Engler and Ben Chelf of Coverity share their dedication to effective analysis.(Coverity)(Interview)
November 1, 2004... Dawson Engler is chief scientist with Coverity and Ben Chelf is chief evangelist. We asked them to elaborate on the advances to source code analysis that they orginally developed at Stanford. IW: To what extent have security concerns...

On-the-fly document clustering - Vivisimo Velocity brings speed, accuracy, and flexibility to enterprise search.(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 1, 2004... Even the best Web search engines deliver so many hits that users overlook relevant documents or find it too bothersome to explore a subject further. Alas, many attempts to hone search results fail because they rely on document preprocessing or...

Source code analysis breaks new ground - New tools and accelerated research bodes well for future software.
November 1, 2004... Large-scale software systems are staggeringly complex works of engineering. Bugs inevitably come with the territory and for decades, the software profession has looked for ways to fight them. We may not see perfect source code in our lifetime,...

Big picture security - A multiplicity of threats yields an ever- expanding variety of defenses spewing gobs of security data. Security event information management aims to deliver a 20,000-foot view of the threatscape.
November 1, 2004... There was a time when cutting-edge network security meant a firewall on your perimeter and anti-virus software on the desktop. No longer. With the advent of polymorphic Internet worms, application-layer attacks, Trojan horses, adware, spyware,...

In search of security event standards - No standard data format yet exists for end points to report security events. But the industry is trying -- using partnerships rather than standards bodies.
November 1, 2004... Integrating SEM (security event management) technology with existing security and system management infrastructure can be a hair-raising experience. Security point products such as IDSes, anti-virus gateways, and vulnerability scanners tend to...

The VoIP management challenge - Enterprise network managers are implementing VoIP, but how are they managing these installations? Here are four tools to simplify the task.
November 1, 2004... The slowly maturing VoIP platform has enterprises taking a long look at this technology, and not just for cost savings. Many of these potential users are opting for in-house rather than service-provider solutions because of the additional...

Novell extols desktop Linux - New incarnation of Suse client tailored for specialized tasks.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Novell this week spruced up a version of its Linux desktop aimed squarely at enterprise users. Built on the same core code base as Suse Linux Enterprise Server 9, Linux Desktop 9 is best suited for corporate users conducting transactions...

Messaging security cuts wider swath - CipherTrust, Proofpoint, and Sendmail expand platforms.
November 8, 2004... Enterprise security products that once focused solely on spam are broadening scope to tackle messaging issues, compliance violations, phishing scams, and viruses. Proofpoint this week will unveil an updated version of its messaging...

Pentium 4 may reach speed limit.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Intel will increase the clock speed of its Pentium 4 processor for possibly the last time, as the company heads into a new era for its desktop processor designs. The Pentium 4 570 processor is a 3.8GHz chip with 1MB of Level 2 cache that will...

CipherTrust takes fight to spammers.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... CipherTrust has released Connection Control, a new component of the company's IronMail product, designed to foil spammers. Connection Control uses source filtering to examine the IP address of an e-mail server sending a message. If the server...

Proxim introduces pre-WiMax product.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Proxim announced the Tsunami MP.11 Model 5054-R, the next product in a generation of point-to-multipoint outdoor fixed wireless devices that will serve as a part of a migration platform to WiMax solutions expected in the second half of 2005....

Linux clusters serve the low end - Attention focuses on smaller, cheaper supercomputers.
November 8, 2004... When researchers unveil the biannual Top 500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers at the SC2004 Conference in Pittsburgh this week, much of the focus will be on the two-year reign of Japan's Earth Simulator as the fastest of the fast. But...

BEA, others tout tools, resources - Developer site boosts collaboration.
November 8, 2004... Hoping to boost collaboration and productivity among developers, BEA Systems and Enerjy Software have expanded Java tools efforts, while MKS launched deeper integration into Microsoft's Visual Studio .Net development platform. BEA is...

Salesforce.com pushes integration - Hosted service provider adds app dev toolkit.(Brief Article)
November 8, 2004... Hosted CRM service provider Salesforce.com took another step forward last week in its strategy to build an online ecosystem of vendors that offer software as a service. At its annual Dream-force user conference, the company unveiled...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Do your homework before computer shopping - Gigahertz don't matter: Don't be the dweeb who gets played for a sucker.
November 8, 2004... Too often, the details that vendors present as important buying criteria are window dressing of little importance to the majority of business and enterprise buyers. I'm addressing PC and PowerPC servers in particular, as they make up the bulk...

CTO CONNECTION: Is Wiki under your radar? Your staff may already be using one of the most productive collaboration tools ever built.(Chief technology officers)
November 8, 2004... lots of attention has been paid to blogging and its relation to traditional media. But I've been more interested in blogging as a quick- and-dirty enterprise knowledge management tool for internal use for internal use. At InfoWorld, an...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: The state of rich Web apps - The drive for GUI ease runs counter to easily shareable state information.
November 8, 2004... In my Oct. 22 column, I argued that Gmail's aggressive use of DHTML qualifies it as a kind of RIA (rich Internet application). As e-mail correspondents and bloggers pointed out, the technique has a fairly long history. Many wonder why it...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: PeopleSoft still in play, GOP mail goes astra - Politics is ruining my love life.(Grand Old Party)
November 8, 2004... For a while I thought I'd hooked a live one. She had beauty, brains, and a body built by Ferrari. Things were going great for a while, until I found out she voted for the other guy. It was like somebody poured a dry-ice cocktail down my shorts....

EDITOR'S LETTER: Positive changes - Two new surveys show where and how IT is growing, and who is leading the charge.(Editorial)
November 8, 2004... Despite the pause in the economy this fall, there's ample evidence that the economic expansion remains strong -- especially so for information technology. The latest data come from two just-completed surveys of InfoWorld readers. The...

REALITY CHECK: The cost of safe commerce - Smart containers and sophisticated networks will make shipping more secure, but who's going to foot the bill?
November 8, 2004... It's never too soon to worry. And when it comes to RFID and its related technologies, you might want to start now. Between private sector and government mandates, both large and midtier companies can count on being required to have what some...

Stress test your Web applications - TestView suite assesses deep application-layer performance testing.
November 8, 2004... Developers working on Web applications face the same challenges other developers do in ensuring app functionality and usability. But the nature of the Web means that the number of users on a given Web site may vary by several orders of...

IBM puts some thought into DB2 - Adaptive technology bolsters database's manageability.
November 8, 2004... With the latest release of DB2, IBM is poised to reshape the database landscape. Big Blue speaks very proudly and boldly about its new adaptive technology. In Version 8.2, IBM has realized some of the promise adaptive technology has to offer,...

Product Previews.
November 8, 2004... Foundry unleashes four new 10GB Ethernet products, TI takes the wraps off RFID kit, Nsite upgrades BPM service, and Netli introduces content delivery service for offloading static files By InfoWorld staff Foundry Pours Out 10GbE...

Exclusive: Stampede tramples WAN bottlenecks - WebRider accelerator wrangles better Web performance from slow WAN links.
November 8, 2004... IT administrators always keep an eye out for ways to cheat and pull more performance from existing bandwidth. Network traffic shapers and accelerators have been around for a while, but because they require a device on each side, rolling them...

HP makes 1U, 2U server differentiation disappear - Venerable ProLiant DL360 family gets an upgrade, giving administrators new hardware, configuration options.
November 8, 2004... Thanks to a new breed of microprocessors from Intel and AMD, thin is in, with more power than previously available in the familiar 1U rack- mountable pizza box format. Recently, Dell upped the ante by using new, Nocona-series Intel Xeon...

Check Point IPS defends against worms and attacks - IPS offers network segmentation and can quarantine machines for enhanced network security but still seems lacking.
November 8, 2004... At first, Check Point's InterSpect IPS seems no different from many of the IDS/IPS products we tested this summer. InterSpect defends against worms and quarantines suspicious computers or networks. Its LAN protocol protection and preemptive...

Sending software to do hardware's job - In-hardware support for server virtualization is lacking, but that wasn't always the case.
November 8, 2004... The top-notch developers at VMware and Connectix (now Microsoft) have spent much of their time inventing intricate work-arounds for design shortcomings of the x86 architecture. But that needn't be the case. When virtualization gets help from...

The reality of virtual servers - Although it may seem like magic, server virtualization is real, and it's giving admins unprecedented control over enterprise datacenters.
November 8, 2004... Server virtualization is one of those rare technologies that sounds too good to be true, but it's real. Its earliest use was to consolidate underutilized server hardware onto a smaller number of machines. Since those early days, it has grown...

Virtual Server 2005 offers Windows upon Windows - Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 allows datacenter admins to run multiple guest OSes on a single physical server.
November 8, 2004... Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 is probably best viewed as a direct competitor to VMware's well-entrenched GSX Server , but the degree to which Virtual Server integrates with other Microsoft server products puts it in a class of its own. ...

VMware delivers a datacenter in a box - ESX Server lends big-iron availability, scalability, and configurability to commodity x86 hardware.
November 8, 2004... VMware, now owned by EMC, created its ESX Server virtualization product for businesses that need truly enterprise-class virtualization. ESX Server 2.1.1 implements the consolidation, dynamic provisioning, resource pooling, and all-bases-covered...

Emulation software makes something out of nothing - A variety of open source projects allow developers to experiment with virtual hardware configurations.
November 8, 2004... Virtualization solutions such as VMware ESX Server use emulation technologies to trick operating systems into seeing hardware that isn't there. But emulation is also used as a stand-alone technology across a broad range of industries. AMD...

Measuring change management initiatives takes initiative - Assessing specific changes will get a boost from planning, software, and automation.
November 8, 2004... Cynics may say that the field of change management is so vast that the term is practically useless. Yet, if the sun is always shining behind the clouds, one can credit effective change management with improved operational efficiencies and...

The ever-changing network - Effective change management starts with the right policies and tools, as automation and centralized control gain favor.
November 8, 2004... It could be called the "ignomoment;" the split second following a definitive action when you realize you've just made a tragic mistake. For network administrators, this means the difference between going home at 5 p.m. or 5 a.m. The truth is,...

Sun upgrading enterprise dev tool - BEA adds app server support to Beehive project.
November 15, 2004... In an effort to woo developers, BEA Systems and Sun Microsystems this week will detail forthcoming tools. Sun is getting ready to release Version 7 of the company's enterprise development tool suite, Sun Java Studio Enterprise, and has...

Collaboration platforms present unified front - IBM drives Workplace; Open Text rolls out collaboration platform.
November 15, 2004... Binding end-user access to once disparate technologies, vendors such as IBM Lotus and Open Text are launching products designed to pull a variety of point products into a single platform. To that end, IBM last week added products and...

IBM fuels the need for speed - Big Blue's Blue Gene gets faster.(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... At the SC2004 conference last week, IBM unveiled plans to build a commercial version of its Blue Gene supercomputer intended for businesses and for a number of scientific and research markets. The IBM eServer Blue Gene is a Power-based...

Sun unleashes Solaris 10 - Company frees OS from upfront pricing, takes on Red Hat with support plan.
November 15, 2004... Sun on Monday will deliver its much anticipated Solaris 10, declaring the OS now free to download for commercial use, along with an aggressive services and support plan clearly devised to undercut Linux archrival Red Hat's pricing. A cloud...

Intel's Montecito now expected in 2006 - New versions of single-core Itanium chips released.(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Montecito, the first dual-core chip based on Intel's Itanium 2 architecture, will not begin shipping in volume until 2006, company executives said last week. Intel had said that this follow-up to its current generation of Itanium 2...

Google Taps POP3 for Gmail.(Gmail)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Google will roll out POP3 support gradually over the coming weeks for its Gmail service. The feature will allow users to download e-mail messages from Gmail servers to e-mail applications on PCs and wireless devices. With POP3 support, users...

OASIS Ratifies UBL 1.0 for E-commerce.(Universal Business Language)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Looking to provide a catalyst for e-commerce, OASIS announced ratification of UBL (Universal Business Language ) Version 1.0, which defines a common XML library of business documents for use in online transactions. UBL 1.0 was approved as an...

HP Debuts Imaging, Printing Products.(Hewlett-Packard)(HP LaserJet 4345mfp)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Hewlett-Packard showed off 14 new imaging and printing products during an event in Frankfurt, Germany. Executives showcased the HP LaserJet 4345mfp multifunction copier, which they said can crank out as many as 45 pages per minute for a third...

Exabyte Adds New Tape Storage.(Magnum 1X7 )(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Exabyte has announced the release of the Magnum 1X7 LTO Autoloader, a 2U, rack-mountable, automated backup and restore system for less than $5,000. The new Magnum 1X7 product features a single LTO (linear tape open) drive and room for seven...

Pentium M attracts consumers.(Pentium M )(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Intel's Pentium M mobile processor is finally starting to gain ground against older mobile technologies in the eyes of U.S. consumers, 18 months after it was introduced to rave reviews. Notebooks containing the Pentium M accounted for 23...

Microsoft skips Itanium with server for HPC.(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Microsoft will support only x86 processors with 64-bit extensions when it releases a special version of Windows Server for HPC (high performance computing) next year, leaving support for Intel's Itanium 2 for a later date. The HPC space is...

McAfee, CA integrate anti-spyware - IT administrators get more firepower to deal with security menace.(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... As pests, adware, and other malicious applications infiltrate corporate computers with greater frequency, some vendors, including McAfee and Computer Associates, are bundling anti-spyware into security management suites, giving IT more tools to...

Dell Eyes AMD Move - PC maker close to adopting AMD processors for servers, workstations.
November 15, 2004... Dell President and CEO Kevin Rollins has indicated that the company is actively considering including AMD processors inside its server products in the foreseeable future. As of now, the PC and server maker remains the lone holdout among...

All aboard BNSF's voice portal - Railway conductors call on voice recognition to enter reports.
November 15, 2004... Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway trains rush along 33,000 miles of track across 28 states and into two Canadian provinces, not unlike their 19th century forebears. But BNSF is now using 21st century voice- recognition technology to turn...

BP monitors the rails - Enterprise adds sensors for safer, smarter chemical transport.
November 15, 2004... For any company that ships products by rail, RFID is old hat. For the past 15 years, to generate data points for routing and scheduling, the railroad industry has used electronic tags that trigger CLMs (Car Location Messages) every time a car...

Nationwide builds premium grid - A major insurer drastically cuts compute time on price modeling.
November 15, 2004... In most applications, the power of modern processors has almost eliminated concerns about computational performance. But according to Srinivas Koushik, enterprise CTO of Nationwide, financial companies don't have it quite so easy. "Insurance...

UPS reinvents package flow - New software, smart labels, and improved processes deliver huge ROI.
November 15, 2004... UPS likes to do things big way. Last year, the company garnered a place in the InfoWorld 100 with a wireless project that will ultimately replace 55,000 scanning devices. This year, the company takes the coveted top slot, thanks to a nine-year,...

2004 InfoWorld 100 - InfoWorld honors a host of innovative new projects that highlight the resourcefulness of the IT community.
November 15, 2004... To avoid the budget ax, IT departments have made strides in demystifying the black magic of realistic ROI. By the same token, to figure out where the money is going, the business side has endeavored to learn enough to be dangerous about...

Avnet broadens partner channel - Standardized interfaces enable smaller partners to engage in automated trade.
November 15, 2004... In facing up to costly inefficiencies products by rail, RFID is old hat. For the past 15 years, to generate data points for routing and scheduling, the railroad industry has used electronic tags that trigger CLMs (Car Location Messages) every...

FedEx Kinko's delivers remote printing - A new Web services app puts FedEx Kinko's on the MS Office Print menu.
November 15, 2004... Late last year, FedEx bought the Kinko's chain of copy centers, heating up competition with archrival UPS. But there was more to the merger than renaming the corner copy shop FedEx Kinko's. Thanks to this dynamic duo's File, Print FedEx Kinko's...

Mary Kay rejuvenates its supply chain - From ordering to manufacturing to inventory control, Mary Kay enjoys new visibility.
November 15, 2004... Talk about an extreme makeover. Things will never look the same at Mary Kay, one of the larger direct sellers of cosmetics and skin care products, thanks to a wholesale conversion to Web-based supply-chain management, plus a new portal...

REALITY CHECK: IT and business align around rules and patterns - Policy-driven computing relies on user behavior and a host of preceding technologies.
November 15, 2004... Aligning technology and business -- what a concept. Everyone is talking about it, but to put things in perspective, I imagine the day after the wheel was invented the wife of the inventor got sick and tired of watching her husband roll it down...

AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Tracking management bugs - Obian taps into enterprise best practices and gets proactive on Sarbanes-Oxley.(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 15, 2004... As regulatory audits loom, wise executives have long ago abandoned the "save everything" approach to regulatory compliance, which is akin to stuffing receipts into a shoebox while hoping the IRS will go knocking elsewhere. Wise executives...

CTO CONNECTION: Wiki goes to work - Here's how Wiki can provide a collaborative staging area for solving IT problems.(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 15, 2004... In last week's column, I talked about the potential of Wiki as an enterprise tool and promised more details on that topic this week. A recent conversation with Peter Theony, the developer of TWiki, got me thinking about how to solve some...

STRATEGIC DEVELOPER: Dictate and 'see' the master's voice - Dragon NaturallySpeaking 8 pays close attention to you, as all desktop software should.(Product/Service Evaluation)
November 15, 2004... I've spent some time this week with the latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, a dictation program that I've tried from time to time over the years. In the past, despite chronic trouble with RSI (repetitive strain injury), I could never...

NOTES FROM THE FIELD: Microsoft spreads the joy, Cisco is a hacker's toy - Politics and the pursuit of happiness.
November 15, 2004... When I broke off a budding relationship because she voted for the wrong guy, some of the Cringe faithful were appalled that I'd let politics get in the way of my, umm, pursuit of happiness. They called me elitist, obnoxious, and shallow. You'd...

EDITOR'S LETTER: IT blueprint for 2005 - Supply chain, content management, storage, and wireless poised for a big year.
November 15, 2004... This week's issue recognizes the smartest, most creative, and, well, coolest IT projects of 2004. But the InfoWorld 100 is more than simply another collection of well-meaning (and well-deserved) awards. It is also a blueprint -- a living...

Product Previews.(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... NetApp adds virtualization to Data Ontap, CA arms eTrust with anti- spyware tools, EMC upgrades document management wares, and IQ NetSolutions builds VoIP bridge By InfoWorld staff Network Appliance Injects Virtualization Into Storage...

Windows XP SP2: A bandage but not a panacea - Service pack plugs some security holes but could break your apps.
November 15, 2004... Unless you've been living in a cave for the past few months, you already know Microsoft has released Windows XP SP2 (Service Pack 2), the biggest update ever to XP. You also know that it's supposed to fix the security holes that have become all...

ICEsoft and Nexaweb wax where the browser wanes - ICEbrowser SDK 6.0 and Nexaweb 3.2 leverage the power of Web standards while overcoming their limitations.(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Web browsers are wonderfully ubiquitous, but they offer substandard user interfaces because they do little to anticipate what the user might want. Most clicks require a round-trip to some distant server over a sometimes dodgy Internet. To make...

Dell 5100cn delivers low-cost color printing - Model scores with attractive output, no-compromise mono performance.
November 15, 2004... Even offices that work mostly with memos, spreadsheets, and other no- nonsense documents need color output sometimes. Dell's 5100cn addresses this need in a very affordable, low-maintenance package. With a NIC and duplexer as standard...

Sun melds Java and collaboration - Enhancements equip developers with IM and tools to share code.(Sun Microsystems Inc.)(Brief Article)
November 15, 2004... Unique among its development tool rivals, Sun's Java Studio Enterprise 7 includes tightly integrated collaboration capabilities. Not only can developers send instant messages to each other from within the IDE, the collaboration tools also allow...

Media gateway widens scope - Versatel IQ1500 security, app support transcend media gateway stereotypes.(Versatel Networks inc.)
November 15, 2004... I knew the IQ1500 was special when the Versatel Networks engineer supporting the machine used it to call SIP phones elsewhere on the network. Soon, he was switching calls without using the installed PBX. Then he started setting up conference...

Product Previews.
November 22, 2004... Adobe issues Acrobat 7.0, Check Point touts Safe@Office, Bowstreet boosts portal apps, and Akonix secures IM By InfoWorld staff Adobe unveils Acrobat 7.0 Adobe Systems has launched Version 7.0 of its Acrobat family of desktop...

Dell sharpens its blades - New servers, software deal show desire to cut deeper into the datacenter.
November 22, 2004... Dell's aggressive re-entry into the blade server market last week is another indication that corporate buyers are seriously considering the technology for strategic roles in their enterprises. Coupled with the unveiling of the aggressively...

PeopleSoft makes managed service play - Reducing complexity, not cost, is the big driver.
November 22, 2004... PeopleSoft is the latest vendor to jump aboard the managed-services bandwagon, last week announcing a comprehensive service for all its ERP product lines. The application management services will be available for all Enterprise, EnterpriseOne,...