Microsoft launched the Beta 2 release of its Visual J# .NET tool this week, continuing its battle for developers with Sun Microsystems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/21/2002
Dragging your feet on a Windows 2000 server deployment? You’re not alone, according to a new study from market researchers at IDC.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/21/2002
Winternals Software released an updated version of its Administrator's Pak on Wednesday that includes new utilities and adds Windows XP support.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/21/2002
Microsoft close to releasing two core options for MCAD.NET and MCSD.NET tracks in May this year.
- By Michael Domingo
- 03/21/2002
Cue the Mission Impossible theme music. NEC Computers thinks it's identified a niche for its fault-tolerant Windows servers in government agencies looking for biometric security solutions.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/21/2002
As a result of the HP-Compaq merger, assuming good execution, enterprise customers can expect HP to beef up its services offerings, as well as its Windows-based server and workstation lines. There will be an added thrust in developing and marketing Itanium-based processors.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 03/20/2002
Precise Software Solutions is using its prominent position in Windows server storage to attempt a step up into the software sector that provides higher level views of a company's storage capacity.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/20/2002
Hewlett-Packard Co. chairman and CEO Carly Fiorina announced that a preliminary examination of shareholder votes shows that HP shareholders approved the company's merger with Compaq Computer Corp.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/19/2002
As is common with launches of new processor lines, the new Intel Xeon MPs do not deliver on their performance promises yet, even in benchmark situations.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/19/2002
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/19/2002
Microsoft changed the keynote topic for its 10th annual TechEd show in New Orleans in April from Windows .NET Server to just .NET.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/19/2002
Redmond opened the nomination process late last month for users and organizations interested in beta testing the forthcoming 64-bit version of SQL Server, codenamed Liberty, and for a fourth service pack for SQL Server 7.0.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/14/2002
In just two years since exploding onto the Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) market with SQL Server 7.0 OLAP Services, Microsoft already shares the No. 1 position in market share with Hyperion Solutions, according to an analyst report. The same report projects that Microsoft will easily overtake Hyperion for sole ownership of the No. 1 spot in 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/14/2002
IBM took a major step toward broadening the choices for customers interested in greater-than-eight-processor Windows servers. IBM rolled out the eight-processor version in its Enterprise X-Architecture line. The next piece, set to come in July, will be a 16-way system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/13/2002
Microsoft shifted its focus in developing an embedded version of the Windows .NET Server operating system.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/13/2002
A Microsoft technical white paper, however, explains that Windows 2000 Server in many cases cannot properly exploit the Hyper-Threading technology in the Xeon MP.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/13/2002
The way the operating system interacts with the BIOS means Windows counts the virtual processor created by Intel's new Hyper-Threading technology against the processor licensing limit. The glitch raises problems for users with more than half the physical processors their version of Windows 2000 is supposed to support.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 03/13/2002
Sun filed a private lawsuit against Microsoft seeking damages and penalties for what the company claims Microsoft did to its Java-based business by abusing monopoly power.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/12/2002
Intel formally launched the 32-bit processor that will provide the foundation for multiprocessing on Windows servers for the next several years.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/12/2002
Unisys refreshed its high-end "Wintel mainframe" with a new model for the first time since launching the 32-processor server in 1999.
- By Scott Bekker
- 03/12/2002