- By Scott Bekker
- 01/19/2000
January 19, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/19/2000
Lotus Development Corp. will be expanding its market reach on several levels by utilizing technology from papa-company IBM and pesky neighbor Microsoft.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/18/2000
The consolidation of the optical networking market continued today when JDS Uniphase Corp. and E-Tek Dynamics Inc. signed a merger agreement worth about $15 billion, based on January 14 closing stock prices.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/18/2000
Agilent Technologies and Adaptec announced that they will co-develop, market, and sell Fibre Channel host bus adapters for Windows NT-based servers. The alliance is directed toward increasing interoperability and support for Fibre Channel in Windows NT markets.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/18/2000
Today at the RSA Conference 2000 in San Jose, Microsoft announced that it has joined Cisco Systems' Security Associate Program, and that ValiCert's Global VA Service technology will be embedded into Windows 2000.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/17/2000
The Object Management Group (OMG) will host its first Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) Workshop from February 7 to February 10 in Orlando, Florida.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/17/2000
Computer Associates International Inc. has begun warning the IT community about "Plage2000," a new worm which could threaten e-mail systems as well as e-business infrastructures.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/17/2000
Microsoft and CyberSafe Corp. today announced they have collaborated to extend Windows 2000-Kerberos interoperability to enterprise customers operating mixed-system environments.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/17/2000
Ballmer takes control of Microsoft, while Gates remains chairman and returns to technology roots as Chief Software Architect.
The latest quarterly installment of Zona Research Inc.'s Zona Enterprise Usage Study indicates that the use of browser-based access to host-based applications is rising.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/13/2000
Apparently Bill Gates is happy with the job Steve Ballmer has done as Microsoft Corp.'s president since appointing him to the position in July of 1998. Gates today promoted Ballmer to CEO. In turn, Gates, who was CEO, created a new position for himself: Chief Software Architect. He will also continue as the company's chairman.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/13/2000
Hewlett-Packard Co. is moving to improve the interoperability between its HP-UX flavor of Unix and Windows with a new Common Internet File System for HP-UX 11 called CIFS/9000.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/13/2000
Despite the fact that Windows 2000 has not yet shipped to the general public, the first virus for the pending OS has been found. But the company that found the virus says it does not appear to be on the prowl.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/13/2000
Microsoft released a patch to eliminate a security vulnerability in Windows NT 4.0. The vulnerability could allow a user logged onto an NT 4.0 machine from the keyboard to become an administrator on the machine.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/13/2000
On Monday, DataDirect Networks Inc. will reveal what it calls a "SAN Appliance," an all-in-one storage area network designed to simplify and accelerate the process of accessing shared data.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/13/2000
January 13, 2000
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/13/2000
Lawyers representing the government's case against Microsoft Corp. have come up with a plan to breakup the giant software company, according to a story in today's <I>USA Today</I>.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/12/2000
Rational Software beat analysts' third-quarter earnings estimates by three sents a share. The company celebrated by partnering with Intel to support developers who develop for the IA-64 architecture.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/12/2000
Intel Corp. hit the 800-MHz mark with its latest Pentium III Xeon processor today. The speediest chip to date is designed for workstations and what the microprocessor giant refers to as "front-end" servers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 01/12/2000