In a newsletter from Jan. 31, I announced a contest seeking early adopters
of Microsoft's Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator title.
- By Michael Domingo
- 02/28/2002
Consultancy Gartner assigns a 0.6 probability to Microsoft spending at least $15 billion to acquire IT professional service vendors by year-end 2005.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/28/2002
Unisys used the Intel Developer Forum this week to show off two of its highly scalable, Intel processor-based servers. Unisys demonstrated 32-way and 16-way systems running the next generations of Intel 32-bit and 64-bit processors. Both systems ran on beta versions of Windows .NET Datacenter Server.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/28/2002
After receiving more than 32,000 public comments, Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice made changes to the proposed antitrust case settlement to answer critics who say the settlement doesn't go far enough.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/28/2002
EMC, the 800-pound gorilla of storage, upgraded its Celerra NAS device for improved capacity and performance.
The cost per database transaction on industry standard benchmarks continues to drop for Windows-based servers, with Compaq showing off the latest economy TPC results.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/27/2002
Microsoft entered into an agreement to provide resource management functionality in its high-end Windows 2000 Datacenter Server operating system by licensing the technology.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/27/2002
Operating system codenamed "Jameson" will add IPv6 support and other technologies to Windows CE .NET before the next major release.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/27/2002
Eight ISVs have now had their applications certified by an independent lab for tight integration with Microsoft's e-commerce server software.
- By Scott Bekker
- 02/27/2002
Although BEA leads the market for J2EE application servers, some observers have marked BEA for death. But BEA’s slate of new development products shows the company has a clear roadmap for the future.
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