Intel used its Intel Developer Forum this week to formally launch its Intel Xeon processor for servers and a new server chipset.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/26/2002
Microsoft took pains to clarify that the new Customer Relationship Management software it announced Tuesday will be strictly for small- and medium-sized businesses.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/26/2002
Three of the newly disclosed vulnerabilities represent critical problems in Commerce Server, Internet Explorer and Microsoft XML Core Services. A moderate vulnerability was also discovered in SQL Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/22/2002
Two storage software vendors joined when Legato Systems announced its intention to purchase OTG Software.
Looking to capitalize on Microsoft's announcements that it will retire support for Windows NT 4.0, Sun is offering a competitive upgrade to its Cobalt appliances.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/21/2002
An MCP from India is the winner of our Count-the-MCSEs competition.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/21/2002
AMD released details about its series of chipsets for its 64-bit Hammer processors. The chipsets, called the AMD-8000 series, will be available in the fourth quarter of this year, AMD says. They will be used in servers, workstations and desktops.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/21/2002
MCSE Scott Seppich expects long work days in February, having joined the SchlumbergerSema staff integrating the IT infrastructure for the Olympics.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 02/21/2002
Compaq and HP accompanied Microsoft's launch of Mobile Information Server 2002 with service and package offerings, including pilot program package deals.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/20/2002
Microsoft responds to a Gartner bulletin alleging that an Internet Explorer patch release was botched and undermines Microsoft's credibility on recent security promises.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/20/2002
Microsoft plans to move the mobile and wireless technology from the middleware server into upcoming versions of other servers -- Exchange Server and Internet Security and Acceleration Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/20/2002
Despite a burst of attention directed at new languages like Java and C#, C++ use quietly continues to grow. At the same time, observers say .NET-driven changes in Microsoft's popular Visual C++ tool may alienate some C++ developers. Into this scene comes Borland Software Corp. with
C++ Builder 6.
Microsoft made a patch available to plug the security hole in Microsoft implementations of the SNMP service. After applying the patch, W2K and Windows XP users will not need to implement the workarounds detailed in an earlier bulletin on the industry-wide problem.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/19/2002
Symantec unveiled a new network security appliance, Symantec Gateway Security, that consolidates the features and capabilities of separate Symantec point products.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 02/19/2002
Along with the formal launch of Visual Studio .NET on Wednesday, Microsoft issued two toolkits to help developers build XML Web services using SQL Server and BizTalk Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/14/2002
The recall of Microsoft's Internet Explorer security patch prompts Gartner's John Pescatore to pin Microsoft's ears back again. Pescatore gained notoriety last year for advising IT managers to consider replacing IIS Web servers with Apache.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/14/2002
A feature added to a compiler in Visual Studio .NET to improve the security of Visual C++ .NET itself introduces the type of vulnerability -- a buffer overflow -- that it was designed to protect against, a Dulles, Va.-based security consultancy revealed Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/14/2002
Microsoft advised users of its Windows server and client operating systems to disable the SNMP service if it is running because of a buffer overrun vulnerability in the industry-standard protocol.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/13/2002
HP dropped prices from 11 percent to 31 percent on some models of IA-32 dense servers and server appliances.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/13/2002
At the VSLive Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft has released official details on its long-awaited certifications.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/13/2002