As top ERP vendors battle in court and in corporate boardrooms, newly published Gartner research shows that the Enterprise Resource Planning market was on the decline in 2002.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/18/2003
Holding out of the Microsoft antitrust settlement paid off in a big way for West Virginia. The state, one of the poorest in the nation, settled on Monday with the software giant for $21 million in cash and vouchers.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/17/2003
Can't prep the forest for the trees.
- By Bill Boswell
- 06/17/2003
Microsoft opened a legal offensive against spammers on Tuesday through a flurry of lawsuits filed in Washington state and the United Kingdom.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/17/2003
Microsoft has added free online skill assessments for developers who want to gauge Visual Studio.NET development and deployment skills.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/12/2003
In response to the publication of the SQL Slammer source code in a major industry magazine, Microsoft officials are warning users to make sure they've taken advantage of the rash of SQL Slammer defenses on the Microsoft Web site.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/12/2003
Corporate instant messaging will take off in the next four years, according to a new study by messaging researchers at The Radicati Group.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/12/2003
Nine Microsoft exams whose retirements were announced in June 2002 will be discontinued at the end of this month.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/12/2003
About two years and 4,100 customers into a storage partnership, Dell and EMC have decided that the arrangement is working out well enough to extend it.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/11/2003
Investing money in intrusion detection and prevention technologies is a mistake because the systems are failing to provide value and will be obsolete by 2005, according to research analysts at Gartner.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/11/2003
A variant of the Bugbear mass-mailing worm started hitting corporate networks late last week, prompting the first worm alert since Microsoft launched its Virus Information Alliance.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/10/2003
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it has bought the intellectual property and technology assets of a small Romanian antivirus vendor, but Microsoft left its intentions very fuzzy for how extensively it intends to get involved in the antivirus market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/10/2003
Spam has grown out of control and is choking many corporate e-mail systems. About 24 percent of e-mail coming into corporate systems is unsolicited junk mail, a percentage projected by Radicati Group to grow to about 50 percent over the next few years. A number of approaches are emerging to help organizations get a grip.
- By Joe McKendrick
- 06/09/2003
Many Exchange administrators cite Exchange 2003’s improved spam-filtering capabilities as another attractive feature of the new messaging platform.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/09/2003
Researchers say that as many as 60 percent of Exchange seats continue to run on Exchange 5.5, even with Exchange 2000 approaching its third anniversary. Microsoft has put a lot of features into Exchange Server 2003 to entice those 5.5 users to move on up. Will it be enough?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/09/2003
It's T-minus one month or so until Exchange Server 2003 and Outlook 2003 are supposed to be released to manufacturing. Get all the details in this special report.
Underwhelmed by the feature set of Exchange Server 2003? There’s still a bogeyman that could push you, the entrenched Exchange 5.5 user, to make the move to the new version of Exchange: The probability that Microsoft will phase out support for the aging messaging system by the end of 2003.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- 06/09/2003
Microsoft plans to test two more exams for the MCSE on Windows 2003 track later this month.
- By Michael Domingo
- 06/05/2003
Two critical vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5 and 6.0 could allow code execution. Microsoft released a cumulative patch on Wednesday for Internet Explorer that fixes the flaws.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/05/2003
IBM on Thursday released a new version of its DB2 database designed to compete with Microsoft SQL Server for the fast-growing cost-sensitive end of the database market.
- By Scott Bekker
- 06/05/2003