Sun plays up the price difference between its StarOffice 6.0 suite and Microsoft Office, while noting interoperability with Microsoft's ubiquitous productivity software. While Sun has raised the price from free, the company still contends that savings over Office licenses start at 75 percent. StarOffice 6.0 hits the market May 21.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/16/2002
Longtime Windows storage software vendor OTG Software is officially part of Legato Systems Inc. Both companies' shareholders formally approved the acquisition, Legato announced Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/15/2002
A hoax circulating around the Internet tells users to delete a legitimate file that is a part of Microsoft's Java middleware.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/15/2002
Gartner issued a bulletin this week, "Don't Allow Free Instant Messaging in Your Enterprise," pegged to Microsoft's recent release of a security bulletin fixing a critical vulnerability in MSN Messenger.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/15/2002
IBM this week posted demos of Web services built using its tools and server software to get developers to playing with the tools and thinking about ways to incorporate Web services into their businesses.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/14/2002
Maybe they should have called the new combined company “HPaq,” evoking images of the all-knowing and prescient residents of the planet K-Pax. In last fall’s movie by the same name, a visitor from K-Pax seemed to have keen insight on the course of humanity. Indeed, as Carly Fiorina, chairman and CEO, and Michael Capellas, president, launched the new HP, which absorbs the former Compaq Computer Corp., they presented a well thought-out roadmap that covered their new company’s role in the uncertain and roller-coaster IT market.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 05/14/2002
Dell made a new rack-optimized server available this week with an option for including two Intel Xeon processors at speeds up to 2.4 GHz. Dell positioned the 2U PowerEdge 2650 as driving down rack-dense server prices with an entry price around $2,400.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/14/2002
Cisco on Tuesday introduced a storage router for moving Windows-based enterprise workgroups from direct-attached storage to Storage Area Networks (SANs). Called the Cisco SN 5428 Storage Router, the storage networking platform supports both IP and Fibre Channel switching technologies and costs about $12,000.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/14/2002
Microsoft said this week it would refresh its Windows Advanced Server, Limited Edition, with a new 1.2 version to support the Itanium 2 release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/09/2002
Microsoft achieved a major milestone in its Unix interoperability plans this week when it released Services for Unix 3.0 to manufacturing. The next steps in the software giant's Unix interoperability roadmap are coming in Windows .NET Server and the follow-on to the recently released Visual Studio .NET.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/09/2002
New cert options for MCPs may be in future.
With the Release to Manufacturing this week of Microsoft's Services for Unix 3.0, Microsoft disclosed a significant cut in the price of the Windows-Unix interoperability toolset.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/09/2002
Suite now has new diagnostics module for protection, repair and change analysis. Plus news from Winternals, InstallShield, Mice & Men, Trend Micro, O&O, NetOp, and Precise/SiteStor
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 05/09/2002
Microsoft on Thursday tightened the integration between two of its most closely related .NET Enterprise Servers -- Content Management Server and SharePoint Portal Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/09/2002
Quest Software chose the recent Microsoft Management Summit to announce shipment of the latest update to its Spotlight on Active Directory product.
- By Mike Gunderloy
- 05/08/2002
Analysts at Gartner revised figures that showed that SQL Server had finally overtaken Oracle as the top-selling database on the Windows server platform in 2000. Turns out SQL Server didn't topple Oracle on Microsoft's own OS platform until 2001, Gartner says now.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/08/2002
An independent survey shows developers are snapping up Microsoft's C# language.
Evans Data Corp. released results of a survey of 800 developers conducted in March and April. According to the research firm, 12 percent of developers were using C# at the time of the survey, up from 7 percent in a similar Evans survey from October.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/08/2002
New study by the Information Technology Association of America says that despite the 5 percent dropoff, IT managers expect to hire about that number of workers in 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/08/2002
Microsoft on Wednesday rolled out a tool for making business intelligence projects easier and quicker to develop on its SQL Server database platform. The SQL Server Accelerator for Business Intelligence consists of a technology wrapped in a partner and consulting program.
- By Scott Bekker
- 05/08/2002
Exam item writers to be given time to test Windows.NET Server in real-world, says Microsoft.