Monthly Archives: December 2002
Rotten Code Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
When the latest Disney film, "Treasure Planet," yielded disappointing revenues for its Thanksgiving weekend opening, the company was quick to let the industry know...
Cisco Delivers Integrated Caching
Cisco Systems Inc. hopes to nudge Web caching and content delivery networking closer to mainstream among enterprises with a new option for its access...
IBM Acquires Rational
IBM shook up the software and Web services development world Friday by acquiring Rational Software Corp. in a deal worth $2.1 billion--the companys largest...
Alcatel to Roll Out New LAN Switches
Alcatel on Monday will flesh out its new LAN switching family, designed from scratch, to support converged voice, data and video traffic with a...
The Emerging Class of Security Tools
Enterprise IT should take a close look at an emerging class of security tools that monitor the network looking for problems. Companies including netForensics...
Database Supports Mac OS X
This holiday season, InterSystems Corp. plans to give Mac users an enterprise-level database.The Cambridge, Mass., company, one of the larger makers of embedded databases,...
IBM to Launch New Midrange Storage Array
IBM will launch a new midrange storage array in Europe early next year, based on the LSI Logic Corp. E5600 series, sources familiar with...
VeriSign Secures Content Delivery
VeriSign Inc. on Thursday announced a new service designed to enable the secure delivery of software and updates over the Internet.The new Trusted Content...
No Macworld Tokyo in 2003
In another reshuffling of the Mac markets long-established trade-show calendar, IDG World Expo has pulled the plug on the 2003 edition of Macworld Expo/Tokyo."IDG...
Feds Raid Software Firm
Federal agents who raided a Quincy, Mass., software firm Thursday night continue to look for monetary connections to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, but sources...