Beta testing for new MCSA/MCSE elective expected in November; plus, certification program unlikely to include lab element in the near future.
- By Michael Domingo
- 07/24/2002
Release Candidate 1 of Windows .NET Server is finished and Microsoft will distribute the code to anyone who wants to test it, the company said Wednesday. Shipping RC1, which is feature complete, is a major milestone in Microsoft's process for delivering a finished operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/24/2002
The latest beta of IBM Corp.’s relational database server, DB2, has hit the Web, revealing what will come in the next release. When version 8 is released later this year, it will include new management features and Web services functionality.
Microsoft on Tuesday made one of its occasional noises about integration with a competitor when it trumpeted a new tool for wiring Oracle databases to applications developed in the .NET Framework.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/23/2002
Market research firm IDC released its annual report on messaging and collaboration Tuesday, concluding that the market is growing in number of seats but shrinking in revenues.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/23/2002
Microsoft Releases 8-hour Small Business Server E-learning course
- By Harry Brelsford
- 07/19/2002
Groups independent of Microsoft have put out a new free tool for securely configuring Windows 2000 desktops.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/18/2002
Simultaneous with the Itanium 2 processor launch last week, Microsoft began taking nominations for the SQL Server 2000 64-bit beta program.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/18/2002
Microsoft is scheduled to discuss its earnings this evening for the fourth quarter of the 2002 fiscal year and for the entire year, which ended June 30.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/18/2002
Hewlett-Packard racked up some records on standard business benchmarks using its new servers built on the Itanium 2 processor, the Limited Edition of Windows Advanced Server and beta code of 64-bit SQL Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/17/2002
A survey from the Information Technology Association of America says that the number of employees in the U.S. IT workforce fell by almost 5 percent in 2001.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/17/2002
In the wake of Intel's launch of its second-generation 64-bit processors, Unisys this week unveiled its plans for its next generation of Wintel mainframes. Unisys is packaging a new line of its big boxes to make it attractive in more cost-conscious markets. The new servers will roll out over the next few months.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/17/2002
Microsoft is finally getting comfortable enough with its Exchange 2000 market adoption to trumpet some numbers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/16/2002
Microsoft for the first time publicly discussed details of the next version of its Exchange messaging and groupware platform, code-named Titanium. Titanium will incorporate new features, but Microsoft officials say it will constitute an “evolutionary” upgrade from Exchange 2000.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 07/15/2002
Microsoft-centric database administrators were greeted last week with a pair of security bulletins about new problems with SQL Server and the Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE).
- By Scott Bekker
- 07/15/2002
Windows Security Challenge network 1, hackers 0.
Goal of Trustworthy Computing initiative is "To make computing so safe and reliable that people simply take it for granted, just like...the telephone system, water supply and electric power grid," say
When you invite the world to try to hack into your Microsoft network, what's the major security challenge you face? In the case of MCP TechMentor's Windows Security Challenge, it might be the security
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/11/2002
Is business process integration worth the trouble? Over the past year, there's been a lot of industry buzz around the topic of business process integration, or – as it’s often referred to in its broader context – business process management. Many EAI vendors have widened their offerings to include BPI functionality. Not to be left out of the action, Microsoft positions its BizTalk Server as a BPI server and modeling environment that employs Web services protocols to link application sets. However, many experts question the value of approaches being undertaken in the name of BPI.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 07/11/2002
Many enterprise developers and IT shops are beginning to build applications around Microsoft's .NET architecture and BizTalk Server, which supports common standards, including XML. Will Web services change the course of Enterprise Application Integration, and even make it more accessible to smaller to mid-size IT shops? The market space could become another example of a familiar tale: An expensive customized approach swamped by a less functional alternative that costs much, much less.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 07/10/2002