Monthly Archives: December 2002
Microsoft: Windows Cheaper
A Microsoft Corp.-sponsored white paper from market researcher International Data Corp. released last week found that Windows 2000 offered a lower five-year total cost...
Linux 2.6 Kernel Will Boost High-End Performance
The next big upgrade of the Linux kernel, now known to be Version 2.6, will provide significant performance gains on higher-end machines as well...
FFmpeg Codec Is Music to Linux Users Ears
For users whove switched to Linux or another operating system thats similarly perched on the outskirts of desktop computings settled territory—as I have—occasional file...
AppCelera: Smart Compression
Version 3.0 of Packeteer Inc.s AppCelera ICX-95 content acceleration appliance gains software-based management and content compression capabilities and upgraded hardware, offering sites a robust,...
PeopleSoft Speeds ERP Data Analysis
The latest version of PeopleSoft Inc.s Enterprise Warehouse business intelligence and analytics platform, which became available last week, gives users immediate access to enterprise...
Progress Spinoff Makes All Database Applications Local
PeerDirect Corp., a recent spinoff of Progress Software Corp., this week will release a suite of products that replicates bidirectionally, distributes and synchronizes data...
Caché 5 Adds Vertical Appeal
Component-oriented technologies (such as Java 2 Enterprise Edition and .Net Framework) and the hierarchical XML data format have natural synergies with databases that allow...
Storage News Digest: 09-Dec-02
Enterprise StorageEMC Just Looking at Benchmark TestWithin two hours of the Storage Performance Council releasing its test specification for scrutiny by non-members such as...
Bluetooth Gets Some Teeth – 2
Ever-optimistic backers of Bluetooth are pinning their hopes on advances they claim will help make the nascent wireless protocol cheaper and easier to combine...
Microsoft Ups IE Flaw to Critical
Microsoft Corp. on Friday upgraded the severity rating of its most recent cumulative patch for Internet Explorer after a security researcher posted to a...