VMware is beta testing a free “player” that lets users run virtual machines and evaluate software without having to first purchase the company’s full-scale virtualization platform.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/24/2005
A venture capital firm stocked with ex-Microsofties is funding a new Windows/Linux interoperability company.
From the business wires this week: grid computing software, NAC solutions, SATA RAID storage systems and a Windows XP Media Center.
Microsoft this week posted the second release candidate of Windows Server 2003 Release 2 for download.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/20/2005
Shipments of new PCs rose at a healthy rate during the third quarter of 2005, according to two leading analyst firms. Both Gartner and IDC put unit shipment growth at 17 percent compared to the year-ago quarter.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/20/2005
A new Microsoft Office Communicator client for Windows mobile devices entered beta testing on Thursday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/20/2005
At its customer conference in Boston this week, Siebel Systems announced the availability of a new line of custom application development tools, including one especially designed to take advantage of Microsoft’s soon-to-be-released Visual Studio 2005.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/20/2005
Microsoft posted Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 to the Web on Wednesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/19/2005
Microsoft this week released a second Community Technology Preview for Windows Vista that includes self-healing capabilities, big changes for Internet Explorer and hints of an integrated Windows AntiSpyware.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/19/2005
A Gartner analyst predicts Microsoft will charge less than $15 per user per year for its new anti-malware product and recommends that enterprises immediately leverage Microsoft's entry into the desktop security market to win concessions from competitors.
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/19/2005
VMware this week unveiled the feature set for the next versions of two of its flagship virtualization products in an announcement that coincided with its annual conference being held in Las Vegas.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/18/2005
Two groups to become more closely aligned; new "blended training" tools also being added.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/18/2005
A little more than a year ago, Intel gave customers and analysts a peek at its roadmap for both the Xeon and Itanium 2 architectures. This month, at an event highlighted by an appearance by legendary comedian Carl Reiner, executives of Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel gave a status update that basically has them on track.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/18/2005
Computer Associates is shipping release 2 of its Protection Suites for small and medium-sized businesses, and has expanded the offering to include six separate products to address specific market segments.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/18/2005
From the business wires this week: a patch management system, a software licensing solution and remote access software for help desk technicians.
One other change: MCTs with tenure excused from meeting minimum training delivery requirements.
- By Michael Domingo
- 10/13/2005
At its iForum conference in Las Vegas this week, Citrix unveiled a major technology initiative that will provide the foundations for “next generation” virtualization products it plans to introduce in the same timeframe as Microsoft’s Windows “Longhorn” server.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/13/2005
Citrix Systems is shipping an update to its flagship Presentation Server product that adds support for 64-bit memory addressing technology in Windows Server 2003 x64 Editions, the company told attendees at its iForum conference in Las Vegas this week.
- By Stuart J. Johnston
- 10/13/2005
Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! announced an initiative on Wednesday to make MSN Messenger and Yahoo! Messenger compatible with each other.
MSN is expanding the beta program for the next generation of its Hotmail Web-based e-mail service, known by the code-name "Kahuna."
- By Scott Bekker
- 10/11/2005