Stratus Technologies brought its fault-tolerant hardware to Windows 2000 on Monday, nine months behind schedule and at a slightly higher price point than originally planned.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/25/2001
Compaq Computer Corp. solidified its commitment to Itanium Monday by handing over production of its high-end Alpha microprocessor to Intel Corp. and sentencing the chip to a phase-out ending in 2004.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/25/2001
Microsoft issued two new security bulletins this morning - and in the process updated an older security bulletin to reflect a new vulnerability - thus capping one of its busiest weeks on the security front in recent history.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/22/2001
Executive Software has released Diskeeper 6.0, which speeds up your network by cleaning up your server’s hard drives.
Jill Gebelt on 70-240 Win2K Accelerated exam. Plus, from CertCities.com: Greg Neilson answers your career questions.
In an effort to ensure that its certified trainers stay up to date on the latest products coming out of Redmond, Microsoft announced a new set of requirements for its MCT 2002 program, which goes into
Microsoft has released a patch to fight what it deems an “extremely serious vulnerability” in IIS 5.0, its most recent Web server.
Revenues on SQL Server reached $1 billion in the recently ended fiscal year.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2001
A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives in May that would offer individuals and employers up to $2,000 in tax credits for IT training expenses.
Microsoft this week released to manufacturing its Microsoft
Operations Manager (MOM) 2000, a consolidated management environment for data
centers based on Microsoft Windows 2000 servers and .NET family applications.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2001
BeachFront Quizzer, an exam-prep
company, has released five new Windows 2000 exam
preps.
Dan Wallace, an MCP in the Dallas area, wants to warn other MCPs to make sure their transcripts reflect the current state of exams they’ve passed.
Notice a lot of security patches out of Microsoft lately? Two tools vendors update their products at TechEd with different approaches to help enterprises keep up.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/21/2001
NetPro’s DirectoryInsight records AD infrastructure and configuration changes.
The circumstances which attended the IIS vulnerability that Microsoft Corp. patched this week served to highlight the vast differences that still exist between Windows 2000 and the Big Iron mainframe, which to this day is viewed as a reference standard in most segments of enterprise computing.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/20/2001
Sun Microsystems Inc. and Oracle Corp. fired a collective shot across Microsoft Corp.'s bow when the two companies took the wraps off of a new development services toolkit - dubbed Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) - that they hope will lure developers away from the software giant's competing .NET initiative.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/20/2001
Advice from Microsoft to Canadian MCSEs: Don't call yourself an engineer-unless you're licensed.
Microsoft posted a bulletin to its Security Web site that confirmed the existence of a new IIS vulnerability that could potentially give an attacker complete control over affected Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 systems.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/19/2001
ATLANTA -- Microsoft revealed Tuesday that its next generation server operating systems, code named Whistler, will be named Windows .NET Servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/19/2001
ATLANTA -- The Beta 2 version of Visual Studio .NET is available, and a final version will ship this year, Bill Gates promised Tuesday.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/19/2001