IBM last week agreed to acquire development tools vendor Rational Software Corp. for $2.1 billion. The deal is the second largest software acquisition in Big Blue's history and brings up interesting issues surrounding Rational's support for .NET.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 12/11/2002
Microsoft issued new security bulletins warning users of moderate threats due to vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/10/2002
Intel took a step this week to make it easier for developers to use the Hyper Threading technology in its newest processors. The chipmaker released new compilers for translating C++ and Fortran code into the machine language understood by the processors.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/05/2002
In rolling out Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 on Thursday, Microsoft also offered the bulk of its user base a first look at a new tool for the prickly problems of Group Policy management.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/05/2002
Microsoft officially posted Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 to the Web for download on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/05/2002
As Microsoft puts the finishing touches on Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 for posting later this week, the software giant also previewed new options for Client Access Licenses that should give customers a little more power to match CALs to their needs.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/04/2002
Expect the unexpected: Key certification track to be retooled for 2003, which may affect current MCSA/MCSE candidates.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 12/03/2002
Microsoft will post Release Candidate 2 of Windows .NET Server 2003 this week, a spokeswoman said Tuesday. RC2 will probably be the last widely distributed test version of the server operating system before it is released to manufacturing sometime in the first quarter of 2003. General availability of Windows .NET Server 2003 is scheduled for April.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/03/2002
Two of the nine states that sought tougher antitrust remedies for Microsoft will appeal a federal judge's decision last month to accept Microsoft's settlement with the Justice Department and reject the harsher penalties.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/03/2002
HP updated its line of ProLiant-branded, Intel-based servers this week by making available a rack-dense, four-processor system and announcing a pair of 1U servers that will ship later this month. All three servers feature remote management and fault resilient technologies.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/03/2002
Netcraft is trying to correct a misimpression surrounding Microsoft's two-week-old security bulletin involving Microsoft Data Access Components.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/02/2002
The company expects to furnish details on an upgrade path for MCSA/MCSE on Windows 2000 in early 2003.
- By Michael Domingo
- 12/02/2002
The number of digital attacks in the United States rose by 13 percent in November despite an 8 percent decline worldwide, according to a London-based security firm.
- By Scott Bekker
- 12/02/2002
<b>Winner: </b>O&O Software O&O Defrag 4 Professional<br>
<br>
<b>Honorable Mention: </b><a href="#diskeeper">Executive Software Diskeeper
</a>
- By Joseph L. Jorden
- 12/01/2002
<b>Winner:</b> Microsoft Press Windows 2000 Resource Kit<br>
<br>
<b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#erdisk">Aelita Software Aelita ERDisk</a>
- By Jeremy Moskowitz
- 12/01/2002
<b>Winner: </b>Visualware VisualRoute 6.1a<br>
<br>
<b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#nessoft">Nessoft Ping Plotter</a>
- By Rodney Landrum
- 12/01/2002
<b>Winner:</b> DameWare Development DameWare NT Utilities<br>
<br>
<b>Honorable Mention: </b><a href="#vmware">VMware Workstation</a>
- By James Carrion
- 12/01/2002
In the non-Microsoft-exam world, there are serious budget constraints,
manpower shortages and management conflicts over upgrading.
- By Bill Boswell
- 12/01/2002
<b>Winner: </b>GFI Ltd. MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 7<br>
<br>
<b>Honorable Mention:</b> <a href="#mcafee">Network Associates McAfee
GroupShield</a>
- By David W. Tschanz
- 12/01/2002
So many security toys, so little time.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 12/01/2002