Monthly Archives: November 2003
Microsoft Winnows Its Case Load
Declaring that the company is more than halfway through its pending legal challenges, Microsoft last week announced new settlements with five states and the...
Airframe, Sprint Team in Wireless Deal
Airframe Business Software late last month announced a wireless data access partnership with Sprint PCS Group.Through the partnership, Sprint will recommend Airframe to its...
eHealth to Check VOIP Pulse
Concord Communications Inc., following what officials say was a large uptick in voice-over-IP deployments earlier this year, will announce its first support for monitoring...
Sun, CGI Create Utility-Based Life Sciences Center
In a move to further its utility computing strategy, Sun Microsystems Inc. is joining with IT services company CGI Group Inc. to offer hosted...
HP and IBM Building Midsize Itanium Servers
Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM are rolling out new midsize servers that offer enterprises the greater memory benefits of Intel Corp.s 64-bit Itanium processor without...
Microsofts Patch-A-Month Club
Reader David Plaut has a ready response to my recent Known Issues columns about Microsoft security patches and the bandwidth they consume. "Theres already...
Microsofts SharePoint Services Extend Office
The services that drive some of the capabilities of Microsoft Corp.s SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (see review) also make possible the full exploitation of...
Longhorn: Huge Jump From XP
With its dramatically remade presentation, storage and communications systems, Microsoft Corp.s "Longhorn"—the next-generation Windows client operating system—gives Windows users and developers plenty to be...
IBM System Has Crashes Covered
Considering how much abuse laptops get at airport security check-in lines these days, it doesnt hurt to have a little insurance. Two of IBMs...
Licensing on the Loose
Say "EULAs" (end-user license agreements) quickly, and it sounds like "You lose." Its appropriate because both mean about the same thing. EULAs have been...