HP, which was supposed to be plagued by merger-related malaise and confusion in the second quarter of the calendar year, instead roared through the quarter in terms of U.S. server sales, according to a study by Gartner's Dataquest market research arm.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/14/2002
Linux used to be about the little guy, independent developers working to perfect the grassroots operating system. But the loudest voices at this week’s LinuxWorld Expo are the giants of enterprise computing, IBM and Sun.
The initial promise of handheld computing -- ubiquitious, unfettered, anytime access to the enterprise -- has yet to become a reality.
Wireless and mobile devices are a ground-up phenomenon that end-users are bringing into the enterprise. IT managers are sorting out what
technologies are worth investing resources in for the long term.
Microsoft revealed a critical flaw in its Microsoft Content Management Server. The most serious of three newly discovered vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on a server in the Local System context.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/08/2002
Microsoft issued a second service pack for the six-month-old Microsoft .NET Framework this week.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/08/2002
Failover clustering is an upsell in Microsoft server operating systems. Users must buy Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server or Windows NT 4.0 Server, Enterprise Edition, to get it. Hewlett-Packard Co. introduced clustering software on Tuesday that works with plain-old Windows NT 4.0 Server of Windows 2000 Server. But there's a catch: It's only supported on HP's ProLiant servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2002
Still, the open source operating system did better than every operating environment but Windows in 2001 and should realize a 28 percent compound annual growth rate over the next five years, according to analysts at market research firm IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2002
Microsoft, Dell and Intel commit $60 million over four years to fund the expansion of an existing high-performance-computing cluster at the Cornell Theory Center. The agreement assures Microsoft of a continuing Windows presence in a large-scale research cluster, a field dominated in the price-performance end by Linux configurations.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/07/2002
During a news conference on steps Microsoft is taking to comply with the antitrust settlement, company officials said Windows XP Service Pack 1 will be available in the next two months.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/06/2002
Microsoft posted Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000 late Thursday, two days after making SP3 available to Premier Customers. The oft-delayed bundle of regression-tested bug fixes is the first Windows 2000 service pack so far that Microsoft has recommended that users install.
- By Scott Bekker
- 08/02/2002
Optimization rules have changed under VB.NET-here are eight great new ways to build wicked-fast code.
- By Francesco Balena
- 08/01/2002
Java or C#? VB or Delphi? A noncombatant comes clean about his programming language of choice.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 08/01/2002
Sometimes you really have to ponder the meaning behind the numbers.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/01/2002
You're no security expert, but you should keep an eye on your perimeter network. Implementing intrusion detection and antivirus measures can help.
- By Bill Heldman
- 08/01/2002
Find information on disaster recovery and backup strategies.
Later this month, Microsoft will begin implementing .NET Passport login for its MCP Secured and MCT Secured sites.
- By Michael Domingo
- 08/01/2002
Small Business Server 2000 Service Pack 1 Ships; Channel Rebate Update; more...
- By Harry Brelsford
- 08/01/2002
Going solo on certification is tough. Here's how one group achieved MCSE success as a team.
- By Sri Seshadri
- 08/01/2002
The Distributed file system (Dfs), when properly implemented, can help your users get where they want to go. But its usefulness doesn’t stop there.
- By Bill Boswell
- 08/01/2002
If you want to do IT security because it’s “hot” right now, or because you think that’s where the money is, forget it. If you truly love the field, read on.
- By Roberta Bragg
- 08/01/2002