Monthly Archives: June 2002
Linking the Safety Chain
At a time when security options are becoming increasingly fragmented with many vendors concentrating their resources on specific, sometimes-arcane pieces of technology, Symantec Corp....
LSB Standard Is Key to Linux Unity
Red flags pop up when four linux distributors form the UnitedLinux group without the most widely used version of the operating system: Red Hat...
Sun Shines on Linux—For Now
Doing its part to benefit from Linuxs surging market share, Solaris 9 has gained some significant Linux-oriented features.Release 9, by default, includes Solaris versions...
Hollywood v. Silicon Valley: Make New Code, Not War
Theres a civil war brewing in my state of California. It is again a war between the Silicon Valley-based IT industry in the North...
Softek Lays Out Plan for Storage Space
Fujitsu Software Technology Corp. is laying out a two-year development and licensing plan to meet the growing demand for automated, open, policy-based management software.The...
Switch Makers Take Different Tacks
Storage switch makers are at a crossroads.They have three choices: to focus on the current Fibre Channel market, on the storage management software battle...
Scaling Toward the Petabyte
If theres any doubt that enterprises are facing a data explosion, consider the next major threshold on the horizon for large databases. Within 18...
Cardiff Champions Paperless Office
Paper-intensive corporations can easily transform their documents into digital data using Cardiffs Teleform Version 8 Enterprise Information Capture System, a production-level data and document...
Curl Takes Web Apps to Clients
A Cambridge, Mass., startup is set to deliver an application development solution that turns the thin-client model of Web computing on its head, recalling...
Solaris 9 Faces Tough Crowd for Upgrade Nod
Officials at Sun Microsystems Inc. arent the only ones hoping enterprise users upgrade quickly to Solaris 9. Jim Pilgrim, director of product management at...